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