Bio

Tammy-Lee Lakay is a Researcher and PhD candidate in the Department of Historical Studies at the University of the Western Cape. Her doctoral project, A Study of the Labour and Community Resources Project (LACOM): Educational Radicalism and the Informal Economy under Apartheid, examines the Labour and Community Resources Project (LACOM) of the South African Committee for Higher Education (SACHED), with a focus on labour education, radical pedagogy, and the production of political periodicals in the anti-apartheid struggle. Her research interests include popular education, archival silences, feminist publishing, and the intersection of labour and community organising in historical memory.

Tammy-Lee holds a Master’s degree in Historical Studies from UWC, where her mini-thesis, SPEAK Magazine: Gender Dimensions of the South African Committee for Higher Education (1982–1994), explored feminist discourse and organisational culture in SACHED publications. She is also a Researcher on the SACHED Archiving Project based at the Robben Island Museum Mayibuye Centre, where she contributes to the preservation and digitisation of liberation-era educational materials. Her work blends archival research, oral history, and public scholarship, and she is passionate about making histories of resistance accessible to broader audiences.