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ArticleApartheid, Urban Segregation, and the Local State: Durban and the Group Areas Act in South Africa
There has been some speculation about the origins of the Group Areas Act (GAA), one of the key instruments used to enforce the ideology of…
The Local State and Residential Segregation: Durban and the Prelude to the Group Areas Act
Conventionally, residential segregation in South Africa is associated with the ascent to power of the National Party, and the Group Areas…
ArticleSharpeville and After: Suppression and Liberation in Southern Africa
Sharpeville - 21 March 1960 - sixty nine Africans were shot dead by police, hundreds injured and thousands arrested. The Pass Laws became…
ArticleSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of independence. Jonathan…
ArticleThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined…
ArticleCosatu scores its first soccer team
ArticleNeville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left, c. 1957–1964 by Allison Drew
ArticleThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a…
ArticleThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30…
ArticleJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
When the story of the founding of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only…
ArticleBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
Ellen Kate was the name given to her by her biological mother and father. While important people in her life, they separated while she was…
Eugene de Kock
This article was written by Jaime Ibarra-Perez and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
"South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report, on behalf of the Secretariat, to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South…
Trade Union Organizer in Durban: M B Yengwa, 1943-1944 by Baruch Hirson
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
THIS month forty years ago, South Africa learned an important truth which shaped our future – that people without power can challenge those…
ArticleThe Durban strikes 1973 by Richard Hyman
Shades of Empire: Police Photography in German South-West Africa by Lorena Rizzo
ArticleComparison of the Syllabus of the Bantu Education Department with that of the Transvaal Education Department and Other Related Matters
Media Release - Krishna Rabilal Foundation, 30 January 2021
Krishna Rabilal
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,…
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…