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Resist Apartheid Campaign Message to Meeting in Johannesburg, 11 July 1954
8 December 2016
Chief Lutuli intended to address a meeting in Johannesburg on July 11, 1954, in protest against the Western Areas Remova...
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Statement by Oliver Tambo at the launch of the "Nelson Mandela: Freedom at 70" Campaign, 11 June 1988, Wembley Stadium, London
29 November 2016
Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, Dear friends of the British Anti-Apartheid Movement, Esteemed cultural workers and artis...
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Postscript
17 November 2016
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled...
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Letter from Maryland (http://www.archaeology.org/) by Julie Schablitsky
17 November 2016
Some African Americans, however, haven’t lost touch with this past, and have found success tracing their lineages ...
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The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
16 November 2016
Resistance to apartheid Umzabalazo - The Freedom Struggle in South Africa Conditions in Rustenburg point to deprivatio...
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Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
16 November 2016
For many years there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different ideological and...
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Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
16 November 2016
A series of legislations were passed by the NP led government in the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrenc...
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Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
16 November 2016
Mass mobilization of the 1950s culminated in the Sharpeville massacre on 21 March 1960. Soon thereafter the apartheid go...
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"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
15 November 2016
(Extracts from an exclusive article published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the South Afric...
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Statement "Algeria honours Chief Luthuli" by Oliver Tambo, 30 November 1964
14 November 2016
From: South Africa Freedom News, Dar es Salaam The University of Algiers has conferred an honorary Doctorate of Literat...
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Indian Community
14 November 2016
2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth of this community in South Af...
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Indian Community in Lenasia
10 November 2016
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collabora...
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Indian education in Natal
10 November 2016
1865 A report? Native Schools 1865? states that these were day and evening schools.Á‚ There was a Mr Earl?s...
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Prominent South Africans Indians
8 November 2016
This is an ongoing project and we welcome contributions from the public. Politics and Labour Adam, Feroza Asmal, ...
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Vusi Mahlasela portrait
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Vusi Mahlasela
2 November 2016
Vusimuzi Sidney Mahlasela ka Zwane was born in Mamelodi in 1965. His grandmother ran a shebeen from behind their home. H...
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