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The riddle of Rosalind Ballingall: Poster girl for hippie counterculture in Cape Town in the late 1960s

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Grundlingh, Albert

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School for Basic Sciences, Vaal Triangle Campus, North-West University

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This article examines the short-lived hippie phenomenon in Cape Town during the late 1960s through the lens of the disappearance of a young woman from the University of Cape Town in the Knysna forests in 1969. It seeks to explain the dynamics of a particular kind of emerging culture and the way it was infused by public mystifications and conceptions of hippies. In doing so it has two aims in mind, namely to account for an apparent historical puzzle and to cast light on a largely forgotten dimension of white social history.

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Grundlingh, A. 2017. The riddle of Rosalind Ballingall: Poster girl for hippie counterculture in Cape Town in the late 1960s. New Contree : A journal of Historical and Human Sciences for Southern Africa. 74:72-89, Dec. [http://dspace.nwu.ac.za/handle/10394/4969]

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