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Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… acquire the status of art. Far from being an example of post-modernist "game play" (WittgenÂstein was fashionable … the first detainee to die in prison in…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… and political interests. Sabotage became an effective weapon of resistance against the apartheid government. … circumstances, with most deaths arguably…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… The apartheid government enacted laws such as the 90-day Detention Act and the Suppression of Communism Act to legally … gives us a personal and honest…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… 12 May, The General Law Amendment Act provides for detention of people for twelve days without bail, and trial … the night a series of explosions are set off…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… positioning, however, stretches further back than the post-WWII era; since the early 20th century, the American … control of important sectors of the…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… was inspired from abroad. Using the camera as a weapon can be considered a very natural phenomenon in … to portraying Africans as participants in the fast…
Early Beginnings
… of the oppressed Bantu and at the same time provide a weapon for continuing the fight in the trade union movement … and our subsequent qualifications will be…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… Whilst it is not dear what role these played in the post-COP period, recent research by Beinart, for instance, … of the Congress Alliance. It served as a…
Apartheid power in crisis
… own hands and by their determined action forced open the detention cells. But they did more than that. They opened the … 1989 The largest ever protest by…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… and humiliation of us as a people, a badge of slavery, a weapon used by the authorities to keep us in a position of … tell only half the tale. The physical…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… and the quaint antics of our lawyers was to make arrest, detention, court appearances and court-speak part of our … in defying provincial barriers; apartheid…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… MK structures in Mozambique provided military training in weapon usage and in guerrilla tactics to its recruits. The … This signalled another significant…
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… of the oppressed Bantu and at the same time provide a weapon for continuing the fight in the trade union movemenl … and our subsequent qualifications will be…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… of the situation in South Africa, the continued detention of Mac Maharaj and the arrest of leaders of COSATU. … eightieth anniversary celebration, the ANC…
Liberation organisations
… torture, the disappearance of activists, deaths in police detention, and murder. Necklacing refers to the practice of … unions joined the federations. A…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
… Angola’s hard-won victory problematic. As with many post-colonial states, Angola was left with both economic and … Curial to Pierre Falcone who had in the…
Postscript
… gaol on condition that he renounce violence as a political weapon. She looked so young that day, in her jeans and yellow … attacks, by the long trials of…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… and objectives and principles. It served as a vision of a post-apartheid South Africa, which was to be used as a mobilising and organising weapon in the…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
… candidates were behind bars. Despite lengthy periods in detention, we refused to be cowed into submission. We rose … above those dehumanizing and humiliating…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… at policemen, battering them mercilessly with every weapon at their disposal during anti-World Trade Organisation … resorting to teargas. I have seen, here…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… and a decade later, in 1904, Hofmeyr retired from his post as editor. After 1915, the paper suffered from its … Oost, began his duties mid-1916 after he was…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… that African trade unions would be used as political weapon to create chaos. He added that in his opinion ?We [the … for reasons of public safety . It…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… Ben had been involved with a bomb that was planted at a post office in Johannesburg. A piece of wrapping paper was … declined to take it because it was…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… contemporaries in the ANC, with whom he stoically faced detention, harassment, banning, harassments, beatings and … today- that they can use their trade…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… that ‘he unconditionally rejected violence as a political weapon’. 10 February, Nelson Mandela turns down the release … country residence, Chevening. April,…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
CHICAGO — Rarely are poets silenced when nations imprison them for speaking out. Mongane Wally Serote, poet and community organizer who became involved in the…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… plans for a general strike in sympathy, The workers of the post-war period were building a new tradition of industrial … the Congress movement had forged a…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… of production. The tractor proved to be the key weapon in class struggle in the countryside: white farmers no … Act was repealed in 1991, it still casts a…
Afrikaner
… Dutch East India Company (VOC) established a refreshment post in Table Bay (present day Cape Town). In 1657 officials … an especially sporting nation, it…