Africa

The People's Past: Towards Transforming the Present by Luli Callinicos (Critical Arts Vol 4 No 2), 1986

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Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 book review by Ruth Edgecombe

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Graveside tribute to Robert Shell by Joline Young, 3 February 2015

I could speak about all the things that you already know about Robert: That he was a brilliant man, that his was the big...

10 Feb 1990 - FW de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela

A 1994 pre-election debate between Mandela and de Klerk

De Klerk’s celebrated 2nd February 1990 speech

James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016

This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in ...

Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016

In 2001, the ANC National Working Committee (NWC), of which I was a member, issued the seminal document, “Through ...

The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016

There is a popular view that Winston Churchill once said, “History will be kind to me, for I intend to write it.&r...

When your position can't be sustained, create a scarecrow - The Menace of Post-Apartheid South Africa by Thabo Mbeki, 18 January 2016

It is obvious that when the ANC became a ruling party in 1994 we could not foresee and prepare for all the challenges th...

Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016

The December 17, 2007 website of the UK newspaper, “The Guardian”, carried an article headed “Mbeki&rs...

Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

<< back to term 1 Contents: WHO ARE THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA? LIFE OF THE SAN CHANGES F...

Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign

From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1946 N...

Obituary of Trevor Makhoba by Valerie Leigh (Natal Society Foundation), 2003

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Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016

Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we...