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Africa in Today's World by Max Coleman
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Apr 04, 2016

Africa in Today's World by Max Coleman

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Clone of Kitty the Steam locomotive, Rosherville Work Farm, Johannesburg
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Apr 01, 2016

Clone of Kitty the Steam locomotive, Rosherville Work Farm, Johannesburg

This engine was manufactured in England in 1879 by the firm of Kitson and Co, of Leeds, and was exported to South Africa...

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Mar 31, 2016

Constitiounal Court Judgement in the matter of Economic Freedom Fighters vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others; Democratic Alliance vs. Speaker of the National Assembly and Others, Heard on 9 February 2016 and Decided on 31 March 2016

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Mohamed Ismail Dinat
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Mar 31, 2016

Mohamed Ismail Dinat

Political activist, secretary of the Transvaal Indian Youth Congress, member of the Communist Party of South Africa, act...

Afrikaner Jewry in South Africa
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Mar 30, 2016

Afrikaner Jewry in South Africa

The identity of the Afrikaner Jew - what personifies the Boerejood? A Boerejood (‘farmer Jew’) or Boerejode...

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Mar 29, 2016

The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)

Charles van Onselen on 'Nongoloza' Mathebula. Introduction Modern South Africa's industrial achievements are often...

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Mar 29, 2016

Handbook of Revolutionary Warfare by Kwame Nkrumar

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Mar 29, 2016

The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective

The history of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in South Africa, the Industrial Workers of Africa, and...

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Mar 29, 2016

South African Blues directed by Andy Metcalf and Produced by Silvia Davies, Broadcast by the BBC (1990) featuring Churchill Jolobe, Princess Patience, Robbie Sithole, Jonas Gwangwa

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Mar 29, 2016

Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012

The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left in South Africa in th...

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Mar 29, 2016

Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005

Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves...

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Mar 29, 2016

GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016

V During the whole period when GEAR has been challenged “from the left”, the assertion was made that GEAR s...

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Mar 23, 2016

Collaboration and Debate in the ‘Durban Moment’: Steve Biko, Richard Turner and the politics of Black Consciousness, 1970-1974 by Ian Macqueen, University of the Witwatersrand

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Mar 23, 2016

Now in the Cold Dawn by Jann Turner

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Mar 23, 2016

Underground Varsity, 15 August 1968

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