In the article below, Jaco Mattheyse explores the history behind a well-known Krugersdorp landmark: the old Police Station on Commissioner Street. He begins by unpacking the social and political landscape of the town in the 1890s.
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Stephen Coan’s The Buried Man can only be described as magisterial. It is the culmination of decades of patient, methodical, and deeply informed scholarship. Coan has lived with, traced, and tracked H. Rider Haggard for much of his adult life, and this monumental volume represents the distillation of that long engagement. It is unlikely to be surpassed for a very long time.
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Known by his supporters as “Lion of Azania”, Mothopeng was a teacher, intellectual, political prisoner and stalwart of the Pan–African Congress (PAC). His political activism spanned a turbulent half-century of resistance to white domination, from the early 1940s until his death in 1990.