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Month: July 2017

  • ‘Indians can’t fly’: the continuing search for justice for apartheid’s political prisoners

    THERE are two plausible explanations for the death of political detainee Ahmed Timol at the hands of apartheid security branch (SB) police on 27 October 1971, both involving defenestration. Either he was suspended from a […]

    July 26, 2017Sharp Thoughts

     
  • The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme

    Bongani NGQULUNGA, The Man Who Founded the ANC: A Biography of Pixley ka Isaka Seme (Cape Town: Penguin, 2017) THE title of this book is a little misleading. The significance of Pixley ka Isaka Seme’s […]

    July 24, 2017Book Reviews

     
  • Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson

    Jonathan ANCER, Spy: Uncovering Craig Williamson (Johannesburg: Jacana, 2017) HUNDREDS of apartheid-era operatives have quietly disappeared into the forgotten recesses of post-liberation South Africa. An exception is the much-reviled Craig Williamson: “I feel anger; seething […]

    July 2, 2017Book Reviews

     

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