Africa

The Society of Young Africa (SOYA)

The Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held its opening conference on 20th December 1951. Led by I. B. Tabata, SOYA was clos...

Ruth First timeline 1925-2012

1925 4 May, Ruth Herloise First is born in Johannesburg to Julius and Matilda First, Jewish immigrants (from Latv...

Ruth First by Chris Van Wyk

South Africa in the 1970s

During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for so...

Thandi Modise, a Woman in War by Thandi Modise and Robyn Curnow

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Only the Workers Can Free the Workers: the origin of the workers’ control tradition and the Trade Union Advisory Coordinating Committee (TUACC), 1970-1979 by Nicole Ulrich

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The Workers Handbook No. 2

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Vernacular Architecture Society of South Africa

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Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay

Graeme Innes: Hello and welcome to Podrights, or this week Vodrights, a series of podcasts from the Australian Huma...

The Definition Of Black Consciousness by Bantu Stephen Biko, December 1971, South Africa

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Fallen Walls: Prisoners of Conscience in South Africa and Czechoslovakia by Jan Karel Coetzee, Lynda Gilfillan, Otakar Hulec

Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge

Names: Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe Charlotte Born: 29 June 1952, Magog, KwaZulu-Natal In Summary: A student activist al...

Women and Resistance in South Africa by Cherryl Walker, 1982, South Africa

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Winnie Mandela: A Life by Anné Mariè du Preez Bezdrob, 2003, South Africa

Culture in the New South Africa by Robert Kriger and Abebe Zegeye - part 6

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