Articles
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Steve Biko: after ten years |
Barney Pityana was a close friend and colleague of Steve Biko, he was invited to preach the this sermon at Notting Hill Methodist Church.on the 10th anniversary of Steve Biko's death. |
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On the White Elections |
Article by the United Democratic Front regarding the whites only elections.The Front calls on South Africans, especially white compatriots to reject the elections. |
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The resolution of the national question in South Africa: Part 1 |
Paper by Jack Simons on the national question in South Africa. Analyses the national question and attempts to develop a framework for its resolution. |
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Strategies of Repression in the State of Emergency |
Article by the United Democratic Front on the State of Emergency and the counter-revolutionary forces in the townships. |
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Foundations of government in a democratic South Africa |
Paper listing the objectives of a new constitution and its principles. |
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Fourth anniversary of the United Democratic Front: four fighting years |
Article regarding United Democratic Front fourth anniversary. During this period UDF managed to draw together disparate and often unco-ordinated forces in the mass-based democratic movement into a mighty national anti-apartheid front. |
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Organise and advance to people's power |
Internal ANC paper, declaring 1987 the year of Advance to People's Power, which involves mass action, underground political work, armed struggle and international isolation of the Apartheid regime. |
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Ungovernability and people's power |
Discussion document on organs of people's power in response to a request from activists. |
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Unban the African National Congress mass meeting |
The United Democratic Front (UDF) successfully applied for a court order last night to go ahead with meetings to launch the "Unban the African National Congress" campaign. |
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The effects of the current unrest on township children |
Article about how township children were jailed, shot and killed, some served long prison sentences, others lost valuable years of schooling, many were forced into the lowest paid unskilled jobs while others joined the ranks of the increasing numbers of unemployed youth in our country. |
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A contribution from the Lusaka Regional Committee to the discussion initiated by Comrade Motshabi's memorandum |
The ANC Lusaka Regional Committee commenting on a memorandum by John Pule Motshabi entitled 'Comments and observations on the issues to be raised at the forthcoming consultative conference', dated December 1984 and dealing with tribalism and open membership. |
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Towards the reconstruction of South Africa: the constitutional dimension |
Paper by Albie Sachs presented as the Third Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture in Maputo, 27 September 1985. Considers whether the struggle against apartheid is a national liberation struggle, or a struggle for civil rights. |
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What is a nation |
Discussion paper examining the term 'nation' and asking whether South Africa can be seen as a nation. Includes separate section on Language |
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Alternative Education |
Paper by Jack Simons on alternative education. Outlines an alternative education system for South Africa. |
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The situation in Katlehong |
In Katlehong the organisations in existence are ERAPO and Katlehong Youth League which has not affiliated to the United Democratic Front affiliates and other progressives. |
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Resistance politics will never be the same again... |
Article by the United Democratic Front on the seven-month state of emergency, leaders who were in detention or had gone underground to avoid detention were re-emerging and the former are recovering slowly from the effects of lengthy incarceration. |
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The United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s |
Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden. This research concentrates on the United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s. |
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State of emergency |
Article by the United Democratic Front discussing the state of emergency. |
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The preliminary nature of the Constitutional document |
Paper covering rights and duties attached to property and rights to education, power-sharing and rights of minorities, reconciling freedom of speech, organisation and electoral activity with the need to combat the dissemination of racial and tribal hatred, devising an electoral system that will e |
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Fund-raising: a revolutionary perspective |
Working Paper by Godfrey Motsepe prepared for the African Ntional Congress National Fund Raising Workshop held in March 1986 at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in Tanzania. Examines the nature and scope of fundraising and suggests types of fundraising initiatives. |