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ArticleThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
Yohannes Woldemariam trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor…
A tribute to Sunny Singh by Ivan Pillay
A tribute to Sunny Singh
Speeches and Public StatementsPresidential Address by Mr S Mapogo Makgatho, South African Native Congress, 1918
Speeches and Public StatementsNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
It is not uncommon that one and the same event be named differently by different interest-groups – even at one and the same time. The…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson…
ArticleA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a marginal place at…
Theses and DissertationsAmamfengu by Manduleli Bikitsha
Audio and VideoSandile Dikeni reads "Love poem for my country", 23 January 2008
Theses and DissertationsOral History Thesis by Yuxi Wang (Minzu University of China)
Life and times of Helen Kies
This is a 2006 interview with the late Helen Kies, who was a leading member of the NEUM and later of the the New Unity Movement. She was…
PoemWhere we come from, November 1990
PoemUkhumulansika, December 1992
PoemThe Man Who Could Fly
PamphletThe Law and You, October 1956
Newspaper clippingsSome Aspects of Black Culture and Its Value in the Black World by Leopold Sedar Senghor
Newspaper clippingsNational Forum Manifesto, June 1983
Application form for Woolworths MySchool Card
ReportA Digest of the Fagan Report by Mr Justice Fagan, 13 July 1946
JournalCOSAW Transvaal Regional Journal, November 1988
Newspaper clippingsBlack Literature and Art Congress Volume 1. No 2, September 1974
ArticleSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research…
Audio and VideoGuava Juice by Ntokozo Mahlalela, 25 September 2012
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the…
Online bookA Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman
Introduction Part A: The unfolding of total strategy 1948 - 1989 1. The many faces of apartheid repression 2. The legal…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman South Africa can heave a collective…
Post-Election Political Violence
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to the polls…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In Chapter 8 we examined the…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation…
Apartheid power in crisis
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The year 1989 will go down as a…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been…
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3,…
The Detention Weapon
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers and students…
The Legal Veneer
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The apartheid government always had…
ArticleHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, died on…
ArticleWhat the Revolutionary Oracle Taught Me by Fred Khumalo, delivered at the Fifth Mafika Gwala Lecture, 31 October 2019
The third Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017 Video
Official Document - Conference PaperList of organisations which support and are affiliates of the Regional UDF
List of all the organisations which supports the United Democratic Front who are also the affiliates of the regional United Democratic…
ArchiveKenneth Alexander archive
some of the writings and art work of Kenneth Alexander
PosterJournee Nelson Mandela
Notice of a meeting in the French language in Montreuil, adjacent to Paris, regarding solidarity with political prisoners and Nelson…
ArticleWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the…
ArticleLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.2 Jul-Aug 1981
Contents and Contributors Stories: Hell in Anzania by Mothoi Mutloatse; The Barrier by Farouk Asvat; The Rose Patterned Wallpaper by…
LettersNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement…
ArticleRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.” He’s…
JournalStaffrider Vol.1 No.2 May-Jun 1978
Magazine
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
It is 20 years since the first Truth and Reconciliation hearing took place... The TRC was a unique political compromise forged during…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
At first I thought that a reading and a republishing of my Traditions of Poetry in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s…