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Jul 18, 2017

PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998

David Goldblatt sold his family's menswear business in South Africa to become a photographer in 1962. But the pictures h...

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Jul 18, 2017

The Museum of Modern Art, 10 July - 6 October 1998

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Jul 18, 2017

Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town

We meet here today to commemorate the death of an outstanding young South African patriot, Stephen Bantu Biko. The bloo...

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Jul 18, 2017

Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999

"Oh dear, I can't go to the gods again with no room to offer them. Having failed in the service of the gods, I shall ru...

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Jul 18, 2017

Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,

Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Chairs of our Portfolio and Select Committees of Public Service and Administration, Me...

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Jul 18, 2017

Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award

Let us now praise famous men…Apocrypha, Ecclesiasticus 44.1 In the canon of human conscience Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela ...

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Jul 18, 2017

Political Report by Limpopo ANC Chairperson Cde Cassel Mathale during the Limpopo ANC Provincial General Council, 10 June 2012

NEC members Deputy Chairperson Provincial Secretary Deputy Secretary Provincial Treasurer PEC members The leadersh...

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Jul 18, 2017

Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010

Programme Director, Cde Mondli Gungubele; Bishop Msibi, Senior Pastor Ntlhoro and other Pastors of Church of Warriors o...

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Jul 18, 2017

Maynardville Open Air Theatre

The Maynardville Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly known for its Shakesp...

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Jul 18, 2017

Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008

Isithwalandwe President Nelson Mandela and the entire family and relatives, President Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of...

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Jul 18, 2017

Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988

It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the sudden arrest of...

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Jul 18, 2017

What the lives of two South African music giants tell us about culture under apartheid by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 13 July 2017

Back in 2000, musicians interviewed for my book on music and politics in South Africa, Soweto Blues, regularly asserted:...

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Jul 18, 2017

POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002

Statement by Cde Jeff Radebe at the breakfast briefing The African National Congress will be holding its 51st National ...

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Jul 18, 2017

Challenges of Leadership in the Current Phase, 1 July 1997

Introductlon One of the tasks the National Conference is charged with is the responsibility of electing a leadership c...

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Jul 18, 2017

Speaking Notes for the President of the African National Congress, President Jacob Zuma, during the MKMVA National Conference, 12 October 2012

Programme Director; Chairperson, Comrade Kebby Mphatsoe and the National Executive Committee; Chairpersons of MKMVA Pr...

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