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The Role Of The Indian People In The South African Revolution: An Interview In 1968
QUESTION: Dr. Dadoo, you have just published a leaflet which is the first public call you have made to the Indian people since you left…
Housing & Hostels Cape 1982 B
Housing & Hostels Cape 1982 A
Housing & Hostels Cape 1980 - 1981
Housing & Hostels Cape 1975 - 1979
CaptureIndustrial Relations Strikes 1990 B
Newspaper clippingsPolitics - Black Sash - 1986 - 1995
ArticleMukami Kimathi and the Scramble to Own Mau Mau Memory
The struggle for control of Mau Mau memory and memorialisation resurfaces with the burial of Mukami Kimathi.
ArticleBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
Dulcie September was a fierce and ambitious anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Her work with various resistance groups throughout her…
A Death in South Africa: the killing of Sipho Phungulwa
ArticleCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held…
The Guerrilla and the Journalist: Exploring the Murderous Legacy of Jonas Savimbi
Homelands Transkei General 1976
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy (Former Director,…
ArticleThe 1973 Durban Strikes: Building Popular Democratic Power in South Africa
By the end of January 1973, workers in around 100 factories and other workplaces went on strike, including more than 6,000 workers at the…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
TK: So com, could you tell us about your history and how you came into the struggle? Harry Gwala: Well, my history is maybe interesting…
Josie Mpama - 1903–1979
This study discusses the life and political struggles of Josie Mpama (1903–1979), a leader in the resistance against colonial oppression…
Articles by Professor Brij Maharaj
Articles are written by Professor Brij Maharaj Please click on a Link to access the article you choose to read.
The Integrated Community Apartheid Could Not Destroy: The Warwick Avenue Triangle in Durban
This paper focuses on the Warwick Avenue Triangle (WAT), an inner city community, and attempts to explain how one of the oldest mixed…
Urban struggles apartheid local and civic and the transformation of the state: the case of community organizations in Durban
The pressure for change at the local level from civic, community, ratepayers and residents' associations has significantly informed…
Online bookMy Life by Stephanie Kemp
Restructuring the Apartheid City - Cato Manor - A Prime Urban Reconstruction Opportunity
Cato Manor, in the city of Durban, was identified for urban reconstruction and development, with promising prospects for economic…
The Erosion of Residential Segregation in South Africa: The 'Greying' of Albert Park in Durban
In South Africa, the Group Areas Act, which emphasised racial residential segregation, was one of the key instruments used to enforce the…
Zivildienst-Initiative JA
Multicoloured artwork of waterfall over rocks. Zurich, Switzerland poster.
The Group Areas Act and Community Destruction in South Africa - The Struggle for Cato Manor in Durban
In South Africa, attention has been drawn to the destruction of Sophiatown in Johannesburg (Lodge 1983) and the razing of District Six in…
Race, Ethnicity and Conflict in the Indian Diaspora
The Indian diaspora can be regarded as an international phenomenon, with a presence in more than 100 countries globally. The different…
Hamba Khaya - Go Home to Mumbai - Tracing the New Indian Diaspora
Indians in the indentured diaspora were always vulnerable, in both colonial and postcolonial times. This essay analyses some of the…
The Historical Development of the Apartheid Local State in South Africa: The Case of Durban
In Durban, there was a strong historical alliance between the Council and the white working class. The Council was particularly sympathetic…
ArticleApartheid, Urban Segregation, and the Local State: Durban and the Group Areas Act in South Africa
There has been some speculation about the origins of the Group Areas Act (GAA), one of the key instruments used to enforce the ideology of…
The Local State and Residential Segregation: Durban and the Prelude to the Group Areas Act
Conventionally, residential segregation in South Africa is associated with the ascent to power of the National Party, and the Group Areas…
Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
Programme Director, Minister of Sport and Recreation Fikile Mbalula, Acting Premier of Gauteng Ms Qedane Mahlangu, Family and friends of…
Genocide Masquerading: The Politics of the Sharpeville Massacre and Soweto Uprising
“Genocide Masquerading” uncovers the implications of US foreign policy on the rise and decline of apartheid, looking specifically at the…
ArticleSharpeville and After: Suppression and Liberation in Southern Africa
Sharpeville - 21 March 1960 - sixty nine Africans were shot dead by police, hundreds injured and thousands arrested. The Pass Laws became…
Steve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of independence. Jonathan…
The sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the unveiling of the FIFA Soccer World Cup South Africa 2010 emblem, Tempodrom, Berlin 7 July 2006
Programme Directors, Tumi Makgabo and Marcus Ziegler, Your Excellency, President of FIFA, Joseph Sepp Blatter, Your Excellency, UN…
Cosatu scores its first soccer team
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
Mr. Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on Thursday,…
Letter to FIFA instructing $10m payment for 2010 Soccer World Cup by South African Football Association, 4 March 2008
The history of the Pretoria District Football Association (P.D.F.A.) from 1905 - 1985
ArticleNeville Alexander and South Africa’s New Left, c. 1957–1964 by Allison Drew
Online bookWelcome to Mitchell's Plain by Ludmila Ommundsen Pessoa
ArticleThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
Dugmore Boetie was part of a wave of South African writers who fled Apartheid. His exile and future literary notoriety, however, took a…
Oral historyMy Family - A Historical Journey through the Seasons by Afzal Moolla
Theses and DissertationsConflicts between Host Communities and Mining Houses in Bojanala Platinum Disctrict Municipality, South Africa, 1994:2020 by Sediko Daniel Rakolote
Online bookEscape from Modderbee by Rodney ‘Baduza’ Toka
ArticleThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30…
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