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A Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood

A Celebration of Queerness: Zanele Muholi receives a French knighthood

The French Embassy was due to present the Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et de Lettres (Knight of the Order of Arts and L...

Chapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg

I had some idea that there were negotiations going on for my release and I had some sense that somehow my daughter was i...

Chapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg

Chapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg

When I returned to London after six weeks Esmé was not very pleased with me for being away so long. For both of us we we...

SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley

Dear Student Movements of 1976, (Dear ex-student behind the movement, who made personal sacrifices that affected your o...

SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Thenjiwe Mswane

Dear Students Movements of 1976, Imagine if the 16th of June 2016, looked like this. Like this cold winters morning i...

SABC’s Matthews was Motsoeneng’s willing enforcer-in-chief: FJT (TMG Digital), 28 June 2016

A statement by the FJT leadership described Matthews’ resignation as acting group CEO at the South African Broadca...

SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016

Less than a week ago, SABC acting group chief executive Jimi Matthews furiously defended the public broadcaster, its chi...

ANC hits back at Jimi Matthews

JOHANNESBURG - The ANC has hit back at former SABC Acting CEO Jimi Matthews after his resignation on Monday, saying they...

Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg

Justice Arthur Chaskalson President of Constitutional Court interview with Rupert Taylor 2 February 2000, The Cons...

Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg

Beyers Naudé former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christi...

Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg

Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert 24/3/98, Johannesburg Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and c...

Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town

Dr Mamphela Ramphele 16/4/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? ...

CHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell

CHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell

Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it w...

The New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017

The New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017

South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan the Minister of Finance and former...

The Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008

The Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008

Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest thinkers in the liberation p...

Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018

Pik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018

The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced ...

How the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018

How the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018

On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines fro...

Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer

Dr Gordon was Personnel Officer during 1974 at a mine near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the b...

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

How colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018

"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African...

CHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell

CHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell

"[B]y sheer accident, despite the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to politic...

Chapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell

Chapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell

It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that...

Conclusion by Howard Barrell

Conclusion by Howard Barrell

Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and ...

Postscript Ante by Howard Barrell

Postscript Ante by Howard Barrell

In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a lo...

Bibliography by Howard Barrell

Bibliography by Howard Barrell

This bibliography includes all books, articles and primary material referred to in the text and footnotes, as well as a ...

Note on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell

Note on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell

THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serio...

Acknowledgements by Howard Barrell

Acknowledgements by Howard Barrell

First thanks to Ronnie Kasrils - King Kong, friend, commander and the greatest hairy one of them all - who planted the s...

Introduction by Howard Barrell

Introduction by Howard Barrell

ENEMIES DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so i...

Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012

Jakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012

Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a quiet Sout...

Opening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001

Opening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001

We are a few days away from the celebration of one of our national holidays, Heritage Day. The opening of this exhibitio...

Address on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019

Address on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019

Comrades and Friends, Fellow South Africans, We are gathered here today at this historic site to celebrate the 107th a...

Birth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe

Birth of a reggae superstar 3 August 1964 by Sam Mathe

In the mid-80s a strange pop phenomenon swept through the shebeens and music festivals of South Africa. Based on the art...

Hugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019

Hugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019

In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only...

Julius Malema in hot water again over Indian Comments

Julius Malema in hot water again over Indian Comments

Full interview with Julius Malema | Crossing The Line

Full interview with Julius Malema | Crossing The Line

EFF's anti-indian comments stand: Godrich Gardee

EFF's anti-indian comments stand: Godrich Gardee

2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise,...

2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019

2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019

Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise,...

The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan

Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black ...

Cyril Ramaphosa Responds To Lekota And Malema Accusations

Cyril Ramaphosa Responds To Lekota And Malema Accusations

ANC 2019 Election Manifesto

ANC 2019 Election Manifesto

FOREWORD Cyril Ramaphosa ANC President Fellow South Africans, The freedom we enjoy today was achieved through struggl...