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ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948…
ArchiveWomen's Literature in Kenya and Uganda by Marie Kruger
ArchiveThe Making of Modern Libya : State Formation, Colonization, and Resistance, 1830-1932 by Ahmida Ali Abdullatif
Ancient Ghana and Mali by Nehemia Levtzion
Mayihlome-Aahwaan: a Dialogue Continued – a Musical Conversation between India and South Africa
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
In 1996 Michael Scurr penned the following article on the restoration of the Old Cape Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was…
Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh
ArchiveLetter from Maryland (https://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household…
Retief manifesto, (Graham's Town Journal), 2 February 1837
Piet Retief's published manifesto, setting out the reasons for the Voortrekker's departure from the Cape colony. Photographed in a display…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the…
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers, created by Jan…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction. This chapter [1] begins within an…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction Background to the project This…