Goolam Vahed and Thembisa Waetjen are colleagues in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of KwaZulu-Natal in Durban and their collaborative research has appeared in journal articles and the book Dear Ahmedbai, Dear Zuleikhabehn: The Letters of Ahmed Kathrada and Zuleikha Mayat, 1979-1989. Waetjen writes about gender and culture in South African politics with articles in journals such as Theory and Society, Ethnic and Racial Studies and Theoria. She is the author of Workers and Warriors: Masculinity and the Struggle for Nation in South Africa (2006). Vahed has published extensively on the history of Islam / Indians in South Africa, and the role of sport and culture in South African society including several the co-authored and co-edited books, such as Blacks in Whites: A Century of Sporting Struggles in KwaZulu-Natal, 1880-2002; The Making of a Social Reformer: Mahatma Gandhi in South Africa, 1893-----1914; Empire & Cricket: The South African Experience 1884-1914; Monty Naicker: Between Reason and Treason; and Inside Indian Indenture: A South African Story, 1860-1914.