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The ‘Indian Chap’: Recollections of a South African Underground Trainee in Mao's China by Nandha Naidoo

“We Shall Resist” The Role of Indian Women in the Passive Resistance Campaign 1946-1948 by Kalpana Hiralal

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Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis (Full Text)

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Parents' Guide for Safe YouTube and Internet Streaming for Kids by Sophie Anderson (1 January 2019)

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Volume VIII - Africa since 1935

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Volume VII - Africa under Colonial Domination 1880-1935

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Ivor Montagu, Table Tennis and Apartheid by Stuart Sweeney

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Volume VI - Africa in the Nineteenth Century until the 1880s

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Volume V - Africa from the Sixteenth to the Eighteenth Century

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A Sea-Drift of Songs performed by the AfroAsia Ensemble

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Volume II - Ancient Civilizations of Africa

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Volume I - Methodology and African Prehistory

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Why this legal giant interests himself in Timol and others by Siegfried Hannig

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Photography in Africa: Introduction

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General History of Africa Volume IV

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Speech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998

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Grade 12 History Paper 2 November 2017 - Addendum

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Grade 12 History Paper 2 November 2017 - Memorandum

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Grade 12 History Paper 2 November 2017

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Grade 12 History Paper 1 November 2017 - Addendum

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Grade 12 History Paper 1 November 2017 - Memorandum

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Grade 12 History Paper 1 November 2017

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Some Aspects of Black Culture and its Value in the Black World by Strini Moodley

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Mafika Gwala Annual Lecture 2020 - Full lecture

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Anti-Apartheid Student Activism at Brown University

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The Fund for a Free South Africa and the Road to Divestment in Massachusetts

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The Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement

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American Coordinating Committee for Equality in Sport and Society (ACCESS)

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Edward Kennedy’s 1985 Visit to South Africa