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May 15, 2018

Appendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan

Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and ...

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May 15, 2018

Appendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg

In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 16...

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May 15, 2018

The Lady in White: British Imperial Loyalism and Women’s Volunteerism in Second World War Durban by Jonathan Hyslop (Journal of Natal and Zulu History), 2018

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May 14, 2018

Eulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria

Comrade Mendi Msimang and the family and relatives, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Ministers, Premiers, Deputy ...

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May 14, 2018

Tribute to Anti-apartheid campaigner, Helen Suzman, by African National Congress, 1 January 2009

The African National Congress (ANC) pays tribute to the late anti-apartheid campaigner Helen Suzman who has died at the ...

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May 14, 2018

Statement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September

The National Executive Committee of the ANC met over the weekend of the 19th to 21st September 2008, to deliberate on va...

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May 14, 2018

Women Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017

Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile...

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May 11, 2018

Invisible Communities and Their Visible Cameras by Malcolm Corrigall

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May 10, 2018

Address at 46664 Concert, by Nelson Mandela, 27 June 2008, London United Kingdom

Friends, 20 years ago London hosted a historic concert which called for our freedom. Your voices carried across the wate...

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May 10, 2018

Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom

Friends, thank you for joining us here this evening, and your support for our causes. It is a great privilege having be...

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May 10, 2018

Address at 6th Annual Nelson Mandela Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 12 July 2008, Kliptown Soweto

President Johnson-Sirleaf, distinguished guests, friends, ladies and gentlemen, We have for years remarked about people...

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May 10, 2018

Acceptance of Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award, by Nelson Mandela, 1 November 2006

I am pleased to be here today, to enjoy the warm company of friends like Nadine Gordimer, and to know that Seamus Heaney...

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May 10, 2018

Address at Commemoration of the lives of Yusuf Cachalia and Bram Fischer, by Nelson Mandela, 5 June 2005,

Friends Comrades I have so often announced my retirement from public life that nobody believes me anymore - not even ...

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May 10, 2018

Opening Address of Nelson Mandela Centre of Memory and Commemoration Project, by Nelson Mandela, 21 September 2004, Johannesburg

Ladies and Gentlemen Comrades and Friends Thank you for attending this function at the invitation of an old man. Wha...

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May 10, 2018

5th Steve Biko Memorial Lecture, by Nelson Mandela, 10 September 2004, University of Cape Town

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