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South African Congress of Democrats (COD)
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South African Congress of Democrats (COD)
5 August 2021
In 1952, Whites who identified themselves with the aspirations of those who participated in the Defiance Campaign formed...
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The Founding of the SANNC
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The Founding of the SANNC
5 August 2021
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South Africa...
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Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
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Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
5 August 2021
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded i...
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”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
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”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
5 August 2021
In speaking of Bantu women in urban areas, the first thing to be considered is the Home, around which and in which the w...
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Womens Rights
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Womens Rights
5 August 2021
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as eq...
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Valliamma Munuswami Mudliar – 1898 – 1914
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Valliamma Munuswami Mudliar – 1898 – 1914
5 August 2021
Valliamma Munuswamy Mudaliar lost her life at the young age of 16 in 1914. Mudaliar was imprisoned for marching against ...
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Miriam Tlali
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Miriam Tlali
3 August 2021
Novelist, short-story writer and the first Black woman in South Africa to publish a novel.
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The Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
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The Founding of the Economic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
3 August 2021
According to the EFF’s publication ‘The Coming Revolution’, Julius Malema had earned the title of Commander-in Chie...
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Trevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
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Trevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
3 August 2021
This is a semi-urgent application for final interdictory relief against the respondents (Economic Freedom Fighters,&nbsp...
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Mostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
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Mostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
3 August 2021
In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven...
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To the Indian Kids, Be Proud of our Heritage, as our Forefathers Sacrificed a lot.
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To the Indian Kids, Be Proud of our Heritage, as our Forefathers Sacrificed a lot.
2 August 2021
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Programme of the South African Communist Party - 1962 - The Road to South African Freedom
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Programme of the South African Communist Party - 1962 - The Road to South African Freedom
30 July 2021
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Inkululeko - Freedom
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Inkululeko - Freedom
30 July 2021
Typescript of a publication of the SACP entitled Inkululeko - Freedom. Headings: Lessons of the recent strikes; The stru...
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Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi
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Selaelo Charles 'Dan' Ramusi
30 July 2021
Selaelo Charles "Dan" Ramusi was born 14 November 1954 in Dube Village, Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He was the firs...
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Nana Sita
Biography
Nana Sita
30 July 2021
Secretary of the Pretoria branch of the TIC, involved the Indian Passive Resistance Movement, member of the executives o...
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