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The Comrade Doctor
Dr Libertine Appolus-Amathila, SWAPO’s head of Health and Social Welfare Services, was the first black Namibian woman to qualify as a...
Editorial 1989 No 4
“When the history of a free Namibia is written one day, SWAPO will go down as having stood firm where others have wavered, that it...
Leaders’ profiles
WALTER SISULU Sisulu was born in December 1912 in the Engcobo district in the Transkei Political involvement: He joined the ANC in 1940...
Prisoners in their own homes
As the doors of South Africa’s prisons open to release the detainees, other doors bang shut. Most detainees — and many others who are...
An unbroken spirit
The receptionist at the South African Council of Churches (SACC) put down the telephone and greeted us with a smile: “Yebo bantwana bam’i...
“We will eat at home!”
On 23 January this year, 20 detainees in Diepkloof prison went on a hunger strike to protest against detention without trial. By...
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