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Official Documents, Articles, Papers & Journal articles
Latest:
Journal articles by Raymond Suttner:
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The (Re-) Constitution of the South African Communist Party as an Underground Organisation by Raymond Suttner
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Party Dominance ‘Theory’: Of What Value? by Raymond Suttner |
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African National Congress (ANC): Attainment of Power, Post Liberation Phases and
Current Crisis by Raymond Suttner |
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Transformation of political parties in Africa Today by Raymond Suttner |
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Review Article: The UDF Period and its Meaning for Contemporary South Africa by Raymond Suttner |
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Kleio: a journal of historical studies from Africa (2005) by Raymond Suttner |
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Democratic Transition and Consolidation in South Africa: The Advice of ‘the Experts’ by Raymond Suttner |
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Women in the ANC-led underground by Raymond Suttner |
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Culture(s) of the African National congress of SA: Imprint of exile experiences by Raymond Suttner |
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The African National Congress (ANC) Underground: From the M-Plan to Rivonia by Raymond Suttner |
Pre1900s
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Pretoria Convention, 1881
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Manifesto of the emigrant farmers - by Piet Retief |
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The Treaty of Amiens - 1802, March 25 |
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Chiefs and Bureaucrats in the Making of Empire: A Drama from the Transkei, South Africa, October 1880 |
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The Department of Native Refugee Camps - By Garth Benneyworth. Topic: Black Concentration camps during the Anglo-Boer War |
1900-1949
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The Atlantic Charter and the Africans - 1941 |
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Africans' Claims in South Africa - Adopted by the ANC - 1943
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Programme of Action: Statement of policy adopted at the ANC annual conference,
17 December 1949
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The Union of South Africa Act 1909
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Report on General J.B.M. Hertzog's Speech at Germiston, 5 December 1911
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Report on General J.B.M. Hertzog's Speech at De Wildt , 7 December 1912
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Constitution of the ANC, written up in 1943.
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Report of a Deputation from the ANC to the Deputy Prime Minister and Others on March 4, 1942, by Dr. A.B. Xuma [n.d.]
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Review of this meeting, in Minutes of the Annual Conference of the AAC, December 1949
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Statement on the Durban Riots, by the Working Committee of the ANC, signed by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 20, 1949
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The Universal Declaration of Human Rights - adopted in 1948
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The Failure of the Natives' representative council, 1946-1947 |
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Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949 |
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"Statement Issued by Joint Meeting of African and Indian Leaders" [For Closer Co-operation], February 6, 1949 |
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Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944 |
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"Trumpet Call to Youth" - announced in 1944 |
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Resolutions of the ANC Annual Conference, December 20-22, 1942 |
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Balfour Declaration 1926 |
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"To All Africans and Friends of Justice." Flyer issued by Dr. A.B. Xuma, March 21, 1947 |
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Indian Passive Resistance in South Africa, 1946-1948 - by
E.S. Reddy |
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Sport, Race, and
Liberation Before Apartheid:
A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s - Dr Peter Alegi |
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Some basic principles of African Nationalism: A. M. Lembede, 1945 |
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Policy of the congress youth league: A. M. Lembede, 1946 |
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The first martyrs of satyagraha: E. S. Reddy, Topic: The Satyagraha Campaign, 1908-1914 |
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Ghandhiji and the struggle for liberation in SA, Topic: The Satyagraha Campaign, 1908-1914 |
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Some remarkable European women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa, topic: around the time of the Satyagraha Campaign |
1950s
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The P.A.C. of Allegiance'
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Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC
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Report of emergency meeting of the National Executive of the ANC- Issued by the Secretary-General of the ANC, 26 July 1950, initiated by Nelson Mandela.
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Report of the Joint Planning Council of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress, November 8, 1951
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Bantu Authorities Act of 1951
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Statement Condemning the first banning orders under the Suppression of Communism Act, MAY 22, 1952
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'We Defy' by Nelson Mandela, the defiance campaigns aims. Published in 'Drum' magazine (1952). |
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The Story of Defiance: Henry Nxumalo, 1952
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Defiance Campaign in south africa, recalled: E.S Reddy, 1952 |
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'After 50 years, the spirit of service and sacrifice lives on'. Defiance campaign, 1952 |
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'People Are Destroyed' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (October 1955) |
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'Transkei Revisited' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (No.16, February 1956) |
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'In Our Lifetime' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (No.19, June 1956) |
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'Bantu Education Goes to University' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (No.25, June 1957) |
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The Nature of the Struggle Today: Potlako K. Leballo, 1957
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Resolution on Racialism and Discriminatory laws and Practice, Accra 1958
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Notes for delegates to the all African people's conference to be held in Accra, Ghana, in December, 1958
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Resolution on Imperialism and Colonialism, Accra, December 5-13, 1958
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'Our Struggle Needs Many Tactics' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (No.29, February 1958) |
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'A New Menace in Africa' by Nelson Mandela. This article appears in Liberation - a 'Journal of Democratic Discussion' - was
published in Johannesburg from 1953 to 1959, with D. Tloome as editor. Nelson
Mandela wrote a number of articles for the journal. (No.30, March 1958) |
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'Verwoerd's Grim Plot' by Nelson Mandela, No.36, May 1959. |
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Now you have touched the women: Elizabeth S. Schmidt, Topic: Women's resistance to passes, 1950's |
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Women and Apartheid: Appeal for help (date unknown) |
1960s
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The Sharpeville Massacre - a watershed in South Africa, by Rt. Reverend Ambrose Reeves |
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The Sharpeville Massacre: Its historic significance in the struggle against apartheid by David M. Sibeko |
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'The Struggle for a National Convention'. Article written by Nelson Mandela for Fighting Talk, April 1961. |
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Statements in Court, by Nelson Mandela, October 22 and November 7, 1962 |
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“Operation Mayibuye.” Document found by police at Rivonia, July 11, 1963. |
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Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963 |
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Document found by the police at Rivonia, 11 July 1963 |
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An Autobiographical Note by Nelson Mandela written in 1964. |
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Memorandum, on behalf of the SAIC, to the United Nations group of experts on South Africa, March 6, 1964 |
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'Nelson Mandela, 1965'. This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book 'No Easy Walk to Freedom' by Ruth First. |
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"Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee" by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968 |
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Document 47: Resolution adopted by the United Nations Commission on Human Rights. |
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The Nineteen Days - an article about the 1960 PAC campaign against the pass laws by an anonymous Cape Town correspondent |
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African and Indian in Durban - this article was written just before the Emergency in 1960, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in South Africa by Fatima Meer |
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MK manifesto: We are at War! (December 16, 1961)
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SACTU press release in New Age, 22 November 1962
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'Operation Mayibuye'. A Document found by the police at Rivonia, 11 July 1963. |
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Internationally supported campaigns against death sentences and executions for political offences , 1964-
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We
don't want crumbs - In the statement Albert Luthuli unequivocally rejects the government homeland policy. It appeared in New Age of 1 February 1962. |
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Statement of dissolution of the South African Coloured People's Congress, by Barney Desai and Cardiff Marney, London, March 1966 (abridged) |
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Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history - Dr Karl Koperski |
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The Worker and the Liberation Struggle - interview with J.B. Marks (Sechaba Vol 3 No.10 - 1969) |
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South African Workers and the Struggle for Liberation (Sechaba Vol 3 No.8 - 1969) |
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Nana Sita: Last of the Gandhians in South Africa (a tribute, 1940's-1960's) |
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Vuyisile Mini: worker, poet, political leader, and martyr for freedom-Shechaba article |
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Vuyisile Mini: adapted from Radio script by RTM Ngqungwana - Sechaba Article |
1970s
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Biko In His Own Words - City Press, Sunday 9 September 2007. an article with Biko's quotes from his writings |
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Daily Dispatch: Biko's comrade in arms still working to improve the lives of the rural poor. An article by Khuthala Nandipha on Biko's friend Peter Jones [City Press, Sunday 9 September 2007] |
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The African Miners’ Strike of 1946 - Thirty years ago, on August 12, 1946, the African mine workers of the Witwatersrand came out on strike in support of a demand for higher wages - 10 shillings a day - by M. P. Naicker (1976)
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Pretoria Convention, 1881 |
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United Nations response to declaration of Transkei as an ‘independent homeland’, 26 October 1976
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The Funeral of Moses Kotane, 1978
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People of South Africa - The African National Congress Calls on You. Amandla Soweto! 8 July 1976 |
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The Information Scandal: Muldergate 1977 |
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The Role of the Workers in the South African Liberation Struggle- interview with John Gaetsewe, (Secretary-General, SACTU) (Sechaba journal first quater 1978) |
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'Unite! Mobilise! Fight On! between the anvil of united mass action and the hammer of the armed struggle we shall crush apartheid!' , 1976 (written by Nelson Mandela after the events of June 16th 1976) |
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Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport - ES. Reddy (focus 1960s-1970s) |
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Women's Liberation, Sechaba, Volume 6, No. 9, September 1972 |
1980s
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Challenge to the Church - The Kairos Document, 1985: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa
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Tricameral parliament 1983
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Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa, 1989
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International Convention Against Apartheid in Sports, 1985
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American supporters of the Defiance Campaign: In this statement at a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - Mr. Houser describes the work of the Americans for South African Resistance (AFAR) in support of the Defiance Campaign
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UN Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa 1989
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General Assembly Resolution 1984
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Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
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Women in the apartheid society (statistics and changes) by Fatima Meer (written in the 1980's) |
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From peaceful nuclear research to building the Bomb (1970s-1980s) |
1990s
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'Mandela: A tiger for our time'. Article from the Mail & Guardian, Vol.15, No.22, 4 June 1999. |
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Top army officers purged, 1993.
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'Article by Nelson Mandela
in Foreign Affairs'. Article written by Nelson Mandela in Foreign Affairs. Vol.
72, No.5, November/December 1993. |
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Former South African President F. W. De Klerk's Manifesto for the New South Africa
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United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, November 1993
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Joint statement issued by the ministries of interior and of Foreign Affairs and ccoperation of the republic of mozambique and the ministries of Safety and Security of Foreign Affairs of Republic of South Africa, Maputo 16 March 1998
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Statement issued by GCIS: Briefing on the case of Robert Mcbride - 21 MAY 1998
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TRC Hearing on the death of Griffith Mxenge 1997
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South African Constitution of 1996:
Republic of South Africa
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Skweyiya Commission Report, released 19 October 1992
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Goldstone Commission Report 16 November 1992
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The South African foreign policy context prior to 1990
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Amnesty hearings 1996-2001: transcripts (TRC) |
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The dismantlement of South Africa's nuclear weapons, 1991 |
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Of men, magic, and the law: popular justice and the political imagination in South Africa, by Clifton Crais (written in context of the Apartheid Era) |
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Ghosts of the past - by Stan Winer, topic: The Truth and Reconciliation commission |
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Women's Resistance Against the Pass Laws (Taken from: Resha, M. (1991). ‘Mangoana Tsoara Thipa Ka Bohaleng', My Life in the Struggle , Johannesburg: Congress of South African Writers) |
2000-2007
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Mandela's ultimate recognition of Biko. Sowetan, Friday /09/2004, Page 12. It is fitting that Nelson Mandela will pay tribute to Steve Biko at the 27th commemoration of his death because the country is indebted to both freedom fighters for its liberation, writes Themba Molefe. |
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Steve Biko: An Enduring Legacy by N Barney Pityana (UNISA) |
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United Nations Millennium Declaration, September 2000
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Amnesty hearings 1996-2001: transcripts |
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South Africa and the United Nations 1940's-2000s |
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The Politics of evil: Magic, State Power and the Political imagination in South Africa by Clifton Crais (written in 2002) |
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