Africa

The fate of banned eight, February 1978

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Hermanus Loots aka James Stuart Timeline

1936 Hermanus Loots is born in the Kat River area of the Eastern Cape (19 July).[i] 1954 Matriculated from John...

GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016

[Last year, I wrote to a comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him...

The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola

In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimb...

Cuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola

Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communi...

Richard Turner's Contribution to a Socialist Political Culture in South Africa 1968 1978 by William Hemingway Keniston

The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)

Introduction The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) is South Africa's second largest trade union federation w...

Customary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998

Before the establishment of the Recognition of Customary Marriages Act 120 of 1998 (RCMA), there were many controversial...

Tales of Urban Restitution, Black River, Rondebosch by Uma Shashikant Mesthrie, University of Western Cape

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The Tramway Road Removals, 1959-61 by Uma Shashikant Mesthrie (Kronos), November 1994, University of Western Cape

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University of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline

The student movement Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall, #RMF) garnered much media attention in March of 2015, after Chum...

Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016

Annually Statistics South Africa (Statssa) publishes a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in Sou...

Long Walk to Freedom by Nelson Mandela (original prison manuscript)

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My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016

This week, former president Thabo Mbeki admitted to having co-authored the HIV-Aids denialist Castro Hlongwane booklet i...

Diana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016

The Zimbabwean political activist and writer Diana Mitchell, who has died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith i...