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Remembering John Maroo – a freedom fighter who defied jail and banishment and paid with his life

In the aftermath of Maseru, a massacre that claimed 42 lives (including two children), Maroo’s “blood-stained suit was vivid in telling his near-death story that he neither had a chance or a heart to tell”, noted Lebo, who went to exile with her father in 1978, never to meet again. To mitigate, ANC’s top brass redeployed its operatives to Lusaka.

PAC pursues justice for Sobukwe as questions over apartheid era crimes persist

More than four decades after Sobukwe’s death, unresolved questions surrounding his treatment, his illness, and the political motives of his persecutors continue to echo across South Africa’s legal and political landscape.

How King Langalibalele I planted the seeds of rebellion against the British

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?    

Nation mourns Peter Magubane who fought for freedom with his camera

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.