In March 1960, the African National Congress (ANC) realised that it was going to be banned. It decided immediately to send its...

On 23 October 1990 — the day before this magazine went to the printers — Zephania Lekoane Mothopeng, president of the Pan Africanist...

An interview with Gertrude Shope, a member of the ANC’s National Executive Committee and head of the ANC Women’s Section Learn and Teach:...

Japhta Masemola knew the bitter taste of prison much better than he knew the taste of being outside. He spent 26 long years in jail and...

For most South Africans, Joe Slovo needs no introduction. Some see him as “public enemy number one”. But many more know him as a tireless...

In 1929, a young bakery worker called Moses Kotane joined the Communist Party of South Africa. He rose to become the Party’s Secretary...