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ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history people in the country still remember. Close to 3,000 … of important turning points in its…
Grade 7 Archive
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid …
Malcolm Phafane
… subject of choice became my community. Given its rich history, Sharpeville offers picturesque scenes such that I …
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… League - the future of our country. We salute the ANC Women's League for steadfastly championing our cause and … them for their outstanding contribution…
Forming the Federation
… battle for democracy and liberation can only be won when women, mothers of the nation - a half of the whole population … equal partners with men.' From the…
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… Whereas in the early 1990s the major national youth and women's organisations became part of the ANC, SASCO … 75% of students in higher education are black…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… involve violence. There have been plenty of examples in history where a combination of factors have been compelling … example, the government tried for the…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… International paid scant attention to the national and colonial struggle (under which the South African question … Congress stated quite clearly that the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… of Johannesburg. 1955 The government announces that women must carry passes. February, Moses Kotane and Maulvi … minutes and tape recorders. 27 October,…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… meetings were held and various telegrams were sent to the Colonial Secretary to prevent the lading of any more free …
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… we have a genuine ally in our struggle against racism, colonial domination and aggression. We are honoured that … have the right and possibility to decide as…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Commissioners Ladies and Gentlemen: Throughout the post-colonial period, the so-called political class and the … were poor. Economically, they were linked to…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1800-2014
… The Nelson Mandela timeline tracks the history of the first democratically elected president of …
PlaceGeorge Division
… been covered by extensive indigenous forests, but during colonial times these were heavily depleted through …
EventJohn Fairbairn (70), journalist and outspoken critic, dies in Cape Town
… Fairbairn’s efforts paid off when in April 1829 the Cape Colonial government gave an undertaking to guarantee the …
PlaceQueen’s Tavern, 16 Stamford Hill Road, Durban
… 1894, this is one of Durban’s few remaining links with its Colonial past. It is the oldest licenced premises in the …
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… base and spearhead in the struggle against imperialist, colonial and racist domination, against imperialist reaction … now embraces one-third of the world's…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2009 to 2010
… Ndebele Water and Environmental Affairs Buyelwa Sonjica Women, Youth, Children and People with Disabilities …
ArticleThe Order of Mapungubwe
… symbolises the unique beauty of achievements by men and women who carry the colourful South African aloft in the …
The fight against passes continues
… All this time there was still this thing of passes for women going on, and the women still protesting. Quite soon after the Congress of the People there was…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… Robinson as Prime Minister, Minister of Education, and Colonial Secretary. Robinson, who is regarded as a loyal … federation conference in 1876. He also…
EventSouth Africa Declares Gender-Based Violence a National Disaster
… a national disaster, following nationwide protests where women across the country lay down for 15 minutes at noon to honour the 15 women murdered daily in…
ArticleManto Tshabalala-Msimang timeline 1940 - 2009
… in the first democratic elections of South African history. 1996 1 July, Tshabalala-Msimang is appointed Deputy … drug Zidovudine (AZT) to HIV-positive…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… they, too, are part of our heritage. They are part of that history and continuing reality of our country which has meant … nobody harbours any doubt,…
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
… forces invaded in order to occupy the Cape Colony. This colonial post was important to them as it was directly on … https://www.bloubergdirectory.co.za…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Fossil evidence in East Africa has also cast light on our history as human beings. Before we look at the Hominid … different ways of finding out what…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… Although trade unions had a presence throughout the modern history of South Africa, Black trade unions never managed to … and Canning Workers Union, one of…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… the wine industry facing the most serious crisis in its history, Kohler came forward with his life-saving proposal. …
PlaceMamelodi
… reckless statements, give ourselves time to study the very history of Mamelodi, the origins of the many families that … unsung heroes and heroines of our…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… its harvests were little better than "average". During the colonial era the country was still generously covered with … east of Cathcart, rose in rebellion…