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Remembering Ashley, the Che Guevara of the Cape Flats

by nurene | Jul 10, 2025 | Books, History, Home Page Featured Posts, Written by Zubeida | 0

By Zubeida Jaffer Thirty-eight years ago this month, South African apartheid police murdered...

Not in Ashley’s Name: A Tribute and a Warning

by nurene | Jul 10, 2025 | History, Home Page Featured Posts, Written by Others | 0

By Henriette Abrahams Today marks 38 years since my comrade, mentor, and leader Ashley Kriel was...

Johannesburg Launch: An unforgettable evening honouring the legacy of Charlotte Maxeke

by nurene | Jun 20, 2025 | Books, Image Galleries | 0

Dr Zubeida Jaffer was hosted by 27four in Johannesburg on 18 June for the first of two Gauteng launches of her book, Becoming Charlotte.

Remembering Ashley

by nebuladesignsCT | Jul 10, 2020 | Articles | 0

Ashley Kriel was murdered on 9 July 1987. This is an excerpt from Our Generation, my memoir, to be released in a second edition soon.

Covid 19: This too shall pass says Wynberg’s former Robben Island Prisoner Ashley Forbes

by | May 5, 2020 | COVID-19 Upate, Written by Others | 0

I watched as the virus spread from China in December 2019, to the Western world in January/February 2020, to our shores with the first confirmed cases of Covid-19 in KwaZulu-Natal on 5 March 2020, the unprecedented declaration of a State of Disaster by President Cyril Ramaphosa on 15 March 2020 and the “hard lockdown” on 27 March 2020.