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Threads of Sorrow - Insurrections Ensemble 2018 - Programme

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CHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo

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Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last lega...

Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo

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British Consulate Six Opinion Piece by Paul David, 18 September 2018

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'La lutte contre l'Apartheid'

Athol Edwin Thorne

Athol Thorne was born in Springs, South Africa on 15th October 1921. His family soon moved to Durban where he attended s...

The Landless People’s Movement

In July 2001, The Landless People's Movement (LPM) was formed by leaders of various landless people of South Africa in r...

Old General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town

Overlooking the Western side of the Parade is the lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the si...

Old Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg

Johannesburg has many historic landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the...

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949

Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940 - 1949 1940 Within a year of his joining the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), Dr...

"The Asiatic Menace": Creating Segregation in Durban, 1870-1900 by Maynard W. Swanson

This article attempts to press the inquiry into urban development and the mentality of colonial authority further back i...

Remembrance of Albertina Sisulu through the Work of Cartoonists

When we look back at the past and the struggle leaders that we have lost, our opinions and views of them are directly im...

The caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu

Nontsikelelo Albertina has been described countless times as a caring and service-oriented individual who spent her life...

The Democratisation of Art: Cap as an Alternative Art space in South Africa by Eben Lochner, 02 June 2011

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