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Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014

Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Et...

150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske

During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured la...

'Opening Address' at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress by Dr. S. M. Molema, 25 January 1952

Mr. President, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am deeply conscious of the signal honour it is to be asked to open this 20th con...

The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi

In 1942, shortly before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, I was present in Sevagram as a six-...

Thanks, Jimi, this is good for you and the broader SA (The Times Editorial), 28 June 2016

Matthews joins a long list of staffers who are not prepared to stomach nonsense and take the public broadcaster on a wro...

#JimiMatthews decision praised by Chelsea Geach (News), 28 Jun 2016

Cape Twon - The suddent resignation of SABC acting chief executive Jimi Matthews has been hailed by groups across the co...

'The timing of his resignation is suspect' - Communications Minister on ex SABC CEO (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016

"Mr Matthews was appointed to this position because of his credentials to steer the SABC towards a commendable dire...

Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015

Cecil John Rhodes was the sickly, poorly educated and otherwise unremarkable son of an English parson of meagre means. H...

Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016

I’ve been trying to understand what’s happening at my alma mater and employer for over 40 years, the Univers...

Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien

June 18, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Amandla! Magazine — A definin...

Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court

Albie Sachs SA Constitutional Court Judge interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane Johannesburg, Constituti...

Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town

Professor H. W. van der Merwe former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor 23...

Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)

To understand what the Women's liberation movement today represents, we must understand the general situation, which...

Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016

EITHER city voters will get the ANC leadership they want by 2019, or the party may well no longer govern the country on ...

A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile

One of the most striking buildings in Port Elizabeth is the famous Campanile. In the article below, Tennyson Smith Bodil...

The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane

The Soul of the ANC is under severe attack not from external forces as we would have thought, but from its own members a...

Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')

30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for 27 months. 18 of these were in solita...

Under the influence of Dumile Feni’s 'African Guernica' by Sharlene Khan (The Conversation), 07 September 2016

In our regular series, “Under the influence”, we ask experts to share what they believe are the most influen...

'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016

Sol T Plaatje’s ground-breaking work Native Life in South Africa was published 100 years ago in 1916. Janet Remmin...

District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016

This Saturday, former District Six residents and their descendants will campaign for the area to become a National Herit...

A short history of the oldest graves in Plettenberg Bay by Patricia Storrar (The Heritage Portal), 12 September 2016

In the following article Patricia Storrar provides a brief history of the Harker graves in Plettenberg Bay. The piece wa...

History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016

In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into...

INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history

Although Indians had been among the first slaves that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth...

Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016

Gordhan on a leash In political science, students studying the theory are often told that the most dangerous time for p...

How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016

In a statement&sbquo; Gildenhuys Malatji Attorneys said Gordhan “responded fully to all the Hawks’ enquiries...

Question Time Pravin Gordhan, 11 October 2016

Pravin Gordhan on the Hawks

Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016

The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of...

Justice Malala interviews Pravin Gordhan

Trevor Manuel speaks on Gordhan Sars probe

Where is Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser? by Noni Mokati (IOL News), 7 May 2016, Johannesburg

Ten years since President Jacob Zuma’s rape trial ended in a controversial “not guilty” verdict, his r...

The kanga, womanhood and how Zuma's 2006 rape trial changed the meaning of the fabric by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail and Guardian), 10 Aug 2016

During the 2006 rape trial in which President Jacob Zuma was acquitted of rape, there wasn’t much in common in Zum...

Accuser insulted as Zuma hailed at court (IOL), 14 February 2006

While Jacob Zuma was being hailed as a king who could do no wrong by thousands outside the Johannesburg High Court, his ...

Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015

Inside a dilapidated warehouse, underneath scattered clothes hanging from rusty pipes, a young black man is down on his ...

Stuart Commission Report

1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENT...

Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo

Our bases are inside South Africa Question: Since the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of...

Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987

The first question the President of the ANC was asked is whether he was satisfied, or the ANC satisfied about the level ...

Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012

1912 is a number that ought to be deeply etched in the minds of all Africans. For during 1912 achievement parted ways wi...

The VOC hospital in Cape Town

Secrets of the Dead: Slave Ship Mutiny