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Burg, J. (1976) ‘Thow ideology out’, The World, 26 May, p. 5.
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Strik school in dreadlock’, The World, 20 May.
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Seventh school join strike’, The World
(1976) ‘School sackings wil not lead to withdrawals’, The World, 11 February.
(1976) ‘Riot - Kruger speaks’, The World, 17 June.
(1976) ‘Student form new body’, The World, 3 August.
(1976) ‘Parents stand firm in launguage row’, The World, 8 March, p. 4.
(1976) ‘moves over teachers and language coming’, New Govt, 27 April.
(1976) Meetings on schools language issues’, The World, 5 March.
(1976) ‘Language row may be ending - at long last’, Weekend World, 16 March.
(1976) ‘Kids keep up strike big march planned’, The World, 19 May, p. 4.
(1976) ‘Inquiry must be held into Soweto riot’, The World, 17 June.
(1976) ‘Need for cool heads over language row’, The World, 15 June.
(1976) ‘School strike - Botha quizzed’, The World, 3 June.
(1976) ‘Botha defends language’, The World, 18 June.
(1976) ‘Asking too much of our kids’, The World, 25 February
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Anti-Afrikaans pupils go on strike in soweto’, The World,18 May.
(1976) ‘World car rushes shot school riot victim to clinic’, The World, 17 June.
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with their own…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the imposition of the…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing multi-party…
Document 33 - Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
The book celebrates the historic conference of South African resistance culture which took place in Amsterdam in 1987
!U’S STORY - Photographs 9 - 15
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A Tswana village
These pictures show scenes from a Tswana village in about 1600 AD. It gives some detailed information about the Iron Age way of life that…
African farmers in Southern Africa
The first farmers For a period of time that is almost impossible to imagine, all the inhabitants of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
SOCIALISM HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the…
Address to the United Nations
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
The Façade Finally Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation…
Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
Numsa, Vavi walloped Dissidents in Cosatu backing expelled metalworkers union Numsa and the ousted general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi…
Book chapterKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThere will be many readers who would like…
ArticleWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually…
ArticleTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
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InterviewsAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years…
ArticleWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
Following Julius Malema's recent comment, that he intended to "cut the throat of whiteness", by removing DA mayor Athol Trollip in Nelson…
ArticleHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
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ArticleConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
More than a century after 48 000 people died in concentration camps in what’s known as the South African War between 1899 and 1902 – or the…
Arts and Culture ReviewThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
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ArticleRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka,…
ArticleWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the…
ArticleOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and…
ArticleCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
Perched on the outskirts of Observatory in Cape Town, just above the Black River, stands the South African Astronomical Observatory;…
ArticleSurvey 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 police opened fire on…
ArticleFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the…
InterviewsInterview with Jackie Cahi, 14 February 2022
InterviewsInterviews with Mac Maharaj, 21 June 2016, 11 July 2016 and 3 November 2019
InterviewsInterview with Desi Angelis, 17 July 2020
ArticleThe Biko Inquest: ‘We carry our history with us’ - The road from liberation to disillusionment by Ashwin Desai
Reflecting on detention during apartheid and Steve Biko’s enduring influence, Ashwin Desai connects the past to anxieties about corruption,…
Interviews