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Mar 22, 2017

Papers from the Pre-Colonial Catalytic Project: Volume 1 edited by Lungisile Ntsebeza and Chris Saunders

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Mar 20, 2017

Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017

Wilbur Smith, that great chronicler of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his finest in his 1972 novel, T...

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Mar 16, 2017

Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand

The President of Cosatu, Comrade Willie Madisha, General Secretary, Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi and all members of the Cent...

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Mar 16, 2017

Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987

The delegation of the African National Congress of South Africa (ANC), on behalf of the oppressed and struggling people ...

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Mar 16, 2017

ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011

South Africans have now become accustomed to the blatant falsehoods, deceits, relentless misinformation and unbridled ma...

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Mar 16, 2017

Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown

Members of the Hani family, Premier Noxolo Kiviet and members of the provincial executive, Ministers and Deputy Minist...

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Mar 16, 2017

Closing remarks to the 13th Ordinary Session of the African Union Assembly of Heads of State and Government, 03 July 2009, Sirte, Libya

Your Excellency, Brother Leader, Moummar Gaddaffi, current Chairperson of the African Union, Excellencies Heads of Stat...

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Mar 16, 2017

Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo

Mrs Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family; Provincial Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Cassel Mathale; Nation...

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Mar 16, 2017

Celebrating 62 years of struggle, 10 September 2006

On the 10th of September each year, the ANC Youth League celebrates its founding, and recently, on the same date, the AN...

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Mar 16, 2017

`We will come back with Msholozi`- erupts Pondoland, 12 December 2008

Sounds of "sizobuya naye uMsholozi" (we will come back with Msholozi), "ngena Jacob, ukhetho luyeza"...

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Mar 16, 2017

The Bag Factory

The Bag Factory is known as one of the leading visual arts facilities in Johannesburg. Since its’ inception in 199...

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Mar 15, 2017

The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper

“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inq...

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Mar 15, 2017

Jubilee Art Centre

The Jubilee Art Centre in central Johannesburg joined these alternative art education centres in the 1970s but was force...

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Mar 15, 2017

Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015

Media and Social Movements Network Rondebosh, the suburb below the University of Cape Town which is below the Cecil Joh...

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Mar 15, 2017

Motswedi Alexandra Art Centre, Wynberg Sandton

Bill Ainslie’s School extended beyond the Art Foundation. The Alexandra Arts Centre was established in 1986 in Alexandra...

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