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Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew her, it will also be an…
PlaceEthiopia
… Ethiopia, and she accepted the invitation. Although in her 70's, she founded the Ethiopia Observer and edited the paper …
Democracy - The only solution by Nelson Mandela, President of the ANC 1 July 1992
… were peaceful and disciplined. So too were the more than 70 rallies held throughout the country on June the 16th. This …
PlaceRooigrond
Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province). The…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
The student movement Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall, #RMF) garnered much media attention in March of 2015, after Chumani Maxwele of the movement defiled a…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… but large coal-fired power stations were retained. [70] Engineers’ power was greatly reduced, managers were … pp.67-72. [27] Freund, Twentieth Century South…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… 1985 and 1992, MSORP had been involved in archiving around 70 audiocassettes. A landmark project, this was the first … Politics, 55. ↵ [37] Dennis Schauffer,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… and comrades from the Howick tyre and rubber factory, B.T.R. Sarmcol. The Dunlop workers performed songs, plays and … of Natal, Durban. Pg 64-65 [xiv] Ibid…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… highest point the Party could reach in exile. With some 70% of delegates above 35 years old, the Party had however … such as one that took place in the…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract) Document 53 … Internal Bulletin of the International…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Rule to 1838, Cape Town, University of Cape Town [UCT], B A Honours thesis, 1974. 8. The Mosques of Bo-Kaap, p 40. 9. … Masjid, Durban, University of DurbanÂ…
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
… several Campuses and service points and more than 70 programmes. The University has six faculties offering a …
PlaceBloukrans Bridge Rest Camp, Southern Region
… down the river, and horse riding). Knysna is less than 70 kilometres away and Plettenberg Bay is only 38 kilometres …
ArticleSudan’s Revolution
… intention of relieving the country’s economic decline and 70% hyperinflation, a precipitate of political incompetence, …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
When Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, people all over the world watched the…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… unity.” I was then in exile in Britain leading the 1969-70 demonstrations to disrupt and stop whites-only Springbok …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of useful brochures and information packs linking the top 70 birding spots in the area on 14 local routes. Dlinza, one … Berry, B. (2013). Flags of the World…
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
… the block allocations to provinces (comprising nearly 70% of non-interest expenditure) don't allow for a …
PlaceTulbagh, Western Cape
… Proteas and herbs grow wild here and peaches, pears and 70 percent of the country’s plums are farmed in the shadow of …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… Johannesburg) ended when police opened fire, massacring 70 protesters and wounding about 190 others. This protest was … by a discontented White government…
ArticleTswana
… of about 1.8 million in the late 1980s was estimated to be 70 percent Tswana peoples; the remainder were other Sotho …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… homelands . Although the homelands in South Africa housed 70% of the population, they only comprised of 13% of the …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… Ralinala, R.M, Sithole, J., Houston, G and Magubane B., 'The Wankie and Sipolilo Campaigns' in The Road to … and Assistance 1970-1994, (Stockholm), p.415…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… 1981, 75% of NEC members were from these campuses, in 1983 70%, and in 1987 87.5%. Moreover, all the SANSCO presidents, …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… be left to die a natural death when it is something like 70 years old or more. It must be destroyed now. Those who say …
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… be left to die a natural death when it is something like 70 years old or more. It must be destroyed now. Those who …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
As the German publisher Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South African photographer…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
… and arduous process. The men could crush only 50 kg to 70 kg of ore a week and even then damaged their hands to such …
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… of witchcraft accusations and killings in early 1994 saw 70 people killed. The ANC’s continuing support for Ramodike …