Review: Odyssey to Freedom by George Bizos
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Review: Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography by Clifton Crais and Pamela Scully.
Sara Baartman and the Hottentot Venus: A Ghost Story and a Biography (Wits University Press, Johannsburg, 2009.)byClifton Crais and Pamela …
Power of revolutionary songs
Some revolutionary songs had their background in church hymns whilst some were composed in prison. Others were influenced by international …
Our Timbuktu, a rich African heritage
In November 2001 President Mbeki visited Timbuktu and saw the state in which vast manuscript collections from ancient Timbuktu in …
Outraged Feelings Burst Forth: Mineworkers at Vaal Reefs
This is the second part of a three-part series. In the previous Bulletin Dunbar Moodie described how a spirit of …
Once Upon a Time in Kliptown: Museum History of Soweto
If you want to see South Africa in one township, come to the Kliptown Open Air Museum in Soweto, writes …
Obituary: Muzi Buthelezi
Chris Bonner spent many years working with Muzi Buthelezi a former general secretary of two major chemical and energy unions. …
NUM defining events
The events that defined the National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) included ethnic trouble at Vaal Reefs, the 1987 strike and …
Noni Jabavu: product of powerful women
In the 1960s Noni Jabavu was known world over for ther powerful novels. Makhosazana Xaba reflects on the gifted men …
Not so sweet history of sugar unions in South Africa
To this day there is competition between the sugar unions in Kwazulu-Natal. Jason Hickel traces this rivalry from the early …