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ArticleBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her…
ArticleDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their…
ArticleBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the…
ArticleThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College. She then went on…
ArticleBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa,…
ArticleSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this…
ArticleEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increased racial…
ArticleBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era,…
ArticleThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
Alternating from prison to fort to prison to museum, the Old Fort in Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purposes since its…
ArticleBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the…
ArticleBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner…
ArticleBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier…
ArticleA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution,…
ArticleEditorial: Richard Turner
Dialectical Reason by Richard Turner
ArticleJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s…
ArticleThe Indian Question in South Africa, 1900-1914 by H. M. Adamson
ArticleBondage across the Ocean: Indentured Labor in the Indian Ocean by Alessandro Stanziani
ArticleSettlers and Laborers: The Afterlife of Indenture in Early South African Indian Writing by Nienke Boer
ArticleWomen and migration in South Africa: historical and literary perspectives by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleMapping free Indian migration to Natal through a biographical lens, 1880-1930 by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleSuch a long journey: The story of indenture by Brij V. Lal
ArticleMemories of indenture by Brij V. Lal
ArticleSouth African Families of Indian Descent: Transmission of Racial Identity by Kathryn Pillay
ArticleDaughters of the Gujarat Diaspora: Immigrant Women, Identity and Agency in Natal by Kalpana Hiralal
ArticleHistory of Migration and Contributions of Indian Women in Zambia: Comparison with South African Indian Women by Kamini Krishna
ArticleWomen Of Indian Descent In Southern Africa by Kamini Krishna
ArticleEnacting Marriage Laws: Regulating Women's Right and Sexuality in Natal 1860-1913 by Madhawi Jha
ArticleDiaspora, Citizenship and Identity: Migration from Kathor (Gujarat, India) to Durban (Natal, South Africa) by Goolam Vahed
ArticleIndentured Labour from India in the Age of Empire by Sunanda Sen
ArticleRecruiting Indentured Labour for Overseas Colonies, circa 1834–1910 by Madhwi
ArticlePassages of Ink: Decoding the Natal Indentured Records into the Digital Age by Thembisa Waetjen and Goolam Vahed
ArticleIsie Maisels - A personal tribute by Sydney Kentridge QC
Israel Aaron Maisels QC retired from the Johannesburg Bar, at the age of 87, after as remarkable a career as any advocate has enjoyed at…
Article'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where…
ArticleForeword: Helen Joseph’s – If This Be Treason – by Benjamin Trisk
I was unaware of Helen Joseph’s memoir of the Treason Trial (1956 – 1961) until I came across a letter to I.A. Maisels QC (Isie), who was…
ArticleMaisels and his ‘most famous client’ by Helen Maisels Trisk
It was to my late father, IA (Isie) Maisels QC that Mandela turned to when he was released from detention in February 1990. Mandela wanted…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting…
ArticleBolt: Magazine of the Literary Society, University of Natal, Durban Vol.1 No.2 1970
CONTENTS Isotopes. For women in Trouble, Douglas Livingstone. The Problem of Censorship, C.J.D. Harvey. Marcuse: The Power of Negative…
ArticleAcross the Kala Pani: Untold Stories of Indentutred Women of Christian Origin in South Africa by Rowanne Sarojini Marie
ArticleThe coming of Indentured Labourers from India to South Africa with Specific Reference to Mr Dhani Jiawon by R. Pursotham
ArticleUtopia as a perspective by Miki Kurisu
ArticleFemale Consciousness and Feminism in Africa by Allison Drew
ArticlePhotographs as Sources in African History by Robert Gordon and Jonatan Kurzwelly
ArticleA People's Heroine -Rajes Pillay
Rajes was born in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Kimberly. There she attended an Anglican school that catered for students of Indian,…
ArticleThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and apartheid-South Africa” Wolfram…
ArticleRace or Class? Community and Conflict amongst Indian Municipal Employees in Durban, 1914 - 1949 by Goolam Vahed
ArticleWomen's Organisations in the Western Cape
ArticleAfrican Women's Voices
ArticleThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Huddleston, an…
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko By Jonathan Ansumana
We are currently in the continent of Africa. The country located furthest south is called South Africa. It is the year 1948. A law…