Nkrosi Lesiba Maraba II who was murdered and beheaded by Voortrekkers in the 1800s falls in that category of forgotten anti-colonial resistance heroes whose lives…
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As the leader of the most ‘successful’ ethnic homeland of the apartheid era, Bophuthatswana, Lucas Mangope was a controversial figure. His legacy still divides opinion…
Having died as a ‘commoner’ and prisoner what are the lessons that can be learnt from this hero, especially in the context of the anti-apartheid struggles that we in the 1950s and beyond? What kind of foundation can we justifiably attribute to a leader such as Langalibalele? How did that foundation shape the politics of later leaders such as Mabhida, Mandela, Sobukwe, Hani and many others?
“Seeing newborn babies suffer while some mothers bleed to death should keep us all awake at night."
Remarkably, he survived being shot seventeen times at a student’s funeral in Natalspruit, Gauteng Province and endured over 586 days in solitary confinement in 1969. Magubane’s resistance was not only evident in his actions but also in his creative methods of capturing the truth.
The Land Claims Court of South Africa has ordered that a family that has had their land rights taken away under apartheid be compensated financially…
The addition of these international charges is significant. This is the first case in South African history which has ever included international charges, and it is the first case in the world that includes the international charge of the crime against humanity of apartheid
The massacre graphically revealed that a black majority-constitutional democratic state, like its racist white military-police state predecessor, is an organised system of oppression at the core of which, is an armed apparatus for violent repression, that guard and defend the profits, and private property of the capitalist class.
As morning broke on Friday – Thabo Ledwaba burst into a haunting rendition of the struggle song Shona malanga at the site where his brother…
The Sekhukhune Royal Council deserves to be one of the richest with more development communities because of the mineral wealth of this area. We are confident that time is not completely lost and therefore, new trends can still ensue. Here, we are speaking about new trends that will put our people at the centre of development, whilst at the same time, positioning the Sekhukhune Royal Council to its rightful place.