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The Daily Dispatch
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Feb 02, 2018

The Daily Dispatch

Together with the Rand Daily Mail, the Daily Dispatch was one of the loudest mouthpieces for mainstream liberal critique...

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Feb 02, 2018

Hawa Timol's testimony on Ahmed Timol at the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)

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Feb 01, 2018

Hugh Masekela on "To Tell the Truth", 28 December 1964

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Jan 30, 2018

History of the South African Committee for Higher Education

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Jan 30, 2018

Jock of the Bushveld, Monument in Barberton

This is a statue of Jock of the Bushveld. It is located in Barberton in front of the Town Hall. Jock of the Bushveld was...

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Jan 26, 2018

Mandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa

EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid ac...

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Jan 24, 2018

Jeffrey's Bay

The Town is named after Captain Jeffreys who sailed his cargo ship on the East Coast of South Africa on trading expediti...

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Jan 24, 2018

The Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017

Hugh Masekela was an up-and-coming trumpeter, all of 20, when he took an overnight train from Johannesburg to Cape Town ...

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Jan 24, 2018

Hugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013

It is said that 11 of the world's 20 fastest growing economies are in Africa, but when you talk about the economy, who a...

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Jan 24, 2018

Remembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018

Trumpeter, flugelhorn-player, singer, composer and activist Hugh Ramapolo Masekela has passed away after a long battle w...

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Jan 24, 2018

Jonkershoek

This Nature Reserve is home to the majestic Jonkershoek Mountains and parts of the Jonkershoek valley, it is a UNESCO Wo...

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Jan 24, 2018

Joubertina

Set in amongst other Villages with similarly lyrical names, like: Musgund, Louterwater and Kareedouw, on Route 62, Joube...

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Jan 23, 2018

Cedric Nunn Interview Harris

 

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Jan 23, 2018

Remembering District Six

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Jan 19, 2018

Assia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry

Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar 1996). She gre...

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