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Port Alfred a small light in the dark
Everywhere we go, we hear the name Port Alfred — Port Alfred here, Port Alfred there. “What is so exciting about Port Alfred?” we asked...


On 16th June 1976
On the 16th June ten years ago people went home at the end of the day, as always. But when they turned on their radios and opened their...


The muscle of unity
For two days in November, most factories and firms in the big cities of the Transvaal were empty and silent. The workers were showing...


Anger in the Vaal
“They picked up dead bodies in Sharpeville every day this week. They picked up dead schoolchildren, dead mothers and fathers, dead...


“Azikhwelwa” – yesterday and today
The word “boycott” is very old. The word began in a country called Ireland over 100 years ago. A man called Captain Charles Boycott...


Every home a class room, every table a school desk
THE STRUGGLE TO READ AND WRITE IN NICARAGUA Before 1980 not many people knew of a country called Nicaragua. But then the people of this...
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