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ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet South African, but one who thought and…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that MK is their highly trained,…
EventUnFreedom Day
On the 27th of April 2006 Abahlali BaseMjondolo (AbM) decided to host an “Unfreedom Day” to highlight how there is “no democracy for the poor”[1] and to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through the media,…
ArchiveThe Power and Impact of Ernest Cole’s Rediscovered Archive - Magnum Photos
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in prison. His…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount a…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world…
ArchiveThe Necessity of Non-Racism_Doctor Yusuf Dadoo Today by Professor Ari Sitas
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first…
ArchiveYusuf Dadoo. Some facts of his life - Vladimir Shubin
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
PlacePrince Alfred's Guard Museum, Port Elizabeth
The Prince Alfred's Guard Museum, located in Central Port Elizabeth's Prospect Road, was formed through the amalgamation of a Military Museum formerly housed…
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Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine:…
ArchiveLet's Talk About Rick Turner by Peter Hudson
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali, celebrating…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life. The…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest thinkers in the liberation pantheon of South Africa: Steve Biko. He…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan the Minister of Finance and former head of the S African Revenue Service,…
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EventPresident Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
On 8 May 2015, South African President, Jacob Zuma, visited Russia. On 9 May 2015, he joined a number of world leaders at the Russian capital, Moscow, for the…
EventFormer African Springbok captain, Welile Nkohla dies
On 23 July 2017, Welile James Nkohla, also known as ‘Bomza’, died at the age of 71 years of age in Livingstone Hospital in Port Elizabeth, after a long battle…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
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ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
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ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
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ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
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