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Nov 20, 2018

Note on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell

THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serio...

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Nov 20, 2018

Jeremy Vearey

Western Cape Deputy Commissioner in Charge of Detectives, former MK operative, teacher  

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Nov 19, 2018

Bibliography by Howard Barrell

This bibliography includes all books, articles and primary material referred to in the text and footnotes, as well as a ...

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Nov 19, 2018

Postscript Ante by Howard Barrell

In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a lo...

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Nov 19, 2018

Conclusion by Howard Barrell

Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and ...

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Nov 16, 2018

Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012

Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet Sout...

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Nov 16, 2018

Chapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell

It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that...

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Nov 15, 2018

CHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell

"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to politic...

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Nov 14, 2018

The Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive - Magnum Photos

The Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive  - With the arrival of thousands of his rediscovered neg...

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Nov 14, 2018

An Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier

21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after...

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Nov 14, 2018

CHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell

Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it w...

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Nov 14, 2018

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African...

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Nov 13, 2018

Vondela Landingwe

Robben Island prisoner, MEC in the Western Cape government

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No Land, No House, No Vote Timeline
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Nov 13, 2018

No Land, No House, No Vote Timeline

2004 The Landless People’s Movement (LPM) organised a ‘No Land, No Vote’ campaign to coincide with the 2004 South Afr...

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Nov 09, 2018

The Necessity of Non-Racism_Doctor Yusuf Dadoo Today by Professor Ari Sitas

We are living through a race-obsessed period in a race-obsessed country. This obsession comes out in everyday conversati...

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