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Eric Mtshali
Biography
Eric Mtshali
18 December 2019
Trade unionist, leader in uMkhonto weSizwe and Member of Parliament.
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Bruno Mtolo portrait
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Bruno Mtolo
18 December 2019
 
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Mpumelelo Washington Bongco portrait
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Mpumelelo Washington Bongco
18 December 2019
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Keorapetse William Kgositsile
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Keorapetse William Kgositsile
17 December 2019
Poet, political activist, author, lecturer, exile, member of the African National Congress
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Phyllis Altman portrait
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Phyllis Altman
11 December 2019
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Mohammed Cassiem Alie portrait
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Mohammed Cassiem Alie
11 December 2019
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A Miscarriage of democracy: The ANC Security Department in the 1984 mutiny in Umkhonto we sizwe
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A Miscarriage of democracy: The ANC Security Department in the 1984 mutiny in Umkhonto we sizwe
11 December 2019
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Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
11 December 2019
Comrades-in-arms and fellow fighters in the struggle for freedom: On December 16, 1961, a national army - Umkhonto we...
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uMkhonto weSizwe flyer by Mac Maharaj, 1960s
11 December 2019
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Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe
11 December 2019
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Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
11 December 2019
The present discussion will be based largely on experiences in Dar es Salaam and on information obtained from other comr...
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Bartholomew Hlapane
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Bartholomew Hlapane
10 December 2019
Member of the ANC and SACP, state witness in many political trials
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Reggie Vandeyar
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Reggie Vandeyar
10 December 2019
Member of the TIC, SAIC, ANC, MK and UDF
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Ben Turok, rebel, revolutionary, thinker, truth-teller — one of the last of The Struggle greats by Marianne Thamm
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Ben Turok, rebel, revolutionary, thinker, truth-teller — one of the last of The Struggle greats by Marianne Thamm
10 December 2019
Ben Turok, sole surviving member of the 1960s Communist Party underground leadership, author of the ‘economic clause’ in...
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Michael Alan Harmel
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Michael Alan Harmel
10 December 2019
Intellectual and revolutionary. Member of the SACP and  MK’s High Command.
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