Review: Side Effects
Lesley Lawson (Double Storey Books, Cape Town, 2008): Reviewed by Karl von Holdt Attachments Review. Side Effects_0 (89 kB)
In the past
Review. All my life and all my strength by Ray Alexander Simons (STE, 2005)
Reviewed by Jenny Schreiner Attachments Review. All my life and all my strength. Ray Alexander Simons_0 (67 kB)
Power of revolutionary songs
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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
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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 …