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PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… Serendipitously in 1991, in the week when she won the Nobel Prize, we had invited her to our campus to give our most prestigious lecture. Later still, I saw…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… in the country.” When George Bizos gave the Bram Fischer Lecture in Oxford in 2011, he explained that it was partly … required,” he said in 2007, giving the…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… and the founder of the Green Belt Movement, receives the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo. She is the first African woman to … 3,000 killings at Wagalla airstrip…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… helps Chief Luthuli, recently announced winner of the Nobel Peace prize, deal with media attention. 28 October, … 1983 Sisulu is visited by Zwelakhe after…
PlaceBisho, Capital of the Eastern Cape
… during the Month of September, the Bisho Massacre Memorial Lecture is held to commemorate the massacre and various …
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… for many decades. As early as in 1892, in his public lecture entitled "Upon my Native Land", the founding …
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… London, 1967) the still young Terence Ranger sat in a lecture room at Dar es Salaam. Black Panther leader Stokely …
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… of facing an audience and the ability of figuring in lecture room? I have seen them now.” The major attention of …
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference 1973: Neo-apartheid and the sleeping the giant. Mbuso Nkosi …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… acknowledged luminaries convened and chaired public lecture events graced by Prof Charles Mills (USA), Prof Lewis … the result appears to have been the…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract: To this day, the only book-length study of the mass…
Document 21 - E.L. Maurice, “The Rôle of the Non-European Teacher in the Liberatory Movement”, Discussion, 1, 5, June 1952
… with regard to what I am going to say on the subject of my lecture. In the first place, I have to state quite clearly … the second place, I wish to submit…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… have disinvested from South Africa since 1 January 1984, 123 remain there together with 177 from the UK and 142 … the Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity and…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… To worsen matters, some viewed Chief Luthuli's recent Nobel Prize as the West having bought the Chief. This theme - … with honorary rings, as well as the…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… Unions (COSATU). Given that this is a dinner and not a lecture, I would not like to spoil your appetite by dealing … we also mark the 50th anniversary of the…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… the possibility of Jakes delivering a Harold Wolpe lecture at UWC and Kader was adamant that we needed someone …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… of ox-wagons, while the evening could offer a learned lecture, an improving debate or the performance of a fresh …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… the North American Missionary Conference and undertakes a lecture tour under the auspices of the American Board and the … Luthuli is informed that he has…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference In the aftermath of the Durban Strikes (1973) the British Trade Union…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… Former President Nelson Mandela gives the 5th Steve Biko lecture at the University of Cape Town. 12 September, Ray … Johannesburg. 19 October, The inaugural…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… and I was asked to make the First Denis Goldberg Annual Lecture on 6 October 2012. I called it Close the Gap in … of our new South Africa. In a certain sense…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… community just outside Pietermaritzburg. This year’s lecture was presented by Fred Khumalo, titled: ‘What the … Cape Town 6 Oct 2018 Oct 2018 Mafika Gwala…
PlaceFernkloof Nature Reserve, Caledon
… of dried plant specimens mounted on sheets of paper) , lecture hall, office and kitchen. A visitors’ Centre was …
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… Text of the Nobel Lecture delivered by Chief Albert Lutuli in the Oslo … where many of the great men of our times have stood. The Nobel Peace Award that has…
Address at University of KwaZulu-Natal SRC awards, 7 May 2005, Howard College, Durban
… former ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli. In a Nobel lecture delivered at Oslo University on 11 December 1961, …
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… denouncing the practices of sweating, I continued with a lecture on class justice and ended by saying that there was …
PlaceBurgersdorp, E.C.
The Merino sheep-farming Town of Burgersdorp, in the North Eastern Cape has been a pivotal point in Afrikaner: History; Culture and Religion. Many Towns in…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student movement, namely #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference ABSTRACT FOR PROPOSED CONFERENCE 26-27 JANUARY, 2023: ‘CELEBRATING…