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Nov 08, 2018

Dr Kwame Nkrumah

President of Ghana (1957 - 1966)

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Biography
Nov 08, 2018

Vicky Sampson

Singer, performer, Co-Director at Mzanzi Cultural Industries 

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Biography
Nov 05, 2018

Ashley James Kriel

Apartheid activist, Umkhonto we Sizwe operative

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Place
Nov 05, 2018

Claremont Main Road Mosque

Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to th...

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Archive
Nov 01, 2018

Yusuf Dadoo_Some Facts - Vladimir Shubin

Yusuf Dadoo. then the SACP Chairman, one of 15 members of the Central Committee and one of 7 members of the Executive ha...

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Nov 01, 2018

Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London

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Nov 01, 2018

Vespa Diaries Book redirect

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Place
Oct 31, 2018

Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth

The Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, located in Central Port Elizabeth's Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation...

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Oct 31, 2018

Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer

Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the b...

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Oct 29, 2018

Port Elizabeth City Hall

The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock t...

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Oct 29, 2018

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Oct 25, 2018

Let's Talk About Rick Turner by Peter Hudson

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Oct 25, 2018

How the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018

On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines fro...

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Oct 24, 2018

Apartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay

It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of l...

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Oct 24, 2018

Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018

The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced ...

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