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Under African Skies (Live from The African Concert, 1987) by Paul Simon

Under African Skies (Live from The African Concert, 1987) by Paul Simon

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...

A Monument to Apartheid in Fietas - David Goldblatt

A Monument to Apartheid in Fietas - David Goldblatt

Colonial specimen/neocolonial chic by Annemi Conradie

Colonial specimen/neocolonial chic by Annemi Conradie

A Common Hunger: Land Rights in Canada And South Africa by Joan Fairweather

Mandela in Chicago

Mandela in Chicago

Before the Black Lives Matter Movement, there was the Free South Africa Movement. Chicago activists played a major role ...

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

Black Consciousness and White Liberals by Richard Turner

Black Consciousness and White Liberals by Richard Turner

18 February 2021

The odious Jessie Duarte: Why this bully will be judged harshly by history

18 February 2021

Welcome to the alternate world of Jessie Duarte. A world in which journalists must tow the line and not ask why she tole...

Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury

Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury

15 February 2021

2021 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2021

2021 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2021

12 February 2021

The Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard

The Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard

11 February 2021

Introduction: Visual Genders by Patricia Hayes

Introduction: Visual Genders by Patricia Hayes

8 February 2021

Sartre and Ryle on the imagination by Richard Turner

5 February 2021

Re-reading Rick Turner in the New South Africa by Tony Fluxman and Peter Vale

5 February 2021

Human models and economic systems by Richard Turner

5 February 2021

Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner

5 February 2021

This paper is an attempt to work out what seems to me to be some of the implications of the concept "Black Power". It co...

Biography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno

Biography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno

4 February 2021

Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was d...

Deborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo

Deborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo

4 February 2021

Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans ...

Biography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio

Biography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio

4 February 2021

Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmt...

The Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann

The Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann

4 February 2021

Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College...

Biography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak

Biography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak

4 February 2021

Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid...

Sonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas

Sonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas

4 February 2021

Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the ra...

Eleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw

Eleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw

3 February 2021

After the South African general election in 1948, the National Party, an Afrikaner political party that supported increa...

Barberton Prison by Sloane Fuller

Barberton Prison by Sloane Fuller

3 February 2021

While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the ...

The Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis

The Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis

3 February 2021

Alternating from prison to fort to prison to museum, the Old Fort in Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purpose...

Biography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie

Biography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie

3 February 2021

Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repr...

Biography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal

Biography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal

3 February 2021

With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied agains...

Biography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman

Biography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman

3 February 2021

An Unmistakable Figure             In late December 1931, Doro...

Sport Past and Present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the Nation edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh

Sport Past and Present in South Africa: (Trans)forming the Nation edited by Scarlett Cornelissen, Albert Grundlingh

2 February 2021

A despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi

A despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi

2 February 2021

Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, ...

Minna Keene: a neglected pioneer by Malcolm Corrigall

Minna Keene: a neglected pioneer by Malcolm Corrigall

1 February 2021

For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks

28 January 2021

You wrote on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in The Republic") "Good ideas, but style too liter...

Rick Turners Continuing Challenge by Colin Gardner

Rick Turners Continuing Challenge by Colin Gardner

28 January 2021

Moral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster

Moral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster

28 January 2021

This Richard Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Natal, Durban on 25 March 1993. The lecture form...

Richard Turner and the politics of emancipation by Duncan Greaves

Richard Turner and the politics of emancipation by Duncan Greaves

28 January 2021

This is a modified version of the first Richard Turner Memorial Lecture delivered at the University of Natal, Pietermari...

Dialectical Reason by Richard Turner

28 January 2021

Letter to parliament by Richard Turner

28 January 2021

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Covid-19, 11 January 2021

President Cyril Ramaphosa addresses the nation on Covid-19, 11 January 2021

27 January 2021