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… invitation from Nkwenkwe Nkomo, National Organiser of the Black Peoples Convention to member "Brothers and Sisters" to … Letter from Nkwenkwe Nkomo, National Organiser of the Black Peoples Convention to Brothers and Sisters …

… Region Fact Paper on the Alexandra Hostels for the Black Sash National Conference delivered on 17 October 1972, … Region Fact Paper on the Alexandra Hostels for the Black Sash National Conference 1972 …

… Minutes of the Fourth National Congress of the Black Peoples Convention, held at King Williams Town in December 1975. Includes Commission Reports … Black Peoples Convention: Minutes of the Fourth National …

… Repression Portfolio Report: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 6 March 1992 discussing … Portfolio Report 1991 to 1992: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1992 …

… clean sweep of the International Rugby Board (IRB) awards in 2004. The awards were held on 29 November 2004 in London's Royal Lancaster Hotel. South African flanker, … year' after their Tri Nations success. The IRB was founded in 1886, with its headquarters in Dublin. The organization is …

… The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being taught in Afrikaans and were subsequently gunned down, detained, and … Council to impose a mandatory arms embargo on South Africa in 1977. However, the Reagan and Thatcher governments, argued …

… SA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli's chance of …

… Report Cape Western Region: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 3 March 1990 discussing … Report Cape Western Region: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1990 …

… of Coloured People Today- A paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 17 March 1976 discussing … of Coloured People Today: A paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1976 …

… Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth century, there was a general belief … most of the land for white ownership, forcing many black farmers to work as wage labourers on land they had previously owned. When the act was amended in 1936, black land ownership was restricted to 13 percent of the …

… animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say that the jump of the disease from animals to humans was made even earlier in the 1930s, others claim it was later than the 1940s.  1959 … (President Thabo Mbeki launches) 11 October, Statistics SA leads the Interdepartmental Task Team on Mortality to give …

… Bank (SARB) to replace Dr Chris Stals. Mboweni, the first Black person to head this highly reputed institution, was … He first joined the Reserve Bank as an advisor to Stals in 1998, when he resigned all of his elected and appointed positions in the ANC. Click here to read Mboweni's statement of …

… Report of the Trust for 1991: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 6 March 1992 discussing … returning exiles, training programmes, women in rural areas, land ownership. … Report of the Trust for 1991: Report Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1992 …

… Dean Hutton is a genderqueer artist living in Johannesburg interested in portraiture as co-authorship; social media as narrative; … other news publications Exhibitions After Apartheid: 8 SA Documentary Photographers, 2002 Cape Town Month of …

… Xenophobic violence against foreign nationals in South Africa has worsened. South Africa witnessed widespread xenophobic attacks since 1994 in provinces such as Gauteng, Western Cape, Free State, … Most incidents of violent attacks have been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and …

… of missionary settlement and the spread of Christianity in southern Africa during the period 1800 - 1925, including a … researched and prepared by Franco Frescura to be published in book form. SAHO has procured the rights to publish this … which made it easy for racially-motivated detractors of Black culture to dismiss the achievements of rural builders …

… first rugby test match against Ireland at Newlands stadium in Cape Town. This game was particularly significant, as Errol Tobias was the first black player to start a test match in South Africa during this game. South Africa, or the … SA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against …

… Dr D.F. Malan is the first cabinet minister in SA to travel by air. He leaves Cape Town in a Moth aeroplane at 6.30 a.m. and ar …

… 1968. Account of the Tribal Life and Customs of the Xhosa in 1807. Translated by Dr William Fehr. Cape Town: AA … Historical Sketch of the Missions of the American Board in Africa. Boston: American Board. ANDERSON, Andrew A. 1888. … CAMPBELL, John. 1815. Travels in South Africa. London: Black and Parry. 1822. Travels in South Africa ... Being A …

… against the rapidly expanding and increasingly militant Black trade unions. The newly established industrial court … of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979, which brought another dimension to the union … Botha reveals government plan on increasingly militant Black trade unions. …

… British presence in the Cape between the 1600s and 1795 was largely confined … , located a few kilometres from Table Bay, as a goal. In 1615 John Cross compelled ten condemned prisoners brought … Thomas Herbert, a British traveller, visited Table Bay in 1627 and sketched a painting of the Khoikhoi trading sheep …

… Eugenics and Genocide in Nazi Germany Summary The Holocaust was a form of genocide, … every three European Jews had been killed. The Holocaust in Nazi-occupied Europe did not happen suddenly. It was the end of a long process of anti-Semitism and the belief in the pseudo-science of eugenics. The Nazis used propaganda …

… Human settlement in South Africa Modern humans have been inhabiting South … to be the birthplace of humans, is close to Pretoria in Gauteng, and is the source of the oldest hominid discovery in the world to date. Some of the earliest people to arrive … Becoming human in southern Africa …

… living by hunting and gathering could still be found in different parts of the world. Over the last century, and … have been forced to adopt a different way of life. In the 1950s, several thousand San people were still hunting … large game with poisoned arrows and gathering plant food in the Kalahari Desert in Namibia. One group, the !Kung, …

… as the source of what came to be defined as AIDS in 1983/84. HIV destroys blood cells called CD4+ T cells, … more than three-quarters of Aids-related deaths occurred in sub-Saharan Africa and South Africa was officially the country with the highest prevalence of HIV in the world. The consequences of HIV and AIDS for the …

… differentiates itself from South African English Jews in a number of ways; their geographical locale is usually either on the periphery or in rural areas, and their education and extramural activities are conducted in Afrikaans. Afrikaner Jews have successfully learned to …

… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that date. This special project … century up until South Africa's first democratic election in April 1994. This archive presents this history in two … Liberation Struggle in South Africa …

… How uhuru was realised in Africa in the 1960s and 1970s …

… The passive resistance movement in South Africa is seen as, largely, led by M K Gandhi and … to dominate the tactics used by the liberation movements in the period of the armed struggle. This feature includes … the links and discontinuities of the Gandhi legacy in South Africa. We have included similarly influenced …

… Bloemfontein ultimately played an important role in the Province during the early years of the 19th century as … place for discussions that would ultimately shape politics in South Africa for many years to come. After the annexation of the Orange Free State by the British army in 1900, four prominent African political organizations …