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BiographyDon Mattera
… an Italian immigrant who married a Xhosa or Khoisan woman from the Cape. His grandfather then moved to Johannesburg … for coloured by the government. Mattera…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… the leaders of the UDF were Rev. Alan Boesak, Desmond Tutu, Albertina Sisulu and Helen Joseph. The UDF was launched … reaction to anti-apartheid movements…
BiographyDurant Basi Sihlali
… at the Chiawelo Art Centre under Alphius Kubeka, attending from 1950 to 1953. He also learned from the artists Carlo Sdoya and Sidney Goldblatt , and … with…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… In 1959 the Africanists broke away from the ANC and formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). … in Monrovia, Liberia which would be held in January 1976. 14…
BiographyMakhwenkwe Harrison Butshingi
… it is not known how or when this involvement came about. From 1941-1944, he was assistant secretary for the African … Workers Union in a request for better…
BiographyGerard Bhengu
… Esibomvwini at Centecow, in the Creighton region of Natal. From 1926 - 31 Bhengu produced 150 drawings for Dr Max Kohler … to paint a number of pictures with…
BiographyEnos Molapo Makhubedu
… studies in 1951 at the Charles Max Secondary School. From 1951 to 1958 he attended the Kilnerton Training … Makhubedu gained confidence in drawing and…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… who became engaged in a war against the British Empire from 1899 to 1901, and about 200 Russian volunteers travelled … to the country, although some went to…
BiographyAnna De Koningh
… daughter of Angela van Bengale. She arrived with Angela from Batavia, but who her father was is unknown. Like her … was to make quite a name for herself at…
ArchiveThe ANCs first armed military operation: the
… of skirmishes between the two opposing forces lasted from 13 August to 4 September 1967. The Rhodesian Prime … Ian Smith, invited his South African…
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… The South African Prime Minister, B.J. Vorster wished the new Mozambique government well. Voster … attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the ANC…
ArchiveFounding statement for the visit to Washington DC of a delegation of South African church leaders
… Allan Boesak, Frank Chikane, Beyers Naude and Desmond Tutu, to urge the US Administration to lift the State of …
ArchiveSouth African Church leaders confront the Sstate
… cannon. The petition was later delivered by Archbishop Tutu to State President P W Botha. This is the text of the …
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… residence last Thursday. The tension had been apparent from the moment they entered the Students' Common Room. The … Local Chairman), Dave Hemson, Jennifer…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… The student body was Pan African and made up of people from Botswana, (then) Natal, the Eastern Cape, Lesotho and … these various student organisations heI…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… was formed. 1913 The Lands Act prohibited Africans from owning land outside the Reserves, eventually 13 per cent … Angola and Mozambique became independent…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… to widen the struggle and mobilise supporters from the wider black community. One such organisation, … BC annual, titled Black Review, was published from…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… and was Vice-President of the Natal Indian Congress (NIC) from 1945 until 1952, when he was ordered to resign from all political and other organisations. In…
BiographyLaurence Neill Nathan
… College High School (SACS). Nathan holds a B.Bus.Sc./LLB from the University of Cape Town (UCT) and a MPhil from the School of Peace Studies Bradford…
EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… heard evidence detailing the nature and activities of Poqo from 7 December 1962 to 13 March 1963. On 22 November 1962, … armed with axes, machetes and home…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… the Afrikaner people and NP attempted to prevent the Union from supporting the British, but these attempts failed. In … explosion of student unrest inside…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
… "A call to action From: Sechaba, September 1969 (Abridged text) For over fifty … exploded in the field of armed encounter. The soldiers of Vorster and Smith…
BiographyVilla Baker
… where she was educated. Baker was politically active from early adulthood. She was the local shop steward for the … would devote herself to the family.This…
EventSouth Africa mourns the passing of Beyers Naudé, apartheid struggle stalwart and Afrikaner cleric
… past six months. Church leader and close friend Desmond Tutu said " Beyers helped Black people to not hate White …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
… Prime Minister B J Vorster announces that White entrepreneurs will be given …
BiographyRaymond Francis (Ray) Budd
… child of Robert and Ada Lea Budd. His father, originally from England, was in the printing trade. Budd was educated at … Amalgamated Engineering Union (AEU)…
Elias Monare
… Elias Monare, from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in … 1955 had warned teachers and schoolchildren to stay away from schools otherwise…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… are involved in a struggle against the fascist regime of Vorster/Botha and Smith and their allies. It is quite … as correct. We think that this rally must…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… are locked away, justice and reason will have departed from the South African scene". Brotherhood, humanity, justice and reason have indeed departed from…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
… are locked away, justice and reason will have departed from the South African scene". Brotherhood, humanity, justice and reason have indeed departed from…