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Vlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also…
Wages Commission
Soon after the 1971 garment workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David…
Wall of Remembrance: ANCWL
Walter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter…
War time and post war inflation
Way of life in ancient Egypt
Social structure in ancient Egypt Ancient Egyptians are the inventors of another feature of civilization still existing today - the…
We don't want crumbs
Web-published response by Thabo Mbeki to Archbishop Tutu 's 2004 Nelson Mandela Lecture
West Africa and trans-Saharan trade: salt, gold, slaves and ancient trade routes, centres of learning, historical reporting - ninth to sixteenth centuries (under construction)
Western Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African…
Western Cape United Squatters Association (WECUSA)
Western Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
1976 16 June, Extra police patrols are deployed. 24 June, The Principal's office in Hlangisi Primary (Nyanga) was burnt out and the…
What are the challenges that face the South African film industry?
“People are looking for things that are easy and foreign. We use foreign models that militate against our very efforts to shape our ailing…
What choices did people have in Nazi Germany?
What has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
Abstract Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has enshrined gender…