Africa

Wim Botha

Artist, Sculptor 

Zuma rape case judge stands down (BBC News),13 February 2006

The judge presiding over the rape trial of South Africa's former Deputy President Jacob Zuma has said he is stepping...

Zuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006

The woman accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has...

SA's Zuma 'showered to avoid HIV' (BBC News), 05 April 2006

South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma said he showered after sex with an HIV-positive woman, thinking this would ...

Indian South Africans: 1924-1948 Legislation and Segregation

Contents Introduction The concept of segregation Discriminatory legislation up to 1924 Political Legislation Econom...

Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo (Khwezi)

Daughter, activist and poet

Jane Gool

INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history

Although Indians had been among the first slaves that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth...

How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg

As head of intelligence for the outlawed African National Congress during apartheid, Jacob Zuma neutralized perceived tr...

The Quest for "Malay" Identity in Apartheid South Africa by Goolam Vahed

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The History of Al-Shabaab

Origins The organisation known as Al-Shabaab originally emerged from the Islamic Courts Union (ICU) movement in Somalia...

Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa

“The ‘baasskap’ cookie must crumble” Mafika Pascal Gwala and the quest for a humane society If...

Decentering Nationalism: Representing and Contesting Chimurenga in Zimbabwean Popular Culture by Tinashe Mawere

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Deciphering the Meanings, and Explaining the South African Higher Education Student Protests of 2015-16 by Saleem Badat

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History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016

In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into...