Journals
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Black Sash / Sash |
Sash, originally published as Black Sash, is a detailed record of the activities of the Black Sash organisation: the petitions, protests, marches, vigils, press releases and Conference papers which reflect the modus operandi of their desire to bring about change in the legislation which was, in t |
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Staffrider |
Staffrider magazine (1978-1993), took its name and identity from township slang for black youth who rode the overcrowded, racially segregated commuter trains by sitting on the roof or hanging onto the outside. |
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Speak |
Speak, published by Speak Collective, is a publication focussing on issues of interest mainly to women. |
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SASPU National, 1980 - 1987 |
SASPU National was one of two publications produced by the South African Students Press Union (SASPU), the other being SASPU Focus. A non-profit newspaper, about 25 000 copies of SASPU National were distributed mostly through organisations. |
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Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies |
Searchlight South Africa: a Marxist journal of South African Studies was founded by Baruch Hirson from 1988-1993, and to a large extent written by him in collaboration with other exiles and comrades from the revolutionary socialist movement. |
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Speak - the voice of the community |
Speak: the voice of the community, published by the Speak Community Newspaper Project, reflected the Transvaal communities' struggle against relocations, shack demolitions and evictions. |
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SASPU Focus |
SASPU Focus was a feature-orientated publication aimed largely at raising student awareness: at its annual congress during December 1981 NUSAS adopted the theme 'Campus Action for Democracy' for 1982. This slogan called on students to understand, and act on, their university and their education. |
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Sechaba |
The African National Congress began publication of Sechaba in 1967. |
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SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976 |
By the late 1960s many black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort Hare SRC to disaffiliate from NUSAS in 1952. |
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Rixaka |
Rixaka, the cultural journal of the African National Congress, was launched to establish a platform allowing full expression of the cultural voice in the national liberation movement. |
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Liberal Opinion/Reality |
Liberal Opinion (1961-1968) was published by the Liberal Party of South Africa which was established in 1953 by Alan Paton, after the National Government had won its second General Election. |
| Pro Veritate |
Pro Veritate, a Christian monthly journal, reflects a theological point of view towards the ideologies of the ruling National Party. |
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Phakamani |
Phakamani, meaning "stand up", reflecting the call to stand up and join the democratic forces inside South Africa and abroad to oppose the legality of the South African Government, was published by the ANC Department of Religious Affairs in Zambia. |
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Phambili |
Phambili, published by the Phambili Collective in Johannesburg, was a short lived publication comprising 3 issues published during 1988 and 1989. |
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NUM News |
NUM news, published by the National Union of Mineworkers, reflects the mineworkers struggle for liberation from racial discrimination experienced by workers in the mines with regard to work conditions, wages, hostel accommodation, retrenchments and other related issues. |
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Mayibuye |
Mayibuye, published for many years as a small, underground newsletter, was one of three African National Congress publications alongside Sechaba and Dawn (Umkhonto we Sizwe). Circulation was limited and hampered by conditions of illegality. |
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Liberation |
Liberation was founded in Johannesburg as a magazine of quality, focusing on issues of concern to Blacks and non-establishment Whites in South Africa. It was subtitled " a journal of democratic discussion", and was aimed at the intellectual elite. |
| South African Labour Bulletin |
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal which supports the democratic labour movement in South Africa. It is a forum for analysing, debating and recording the aims and activities of this movement. |
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| Izwi lase Township, 1982 - 1984 |
Izwi lase Township was published by Ditshwantsho tsa Rona. It offered notes and views about current and past events. |
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Isizwe |
Isizwe = The Nation, the journal published by the United Democratic Front to stimulate discussion, debate and training within their ranks, consisted of articles on topics relevant to the national democratic struggle. |