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Jan 24, 2019

Dumisani Shadrack Kumalo

reporter, founder member of the Union of Black Journalists in South Africa, exiled person, lecturer, International Educa...

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Jan 23, 2019

EFF's anti-indian comments stand: Godrich Gardee

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Jan 23, 2019

Full interview with Julius Malema | Crossing The Line

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Jan 23, 2019

Julius Malema in hot water again over Indian Comments

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Jan 22, 2019

Indian South Africans in Struggle for National Liberation Evidence of Molvi Ismail Ahmad Cachalia in the South African Treason Trial, June 21-28, 1960, Edited by E. S. Reddy

In South Africa, the people have been engaged in a heroic and arduous struggle against a system of racial bigotry and op...

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Jan 22, 2019

Hugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019

In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only...

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Jan 22, 2019

Dag Hjalmar Agne Carl Hammarskjöld

Former United Nations Secretary General

Indian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
Article
Jan 18, 2019

Indian South Africans timeline 1930-1939

1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the...

Place
Jan 18, 2019

Regina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto

Regina Mundi Catholic Church is located in the Township of Soweto, in the Suburb of Moroka. The Church forms part of the...

Place
Jan 18, 2019

Bertrams, Johannesburg

  Bertrams is named after Robertson Fuller Bertram, a property Developer who bought the area in 1889; the Suburb i...

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Jan 18, 2019

Hugh Lewin Arrest and Interrogation an Excerpt from the Book Bandiet Out of Jail Published By Random House

Bandiet was first published in London in the mid-70s. Hailed as a classic work of South African prison literature, it re...

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Jan 18, 2019

Stones Against the Mirror by Claudia B Braude

Stones Against the Mirror, Hugh Lewin’s already much-acclaimed new book, is organised around his treatment of the devast...

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Jan 18, 2019

Hugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019

Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in...

Biography
Jan 17, 2019

Hugh Lewin

Journalist, author, anti-apartheid activist, political prisoner, jailed for sabotage, exiled person, member of the Afric...

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Jan 16, 2019

Report of the Commission of Enquiry into Riots in Durban

The terms of reference of Your Excellency's Commission were : "To enquire into and report upon the events which led to a...

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