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Themba Harry Gwala (1920-1995) by Robert Haswell

Themba Harry Gwala (1920-1995) by Robert Haswell

Themba (also called Thembeyakhe) Harry Gwala was born in the Swayimane area, south-east of Wartburg, on 30 July 1920. He...

Harry Gwala, Political Militancy and State Trials, 1960-1977 by Mxolisi Dlamuka

Harry Gwala, Political Militancy and State Trials, 1960-1977 by Mxolisi Dlamuka

At its national conference in December 1960, the underground Communist Party reviewed the significance of the events of ...

Stones Against the Mirror by Claudia B Braude

Stones Against the Mirror by Claudia B Braude

Stones Against the Mirror, Hugh Lewin’s already much-acclaimed new book, is organised around his treatment of the devast...

Lessons of Durban Riots by T. G. Ramamurthi

Lessons of Durban Riots by T. G. Ramamurthi

The Durban riots were not an expression of permanent antagonism  between Indians and native Africans but an explosi...

Dumisani Kumalo (1947 - 2019)

Dumisani Kumalo (1947 - 2019)

Dumisani Kumalo served in the Department of International Relations and Co-operation for 14 years. He was chair of the G...

South Africa - Emergency Campaign - A Call to Action by Alan Paton

South Africa - Emergency Campaign - A Call to Action by Alan Paton

"The Afrikaner Nationalist .will change only when the pressure inside and outside the country becomes unendurable."- ALA...

Sanity Check: EFF’s Election Manifesto, a fundamentally dishonest document by Rebecca Davis

Sanity Check: EFF’s Election Manifesto, a fundamentally dishonest document by Rebecca Davis

One of the measures an EFF government would introduce would be compulsory critical thinking classes for all South Africa...

Zimbabwe: Capitalist crisis + ultra-neoliberal policy = “Mugabesque” authoritarianism by Patrick Bond - LINKS - International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Zimbabwe: Capitalist crisis + ultra-neoliberal policy = “Mugabesque” authoritarianism by Patrick Bond - LINKS - International Journal of Socialist Renewal

Once again, a formidable burst of state brutality against Zimbabwe’s citizenry has left at least a dozen corpses, scores...

Designing Knowledge in Postcolonial Africa: A South African Abroad by Daniel Magaziner, Department of History, Yale University

Designing Knowledge in Postcolonial Africa: A South African Abroad by Daniel Magaziner, Department of History, Yale University

Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 16 July 2002

The Unity Movement of South Africa - Unity Movement Members charged under the Terrorism Act

Sonny Venkatrathnam (1935-2019): Robben Islander and Rebel Without a Pause by Ashwin Desai

Sonny Venkatrathnam (1935-2019): Robben Islander and Rebel Without a Pause by Ashwin Desai

Sunny Venkatruthnam, University Of Durban-Westville, Documentation Centre, Oral History Project, “Voices of Resistance”, 14 August 2002

I B Tabata - President - Unity Movement of South Africa - A biographical note

Unity Movement Members Charged Under Terrorism Act

Unity Movement Members Charged Under Terrorism Act

Robert McBride: Caught in the jaws of State Capture, adrift in the present while captive of the past

Robert McBride: Caught in the jaws of State Capture, adrift in the present while captive of the past

It was the ruthless and violent application of unjust laws by the apartheid state on the black majority that drove Rober...

Omar Badsha: Placing the Collective Above the Individual

Omar Badsha: Placing the Collective Above the Individual

The Portfolio: Rafs Mayet

The Portfolio: Rafs Mayet

Revealed: At least 20 percent of party leaders have a shady past By Rebecca Davis

One in five of the leaders of the political parties registered to contest the 2019 elections nationally has a chequered ...

Political Parties Contesting the 2019 South African General Elections

Political Parties Contesting the 2019 South African General Elections

The IEC announced that a record 48 political parties have successfully registered to contest the 2019 general elections....

Fatima Meer: A Pictorial Tribute by Dasarath Chetty

Fatima Meer: A Pictorial Tribute by Dasarath Chetty

The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola

In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimb...

At the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018

At the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018

‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, ag...

New tactics in the revolt

Reaction Takes the Offensive After the first attempted march on Johannesburg on 4 August, and the partial stay-at-home...

Apartheid - a vigilant witness

Apartheid - a vigilant witness

A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The go...

Yes! I Am A Feminist! By SPEAK, July 1992, Johannesburg

Yes! I Am A Feminist! By SPEAK, July 1992, Johannesburg

New Khoisan name for Cape Town, 25 June 2012

Cape Town - It may take some getting used and some Capetonians will probably have difficulty getting their tongue around...

Khoisan leader given state funeral despite last wishes by SAPA, 1 July 2012

Khoisan traditional leader, Oom Dawid Kruiper, was buried during a state funeral in Andriesvale in the Kalahari despite ...

African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer

The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one h...

The Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018

The Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018

History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s...

Mandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa

Mandla Mandela wants inquest into deaths of Stompie Seipie, Dr Asvat, 19 January 2018, South Africa

EASTERN CAPE - Nelson Mandela's grandson, Mandla Mandela, has called for an inquest into the deaths of anti-apartheid ac...

The Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018

The Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018

Margaret Courtney-Clarke, Gottlieb plays traditional Damara music at the funeral of Ouma Juliana ǂÛ-khui ǁAreses on...

Remembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013

Remembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013

With politicians showing unusual agreement among themselves and media focused on the "global" tribute to Nelson Mandela,...

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018

Winnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018

No other woman – in life and after – occupies the place that Winnie Madikizela-Mandela does in South African politics. A...

Thoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy

Thoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy

Winnie Mandela and Fatima Meer were in prison together and became close friends. Winnie wrote an introduction to the boo...

The Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa

The Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa

First published by Spotlight.Africa Winnie Madikizela Mandela was not a safe pair of hands. True, life was far easier,...

`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement

`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement

The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done b...

A story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018

A story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018

The death of Sam Nzima, the man who took the photograph that came to symbolise all that was wrong with apartheid and how...

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

Living in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983

I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of revolutionary change. The vision is head...

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018

Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through examp...