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Message to the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party by O. R. Tambo, April 1989

Comrade Joe Slovo, General Secretary of the South African Communist Party,  Comrade Dan Tloome, Chairman of the So...

Constitution and Rules of The South African Communist Party

Constitution and Rules of The South African Communist Party

Obituary for Author, Playwright and Activist, Ronnie Govender by Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender

Obituary for Author, Playwright and Activist, Ronnie Govender by Pregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender

Paul Simon’s Graceland - Days of wonder and miracles by Yunus Momoniat

Paul Simon’s Graceland - Days of wonder and miracles by Yunus Momoniat

When Paul Simon embarked on a project to draw inspiration from South African musicians, he set out on a perilous obstacl...

Towards a United Africa by N.Numade

Towards a United Africa by N.Numade

Negotiating Culture in Contemporary South Africa: Photographic self-representations from the Cape Flats by Heike Becker

Negotiating Culture in Contemporary South Africa: Photographic self-representations from the Cape Flats by Heike Becker

South Africa’s 1994 ‘miracle’: what’s left? by Christi van der Westhuizen

South Africa’s 1994 ‘miracle’: what’s left? by Christi van der Westhuizen

In the 1990s, a commonly held view was that South Africa had achieved a “miracle” because of its relatively peaceful pol...

The History of the SACP 1912-1990

Ronnie Govender: ‘Unbowed, Unbroken’ by Niren Tolsi

Ronnie Govender: ‘Unbowed, Unbroken’ by Niren Tolsi

The South African activist and man of letters used language as a weapon to defend the marginalised and reflect upon the ...

The eye of leadership | Ronnie Govender passes on… by Karlind Govender

The eye of leadership | Ronnie Govender passes on… by Karlind Govender

Sathieseelan Gurulingam Govender, most commonly known as Ronnie Govender once informed me of the deep leadership of the ...

Grade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s

Grade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s

The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were disc...

Unfixed: Photography and Decolonial Imagination in West Africa by Jennifer Bajorek

South Africa remains a nation of insiders and outsiders - 27 years after democracy by Professor Steven Friedman

Twenty seven years into democracy, South African politics is still for the few. And those who complain the most hav...

The Work of Cultural Criticism: Re-visiting The South African Opinion by Corinne Sandwith

The Work of Cultural Criticism: Re-visiting The South African Opinion by Corinne Sandwith

Will the real PAC please stand up? by Phumza Sokana

INFIGHTING within the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is far from over as two factions in the party battle with each other...

”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968

At their 13th Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regar...

Survey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)

Survey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)

The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when pol...

Wreckers of the Fight against Apartheid: The myth of PAC militancy by Sol Dubila

Wreckers of the Fight against Apartheid: The myth of PAC militancy by Sol Dubila

PAC is the revolution by Victor L Mayekiso

PAC is the revolution by Victor L Mayekiso

With the PAC in exile by Vusi Shange

With the PAC in exile by Vusi Shange

Review article - How Can Man Die Better...Sobukwe and Apartheid, by Benjamin Pogrund

Review article - How Can Man Die Better...Sobukwe and Apartheid, by Benjamin Pogrund

The PAC conference: 1959

The PAC conference: 1959

Has PAC revival run out of steam

Why the United Front failed: Disruptive role of the PAC by Dr Yusuf Dadoo

Why the United Front failed: Disruptive role of the PAC by Dr Yusuf Dadoo

Why the United Front failed: Disruptive role of the PAC, by Dr Y M Dadoo, an article published in New Age, March 29, 196...

PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter

Extract from Karis & Carter 1. NAME The name of the organisation shall be the Pan Africanist Congress, herein...

An MK combatant speaks on Sharpeville

An MK combatant speaks on Sharpeville

Sunshine and Sharpeville

Sunshine and Sharpeville

Sharpeville Day - an eye witness report by Humphrey Tyler

Sharpeville Day - an eye witness report by Humphrey Tyler

Sharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom

Sharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom

In 1960 before that terrible day of March 21 some workers resigned from work because they were preparing for that day.

Message to the PAC on Sharpeville Day by Livingstone Mqotsi

Message to the PAC on Sharpeville Day by Livingstone Mqotsi

Editorial comment: The legacy of Sharpeville

Editorial comment: The legacy of Sharpeville

Group Areas Board: investigation in terms of the Group Areas Act, 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) as amended: Grahamstown

Group Areas Board: investigation in terms of the Group Areas Act, 1950 (Act No. 41 of 1950) as amended: Grahamstown

Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950

Group Areas Act, Act No 41 of 1950

The Act was to provide for the establishment of group areas, for the control of the acquisition of immovable property an...

The Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish

The Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish

Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minneso...

Colonial specimen/neocolonial chic by Annemi Conradie

Colonial specimen/neocolonial chic by Annemi Conradie

Mary Benson at the United Nations

Mary Benson at the United Nations

This article forms part of the SAHO and Bridgewater State University Partnership

Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe

Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe

In the 1930s social anthropologists Eileen Jensen Krige and Jacob Daniell (Jack) Krige undertook intensive fieldwork amo...

Leadership and Politics of Belonging in a 2015 FeesMustFall Movement A Case of UPrising by John Mashayamombe and Sandla Nomvete

Leadership and Politics of Belonging in a 2015 FeesMustFall Movement A Case of UPrising by John Mashayamombe and Sandla Nomvete

24 February 2021

Brushing History against the Grain: Oppositional Discourse in South Africa by Tony Morphet

Brushing History against the Grain: Oppositional Discourse in South Africa by Tony Morphet

18 February 2021

This Richard Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered in Durban on 27 September 1990.

Black Consciousness and White Liberals by Richard Turner

Black Consciousness and White Liberals by Richard Turner

18 February 2021