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The boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski

The boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski

17 September 2019

It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of m...

Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008

17 September 2019

South African History Online  Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatim...

'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

'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

17 September 2019

Freedom’s Blind Spots: Figurations of Race and Caste in the PostColony by Ari Sitas, Ambedkar University, Delhi

17 September 2019

Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974

11 September 2019

We have come together to pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole li...

Obituary of Michael Harmel

Obituary of Michael Harmel

11 September 2019

Obituary of Michael Harmel, member of the Central Committee of the SACP

This violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019

This violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019

10 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 inciden...

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924 – 2019): A tragedy in three acts, Simon Allison, 6 September 2019, South Africa

Robert Gabriel Mugabe (1924 – 2019): A tragedy in three acts, Simon Allison, 6 September 2019, South Africa

6 September 2019

The king is dead, and we were wrong. He had not discovered the secret to eternal life; he was not the Bionic President. ...

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 curr...

David Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019

David 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 fierc...

Grade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)

Grade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)

World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million dea...

Grade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990

Grade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990

Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was ...

Grade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War

Grade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War

Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nucle...

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

Ruth Schechter: friend to Olive Schreiner

Ruth Schechter: friend to Olive Schreiner

Strike movement in Nigeria

Strike movement in Nigeria

Summitry at Casablanca

Summitry at Casablanca

'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997

'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 mu...

Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978

As one who has had the privilege, honour and, indeed, the pleasure of being a close associate and comrade-in-arms of Dr....

The visibility of invisible moments by Ashraf Jamal (Life / Arts & Entertainment), 12 June 2015

Changing focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015

Changing focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015

It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from Newlands station on a Saturday afte...

Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London

WHITHER  PALESTINE ? Ronnie Kasrils, Middle East Monitor, London 19 May, 2015. 1. INTRODUCTION: It is an honour...

Nelson Mandela’s Warders

Nelson Mandela’s Warders

The Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013

The Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013

During my incarceration in the same single-cell block in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison with Nelson Rohihlala Man...

Mandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013

Mandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013

The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers to strike and l...

The International Situation in 1961 by Jane Gool, 3 -5 January 1962

Armed and Trained: Nelson Mandela’s 1962 military mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and provenance for his buried Makarov pistol by Garth Conan Benneyworth

Armed and Trained: Nelson Mandela’s 1962 military mission as Commander in Chief of Umkhonto we Sizwe and provenance for his buried Makarov pistol by Garth Conan Benneyworth

Alexandria, Real and Imagined edited by Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk, 2004

Alexandria, Real and Imagined edited by Anthony Hirst and Michael Silk, 2004

How Julius Malema destroyed the NPA's case against Jacob Zuma in 365 days by Gareth van Onselen, May 2018

How Julius Malema destroyed the NPA's case against Jacob Zuma in 365 days by Gareth van Onselen, May 2018

Long live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019

Long live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019

The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Sec...

Johnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019

Johnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019

Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke t...

The disintegration of the UMSA abroad

The disintegration of the UMSA abroad

Bill of Rights faces no 'base beast'

Bill of Rights faces no 'base beast'

Education, the State, and Class Inequality: The case for Free Higher Education in South Africa by Enver Motala, Salim Vally, and Rasigan Maharajh

Photographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017

Photographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017

By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way ...

Tribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker

Tribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker

In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-second...