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Dec 14, 2018

Saleem Badat

Academic, author, Vice-Chancellor of Rhodes University, the first black South African to hold this post in 102 years, Ed...

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Dec 12, 2018

Alex Boraine, A Prince of Peace by Tony Heard

A major legacy of Alex Boraine’s life is the pushback it provides in effectively repelling a view too fashionable in som...

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Dec 07, 2018

You are a fraud, Mr Malema by Robin Binckes

You are a con, Mr Malema, and the tragedy is that there are people who fall for your vile and populace drivel, writes Ro...

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Dec 05, 2018

Conscientious Objection - A Christian Perspective by Paddy Kearney

CONSCIENTIOUS OBJECTION - A TIMELY TOPIC! I think the Committee should be congratulated on choosing a very timely topic...

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Nov 28, 2018

Reality - November 1985

SECTION 29 OF THE INTERNAL SECURITY ACT AND THE RULE OF LAW Of all those who fall prey to the powers exercised under th...

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Nov 27, 2018

Conscientious Objection: A Christian Perspective - A lecture delivered at the University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, by Paddy Kearney

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Nov 27, 2018

Gerald Patrick Kearney

Teacher, author, director of Diakonia, political detainee, Executive member of the Natal UDF, Chair of the Denis Hurley ...

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Nov 26, 2018

The great age of deceit by Gareth Van Onselen, 1/8 November 2018

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Nov 22, 2018

How Julius Malema destroyed the NPA's case against Jacob Zuma in 365 days by Gareth van Onselen, May 2018

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Nov 22, 2018

Why The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018

Following Julius Malema's recent comment, that he intended to "cut the throat of whiteness", by removing DA mayor Athol ...

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Nov 21, 2018

Bernard Sigamoney, Durban Indian revolutionary syndicalist by Lucien van der Walt

 A global movement, the anarchist and syndicalist tradition has influenced people from all walks of life. A notable...

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Albertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
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Nov 21, 2018

Albertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to

● Federation of South African Women The Defiance Campaign of 1952 would catapult the ANC Women’s League into a new era ...

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Nov 20, 2018

Introduction by Howard Barrell

ENEMIES DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so i...

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Nov 20, 2018

Acknowledgements by Howard Barrell

First thanks to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the s...

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South African General Timeline 1976
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Nov 20, 2018

South African General Timeline 1976

January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat and a Soviet-origin vehicle to Dar es S...

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