this article was extracted from graemebloch.com (click to view blog) (visiting adjunct Professor, School of Public and Development Management, Wits University). The simple reply on why matric is important, is to look at the debate the results have kicked off on where our education system is going and why education is important to the nation. Secondly, [...]
January 5, 2012
Gandhi and the formation of the African National Congress of South Africa by E. S. Reddy
The birth of the African National Congress a century ago, on January 8, 1912, was a landmark in the history of Africa, marking the beginning of the end of centuries of exploitation and humiliation of the continent. It received hardly any attention at the time internationally or from the white establishment in South Africa. M.K. [...]
October 4, 2011
BOOK LAUNCH: SAHO’s Lives of Courage series at The Book Lounge Cape Town, Thursday at 17:30, 06 October 2011
South African History Online (SAHO) invites you to the launch of The Final Prize: My Life in the Anti-apartheid Struggle by Norman Levy and Alex Hepple: South African Socialist by Bob Hepple, two new books in the SAHO’s Lives of Courage series. The launch will take place on Thursday 6 October at The Book Lounge, [...]
July 27, 2011
Photojournalism and Documentary Photography Programme
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July 14, 2011
Justice for Palestine: A Call to Action from Indigenous and Women of Color Feminists
Between June 14 and June 23, 2011, a delegation of 11 scholars, activists, and artists visited occupied Palestine. As indigenous and women of color feminists involved in multiple social justice struggles, we sought to affirm our association with the growing international movement for a free Palestine. We wanted to see for ourselves the conditions under [...]
July 11, 2011
Nationalisation and the Freedom Charter by Raymond Suttner
Recent calls for nationalisation of mines and expropriation of land without compensation have evoked a sense of anxiety and discomfort in sections of South African society, the international financial sector and observers of South Africa’s policy processes. These ideas are said to be to be based on the Freedom Charter, adopted by the Congress of the People, on [...]
July 11, 2011
Kader Asmal by Albie Sachs
Some people are so indistinct, its difficult to imagine that they are there, even when alive. Others have so much presence, that its impossible to imagine they have gone, even when dead. Kader Asmal was irrepressible, wonderfully so, at times unrestrainedly provocative. He engaged lustily with life. Ever full of spirit, he fought the battle [...]
June 27, 2011
Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA
Newspaper article from Daily Dispatch: Xolobeni – red card greed by NOMBONISO GASA Uhlohlesakhe-khe-khe-khe-khe….! The big voice boomed from the wireless radio of my childhood signalling the beginning of a radio drama about a man who only stuffed his own stomach. That voice had the authority of ringing bells of a Christian church calling believers to pray on a Sunday morning. We, [...]
January 9, 2012
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