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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…
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…
Workers Assembly for the 27 July 2004, on the occasion of the 83rd anniversary of the SACP by SACP, 27 July 2004, South Africa
On the expulsion of Communists from the ICU by The South African Worker, December 24 1926, South Africa
Why the United Front Failed: Disruptive Role of the PAC by Dr Y.M. Dadoo, March 29 1962, South Africa
To the Workers of the Bantu Race by The International, 15 February 1918, South Africa
ArticleThe role of the SACP in the struggle for national liberation
Fight the New Fascist Bill — Defend the Cape Native Franchise - 1935
Refuse to Ship Goods to Abyssinia! Defend the Last Independent Native State in Africa from the Attacks of Italian Imperialism! by Umsebenzi, 22 June 1935, South Africa
For a United Front of the People Against Imperialism by Umsebenzi, 26 October 1935, South Africa
ArticleHeroes of our revolution: Bram Fischer (1908 -1975)
How to Master Secret Work by Communist Party of South Africa
First published: during the ’eighties' as a series of articles in ‘Umsebenzi’; later as a single pamphlet for underground operatives.
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon…
ArticleThe SACP – the communist tail that wags the ANC dog and its mythical future for SA
Sara Gon writes about the history of communism and wants to know how the South African Communist Party, which has advocated the benefits of…
ArticleTrojan Horses: Liliesleaf, Rivonia (August 1962 - 11 July 1963) by Garth Canon Benneyworth, 2 November 2017
ArticleMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
Introduction On August 16 2012 the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners at the Lonmin platinum mine in Marikana…
ArticleRolling up Rivonia: 1962 - 1963 by Garth Benneyworth, 15 August 2017
ArticleOperation Mayibuye 1963 by Garth Benneyworth
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
The article analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the 1970s and 1980s South Africa alongside the protest poetry of white South African…
Article“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
In Todd Matshikiza’s autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and musician’s first two…
Ben Turok - a revolutionary Thought Leader until the end
The late Professor Ben Turok, one of the most outspoken revolutionaries of our time.
Namibia is showing wear and tear after 30 years under SWAPO rule
Namibia turns 30 this month. Its former liberation movement, the South West Africa People’s Organisation SWAPO, has been in power all these…
Mohammed Tikly - A Tribute
ArticleJohn Liebenberg: masterful photographer of life and war in southern Africa
South African photojournalist John Liebenberg is best known for his remarkable body of work in Namibia, especially the period of the late…
How the EFF helps the media EFF itself, and other totalitarian holiday tales
Wow, so much screaming. Are the EFF simply a media-created shitstorm of no substance, the Twitterocracy want to know? Or would the red…
The EFF is Malema and Malema is the EFF — what happens when he falls?
Under Julius Malema, the EFF has turned into a pseudo-revolutionary religious cult. He has alienated many in the party, and with criminal…
The Causes of the Boer War by Prof. Marius Swart
The Anglo-Boer War was an event which had a long prelude and the after effects have not completely disappeared as yet. In fact, people who…
ArticleBiography of Simon Marule by Kendyl Fleury
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Ephraim Mthethwa by Andrew Stellin
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Elmon Malele by Jacob Prothr
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Alfred Makaleng by Lucas Martin
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Samuel Malinga by Christopher Washington
This article forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleThe Death of Tshifhiwa Muofhe by Margaret Philpott
This article was written by Margaret Philpott and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Phakamile Mabija by Grace Garrott
This article was written by Grace Garrott and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
ArticleBiography of Ernest Moabi Dipale by Larkin Dobson
This article was written by Larkin Dobson and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
Making sense of decades of debate about Nkrumah’s pan-African ideas
When the flag of the newly independent Ghana was raised against the night sky of Accra 63 years ago, the whole world was looking on. It was…
Nelson Mandela’s Release – A Personal Reminiscence
On 2nd February 1990, President FW De Klerk went to the South African Parliament and announced the unbanning of the ANC and other political…
FW de Klerk, the Democratic Party and the Democratic Alliance
Dr Denis Worrall reminds South Africans here of how pivotal a role the Democratic Party, which he helped found, has played in shaping our…
FW de Klerk has so much more to apologise for
There is nothing new in former president FW de Klerk’s denialist views about the apartheid system he so faithfully served. Nor in yet…