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Aug 23, 2018

The Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana

We are currently in the continent of Africa. The country located furthest south is called South Africa. It is the year 1...

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Aug 23, 2018

The Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018

The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Hu...

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Aug 23, 2018

South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions

The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put Africans ...

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Aug 23, 2018

Towards a United Africa by N.Numade

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Biography
Aug 23, 2018

Julius Nyerere

Prime Minister of Tanganyika (1961); President of Tanganyika (1962 - 1964); President of the United Republic of Tanzania...

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Aug 22, 2018

Azania Worker - Volume 2 No 2, December 1985

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Aug 22, 2018

Azania Worker - Volume 1 No 1, Autumn 1983

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United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
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Aug 20, 2018

United Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990

1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee (TASC) ...

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Aug 16, 2018

Naauwpoort

This place is situated in Ditsobotla, North West. The name is Dutch for 'narrow pass' or 'narrow gap'. In 2011 it had a ...

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Aug 16, 2018

Noupoort

Noupoort is a town in the Eastern Karoo region of South Africa. With the start of the Railways in Noupoort nearly all th...

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Aug 14, 2018

Samir Amin

Prominent Egyptian-French Marxist thinker

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Aug 13, 2018

Nqutu, Kwa-Zulu Natal

The name being of Zulu origin derived from 'insquthu'- meaning a flat-topped vessel, descriptive of a nearby hill from w...

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1956 Women Marchers
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Aug 08, 2018

1956 Women Marchers

# 1956 Women Marchers is an initiative of the  Albertina and Walter Sisulu Foundation and South African History Onl...

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The Women of Marikana
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Aug 08, 2018

The Women of Marikana

The town of Marikana, formerly known as and still sometimes referred to as Rooikoppies (red hills), is based in Rustenbu...

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Aug 07, 2018

Mbombela Orion Hotel, 'Promenade', Nelspruit

Situated on corner Henshall Street and Samora Machel Drive/N4, it is hard to imagine that what is today known as the Ori...

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