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Whiteness in Zimbabwe: Race, Landscape, and the Problem of Belonging by David McDermott Hughes
11 June 2019
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A Century of Premiers: Salisbury to Blair by Dick Leonard
11 June 2019
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A Crisis of Governance: Zimbabwe by Jacob Chikuhwa
11 June 2019
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How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
11 June 2019
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of ...
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The Collapse of Rhodesia: Population Demographics and the Politics of Race by Josiah Brownell
11 June 2019
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Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
11 June 2019
Colonial domination, because it is total and tends to over-simplify, very soon manages to disrupt in spectacular fashion...
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Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
11 June 2019
Come, then, comrades; it would be as well to decide at once to change our ways. We must shake off the heavy darkness in ...
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Breyten Breytenbach writes to the editor of the Daily Maverick on vanishing UCT artworks and blank minds, South Africa, 11 April 2016
11 June 2019
Please allow me yet again to react to the spasms of abject annihilation of sense, meaning and self-respect being played ...
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Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
11 June 2019
As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. Thi...
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Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
11 June 2019
A couple of days back I had a dream where I visited the renovated premises of my once favourite shop as a kid in Salt Ri...
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Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
11 June 2019
Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Et...
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’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
11 June 2019
On 31 January 1985 the State President of South Africa, PW Botha, speaking in parliament, offered Mandela his freedom on...
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150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
11 June 2019
During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured la...
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'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South Afri­can Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952
11 June 2019
Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply conscious of the signal honour it is to be asked to open this 20th con...
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The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
11 June 2019
In 1942, shortly before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, I was present in Sevagram as a six-...
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