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ArticleSome Aspects of Black Culture and its Value in the Black World by Strini Moodley
ArticleAnti-Apartheid Student Activism at Brown University
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ArticleThe Fund for a Free South Africa and the Road to Divestment in Massachusetts
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ArticleThe Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement
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ArticleAmerican Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS)
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ArticleEdward Kennedy’s 1985 Visit to South Africa
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ArticleRobert F. Kennedy’s 1966 Visit to South Africa
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ArticleThe Exile of Lewis Nkosi
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ArticlePaul Simon’s Graceland and the Anti-Apartheid Cultural Boycott by Kaitlin Bedard
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ArticleCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
Perched on the outskirts of Observatory in Cape Town, just above the Black River, stands the South African Astronomical Observatory;…
ArticleThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or discussed with new…
ArticleElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
This article was made possible with the support of the British Academy Elizabeth van der Heyden, known as Betty or sometimes Liz, was…
ArticleHeritage in Time of Global Crisis, edited by Kay Jaffer and Zenariah Barends
ArticleClassroom Technical Skills - Oral History
ArticleFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the…
ArticleOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and…
Achmat Dangor, novelist, poet, activist, 1948-2020 by Yunus Momoniat
Achmat Dangor was something of a writer’s writer, turning out books that could not be mobilised for ideological warfare.
George Bizos_CV - UNESCO
George Bizos - CV - Published by UNESCO
Article'Trees never meet' Mobility and Containment: an Overview 1915 - 1946 by Silvester, Wallace and Hayes
Vejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan - Article from 'Congress Resister'
Dr Vijay Ramlakan was sentenced to 12 years imprisonment. He went to prison along with Sibusiso Ndlanzi, Sibongiseni Dhlomo, Vusumuzi…
ArticleCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare Declaration, a significant…
Comrade George Naicker - 1919 – 1998 by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 April 1998
ArticleCommemoration of the 50th Annivesary of the Natal Sabotage Trial (Little Rivonia)
How Igbo women used petitions to influence British authorities during colonial rule
Selected petitions and written correspondence between Igbo women and British officials between 1892 and 1960 shed fresh light on how women…
ArticleZimbabwe: Capitalist crisis + ultra-neoliberal policy = “Mugabesque” authoritarianism by Patrick Bond
Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores of serious…
ArticleForeign Investment and the Reproduction of Racial Capitalism in South Africa by Martin Legassick and David Hemson
ArticleGeorge Hallett’s camera was a political instrument by Yazeed Kamaldien
A photojournalist, Yazeed Kamaldien, reflects on the life’s work of George Hallett, a narrative of thousands of lives, spanning decades,…
ArticleGeorge Hallett: Nomad, raconteur and photographer who ‘became the camera’ by M Neelika Jayawardane
George Hallett was born on December 30, 1942, in Cape Town’s District Six. He grew up with his grandparents in Hout Bay Village — a small…
ArticleThe photographer who showed Nelson Mandela to the world by Neelika Jayawardane
In 1994, the ANC commissioned South African photographer George Hallett to document the electoral process and first democratic government…
ArticleSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
Although African soldiers and support staff served with distinction in both World wars they were discriminated against.
ArticleThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
As gendered individuals, our lived experiences are not static, for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space…
ArticleThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of…
ArticlePhotographing dispossession, forgetting solidarity: waiting for social justice in Wentworth, South Africa by Sharad Chari
ArticleYu Chi Chan Club Pamphlet No. III - Technical and Organisational Aspects of the Yu Chi Chan Club
ArticleWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the…
ArticleSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a report from a ministerial task team that recommends a…
ArticleAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
On the 17th Nov 1989 ANC guerrilla fighter, after a 6 hour gun-battle with the apartheid army, was killed
ArticleA Critical Analysis of Union Defence Force Operations during the Afrikaner Rebellion, 1914-1915 by Antonio Garcia and Evert Kleynhans
Deciphering the Meanings, and Explaining the South African Higher Education Student Protests of 2015-16 by Saleem Badat
Social Scientific Research on the "Troubles"in Northern Ireland: The Problem of Objectivity by Rupert Taylor
Military training and camps of the Pan Africanist Congress of South Africa, 1961–1981 by Gregory Houston, Thami ka Plaatjie and Thozama April, (Historia ,60,2), November 2015
ArticleThe root of the matter: Black liberals?
ArticleDENIS GOLDBERG 11 APRIL 1933-29 APRIL 2020 - The boy who would build a nation
ArticleDenis Goldberg: Rivonia triallist, liberation struggle stalwart, outspoken critic
Denis Theodore Goldberg, one of the stalwarts in the fight against apartheid in South Africa, has passed on at the age of 87. He was one of…
ArticleDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
As a white person in white-ruled South Africa, Denis Goldberg chose to be part of the struggles of the oppressed rather than live in the…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of some of the…
ArticleRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka,…
ArticleHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
On 31 March 2020, a group of scientists from around the world – from Oxford University to Beijing Normal University – published an…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the…
ArticleObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short illness on 19 January 2020. In a series of brilliant…