Category: History
93 Posts
Africa, Apartheid protest, History, South Africa
For the ANC history is just a source of legitimacy – they care nothing for South Africa’s heritage
When the University of Cape Town library burned, the whole of Africa lost irreplaceable archives
Honouring a late struggle stalwart
A Cape tragedy—Stephen Langtry reviews Martin Plaut’s new book Dr Abdullah Abdurahman: South Africa’s First Elected Black Politician
Why Cape Town’s District Six – devastated so many years ago – is still vital
‘A sunny place for shady people’: South African involvement in the 1986 Seychelles coup plot
Africa, Britain, History, South Africa
How rescued Ethiopian slaves came to fight for Britain in the Anglo-Boer war
The Boers as Freedom Fighters
