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Jock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
19 February 2020
Jock Strachan – who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Centra...
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Leon Louw
19 February 2020
This article was written by Keri Lawson and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projec...
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100 Year Anniversary of the 1913 Land Act
19 February 2020
This article was written by Kristy Lee and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
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Xenophobic Attacks of 2008
19 February 2020
This article was written by Zachary King and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership proje...
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Alex Boraine Biography
19 February 2020
This article was written by Marissa Coronado and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership p...
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The Role of Vrye Weekblad in the Struggle Against Apartheid
19 February 2020
This article was written by Olivia Cassidy and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership pro...
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Magoo’s Bar Bombing
19 February 2020
This article was written by Jessica Bundage and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership pr...
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The Institute for Democracy in South Africa
19 February 2020
This article was written by Meredith Ashworth and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership ...
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Lawyers for Human Rights: Promoting a Culture of Human Rights
19 February 2020
This article was written by Hope Anderson and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership proj...
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The Right to Life
19 February 2020
This article was written by Max Agadoni and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projec...
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Art Inspired by the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
18 February 2020
This article was written by Brianna McIntyre and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership p...
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John Liebenberg
17 February 2020
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...
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Nelson Mandela’s Release – A Personal Reminiscence
12 February 2020
On 2nd February 1990, President FW De Klerk went to the South African Parliament and announced the unbanning of the ANC ...
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Mandela's release - what a day this was in our history
12 February 2020
We worked frantically through the night to call together out activists and put all the logistics in place for a normal r...
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Statement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
11 February 2020
The 11th of February 1990 will be remembered as one of the most significant days in the history of the world. It w...
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Moi's Kenyan torture victims mourn a reckoning that never came
5 February 2020
Wachira Waheire was 25 years old when he was thrown into Kenya's notorious torture cells for possessing a poster saying ...
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Lovedale, a national treasure of a press, faces closure
4 February 2020
The 200-year-old Lovedale Press is kept alive by the dedication of its owners, who work without pay. But if funding is n...
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Neil Aggett: A sister remembers
4 February 2020
Nearly four decades later, the reopening of the inquest into the death in detention of Neil Aggett may finally yield ans...
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Taking the battle to the grave: South Africa’s contested sites
31 January 2020
Are these mere solemn relics of disrupted narratives or are these images expressive of the general human predicament? ...
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Steve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
31 January 2020
n the sixties, discotheques and disc jockeys were unheard of. For us growing up in a youthful new era of popular culture...
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Surviving genocide: a voice from colonial Namibia at the turn of the last century
31 January 2020
Germany committed genocide in Africa 40 years before the Holocaust of the European Jews. In 1904 and 1905 the Ovaherero ...
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ANC celebrates history while Winnie Madikizela-Mandela’s Brandfort home still languishes in obscurity by Rebecca Davis
22 January 2020
For the past 15 years, the ANC government has been promising that the house to which Winnie Madikizela-Mandela was banis...
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George Botha jumped a railing....
22 January 2020
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Landmarks in SA Jazz - Mannenberg
17 January 2020
The iconic music of Abdullah Ibrahim’s Mannenberg, recorded in 1974, celebrated contemporary South African reality as we...
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Britain rebuffed Nelson Mandela’s appeal for oil sanctions against Nigeria after it executed environmentalists
17 January 2020
The British government rejected Nelson Mandela’s personal appeal to impose oil sanctions on Nigeria after its military r...
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Tribute to Ben Turok – the brightest star of our movement
6 January 2020
In his life of struggle, he survived a two-year treason trial, three years in prison and house arrest, until he escaped ...
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Ben Turok, rebel, revolutionary, thinker, truth-teller — one of the last of The Struggle greats by Marianne Thamm
10 December 2019
Ben Turok, sole surviving member of the 1960s Communist Party underground leadership, author of the ‘economic clause’ in...
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Ben Turok biography
10 December 2019
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Umkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
5 December 2019
INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct...
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The romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
5 December 2019
Yohannes Woldemariam trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiop...
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A death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
26 November 2019
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a m...
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South Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
11 November 2019
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and...
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Hamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
5 November 2019
Jennifer Davis, stalwart champion of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the Unit...
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What the Revolutionary Oracle Taught Me by Fred Khumalo, delivered at the Fifth Mafika Gwala Lecture, 31 October 2019
5 November 2019
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What lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
23 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a ja...
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Lessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
21 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 ...
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Remembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
15 October 2019
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked tog...
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Reminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
24 September 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 ...
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The 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
23 September 2019
This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew...
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The Responsibilities of Restitution Research: The Case of Ridgeview Quarry (Cato Manor) by Glen L. Thompson, 27 October 1999
18 September 2019
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