Neil Agget’s passionate trade unionism proved fateful. It made him a target of a brutally repressive apartheid police state.
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Individual beliefs about the past and its relevance to the present strongly influenced awareness of the Marikana tragedy.
The students who marched on 16 June 1976 did more than simply register a political opinion.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu didn’t stop his fight for human rights once apartheid came to a formal end in 1994. He continued to speak critically against politicians who abused their power.
Many unemployed young people are engaged in a variety of economic activities. These may not necessarily be recognised as a form of self employment or informal employment.
Jackson Mthembu’s death drives home the seriousness of the COVID-19 pandemic in the country.
Employment programmes cannot replace economic growth in improving youth employability, but they play a crucial role in helping them find work.
Young black men are often viewed through a criminal lens. A new book based on an 11-year-long study of adolescent men in a South African township upends the stereotypes.
Black consciousness in South Africa changed blacks and whites.
The book depicts how Onkgopotse Tiro’s time at Turfloop amounted to a revolutionising political script for generations to come.
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