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ArticleStones Against the Mirror by Claudia B Braude
Stones Against the Mirror, Hugh Lewin’s already much-acclaimed new book, is organised around his treatment of the devastating events…
ArticleLessons of Durban Riots by T. G. Ramamurthi
The Durban riots were not an expression of permanent antagonism between Indians and native Africans but an explosion of deeper…
ArticleSouth Africa - Emergency Campaign - A Call to Action by Alan Paton
"The Afrikaner Nationalist .will change only when the pressure inside and outside the country becomes unendurable."- ALAN PATON
ArticleDumisani Kumalo (1947 - 2019)
Dumisani Kumalo served in the Department of International Relations and Co-operation for 14 years. He was chair of the Group of 77 (a…
ArticleSanity Check: EFF’s Election Manifesto, a fundamentally dishonest document by Rebecca Davis
One of the measures an EFF government would introduce would be compulsory critical thinking classes for all South African high school…
ArticleZimbabwe: Capitalist crisis + ultra-neoliberal policy = “Mugabesque” authoritarianism by Patrick Bond - LINKS - International Journal of Socialist Renewal
Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores of serious…
ArticleDesigning Knowledge in Postcolonial Africa: A South African Abroad by Daniel Magaziner, Department of History, Yale University
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002
Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 14 August 2002
ArticleSonny Venkatrathnam (1935-2019): Robben Islander and Rebel Without a Pause by Ashwin Desai
The Unity Movement of South Africa - Unity Movement Members charged under the Terrorism Act
I B Tabata - President - Unity Movement of South Africa - A biographical note
ArticleUnity Movement Members Charged Under Terrorism Act
ArticleRobert McBride: Caught in the jaws of State Capture, adrift in the present while captive of the past
It was the ruthless and violent application of unjust laws by the apartheid state on the black majority that drove Robert McBride into the…
ArticleOmar Badsha: Placing the Collective Above the Individual
ArticleThe Portfolio: Rafs Mayet
Revealed: At least 20 percent of party leaders have a shady past By Rebecca Davis
One in five of the leaders of the political parties registered to contest the 2019 elections nationally has a chequered past: Criminal…
ArticlePolitical Parties Contesting the 2019 South African General Elections
The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections. Most have been…
ArticleFatima Meer: A Pictorial Tribute by Dasarath Chetty
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 Savimbi were defeated by…
ArticleAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, agriculture and…
New tactics in the revolt
Reaction Takes the Offensive After the first attempted march on Johannesburg on 4 August, and the partial stay-at-home which kept at…
ArticleApartheid - a vigilant witness
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ArticleYes! I Am A Feminist! By SPEAK, July 1992, Johannesburg
Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012
Khoisan traditional leader, Oom Dawid Kruiper, was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite concerns from…
New Khoisan name for Cape Town, 25 June 2012
Cape Town - It may take some getting used and some Capetonians will probably have difficulty getting their tongue around the Mother City’s…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of…
ArticleOne hundred years of an air force inspired by General Smuts, by John Kane-Berman (PoliticsWeb), 18 July 2018
Last week fighter aircraft flying in formation to look like the figure "100" swooped down The Mall and over Buckingham Palace to mark the…
ArticleOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a political…
ArticleThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic…
ArticleLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is heady; the image of the…
ArticleA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how it would be…
ArticleMandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa
EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid activists Stompie…
ArticleRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
Forty years ago, in the early hours of January 8th 1978, a 36-year old political philosopher was shot dead in his Durban home by ‘person or…
ArticleUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the…
Article`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done by our organisers…
ArticleThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier, calmer and less…
ArticleThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the book "Fatima Meer:…
ArticleWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A stalwart of the…
ArticleRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela, there has been…
ArticleThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Gottlieb plays traditional Damara music at the funeral of Ouma Juliana ǂÛ-khui ǁAreses on the family farm beneath…
ArticleHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour…
ArticleHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s…
ArticlePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of…
ArticleThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest thinkers in the liberation pantheon of South…
ArticleThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan the Minister of Finance and former head of the S…
ArticleJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one…
ArticleBirth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe
In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the artist's name and song…
ArticleHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only legal non-racial…