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Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in…
What Kind...? A film by Peter McKenzie & Sylvie Peyre
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
When trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela cancelled his appearance at the recent Johannesburg…
The legacy of Oliver Reginald Tambo
Insurrections at Poetry Africa 2014
Timol Inquest: He was murdered but culprits are dead, court rules
A packed courtroom clapped after Judge Billy Mothle ruled that in 1971 the SACP’s Timol was pushed by members of the Security Branch out of…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is…
Audio - An Evening with FW de Klerk – the Full Event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
It’s 28 years ago that FW became leader of the National Party and he won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessis got a home on…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser into dropping the…
Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017
The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older brother and treated Khwezi as he would a daughter. Presidential contender…
Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017
Cape Town - ANC treasurer general, Zweli Mkhize, says the ANC leadership should have been consulted on President Jacob Zuma's cabinet…
Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged…