Africa

Donald James Woods

Journalist, Anti apartheid activist, friend of Steve Biko, subjected to surveillance, placed under house arrest, fled to...

Homeless Giving Tourists a Negative Perception - Fietas Museum by Wim Pretorius and Iavan Pijoos, (News24.com), 15 February 2016

Johannesburg – In the heart of Pageview in Johannesburg lies a small, but almost forgotten museum, rich with ...

Burundi

Burundi is a relatively small country located in central Africa, and the name and approximate territory has a continuity...

A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016

On 12 September 2008, Justice Chris Nicholson, Judge in the then Natal Provincial Division of the High Court of South Af...

Trade Union Organizer in Durban: M B Yengwa, 1943-1944 by Baruch Hirson

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An Ascendant Sugarocracy: Natal's Millers-cum-Planters, 1905-1939 by David Lincoln

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African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer

The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one h...

Robert Carl-Heinz Shell

Foremost historian of Cape slavery, Nelson Mandela Chair of African Studies at Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) in New ...

How the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town

The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as possible’ [i] ,...

The State of Research on, and Study of, the History of the South African Liberation Struggle by Gregory F. Houston, November 2015

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Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka Plaatjie and Thozama April, (Historia,60,2), November 2015

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Participation or Boycott by M.J. Naidoo

Newspaper article: "The Coolies Here from the Natal Mercury", Thursday, November 22, 1860

"The past week will long be memorable amongst Anglo Natalians. At last, after the discussion of years and the extinction...

National Liberation, Non-Racialism and 'Indianness' the 1947 visit of Dadoo and Naicker to India by Goolam Vahed and Ashwin Desai

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Afrindian Fictions: Diaspora, Race, and National Desire in South Africa by Pallavi Rastogi

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