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Address on the occasion of the Launch of the Final Report of the World Commission on Dams 16 November 2000, in Cabot Hall, London Friends Honoured Guests Ladies and Gentlemen
… us!"All of us must wrestle with the difficult questions we face. And this Report provides answers and assistance for it …
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
… – the Treatment Action Campaign nevirapine case. In the face of president Thabo Mbeki’s hostile scepticism, the …
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… Hanover Park and the like. [vi] For people categorised as Black South Africans, property ownership was not even an option. In the main, Black South Africans…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… embarked on a feverish drive to prepare their members and Black communities for the proposed nationwide campaigns. This … of the 21st March that came to…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… 1978 28 April, Asvat is a founding member of Azapo, the black consciousness organization formed after Steve Biko’s … the police. October, The Azapo health…
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
… an albatross around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black South African what apartheid has done, he will say it …
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… to subjugate them in the land of their birth. But in the face of the gravest injustices the ANC never once abandoned … declare that South Africa belongs to…
PlaceZimbabwe
… African people and particularly common was the rape of black women by white men. White police officers were most frequently accused of raping black women. In…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… with Europe and North America, and the subjection of the Black population to the needs of an emergent colonial … based on race; class super-exploitation…
Chapter 14
… even giving them an opportunity to play ball, even to save face. What they wanted was complete and abject servility from … man of the danger of non-co…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… result of their own bitter and determined efforts in the face of overwhelming odds. With the announcement of the fare … At this rally, Gaetsewe pointed out…
ArticleWestern Cape Youth Uprising timeline 1976
… UCT students march towards the city centre giving the Black Power Salute to black people passing until the police stop them. 73 students …
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… Oliver Tambo, running a law firm that helped many black people in conflict with the apartheid laws. They were … the South African judiciary, saying "I feel…
EventOne hundred and twenty three people banned following June 16 Student Protest
… that Afrikaans would be used as a medium of instruction in Black schools. This failed to curtail mass action campaigns …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given long-standing contracts in the 'homelands' to speed up economic development. This…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… few hundred members, all relationships between people are "face to face" relationships. If I do something that affects another … sees it. In South Africa…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Cars were only allowed to proceed if the driver gave the Black Power salute and hooted in support. Later that morning … group that marched towards the centre…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… overcrowded slums. However, a substantial amount of the black patients treated for smallpox in Grahamstownlazaretto’s … the spread of the plague by…
PlaceMasiphumelele Township, Cape Town
… times to come. In the early 1980’s a group of 400-500 black people started the first informal settlement close to … away by force. Later they were told that…
ArchiveDemocracy
… each one’s potential Democracy The national flag Black, gold, green, white, red and blue Reflecting the … My right to vote My vote is…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… year, leaving their families at home. Unfortunately theses Black men were subjected to extremely unhealthy work … Natal. The women’s retaliation had a…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… through pen and paper Jonathan Ansumana Project: The Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko Laura Wilson …
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM)
… Government further entrenched its stranglehold over the Black (African, Indian and Coloured) population with an ever … Government further entrenched its…
EventHarold Cressy is born in Rorke's Drift
… is born in Rorke's Drift, Kwazulu-Natal. He was the only Black student of the South African College, now the …
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… the youth, (iii) the trade unions, (iv) big business, (v) black business, (vi) agriculture, (vii) the religious … even thought that what might happen would…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… farms, held in "trust" for some future allocation to the black population. The place selected for each person, … eyes and hair, a lovely smile that lights up…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… or exclude others. The ANC has found ways, even in the face of the most daunting circumstances, to embrace diversity … has increased. Among the challenges…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… born in Doornfontein, Johannesburg. He became the first black professional footballer to play in Europe, when he … er/feature-a-profile-of-steve-mokone--…
Zulu Community
… Witwatersrand. Zulu workers organized some of the first Black labour unions in the country. For example, the Zulu … Towards the end of the 19th century…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… of people according to whether they were White, Coloured, Black, Indian or Asian. People would then be treated … Only a small percentage of South Africa was…