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New Age Vol.2 No.2156 Mar. 1956
News
Bill of Rights faces no 'base beast'
KwaZulu/Inkatha leadership
What the papers are saying
Declaration of Intent
KwaZulu/Natal Indaba
Whos who - at a glance: KwaZulu government c
News from the KwaZulu Bureau of Natural Resources
Book notes
Regional Chairs and Secretaries
The Group Areas Act
From our postbag
Threads from the Sash
Chapter one: Government created political bodies - Bantustans
Chapter six: Black consciousness
Chapter thirteen: Arts and entertainment
Acknowledgements
Dedication
Documents
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
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Online bookWomen's Literature in Kenya and Uganda by Marie Kruger
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Ancient Ghana and Mali by Nehemia Levtzion
Mayihlome-Aahwaan: a Dialogue Continued – a Musical Conversation between India and South Africa
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
In 1996 Michael Scurr penned the following article on the restoration of the Old Cape Archives (today the Centre for the Book). It was…
Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household…
ArchiveLetter from Maryland (https://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
The contacts between black South Africans and the African American community in the United States played an important part in the…
Retief manifesto, (Graham's Town Journal), 2 February 1837
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Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers
Copy of the treaty allegedly signed by Dingaan and Retief ceding large tracts of the Zulu Kingdom to the Voortrekkers, created by Jan…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
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Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
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ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
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ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
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ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
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ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
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ArchiveProcedure for voting by secret ballot in National Assembly, 8 August 2017
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ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
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O. R. Tambo Speeches, Articles and Letters edited by E. S. Reddy
Kora Sound Bites Part 1
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In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in…
Tweeting Fees Must Fall
A social media representation of the Fees Must Fall Protest
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