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ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaA change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin One of the immediate effects of the split over Sir Raza Ali's…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
Afrikaner newspapers were essential supports for Afrikaner nationalism, and from the 1870s onwards they were used to mobilise Afrikaners, and after 1914 to…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as Prime Minister that Adv. Vorster made this now well…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
INTRODUCTION No significant change has occurred in South Africa in the last decade. Apartheid and racism continue their tyranny and the South African society…
The Wider Significance of the Judgement of the Constitutional Court on the “Nkandla Matter” by Thabo Mbeki, 11 April 2016
On 31 March, 2016, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng conveyed the unanimous decision of the Constitutional Court (ConCourt) in the matter of “Economic Freedom…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter looks at how archaeology and the…
VIII - The Pathologists
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. Death was…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 11 September 1906, a mass meeting of Indians…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 1. A. M. LEMBEDE, "The Importance of Agriculture," Iso Lomuzi,Vol. IV, no. 1 (October 1934…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while in the Transvaal, until the Second World…
The Polly Street Era
It is evident, through the examples of the art of John Koenakeefe Mohl, Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, that the foundations of a fine art by black South…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In the early nineteen twenties the Indian problem had not assumed…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
After coming to power in 1948, the National Party-led government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population…
Archive2007 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2007
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 9 February 2007 Madam Speaker of the National…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
Codesa's first plenary session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of substantive negotiation towards democracy. By now,…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the Wilhelmstrohebahnhof bestrewn with Documenta banners. There is a welcome desk for Documenta…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
Luthuli was elected President of the ANC (Natal branch) in 1951 and this speech was delivered at the Bantu Social Centre in Durban in November of that year. It…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter will examine the…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing multi-party negotiations. The path to…
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
Professor H. W. van der Merwe former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road,…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
POM So let me start. AG I wonder whether we shouldn't get over the part we have already dealt with just to see what was said at that time that applies…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS 23 April 1999 At a press briefing at the ANC headquarters, Luthuli House in Johannesburg, the movements Secretary…
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
BackgroundWhat is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus in the town of Olympia. As…