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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
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…
ArticleResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
Everyone knows about apartheid. They know that it was a system of racial discrimination that segregated the people of South Africa based on…
ArticleRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
“The truth is revealed in people’s eyes. Words have so little value. You need to get under people’s skins. See what is inside.”[1] -The…
ArticleChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist approach, she is poised to break…
ArticleAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar 1996). She grew up learning both…
ArticleBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
Dambisa Moyo is a well renowned global economist. Born in Zambia she was exposed to the harsh economic realities that Africa faces early in…
ArticleBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
Nawal el-Saadawi has been creative her entire life. As a young girl, she imagined becoming a singer or a dancer. Her dreams of becoming an…
ArticleThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
Micere Githae Mugo is an internationally known world speaker recognized for her literary works, essays and writings which she has used as a…
ArticleBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portuguese, the Dutch and…
ArticleBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
Flora Nwapa - remembered today as Africa’s “literary foremother” - was born on [1]January 13, 1931 in Oguta, located in eastern Nigeria…
ArticleBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
Life Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta was born on July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, to Igbo parents, Jeremy Nwabundinke and…
ArticleJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
ArticleReshaping Remembrance Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory by Albert Grundlingh and Siegfried Huigen (editors)
ArticleArabic Afrikaans – early standardisation of Afrikaans orthography: A discussion of The Afrikaans of the Cape Muslims by Achmat Davids, by Ernst Kotzé
ArticleAfrikaans and the university language debate (Part 2): The ‘costs’ of institutional bilingualism - Part 2 - 2
Within the domain of higher education, the decline of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction comes on the back of a more fundamental shift:…
ArticleAfrikaans and the university language debate: Exploring the Constitutional Court judgements - Part 1 - 2
Living in Stellenbosch, I am sensitive to the emotions that accompany the decline of Afrikaans as a high-level cultural medium. This…
ArticleThe ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo
Little is known about the first South African underground group sent for training in China in 1961 before the Sino-Soviet breakdown. As a…
ArticleParents' Guide for Safe YouTube and Internet Streaming for Kids by Sophie Anderson (1 January 2019)
You work hard to keep your children safe from so many different dangers, but every day they are exposed to countless threats online…
ArticleThe Bethal Treason Trials by Harrison Higgins
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ArticleBiography of Saul Kholisile Ndzumo by Kaitlyn Moriarty
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ArticleBiography of Lawrence Ndzanga by Sean Willson
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ArticleDr. Jonathan Gluckman by Mahek Lalani
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ArticleBiography of Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane by Johnny Blumberg
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ArticleBiography of Peter Nchabeleng by Ford Howell
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ArticleBiography of Lungile Tabalaza by Aasish Nandagopal
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ArticleBiography of George Botha by Van den Branden
This article was written by P.J. Van den Branden and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Simon Thembuyise Mndawe by Taylor Hare
This article was written by Taylor Hare and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleNicodemus Kgoathe by Cole Worsham
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ArticleMatthews Marwale Mabelane by Maddie Measel
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ArticleThe Internal Securities Act, No.74 of 1982, Section 29 by Danielle Vazquez
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ArticleBiography of Solomon Modipane by Henry Johnstone
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ArticleBiography of James Thabiso Lenkoe by Thad Hand
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Evidence of State Sanctioned Hit Squads
This article was written by Alexandra Damianos and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
PEBCO 3 and the TRC
This article was written by Tristan Kelly and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project