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Jul 28, 2017

Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, 27 July 2017, Pambazuka News

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Jul 27, 2017

Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012

Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a...

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Jul 27, 2017

Exploration of Mining Taps into rich seams by Rory Bester (Mail & Guardian), 2 - 8 November 2012

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Jul 27, 2017

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe

Political activist and health practitioner

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Jul 27, 2017

Zondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997

CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Sobukwe, are you Zodwa? MRS SOBUKWE: I am Zondeni. CHAIRPERSON: Zondeni Veronica. We welcome you Mrs ...

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Jul 27, 2017

Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012

Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No in...

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Jul 27, 2017

Things Fall Apartheid by Robin Cembalest, 4 September 2012

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Jul 27, 2017

David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa

Last Wednesday David Goldblatt wrote an email to the Chancellor of Orders explaining that he was declining the Order of ...

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Jul 27, 2017

David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011

In a videotaped interview with David Goldblatt that is included in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the Sout...

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Jul 27, 2017

Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981

Mrs. Gertrude Shope On behalf of the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire opp...

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Jul 27, 2017

Reflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011

David Goldblatt celebrated his 80th birthday in November last year. He tells fellow photographer Jo Ractliffe about his ...

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Jul 26, 2017

South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011

Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad A...

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Jul 26, 2017

David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011

One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. ...

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Jul 26, 2017

Haunted by the past by Mary Corrigall, 17 October 2010

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Jul 26, 2017

Die Kommuniste-Manifes by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

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