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The Right to Life
This article was written by Max Agadoni and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
Art Inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This article was written by Brianna McIntyre and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
John Liebenberg
Our good friend and colleague died last night in the hospital. He fell in his yard on Monday as he was on his way out to let us in through…
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…
ArticleMandela's release - what a day this was in our history
We worked frantically through the night to call together out activists and put all the logistics in place for a normal rally: designed and…
ArticleStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
The 11th of February 1990 will be remembered as one of the most significant days in the history of the world. It was the day that dramatic…
Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came
Wachira Waheire was 25 years old when he was thrown into Kenya's notorious torture cells for possessing a poster saying hunger will lead to…
ArticleLovedale, a national treasure of a press, faces closure
The 200-year-old Lovedale Press is kept alive by the dedication of its owners, who work without pay. But if funding is not found, it could…
Neil Aggett: A sister remembers
Nearly four decades later, the reopening of the inquest into the death in detention of Neil Aggett may finally yield answers and truth.
ArticleTaking the battle to the grave: South Africa’s contested sites
Are these mere solemn relics of disrupted narratives or are these images expressive of the general human predicament? Ancestors: Fearing…
ArticleSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
n the sixties, discotheques and disc jockeys were unheard of. For us growing up in a youthful new era of popular culture and optimism, live…
ArticleSurviving genocide: a voice from colonial Namibia at the turn of the last century
Germany committed genocide in Africa 40 years before the Holocaust of the European Jews. In 1904 and 1905 the Ovaherero and Nama people of…
ArticleANC celebrates history while Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Brandfort home still languishes in obscurity by Rebecca Davis
For the past 15 years, the ANC government has been promising that the house to which Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banished in the Free…
ArticleGeorge Botha jumped a railing....
ArticleLandmarks in SA Jazz - Mannenberg
The iconic music of Abdullah Ibrahim’s Mannenberg, recorded in 1974, celebrated contemporary South African reality as well as capturing it…
ArticleBritain rebuffed Nelson Mandela’s appeal for oil sanctions against Nigeria after it executed environmentalists
The British government rejected Nelson Mandela’s personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military regime executed nine…
ArticleTribute to Ben Turok – the brightest star of our movement
In his life of struggle, he survived a two-year treason trial, three years in prison and house arrest, until he escaped to join his cadres…
ArticleBen Turok, rebel, revolutionary, thinker, truth-teller — one of the last of The Struggle greats by Marianne Thamm
Ben Turok, sole surviving member of the 1960s Communist Party underground leadership, author of the ‘economic clause’ in the Freedom…
Ben Turok biography
ArticleUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are…
ArticleThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
Yohannes Woldemariam trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor…
ArticleA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a marginal place at…
ArticleSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research…
ArticleHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, died on…
ArticleWhat the Revolutionary Oracle Taught Me by Fred Khumalo, delivered at the Fifth Mafika Gwala Lecture, 31 October 2019
ArticleWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the…
ArticleLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the…
ArticleRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.” He’s…
ArticleReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him about Winnie, very…
ArticleThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew up. Unusually, it…
ArticleThe Responsibilities of Restitution Research: The Case of Ridgeview Quarry (Cato Manor) by Glen L. Thompson, 27 October 1999
ArticleThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal…
Article'Hulle gaat die strop om onse nek sit': Dr Abdullah Abdurahman's Perspective on the Making of Union Voiced Through Piet Uithalder's 'Straatpraatjes' Column by Mohamed Adhikari
Freedom’s Blind Spots: Figurations of Race and Caste in the PostColony by Ari Sitas, Ambedkar University, Delhi
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
We have come together to pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole life was…
ArticleObituary of Michael Harmel
Obituary of Michael Harmel, member of the Central Committee of the SACP
ArticleThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
Every time there is violence of a particular sort in SA I think about 1949. In mid-January of that year a single incident between an Indian…
ArticleRobert Gabriel Mugabe (1924 – 2019): A tragedy in three acts, Simon Allison, 6 September 2019, South Africa
The king is dead, and we were wrong. He had not discovered the secret to eternal life; he was not the Bionic President. Robert Mugabe was…
100 Years of the African National Congress by Neville Alexander
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
On June 15 this year the Azanian Students Organisation will celebrate its birth 25 years ago as a forerunner to the current leading student…
ArticleDavid Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019
Dr David Nthubu Koloane, who was born in South Africa in 1938, was an extraordinary pioneer in the visual arts who fiercely defied any form…
Kader Hassim interview 2002-06-24
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A Tribute to Professor D D. T Jabavu (1885 -1959): Eminent Scholar, Anthropologist, Educator & Author by Cindi, F. Imvubu 17: 2, 1
Nederland tegen apartheid? Government and anti-apartheid movements by Genevieve Klein
ArticleRuth Schechter: friend to Olive Schreiner
ArticleStrike movement in Nigeria
ArticleSummitry at Casablanca
Article'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. …