1. Abahlali baseMjondolo
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A shack-dwellers' movement in South Africa.
2. Academic Boycott of South Africa
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
3. African Mine Workers' Strike of 1946
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   A strike, by mine workers of Witwatersrand, which started on August 12, 1946 and lasted around 1 week. The strike was attacked by police and over the week, at least 1,248 workers were wounded and at least 9 killed.
4. African Odyssey Turns to the South
   The Great Migrations
   Resource Type: Article
   First Published: 2012
   Chronicles the economic hardships faced by Africans and the means they take to alleviate their suffering.
5. After the Party
   Corruption and the ANC
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 2009
   Andrew Feinstein is a former member of the African National Congress, and a critic of corruption within the congress. In his analysis, Feinstein discusses things such as the repression of debate within the party, lack of investigations into arms deals, and a failure to criticize Mugabe's rule in Zimbabwe.
6. Aggett, Neil
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   South African physician and labour activist who was tortured and killed by the apartheid 'security forces'. (1953-1982).
7. Anti-Apartheid Movement (British)
   Connexipedia Article
   Resource Type: Article
   
8. Apartheid: The Facts
   Resource Type: Book
   A comprehensive handbook on the current situation in South Africa, bringing together detailed, up-to-date information in an easily accessible form, with the use of numerous maps, graphs, diagrams and photographs. The areas covered are: the historical background; segregation and inequality; education, information, culture and belief; economic exploitation; political structures; repression; armed forces; resistance and the liberation struggle.
9. Apartheid: The Story of a Dispossessed People
   Resource Type: Book
   First Published: 1986
   This is a moving and informative piece of work on South Africa. The authoR rejects the 'empty land' theory when the colonists settled in. He proves irrefutably that the history of Azania does not begin in 1652, as some western historians would like to believe. The author clarifies the polticial confusion about 'apartheid' in South Africa and explains why liberation which is long overdue has been delayed, and shows how the Azanian struggle is socialist in content.
10. Apartheid's Violence Against Children
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    This text is the General Working Document of the International Conference on Children, Repression and the Law in Apartheid South Africa, held in Harare, 24-27 September 1987. It shows how apartheid affects the lives of black children in South Africa and the violent means by which the apartheid regime attacks them when they seek to change the conditions under which they live and to join the struggle for liberation.
11. Banking on South Africa
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1977
    A film about Canadian banks making loans to the apartheid government of South Africa.
12. The Black Student Rebellion of 1976
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive entry of black students onto the stage of history. Until the 1960s, the number of Africans in schools remained relatively low. But the urban African population was growing, especially the number of young people. And industry required a larger pool of industrial labour. So there was a rapid expansion of schooling for Africans. In 1976 there were 3.8 million Africans in schools. Nearly 10% percent of those were in secondary schools. In Soweto alone the number of secondary school students increased from approximately 12,500 to more than 34,000.
13. Bukharin, Bunting and the 'Native Republic Slogan'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    
14. Canada, Namibia and You
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Pamphlet to aid letter writing campaign against S. Africa's occupation of Namibia.
15. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Pilot Copy, February 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    The first issue of the Canadian Information Sharing Service publication. The name of the publication was later changed to Connexions and then to Connexions Digest.
16. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 4 - November 1976
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1976
    
17. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 1, Number 6 - March 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
18. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 1 - May 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
19. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 2
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
20. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 3 - September 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
21. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
22. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 4 - November 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
23. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 2, Number 5 - December 1977
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1977
    
24. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 3 - June 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
25. Canadian Information Sharing Service
    Volume 3, Number 4 - August 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
26. Canadian Policy Towards Southern Africa:
    An Ecunemical Concensus Paper
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    Paper presented to government officials detailing position on racial oppression in S. Africa.
27. Church Presentation to the Annual Meetings of Three Canadian Banks
    Re: Loans to South Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1976
    A statement questioning the morality of loaning money to a racist South African government.
28. CIA set up Mandela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
29. The Civic Movement in South Africa: Popular Politics, Then and Now
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    The tradition of democracy within the progressive movement in South Africa remains alive and well, judging not only by the recent, high-profile contestation of ANC provincial elections, but also by grassroots democratic impulses within the civic movement.
30. Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969   Published: 1983
    A historical and sociological overview which provides a critical analysis of the Labour and National movements in South Africa and explores how and why the white working class traded its socialist principles for a share of white power. Also examines the interactions between the two wings of the resistance against white domination.
31. Communalism and Socialism in Africa
    The Misdirection of C.L.R . James
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1989
    The theoretical confusion of the left when confronted with class struggles in backward societies goes back to the polemics in Russia before the revolution of 1917: an issue resolved in practice but leaving a legacy of theoretical confusion. The struggles for colonial independence were denied the insights that Marxism should have offered, Instead, mysticism prevailed and populist theories replaced scientific analysis.
32. Communication for and Against Democracy
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    This anthology explores the circumstances in which communication serves at times as an instrument of repression and domination, and at others as a support for human emancipation.
33. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 5 - September 1978
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
34. Connexions
    Volume 3, Number 6 - December 1978 - Unemployment/Chomage
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1978
    
35. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 1 - February 1979 - National Security/Securite Nationale
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
36. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 3 - May 1979 - Immigration
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
37. Connexions
    Volume 4, Number 5 - October 1979 - Nuclear Energy\Energie Nucleaire
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1979
    
38. Connexions
    Volume 5, Number 3 - September 1980 - Racism/Racisme
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1980
    
39. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 1 - February 1981 - Lesbians/Gay Men/Lesbiennes/Hommes Gais
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
40. Connexions
    Volume 6, Number 4 - November 1981 - Unorganized Workers/Travailleurs Non-Organises
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1981
    
41. Connexions
    Volume 7, Number 1 - March 1982
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1982
    
42. Connexions
    Volume 9, Number 2 - Summer 1984 - Rights and Liberties - A Digest of Resources & Groups for Social
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1984
    
43. Connexions Digest
    Volume 12, Number 1 - Fall 1988 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1988
    
44. Connexions Digest
    Issue 52 - August 1990 - A Social Change Sourcebook
    Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
    First Published: 1990
    
45. Connexions Library: Africa Focus
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2009
    Selected articles, books, websites and other resources on Africa.
46. Crime of Apartheid
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
47. Critique of Nonviolent Politics 
    From Mahatma Gandhi to the Anti-Nuclear Movement
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1984   Published: 2002
    Ryan accepts that sometimes nonviolence can be effective, but says that sometimes it is not: "a principled insistence on nonviolence can in some circumstances be dangerous to progressive social movements." He says that nonviolence theory "is troubled by moral dogma and mechanical logic."
48. Development Education Project
    Canadian Complicity in South Africa and Chile
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1977
    A description of the cooperation of several small groups to educate the Canadian public about corporate involvement in South Africa.
49. Disinvestment from South Africa
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    
50. Do I Divest? 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2002
    If apartheid ended, so can this occupation, but the moral force and international pressure will have to be just as determined.
51. Don't Blame Mandela for Our Failure
    Believing the Champions of Neoliberalism
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    South Africa believed the promises made by the champions of neoliberalism, and found itself ensnared in its web with no way out by the beginning of the next millennium.
52. Ecologist Special Report: Why mining and violence are inextricably linked
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2017
    The South African government is currently embarking on streamlining decision-making processes in mining. To many this sounds like more top-down decision-making at the expense of those communities that will have to host mines and paves the way for more violent conflict, warns Jasper Finkeldey.
53. Embassy Row Online
    Resource Type: Website
    Contact names and numbers for all embassies to Canada and all Canadian embassies abroad.
54. Ethnicity and Politics in South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    
55. Every Secret Thing
    My Family, My Country
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1997
    
56. Female Well-Being
    Toward a global theory of social change
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2005
    
57. Fighting Apartheid
    A Cartoon History
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    South Africa: where one of the most repressive political systems of modern times exists. A system which deprives the black majority of all basic rights while the white minority enjoys a monopoly of power and privilege. In its developing struggle for liberation the majority daily comes face to face with greater and greater violence from the heavily armed minority.
58. Five Steps from D.C. to Jo'burg
    Against The Current vol. 87
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2000
    1. Take Washington D.C. to Johannesburg. What the youth and other activists in the U.S.A. have done, must be repeated here in South Africa. Of course, it will not be parrot-like, it will have to take into account our specific situation and circumstances. We must target the World Bank and International Monetary Fund as agents of neoliberal economic policy in our country and our region. We must then find issues around which we can organize the people, for example, water, electricity, jobs, etc.
59. Forced Removal
    The Division, Segregation, and Control of the People of South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1987
    Forced Removal gives the facts behind the physical uprooting of millions of black people in South Africa. It describes the various forms that removals have taken during the different phases of apartheid and makes clear that forced removals are integral to the apartheid system. It concludes with an account of the current removal strategies of the regime and the increased resistance with which these strategies are being met.
60. Forward to a mass workers' party in Southern Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2014
    The conference of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa), held in December 2013, was indisputably a momentous occasion in the struggle in South Africa. It epitomizes an extraordinary separation not only from the African National Congress (ANC), the oldest organisation of conservative ‘black’ nationalism, but also from the South African Communist Party (SACP), one of the last so-called communist parties from the Soviet era.
61. The Freedom Charter
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1955
    Adopted at the Kliptown Congress of the African National Congress.
    
62. From Apartheid South Africa to Palestine
    "To Exist is to Resist"
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The growing support for Palestinian liberation via BDS reminds of small but sure steps towards the full-fledged anti-apartheid sports, cultural, academic and economic boycotts catalyzed by Brutus against racist South African Olympics teams more than forty years ago. Today, these are just the first nails we’re hammering into the coffin of Zionist domination – in solidarity with a people who have every reason to fight back with tools that we in South Africa proudly sharpened: non-violently but with formidable force.
63. From one apartheid state to another: Israel's secret military alliance with apartheid South Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Israel regarded the relationship as based on more than just convenience, but on a common position as colonial oppressor, under pressure from national liberation movements. The two countries shared "unshakeable foundations of common hatred of injustice and refusal to submit to it." The 'injustice' each refused to submit to was ending apartheid (South Africa) and reversing the Nakbah (Israel), in both cases the subordination of indigenous people to the interests of settlers from Europe.
64. Gandhi's Truth
    On the origins of militant nonviolence
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1969
    An examination of the life, vision, and actions of Mohandas Gandhi.
65. Gatsha Buthelezi: Chief With a Double Agenda
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    Operating from within the South African government's bantustan system, Gatsha Buthelezi, chief minister of the KwaZulu 'homeland', presents himself as a leading opponent of apartheid but resoultely opposes the struggle for liberation of the ANC and its allies. Who is this man and what does he stand for? Whose side is he on? Mzala examines these questions in a controversial analysis.
66. The Green Book
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1979
    Report of the Politico-Military Strategy Commission to the African National Congress National Executive Committee, 1979.
67. Health and environmental victories for South African activists
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    In South Africa, major advances in health and the environment during the 2000s were only won by social activists by removing the profit motive.
68. Hidden Agendas
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1998
    Pilger's book is an indictment of Tony Blair's government and his easy acceptance of the Thacherite view of foreign affairs. Using the examples of Indonesia, East Timor, Burma, Murdoch and China he chronicles the scale and intensity of injustice around the world.
69. Hirson, Baruch - Writings - Index
    Resource Type: Article
    Writings of Baruch Hirson (1921-1999).
70. 'I KNEW I WAS WITNESSING A TERRIBLE EVIL'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    Today marks 50 years since the South African apartheid government declared District Six, in the heart of Cape Town, a 'whites only' area from which all non-whites would be forcibly removed.
71. If This is Treason, I am Guilty
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Allan Boesak has been in the forefront of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa and has been increasingly recognized as a political as well as a religious leader. This collection of addresses and sermons from 1979 to 1986 shows all aspects of Boesak's involvement in the anti-apartheid movement. It includes pieces that offer analysis of the church's role in political issues, as well as sermons and articles showing a deep biblical understanding of the issues at stake. Among the selections are several of Boesak's important recent public speeches.
72. Imperial silences: From Rhodes to Surabaya
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2016
    The campaign last year to have the statue of Cecil Rhodes removed from Oriel College, Oxford, has provoked more discussion of the British Empire and its crimes than we have seen for many years. Rather than keeping quiet about Britain's imperial past, the Rhodes Must Fall campaign has actually flushed establishment apologists out into the open. They have been forced to defend the legacy of a man who, if he had not been British and had not given a substantial bribe to Oxford University, would today be generally acknowledged by everyone as a corrupt fraudster, thief, liar and killer for profit, as someone marked out only by the enormity of his crimes. The hypocrisy that the debate over Rhodes Must Fall has occasioned has been very instructive in itself, but what is intended here is an examination not just of the part played by hypocrisy in the defence of British imperialism, but of the other strategies employed: suppression and amnesia.
73. In Hebron, a South African Compares Israeli Occupation to Apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    Israelis have generally blinded themselves to the apartheid in the back yard because if they did acknowledge it they would have to do something. This complacent blindering recalls the American south during the civil rights movement, or the founding fathers during slavery.
74. An Injury to One Is An Injury to All: The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
    The History of Trade Unionism in South Africa
    Resource Type: Film/Video
    First Published: 1978
    
75. An Injury to One is an Injury to All: THe History of Trade Unionism In South Africa
    Resource Type: Slide Show
    First Published: 1978
    
76. Inside Quadro
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1990
    
77. Is Israel an Apartheid State? 
    Rhetoric or Reality? Summary of a Legal Study by the Human Sciences Research council of South Africa
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    Do Israel's practices in occupied Palestinian territory, namely the West Bank, East Jerusalem and Gaza, amount to the crimes of colonialism and apartheid under international law?
78. Israel offered Nukes to Racist South Africa for Use on Black Neighbors
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2010
    The implication, that Iran must be stopped because it would proliferate to neighbors, may come back to haunt pro-Israeli propagandists, given Tel Aviv's own secret role in attempting to proliferate nukes to South Africa.
79. Israel/Palestine: Resources for peace, justice, and human rights 
    Resource Type: Website
    First Published: 2006   Published: 2014
    A selection of resources for those looking for a solution to the situation in Isreal/Palestine based on peace, justice, and human rights.
80. Israeli refusers follow South African footsteps in the struggle against apartheid
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2009
    Shministim are conscientious objectors. We are Israeli high-school graduates who refuse conscription into the military, and are repeatedly imprisoned as a result. We will not take part of the occupation of another people, the Palestinians, particularly when doing so goes against human values and cannot be explained on grounds of security.
81. The Land Grabbers 
    The New Fight over Who Owns the Earth
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 2012
    How Wall Street, Chinese billionaires, oil sheikhs, and agribusiness are buying up huge tracts of land in a hungry, crowded world.
82. The Left and South Africa's Crisis
    Against The Current vol. 160
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2012
    An interview with Brian Ashley, the editor of the South African journal AMANDLA!
83. Liberation, Then What?
    Against The Current vol. 124
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2006
    In a lucid contribution to our understanding of contemporary Africa, David Seddon and Leo Zeilig recently charted that continent's two waves of popular protest and class struggle over the last 40 years, as well as pointing to signs of a nascent third wave.
84. Local Places In the Age of the Global City 
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1996
    The contributors to Local Places look at the complex social, economic and political contexts of cities in the 1990s and suggest that cities and urbanity, while part of the problem, also need to be considered as part of the solution.
85. Long Walk to Freedom
    Resource Type: Book
    
86. Mandela, Nelson
    Connexipedia Article
    Resource Type: Article
    Anti-apartheid leader, first black to be elected President of South Africa. (Born 1918).
87. Mandela the radical
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Nelson Mandela will be celebrated principally for the dignity with which he emerged onto the world stage after decades in prison and for the forgiveness that he displayed towards his former enemies in forging a democratic, multi-racial South Africa from the poisoned legacy of apartheid.
88. The Mandela Years in Power
    Did He Jump or Was He Pushed?
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    South Africa's democratization was profoundly compromised by an intra-elite economic deal that, for most people, worsened poverty, unemployment, inequality and ecological degradation, while also exacerbating many racial, gender and geographical differences.
89. Mandela's art of 'understanding the enemy'
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    A senior correspondent reflects on decades of covering the savvy political operator who became an African icon.
90. Mandela's Long Walk To Freedom
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    
91. Mandela's Paradoxes Made His Journey Even Greater
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Mandela was in it to win it. He sought concrete, historic and “big” change, knew that it could not be achieved without the support of public opinion, and proved expertly flexible in, through trial and error, discovering what worked and what did not work, and embracing what did work.
92. Manela's Democracy 
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1999
    Nelson Mandela's ideological legacy — in South Africa and globally — is startlingly complex. He has provided inspiration for the struggles of oppressed people throughout the world, and he has made himself a symbol of reconciliation in a world in which their oppression continues. To understand his historical role, and come to terms with his legacy, we need to see how his greatness and his limitations stem from the same source.
93. My Fight Against Apartheid
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989
    Imprisoned for 15 years on Robben Island in 1965, Michael Dingake's autobiography clearly reveals how his whole life has been bound up with the struggle for liberation in South Africa. His story, full of humour as well as political insight, takes us from his childhood days in Botswana to his recruitment into the ANC during the mass struggles of the 1950s, from his underground work in the 1960s to his kidnapping and imprisonment in 1965.
94. Mzwanele Mayekiso's Township Politics
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 1997
    Given the inadequate media coverage of the new South Africa, it is easy to forget about the ordinary citizens who were always the strength of the anti-apartheid struggle.
95. The National Question in South Africa
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1988
    The national question in South Africa is a complex and controversial one. Who comprises the nation? Are there not, in fact, two nations? Does South Africa constitue a special form of colonialism? What place in a future South Africa ruled by the majority Africans would there be for the other minority groups? A new generation of South African scholars and activists re-open the debate.
96. Necessary Illusions 
    Thought Control in Democratic Societies
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1989   Published: 1991
    An inquiry into the nature of the media and the role of intellectuals in "a political system where the population cannot be disciplined by force, and thus must be subjected to more subtle forms of ideological control."
97. Nelson Mandela
    The Struggle Is My Life
    Resource Type: Book
    First Published: 1990
    This is an updated account of Nelson Mandela's speeches and political writings from both his days as leader of the African Congress Youth League in 1944 to his release from prison in 1990. The excerpts from his trial are riveting and revealing of the governments mind-set on apertheid. Mandela emerges as a man with patience, thoughtfulness and character. The text is enhanced with an index and new photographs.
98. Nelson Mandela
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    Mandela was not alone. The struggle to liberate South Africa was a collective effort. Moreover it was the power of the most downtrodden, the workers in the factories, the poor in the community, working class women and youth that brought the Apartheid government, if not completely to its knees – at least to negotiate the terms of the end of their racist system.
99. Nelson Mandela: A Dissenting Opinion
    Resource Type: Article
    First Published: 2013
    It is an indication of what Mandela was up against that the man who fought so hard and long against a brutal apartheid regime was so completely defeated when he took power in South Africa. That was because he was no longer struggling against a rogue regime but against the existing order. As I suspect Mandela realised only too well, one cannot lead a revolution when there are no followers.
100. Nelson Mandela's Long Walk
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     A look at Nelson Mandela's book, "Long Walk to Freedom" in the context of the apartheid regime in South Africa in the 1980s.
101. The Next Liberation Struggle
     Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy in Southern Africa
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     An indispensable guide to understanding how the resources of that era can be used to contribute to real liberation for the region and for the continent of Africa as a whole.
102. No Land! No House! No Vote! Voices from Symphony Way
     Voices from Symphony Way
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2011
     Accounts from Symphony Way pavement dwellers, joined together in an anti-eviction campaign, living in shacks insisting that the government provide permanent housing.
103. The No-Nonsense Guide to HIV/AIDS
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     This book gives an overview of the origins of HIV, the ways in which it spreads, the profits made by drug companies, women's special vulnerability and the positive action being taken by people and communities to fight back.
104. No. 46 - Steve Biko
     Resource Type: Book
     Steven Biko was the forty-sixth person to die in security police detention in South Africa. But, for the first time, the inquest revealed full and horrifying details of how political detainees are treated. By analysing the court proceedings Hilda Bernstein has reconstructed the events that led to Biko's death, even though what actually happened to him in Room 619 is known only to his interrogators.
105. Occupation, Colonialism, Apartheid?
     A re-assessment of Israel's practicies in the occupied Palestinian territories under international law
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     A study of the Israel-Palestine situation from the standpoint of international law.
106. An Open Letter to the President of the Ford Motor Company of Canada
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1979
     The Ford Motor Company of Canada is the parent company of Ford South Africa. Through Ford South Africa, Ford of Canada sells vehicles to the South African Military and police. The taskforces on the Churches and Corporate Responsibility (TCCR) sees this practice as a reinforcement of the status quo in South Africa, and as a statement in favour of apartheid.
107. Other Voices: The Connexions Newsletter - April 30, 2017
     Affirming life, resisting war, reporting UFOs
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2017
     What do we do when those in power recklessly put the future of the entire planet at risk with their acts of aggression and military provocations, while they ignore the growing disaster of climate change? We fight back and organize, on every level, wherever we are, doing whatever offers the hope of resisting and of building a movement that can stop and overturn the out-of-control monster of late capitalism.
108. Petition for the Total Economic Isolation of South Africa
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     
109. Political Developments in South Africa
     Against The Current vol. 161
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     An excerpt from the South African journal Amandla! regarding current political events in South Africa.
110. The Politics of South Africa: The Transition to Democracy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1998
     OVER THE PAST few years, South Africa has undergone the dramatic political transition from apartheid to non-racial democracy. As one might expect in a country where racial and economic inequality is so stark, dismantling the economic structures of apartheid has proven more difficult.
111. Queer Progress
     From Homophobia to Homonationalism
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2016
     A political memoir by a leading gay rights and AIDS activist.
112. Rabble-Rouser for Peace
     The Authorized Biography of Desmond Tutu
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2006
     
113. Race, Class & the Apartheid State
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     The rise of mass political opposition has put in question all the major issues of social change-relationship of race and class, challenges to apartheid in the economy and the nature of the state.
114. The radical legacy of Nelson Mandela
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     In 1964, Nelson Mandela along with many other comrades in the struggle for the liberation of South Africa from racist white domination under apartheid was sentenced to life in prison. A voice for justice has gone silent. But the words and example of Mandela will live as long as people struggle against injustice and oppression.
115. A Reply to B'nai Brith's Manifesto Denouncing CUPE-Ontario's Boycott of Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     Why supporting the global campaign of boycotts, divestment and sanctions against Israeli apartheid is the right thing to do.
116. Review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2016
     A book review: Ashwin Desai, Reading Revolution: Shakespeare on Robben Island.
117. Rogue State 
     A Guide to the World's Only Superpower
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2005
     A mini-encyclopedia of the numerous un-humanitarian acts perpetrated by the United States since the end of the Second World War.
118. Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War against Apartheid
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Two leading activists of the fight against Apartheid, Ruth First and Joe Slovo, for the first time have received a comprehensive biography.
119. SA xenophobic attacks: A view from below
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The attacks on African migrants in South Africa are connected to oppression of poor black people in general. To prevent the poor from organizing and standing up to their real enemies, the state is tacitly encouraging violence against foreigners.
120. SADCC
     Problems and Prospects for Disengagement and Development in Southern Africa
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     These writings represent an African perspective on an organization SADCC (South African Development Co-ordination Conference) seen as a hopeful augury of a more prosperous and genuinely independent Africa. Candid and comprehensive, they present a cautiously optimistic view of the region's prospects ofa successful 'delinking' from South Africa.
121. The Same Media That Opposed Democracy in South Africa Now Warn Against It in Israel/Palestine
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2019
     Coverage of South African apartheid in US news in the 1980s compared with coverage of Israel/Palestine today reveals similar racist bias.
122. Sanctioning Apartheid
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1990
     A useful guide to the background of apartheid and understanding current developments, particularly the success of the mass democratic movement in weakening racist policy.
123. Side By Side
     Resource Type: Book
     This is the story of Helen Joseph, one of the most famous South African women to campaign against apartheid. One of the accused in the infamous Treason Trial of the 1950s, and the first person to be placed under house arrest, she continues despite bannings, jail, and police harassment to campaign tirelessly for freedom and justice for all people in South Africa. A deeply moving account of her 30 years' involvement in the struggle of the South African people.
124. '68: The Year of the Barricades 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Caute's book looks at the explosive year 1968 (while situating it in the context of what had led up to it). One of the great strengths of this excellent book is that it looks at what was happening around the world.
125. The Socialist Register 1972
     Volume 9: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1972
     
126. The Socialist Register 1973
     Volume 10: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1973
     
127. The Socialist Register 1982
     Volume 19: A Survey of Movements & Ideas
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1982
     
128. The Socialist Register 1989
     Volume 25: Revolution Today. Aspirations and Realities
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1989
     
129. Socialist Register 1996
     Volume 32: Are There Alternatives?
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1996
     
130. Socialist Register 2013
     Volume 49: The Question of Strategy
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 2013
     This, the 49th volume of the Socialist Register examines the choices faced by the left today, the models of strategy available to it, and the innovations that are being made by groups as they organize in diverse settings.
131. South Africa: A Time to Act
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     This action kit is meant to be a contribution to an understanding of the South African situation. In addition to its five sections, the kit's cover poster contains a map of the ten "Bantu Homelands" and the names of the groups of Africans in those areas.
132. South Africa After Marikana - Interview
     Against The Current vol. 161
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2012
     Suzi Weissman interviews Leonard Gentle.
133. South Africa: Redouble Efforts to Reduce Maternal Mortality
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Maternal health has been under the spotlight in South Africa after an analysis of maternal deaths was released in July showing an increase in the country's maternal mortality rate. Researchers found that nearly four out of every 10 deaths (38.4 percent) were avoidable. They identified non-attendance and delayed attendance as common problems, together with poor transport facilities, lack of health care facilities and lack of appropriately trained staff.
134. South Africa: The Peasants' Revolt
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1964
     "To understand the conditions of the Africans in rural South Africa, how bantustan policy affects them and the underlying reasons for the policy, there are a few books as comprehensive and authoritative as this... this book is a must." - Africa Magazine
135. South Africa Windows on Washington
     Against The Current vol. 87
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     The World Bank! Haai! Is the Devil! Haai haai! This was the chant -- accompanied by that South African activist war-dance, the toyi-toyi -- that my comrades Trevor Ngwane and Molly Dhlamini introduced to A-16/17 week gatherings in Washington, D.C., ranging from Direct Action Network spokescouncil meetings to activist sessions, as well as the street protests and on stage at the main rally.
136. The South African Disease
     Apartheid Health and Health Services
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     This book shows that disease in South Africa is connected at every turn with the unequal distribution of the country's resources. Case studies reveal how South African society has created disease among its black population, and explain why the country has no national health service. It concludes that effective health care in South Africa can only become a reality through pressure from trade unions, community organizations and women's organizations.
137. South African Education Project Newsletter
     Periodical profile published 1982
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1982
     The United Church of Canada, through its Division of World Outreach, recently created the South African Education Project (SAEP).
138. South African trade union congress supports CUPE boycott of apartheid Israel
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2006
     South African workers will never forget the support given by the Israeli state to the apartheid South African regime. In the same way we will never forget the thousands of acts of solidarity of ordinary citizens around the world who sustained our struggle through the boycott weapon.
139. South African Workers Tackle Neoliberalism
     Against The Current vol. 143
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2009
     Can the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa (Numsa) be credited with a sudden high-profile career change — from central banker to academic — by Tito Mboweni? The Reserve Bank Governor made a mistake in May when he refused to take a petition from thousands of Numsa members marching to the Banks’ Church St. headquarters. In July Governor Mboweni was rewarded with early retirement.
140. South Africa's Deadly Decade of HIV Denial
     Against The Current vol. 111
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2004
     The African National Congress has returned to power with an overwhelming majority in South Africa's third post apartheid democratic election. With millions of South Africans dying early because of AIDS, however, the question posed in the header of this article remains.
141. South Africa's Political Change
     Against The Current vol. 90
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2001
     On December 5, slightly less than half of South Africa's registered electorate went to the polls, and Thabo Mbeki's ruling African National Congress (ANC) emerged with just under sixty percent support -- down from the two-thirds received in the 1994 and 1999 national elections -- and control of all major cities aside from Cape Town.
142. South Africa's short memory
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     The migrants so recently attacked in South Africa almost all came from neighbouring countries that paid a high price in death and ruin for supporting anti-apartheid struggles.
143. Southern Africa News Clippings
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 1978
     
144. Soweto
     The Fruit of Fear
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     On June 16,1976, school children in the sprawling townships of Soweto took to the streets in protest. They were met by brute force -- tear gas and bullets. Peter Magubane relates the events surrounding June 16 through his camera lens, giving a poignant eye-witness account in tribute to the fallen, and commemorating the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising.
145. Special Report: Truth, Justice and Reconciliation
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     An examination of how countries around the world affected by civil war or internal conflict have approached justice.
146. Sporting Boycott of South Africa
     Connexipedia Article
     Resource Type: Article
     
147. Stop hate rape!
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2014
     Hate crimes, homophobia and discrimination against queer people are global phenomena that are common practice. This situation is especially experienced in Africa and the Middle East where harsh and punitive legislation and policies are authorised and endorsed. The lack of democracy, or the protection thereof, also perpetuates extreme human rights abuses, which often takes the form of physical assault.
148. The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 1
     A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1984   Published: 1988
     This updated new editon of Zed Books' two-volume reference guide on South Africa covers events since 1984 during which the low-intensity armed struggle has grown into a national insurrection. Volume 1 focusses on the capitalist class, its allies, policies and state structures.
149. The Struggle for South Africa: Volume 2
     A Reference Guide to Movements, Organizations and Institutions in the 80's
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     Volume 2 of this valuable reference guide examines the forces making up and supporting the national liberation sturggle and organized opposition to the regime.
150. TCLSAC Reports
     Periodical profile published 1980
     Resource Type: Serial Publication (Periodical)
     First Published: 1980
     Inactive/Defunct Periodical
     
151. "The struggle of memory against forgetting"
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     This excellent address by filmmaker and journalist John Pilger reminds us all of an uncomfortable truth - that all the great breakthroughs in history, like the end of apartheid in South Africa, happened because ordinary people fought for it.
152. To end the occupation, cripple Israeli banks
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The international banking sanctions campaign in New York against apartheid South Africa during the 1980s is regarded as the most effective strategy in bringing about a nonviolent end to the country's apartheid system. If international civil society is serious about urgently ending Israel's violations of Palestinian rights, including ending the occupation, then suspension of SWIFT transactions to and from Israeli banks offers an instrument to help bring about a peaceful resolution of an intractable conflict.
153. Township Politics: Civic Struggles for a New South Africa
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1996
     It is with the ordinary citizens of our cities, towns, and villages that I rest my greatest hopes and expectations. Their role in South Africa and elsewhere has been inspiring, and it is in the whole rather than in the sum of the actions of a few leaders that change is accomplished.
154. Violence and Nonviolence in South Africa
     Jesus' Third Way
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1987
     In this provocative work, Walter Wink suggests that the injunctions of the 'Sermon on the Mount' which seem to counsel passivity in the face on injustice were actually deliberately mistranslated by Biblical scholars. Winks argues that Jesus actually offered a systematic and strategic third way of nonviolent resistance of particular relevance to today's political activist.
155. We are everywhere: The irresistable rise of global anticapitalism 
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 2003
     Global voices presenting alternative visions of democracy.
     
156. When the Unimaginable Happened
     Mandela: the Movie
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     Mandela: the Movie is a very accurate film, depicting what actually happened in South Africa, and one cannot help thinking about it again and again.
157. Whither South Africa?
     Resource Type: Book
     First Published: 1988
     "The growing disagreements among the rulers, and the mounting resistance of the ruled, creates very favorable objective and subjective conditions for revolution in South Africa," stated Mr. N.M. Sharmuyarira, the then Minister of Information of Zimbabwe. This book contains critical essays examining the socio-political dynamics of the revolutionary situation in South Africa.
158. Who was Nelson Mandela? 
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     We should treasure the memory of the Mandela our rulers hated: the lonely, courageous, unbowed political prisoner, condemned for his resistance to racial oppression.
159. Will ANC government ever prosecute South Africans in Israeli Army?
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2015
     When South African security services prevented a Cape Town girl from boarding a plane allegedly to join ISIS, many South Africans were pleased but at the same time surprised at how swift the reaction of our security services were. How come the same reaction is not applied to South African Zionist Jews serving in the Israeli Defence Force (IDF)?
160. Working To Honour Nelson Mandela's Legacy
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2013
     As the world mourns the passing of South Africa's first democratically elected president, Nelson Mandela, his close friend and political stalwart Tokoyo Sexwale says much needs to be done to honour his legacy.
161. World Bank: It's the Pits for the Poor
     Against The Current vol. 87
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2000
     In early May, a National Reparations Conference opened by Njongonkulu Ndungane, the radical Archbishop of Cape Town who succeeded Desmond Tutu, resolved to demand that the World Bank and International Monetary Fund compensate South Africa for apartheid loans long ago repaid. What is the line of argument?
162. World Cup 2010: Showcase South Africa
     Against The Current vol. 132
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2008
     September 15, 2007, marked the beginning of a 1,000-day countdown to the 2010 International Federation of Football Associations World Cup hosted by South Africa, the first African nation ever to host the event. President Thabo Mbeki calls the premier soccer tournament “a golden opportunity to showcase Africa to the world” and adds that the South African government is determined to “show that the African renaissance is upon us and Africa’s time has come.”
163. World Cup Woes for South Africa
     Against The Current vol. 147
     Resource Type: Article
     First Published: 2010
     The overspending, crony capitalism and increased poverty the majority of South Africans now suffer are taking the fun out of the beautiful game, soccer. According to leading researcher Udesh Pillay of the SA Human Sciences Research Council, in 2005 one in three South Africans hoped to personally benefit from the World Cup, but this fell to one in five in 2009, and 1 in 100 today.

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