Africa

Biography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman

An Unmistakable Figure             In late December 1931, Doro...

Biography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin

Dulcie September was a fierce and ambitious anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Her work with various resistance gr...

Southern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2020 submissions

Claire Albin Claire Albin is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University originally from Shreveport, Louisiana....

Sport Past and Present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the Nation edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh

A despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi

Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, ...

Minna Keene: a neglected pioneer by Malcolm Corrigall

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Leadership and Politics of Belonging in a 2015 FeesMustFall Movement A Case of UPrising by John Mashayamombe and Sandla Nomvete

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Goedverwacht, West Coast of Cape Town

It was established in 1889 as a Moravian Mission station and has a fascinating story. The Village is situated in a ferti...

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Covid-19, 11 January 2021

Jonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell

Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South Af...

Indentured Indian Immigration to Natal, 1860-1870 with special reference to the Hindu Caste System and its implications by Pathmaloshini Moodley

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The Indian Question in South Africa, 1900-1914 by H. M. Adamson

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Bondage across the Ocean: Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean by Alessandro Stanziani

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Settlers and Laborers: The Afterlife of Indenture in Early South African Indian Writing by Nienke Boer

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Jackson Mphikwa Mthembu

Former Minister in the Presidency, anti-apartheid activist, trade unionist, ANC National Spokesperson, Speaker and MEC i...