Africa

List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation

Legal instruments through legislation, resolutions, proclamations and ordinances played a key role in legitimizing syste...

Douglas Chadwick Thompson

Religious leader, Treason Trialist, Political activist and political detainee

Basil Coetzee

Musician, liberation struggle activist and volunteer.

Feziwe Bookholane

Political activist, political prisoner and nurse. 

The Colonial Moment in Africa: Essays on the Movement of Minds and Materials edited by A. D. Roberts

South Africa’s Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960 edited by Les Switzer

South Africa’s Resistance Press: Alternative Voices in the Last Generation edited by Les Switzer

A History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931

 

Land: dispossession, resistance and restitution

Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colo...

A Survey of the South African Debate on the Decline of Socialism in Eastern Europe by Z. Pallo Jordan, September 1991, South Africa

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Ruth First as educator: An untold story by Alan Wieder

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Anglo-Boer War 1899-1902: White man’s war, black man’s war, traumatic war by André Wessels

Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s

Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid go...

Natives Land Act 1913 specific cases of evictions and hardship by R.W. Msimang

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Indres Naidoo interview

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