This video features Melanie Alperstein, a member of the Health Care Trust (HCT), reflecting on the organization's work in the Cala district during the 1980s and on Batandwa Ndondo’s pivotal role in the project. The HCT, a Cape Town-based collective of progressive health workers, initiated a Village Health Worker (VHW) programme in Transkei that sought to link health care to broader struggles for justice, equality and self-reliance. In Manzimahle, spring protection was one asp

22 September 2025 The Cala University Students Association (CALUSA), together with the Sakhisizwe Information and Research Centre (SIRC)...

This seminar marks the beginning of a series of discussions leading up to the main commemoration on  24 September 2025 , the 40th...

The development of the Slang River Settlement from the mid-19 th century While reflecting on the development of the Slang River...

The viciousness and racism of apartheid grew to a crescendo just before its collapse was imminent. Activists disappeared and freedom...

On the 15 July 2022, for the first time it crossed my mind that this was the date that I left my home in Umtata to swell the ranks of the...