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Aug 07, 2019

Marcus Solomon

Socialist, political activist, librarian and treasurer and bursary committee member of the Cape Peninsula Students Union...

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Aug 07, 2019

Raymond Hoffenberg

Medical specialist, professor, author, member of the Liberal Party, Chair of the Advisory Committee to the National Unio...

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Aug 07, 2019

Stanley Basil Lollan

Secretary of SACPO in the Transvaal and 1956 Treason Trialist

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Aug 07, 2019

Amos Ndwalane

Struggle veteran Amos Ndwalane, who escaped the noose by seven days due to the unbanning of the African National Congres...

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Aug 07, 2019

Adrian Leftwich

Author, exile, President of NUSAS, member of the African Resistance Movement, Lecturer in Politics

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Women, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
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Aug 07, 2019

Women, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s

In the 1920s, with the First World War (1914-1918) over, the pattern of female employment began to change. The war and t...

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Aug 07, 2019

South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project - 2018 Submissions

Kaitlin Bedard Kaitlin Bedard is a History and Secondary Education major at Bridgewat...

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Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI)
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Aug 07, 2019

Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI)

Africa South Art Initiative (ASAI) is a non-profit company specialising in research and publication on the visual arts i...

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South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project
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Aug 07, 2019

South African History Online and Bridgewater State University Partnership Project

South African History Online hosts “virtual internships” with Bridgewater State University students enrolled in a “Histo...

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Aug 07, 2019

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Black Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
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Aug 07, 2019

Black Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902

While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Black...

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South African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
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Aug 07, 2019

South African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)

Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by...

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South Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
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Aug 07, 2019

South Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis

South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of dem...

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The Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
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Aug 07, 2019

The Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew

The Azania Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individual...

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Aug 07, 2019

Inquiries into the plane crash involving Samora Machel

South Africa's reaction to the crash was very slow and suspicious. The South African officials relayed false information...

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