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ArticleWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually…
ArticleTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in…
ArticleWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
Following Julius Malema's recent comment, that he intended to "cut the throat of whiteness", by removing DA mayor Athol Trollip in Nelson…
ArticleHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
Journalist, author and anti-apartheid activist Hugh Lewin has died, aged seventy-nine. Lewin passed away at his home in Killarney,…
ArticleConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in what’s known as the South African War between 1899 and 1902 – or the…
ArticleRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka,…
ArticleWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the…
ArticleOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and…
ArticleCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
Perched on the outskirts of Observatory in Cape Town, just above the Black River, stands the South African Astronomical Observatory;…
ArticleSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when police opened fire on…
ArticleFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the…
ArticleThe Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’ - The road from liberation to disillusionment by Ashwin Desai
Reflecting on detention during apartheid and Steve Biko’s enduring influence, Ashwin Desai connects the past to anxieties about corruption,…
ArticleObituary: Hazel Goldreich (Berman)
On 2 September 2026, Hazel Goldreich passed away in the United Kingdom, after a long life lived, marked by extreme courage and humility…
ArticleSouth Africa’s struggle songs against apartheid come from a long tradition of resistance
Struggle songs, also known as protest music or liberation songs, are defined as “expressions of discontent or dissent” used by politically…
ArticleKenya’s female freedom fighters were the silent heroes of the anti colonial movement - here are some of their stories
While the leaders of the Mau Mau and the political elite now hold a prominent place in Kenya’s national history of independence, this…
ArticleLearning from the story of pioneering South African writer Sindiwe Magona
A People's Heroine -Rajes Pillay
Rajes was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal and grew up in Kimberly. There she attended an Anglican school that catered for students of…
ArticleApartheid's Sporting Afterlife by Clark Easley
More than thirty years after the fall of Apartheid, South Africa's stadiums are integrated - but was the non-racial sporting vision of the…
ArticleRemembering Shanthie Naidoo: A Tribute by David Kenvyn
ArticleRemembering a relentless revolutionary: Dawood Seedat
ArticleXenophobia in South Africa: Reflections, Narratives and Recommendations by Hussein Solomon and Hitomi Kosaka
Xenophobia, simply put, is the fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers; it is embodied in discriminatory attitudes and behaviour, and…
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, White S. African Reporter Pleads Guilty to Treason, Associated Press, 3 November 1986
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, South Africa: Confessions of a Guerrilla, Time, 17 November 1986
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
Extract from Karis & Carter 1. NAME The name of the organisation shall be the Pan Africanist Congress, hereinafter referred to as…
The Defiance Campaign, 1952: Social struggle or party stratagem?
ArticleTeaching South African History in the Digital Age - Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly & Omar Badsha
Abstract: The digitisation of African materials has made it easier than ever for students to engage with primary source documentation and…
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, South African white arrested in blasts, by Alan Cowell, New York Times, 10 March 1986
ArticleStruggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge, Albie Sachs, is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger…
ArticleBiography: Robert Cedric Wilcox
ArticleEdward Webster: South African intellectual, teacher, activist, a man of great energy and integrity, and the life and soul of any party
ArticleWits mourns the loss of Professor Eddie Webster
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, Sparg sets out ANC policy on violence
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, A soldier for South Africa’s political revolution
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, MK Special Operations Combatant Marion Sparg is Arrested, 7 March 2023
ArticleEdson Sithole: new book uncovers the work of a thinker, lawyer and Zimbabwean freedom fighter who ‘disappeared’
ArticleSouth African activist Frank Anthony wrote a novel that has been forgotten: why it shouldn’t have been
How does it come about that a man who dedicated the greater part of his life to a vision of a just South Africa, and sacrificed his family…
ArticlePower stations operation, Black nationalists stage bomb attacks, by Charles Mitchell, UPI Archives, 21 July 1981
ArticleDjibouti votes: ageing president set to extend his rule after changing constitution
ArticleDebating the Church Street Bombing, by Christine Devine, 15 November 2012
ArticleChurch Street bomb - 20th May 1982 ... a blast from the past, by Kobus, Citizen Alert ZA, 20 May 2008
ArticleNew Movie 'Catch A Fire' Tells True Story of Anti-Apartheid Activist Patrick Chamusso, by Alan Silverman, VoAnews.com, 31 October 2009
ArticleThe unlikely activist, by Mike Pflanz, Telegraph, 10 March 2007
ArticleFrom Robben Island to the red carpet, by Andrew Meldrum, Observer, 5 November 2006
ArticleChamusso pays tribute to Madiba, Mpumalanga News, 6 December 2013
ArticleCatch a Fire: The Real-Life Patrick Chamusso, by Emanuel Levy, Cinema 24/7, 10 September 2006
ArticlePeter Alexander, source unknown, 29 August 2011
ArticlePatrick Chamusso - a biography
ArticlePatrick Chamusso - a biography
ArticlePatrick Chamusso - I am a grassroots person. I am here to help the poorest of the poor people, 11 February 2014
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