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1991 Foreword
testing 2
Context
Background
Introducing oral history
Origins
The Birth of the Bill of Rights
Introduction
The context
Origins of the trade union movement
Locations before Tembisa - pre-1957
Background
Representations of women
Commemorating Youth in the Struggle
A Shifty Story
2015 FOREWORD
2004 Preface
Testing 1
Goals
The value of oral history
Botha's Deal
Life
Military Cooperation
A 'new home for struggle'
Early developments
Early mineworkers' struggles
Women's Charter
Establishment of Tembisa
The Future is Ours
Shifty Characters
AUTHOR'S REFLECTIONS
Mogopa
Making posters in South Africa
Struggles for Peace
Approaching the past
Equality
Nuclear Collaboration
Documenting the APF
Recruitment
Trade unions in the 1930s and 1940s
Women's March 1956
The quiescent & prosperous 1960s
Against Bantustans
Origins of youth struggle
Singing for a just peace
Our fathers dwelt together in peace
Braklaagte
Medu posters: Images from exile
A Cultural Collective
Interview tips
Against BLAs
Human Dignity
Swiss Engagement
The WCAR, WSSD & SMI
Military operations
The call for a non-racial union
Black Consciousness
Leading women
Entertainment: late 1950s - 1960s
From the Shop Floor
White Workers!
Driefontein
Politics
International Solidarity
Writing history
Freedom and Security
Electricity & energy
Rhodesian attacks
Soweto Uprising 1976
The revival of black politics
Fighting for independence
Consumer Boycotts
Tightening the noose with labour reforms
Peoples' Poets
Battle of the Bantu
Labour
A State of Emergency
States of emergency
Nkosi Albert Luthuli Young Historians' Prize
Slavery, Servitude and Forced Labour
Water
Women in detention
Development of competing political ideologies
Regional alliances
The birth of FOSATU
Death of Biko
Radio Silence
Class of '44
Community: Azikhwelwa
Success
Enrichment for educators
Repressing Leadership
Freedom of Expression
Labour
Unity for workers' struggles
Women in the UDF
Tembisa in the 1980s - Civic structures
International solidarity
Crackdown!
Rise of boerepunks
Natural Allies
Education: Each one, teach one
25 Years On
People's Power
Assembly, Demonstration, Picket and Petition
Elections
COSATU unites!
Student politics in the 1980s
Life in the refugee camps
Women fighting racism and sexism
Children in detention
Voelvry: the legacy
Tomorrow It's Going To Be You
Militarisation & Repression
Attacks on the UDF
Freedom of Association
Housing
COSATU strikes back!
Women resist triple oppression
Underground operatives in the 1980s
Administration and leadership
Youth on death row
James Phillips
Against The Common Enemy
Culture
Women
Political Rights
Community struggles
Mother, woman: the Revolution is you
Women and the struggle for liberation
Women's brigade
COSATU attacks!
Militarisation of South Africa
Shifty Spaces
The Shape of Things To Come
Afterword
Workers
Citizenship
Xenophobia
COSATU takes on civil strife
End Conscription!
Women forward!
Gille de Vlieg
1980 Elections
Shifty Stable
The Freedom Front
Students
Freedom of Movement and Residence
World Cup 2010
Liberation before education!
Women's duty to build the nation
Political funerals in the 1980s
Post-independence politics
Strengthening global support
Shifty catalogue
Dynamic & Irresistible Force
Defiance
Freedom of Trade, Occupation and Profession
The decline
Crushing the Labour Relations Act
Tembisa township: post-1990
About Zenzo Nkobi
We thank the women
Youth Comrades!
Shifty September
Against White Domination & Black Domination
Victory
Labour Relations
The impact
Defiance through mass action
Meet the interviewees
Guide for educators
The education crisis continues
Shifty Education
The Lull
Environment
People's Education
Wall of Thanks
Black Man, You're On Your Own
Property
Youth unites: SAYCO
Then Who Is Our Enemy?
Housing
Re-launching ANCYL
A Very Obvious Contradiction
Health care, food, water and social services
Most I Can Do Is To Be The Least Obstruction
Children's rights
Elders
Education
We Are Convinced Now
Access to Information
In The Spirit Of The Nation In The Making
Arrested, detained and accused persons
Isn't That What We Are Fighting For
Privacy
Straddling Both Camps
Just Administrative Action
Whole Pyramid Is Shaking
Access to Courts
The Movement is Very Big Now
Educational Resources
Future In The Present
Timeline
Glossary
Links
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