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Remembering Krishna Rabilal by Roy Chetty
Roy Chetty, a friend and comrade of Krishna Rabilal, shares some insights into Rabilal's early days as a political activist in his hometown…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of…
ArticleYouth Day: "I do not celebrate it or commemorate it" - Antoinette Sithole
Antoinette Sithole, Hector Pieterson’s sister, speaks about life after 16 June 1976.
ArticleArtists and Entertainers Against Apartheid - An Update
The United Nations policy of cultural isolation of Apartheid South Africa. Conference on culture against Apartheid, held in Los Angeles,…
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…
ArticleFosatu
ArticleThe Black Trade Union Movement
In 1986, academic and activist Steven Friedman charted the rise to prominence of workers’ movements, wondering if unions could become…
ArticlePetrus Mashishi
Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his…
The battle of Adwa: an Ethiopian victory that ran against the current of colonialism
On the first day of March 124 years ago, traditional warriors, farmers and pastoralists as well as women defeated a well-armed Italian army…
ArticleAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I think you can stand…
ArticleRacial attitudes in the U S A
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ArticleClass versus Nation - A History of Richard Turner's Eclipse and Resurgence by Ian Macqueen
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
ArticlePhotographs as Sources in African History by Robert Gordon and Jonatan Kurzwelly
ArticleWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition…
ArticleApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali…
ArticleRestorative Memory – Considerations of colonial environmental distortion and the Salt River Estuarine & Riverine Territory by Patric Tariq Mellet, (2022/01/27 )
ArticleThe Turnover of Power in Kwazulu-Natal by Shauna Mottiar
The 2004 South African election culminated in a turnover of power in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The province, formerly governed by the…
ArticlePrince Mangosuthu Buthelezi MP - President Emeritus - Inkatha Freedom Party
ArticleThe rise and fall of Mangosuthu Buthelezi by Jill E. Kelly & Liz Timbs
South African public life is rife with revisionism, often opportunistic. Take the case of Mangosuthu Buthelezi.
ArticleThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
South Africa’s most famous monarch holds fast to power and prestige at no cost to himself.
ArticleJoint statement by Dr Mangosuthu G Buthelezi, Chief Minister of KwaZulu and Mr J C Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning
ArticleStop Press: Statement by Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi, Chief Minister of KwaZulu and President of Inkatha, March3, 1989
ArticleBackground issues outlined by Dr Mangosuthu Buthelezi: action needed now
My memories of Nat Nakasa by Mangosuthu Buthelezi, 27 August, South Africa
ArticleChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
ArticleA comment on four speeches by Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi
Unauthored comments on character and political stance of Mangosuthu G. Buthelezi from speeches by him.
ArticleJessie Duarte’s onslaught on the Zondo Commission, decency and justice by Stephen Grootes
Instead of trying to allay fears of corruption, or finding ways to show that the ANC will renew itself, the party’s deputy secretary…
ArticleRecognizing Museums for their achievements in innovation and public quality, as well as their commitment to excellence in their human values by Georgios Spyropoulos
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
Cape Town. Christmas 1977. I was thirteen years old. That seems like a very long time ago now, in a galaxy far, far away. We were living in…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
I began searching for my father's killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an investigative…
Article”Native Union”. Article by Pixley ka Isaka Seme, in October 24, 1911
Several Natives have requested me, Leaders and Chiefs, to write a full and concise statement on the subject of the South African Native…
ArticleThe Durban Riots: Press Clippings of Haji Ahmed Suleman Ballim
ArticleThe ‘Hani Memorandum’ – introduced and annotated by Hugh Macmillan
Article‘The Arch’ – our moral beacon – Desmond Mpilo Tutu 1931 - 2021
Shades of Empire: Police Photography in German South-West Africa by Lorena Rizzo
ArticleHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
Many of the obituaries of F.W. de Klerk were rather bad-tempered and some were downright spiteful. It seemed to stick in the throat of many…
ArticleVisualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davison and George Mahashe
Teaching South African History in the Digital Age: Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly, Omar Badsha, History in Africa, Volume 0 (2020)
ArticleManifesto On Values, Education and Democracy by Kader Asmal
ArticleA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
Fred Khumalo reminded us two years ago, on the occasions of the Mafika Gwala lecture, that as a young man he took a collection of his verse…
ArticlePhotography and African Futures by Richard Vokes and Darren Newbury
ArticleValliamma Munuswami Mudliar – 1898 – 1914
Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar lost her life at the young age of 16 in 1914. Mudaliar was imprisoned for marching against the South African…
ArticleProgramme of the South African Communist Party - 1962 - The Road to South African Freedom
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
In May, 1960, the Union of South Africa will be 50 years old. The Government is preparing to celebrate this jubilee with great enthusiasm,…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and the Collapse of the Soviet Union by Stephen Ellis
For 40 years (1950-90) the South African Communist Party (SACP) was banned by a government that represented international communism as the…
Men are interesting too: Photography, crisis and the masculine by Stella Viljoen
ArticlePrint Matters: History of Photography in Illustrated Magazines by Andres Zervigon
ArticleJune 16 - a day to remember
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