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O'Malley's political interviews: Padraig O'Malley interviews prominent political roleplayers in South Africa about the country's transition from apartheid to democracy
The exhibitions include the topics of the Pillars of the Constitution, race classification, segregation, apartheid, violent protests and violent police response, the homelands, Black Consciousness, political executions, Sharpville 1976, Nelson…
Her research focused on human rights violations in the western part of the Eastern Cape Province
The material relates to the conflict between the ANC and the IFP in the 1980s and 1990s. Thousands of people died during the internecine civil war between the ANC and…
The Institute for a Democratic Alternative in South Africa (IDASA) is an independent public interest organisation that strives to promote sustainable democracy by building democratic structures and institutions, embarking on…
Documents relating to the lobbying and advocacy work of the NGO Working Group on Reparations, a Cape Town based coalition of non-governmental organisations dedicated to the task of ensuring that…
The Human Rights Watch (HRW) is an independent international non-governmental organisation based in the United States that works to bringing perpetrators of human rights abuse to justice, investigating and exposing…
The collection comprises records documenting Mark Behr’s public disclosure of having worked as a spy for the Apartheid security establishment and later for the African National Congress (ANC). Behr went…
In May 1988, Gertrude Fester was detained and subsequently put on trial with other political activists in a trial known as the 'Yengeni 14'. In March 1990 charges were dropped…