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Detention Dairy by Michael Hathorn (an extract)
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Sep 08, 2016

Detention Dairy by Michael Hathorn (an extract)

An extract from Michael Hathorn’s prison diary and notes from his 3 month detention in Durban in 1960

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Sep 08, 2016

The Hour of Youth has Struck: The African National Congress Youth League and the Struggle for a Mass Base, 1943-1952 by Chris Giffard

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Sep 07, 2016

Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')

30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solita...

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Sep 06, 2016

From Survival to defiance: Indian Hawkers in Johannesburg 1940-1980 edited by Coco Cachalia

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Sep 06, 2016

The South African Indian Helot or Citizen issued by Indians Overseas Association

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Tracy Payne
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Sep 06, 2016

Tracy Payne

South African painter and teacher.

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Sep 06, 2016

A digest of the Fagan Report Prepared by Maurice Webb

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Somalia
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Sep 05, 2016

Somalia

The arrival of European Colonists in the late 19th Century led to the division of Somalia between Britain and Italy. Ind...

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Aug 31, 2016

South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria

Whatever the virtues of South Africa’s governing African National Congress (ANC) – we are assured it still h...

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Randolph Hartzenberg
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Aug 31, 2016

Randolph Hartzenberg

Randolph Hartzenberg is a Cape Town-based artist who works with painting, printmaking, installation, video and performan...

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Aug 30, 2016

The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998

As curious as it may seem to a jaded Western art world, the large-scale global art exhibition still strikes many emergin...

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Aug 30, 2016

MONTY SPEAKS: Speeches of Dr G. M. (Monty) Naicker 1945-1963 compiled by E. S. Reddy

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Emile Maurice
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Aug 29, 2016

Emile Maurice

Born in 1955 and based most of his life in Cape Town, Emile Maurice was an artist, curator, author educator and Nation b...

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Jo Ractliffe
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Aug 29, 2016

Jo Ractliffe

This biography was written by SAHO in collaboration with Artthrob MODUS OPERANDI Jo Ractliffe is a documentary pho...

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Aug 24, 2016

List of Registered Trade Unions in South Africa (June 2016)

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