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DURBAN

New book reignites Rick Turner’s radical democratic ideas and legacy

A new publication sustains the discussion of the ideas of a creative and courageous radical for a new generation

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
Forensic pathologists exhume the remains of political prisoners from a grave at Rebecca Street Cemetery on December 14, 2016 in Pretoria. The twelve members of the Azanian Peoples Liberation Army (APLA) were buried after they were hanged at the Pretoria Prison (Kgosi Mampuru II Prison) in 1964. The remains of 50 exiled victims of apartheid prosecution will be returned to South Africa from Zimbabwe and Zambia in the next 10 days. (Photo by Veli Nhlapo/Sowetan/Gallo Images/Getty Images)
DEATHS IN EXILE

Remains of 50 apartheid freedom fighters to be returned to SA from Zimbabwe and Zambia

The National Prosecuting Authority told MPs it was trying to expedite Truth and Reconciliation cases because it understood victims’ families were losing hope of finding justice…

  • Emsie Ferreira
1 min read
Durban, 1973: Workers at the Consolidated Textile Mill in Jacobs demand a wage hike of R5.
ALCON

The seeds of the 1973 Durban strikes still grow

Several unions were formed in the wake of the seminal strikes 50 years ago, including the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa

  • Irvin Jim
8 min read
People’s hero: A mural depicting Amílcar Cabral who was the foremost leader of the struggle for the independence of Guinea-Bissau and Cape Verde from Portugal. (Photo by GUIZIOU Franck / hemis.fr / hemis.fr / Hemis via AFP)
ABAHLALI BASEMJONDOLO

How Cabral, Fanon and Freire shaped the struggle against apartheid South Africa — and still inspire

Amílcar Cabral was assassinated 50 years ago today. His thought, which sometimes arrived in South Africa via a circuitous route, speaks to our current crisis with undiminished…

  • Richard Pithouse
8 min read
Rick Turner’s family believes that the truth may come out, 45 years after the academic was assassinated(Photograph courtesy of the Helen Joseph collection at the Historical Papers Research Archive of the University of the Witwatersrand)
HOOSEN HAFFEJEE

New hope in anti-apartheid activist Rick Turner’s murder investigation

The family believes that the truth may come out, 45 years after the academic was assassinated

  • Paddy Harper
5 min read
SOUTH AFRICA: AZAPO 9th Congress in the 1990s. (Photo by Gallo Images/City Press)
ABU BAKER ASVAT

Azapo’s political relevance re-emerges

The party of socialist Black Consciousness has fresh leaders and a pact with the Pan Africanist Congress to begin working at the local level to create a viable and radical Left

  • Imraan Buccus
7 min read
A member of SAPS shoots rubber bullets to disperse a crowd looting outside a warehouse storing alcohol in Durban on July 16, 2021, after protestors clashed with police following a week of unrest in South Africa. (Photo by GUILLEM SARTORIO / AFP)
CHIEF ALBERT LUTHULI

We are angry. We are anxious.We are traumatised.

We fought for freedom, for autonomy. Now we are traumatised. Our country has allowed its majority to live in conditions that the rich would not accept for their dogs

  • Daniel den Hollander
6 min read