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Article'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. …
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
As one who has had the privilege, honour and, indeed, the pleasure of being a close associate and comrade-in-arms of Dr. Naicker - MONTY to…
The visibility of invisible moments by Ashraf Jamal (Life / Arts & Entertainment), 12 June 2015
ArticleChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afternoon to meet the…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
WHITHER PALESTINE ? Ronnie Kasrils, Middle East Monitor, London 19 May, 2015. 1. INTRODUCTION: It is an honour to have been invited to…
ArticleNelson Mandela’s Warders
ArticleThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
During my incarceration in the same single-cell block in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison with Nelson Rohihlala Mandela between 1977…
ArticleMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country…
The International Situation in 1961 by Jane Gool, 3 -5 January 1962
ArticleArmed and Trained: Nelson Mandela’s 1962 military mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and provenance for his buried Makarov pistol by Garth Conan Benneyworth
ArticleAlexandria, Real and Imagined edited by Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk, 2004
ArticleHow Julius Malema destroyed the NPA's case against Jacob Zuma in 365 days by Gareth van Onselen, May 2018
ArticleLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in…
ArticleJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke that secures oxen in…
The disintegration of the UMSA abroad
Bill of Rights faces no 'base beast'
Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh
ArticlePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of…
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…
The quest for appropriate representation
"The quest for appropriate representation" by Andries Walter Oliphant was originally published in VryeWeekblad. In this two page spread…
ArticleWomen in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner
The involvement of women in liberation struggle tends to attract controversy. This relates mainly to the extent and character of women's…
ArticleThandi Modise, a Woman in War by Thandi Modise and Robyn Curnow
Thandi Modise, a Woman in War Author(s): Thandi Modise and Robyn Curnow Source: Agenda, No. 43, Women and the Aftermath (2000), pp. 36-40…
Badsha’s work for Human Rights Exhibition by Shaun Harris, 30 October 1988
Tanzania - The Quiet Revolution
Winnies Failing Fortunes
Nigeria Today
Natal Indian Congress - The Significance of Its Revival
Algeria In Agony Over Reform
Dr. Edward Roux Scholarship
Introductory essay: Inqaba ya Basebenzi Journ, January 1981
A scholarly introductory essay on the periodical Inqaba ya Basebenzi