19 June 1901: The South African concentration camps Emily Hobhouse reports from inside the internment centres where Boer women and children face squalor and starvation (1901).
POW camps in Ceylon during the Boer war Over 5,000 Boers were interned in Ceylon (Sri Lanka) during the Boer War. The Ceylon camps were the second set of overseas POW camps after those…
POW camps in Bermuda during the Boer War Contemporary newspaper article detailing the POW camps set up by the British for Boer prisoners during the Anglo-Boer war.
Boer POW camps in India Short article on the Boer prisoner of war camps set up in India during the Boer War.
POW camps at St. Helena during the Boer war During the Boer war, Boer women and children, and black African men, women and children were kept in two racially segregated networks of…
No Pravin, it was not progressive nor redistributive This article looks at the South African state's budget for 2017. Far from being redistributive and progressive, as the South African Minister of…
“... we are being left to burn because we do not count”: Biopolitics, Abandonment, and Resistance Anna Selmeczi on popular resistance to the lethal segmentation of the urban order…
Trust in the Capacities of the People, Distrust in Elites This book by Kenneth Good, published in 2014, argues for popular democratic control of society.
Abahlali’s Vocal Politics of Proximity: Speaking, Suffering and Political Subjectivization First published in 2012 this paper, written after sustained immersion in Abahlali…
The Looting of the Congo: Colette Braekman Article on the cause and human costs of the second Congo War (1998-2003) a civil war that involved multiple armed groups, most backed by large…
From ‘Foreign Natives’ to ‘Native Foreigners’: Explaining Xenophobia in Post-apartheid South Africa An analysis of xenophobia in South Africa that foregrounds the role of the state.
The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989 Abu Baker Asvat was a doctor and political militant in South Africa. He was murdered in 1989.
