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PlaceKlein Karoo
The Klein Karoo (Little Karoo) is a spectacular 350 kilometre long Valley stretching from Montagu in the West, to Uniondale in the East, and is almost…
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
This Municipality is dedicated to the Local People and providing a better life for their people. There motto being: "WE SERVE WITH DEDICATION". Mission: …
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South Africa's first non…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal University spanned…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… aptly put “Truly, it seemed as if nature herself was in league with the enemies of the Xhosa.” [88] Lungsickness was …
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… was also a key figure in the founding of the ANC Youth League in 1944 and became its first president. He coined the …
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… isolation and the hostility towards it by the community of nations, the countries of the African continent and the …
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
Centurion is an area with 236,580 inhabitants situated between Pretoria and Johannesburg. The area’s proximity to Midrand and Pretoria makes it a popular…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
Lamu Island is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is situated in Midrand in the Province of Gauteng. It is ideally positioned between the 2 major Cities of Johannesburg and…
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…
Address at the Third African Renaissance Festival, Durban, 31 March 2001
… social systems and quality of life of the EU community of nations; and, the growing relevance of the CEE markets as an …
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… I tell you, what the non-White leaders, the non-White nations, expect of us is to know exactly what our policy is. …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… Namibia. The OAU, the Non Aligned Movement and the United Nations, as true representatives of the peoples of the world, …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
Professor Edward Charles Webster — or Eddie, as he was known to his family, friends and colleagues — unexpectedly died of a heart attack on Tuesday. He was 81…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… White voters only. The attempts by the National Liberation League and African People Organisation to protest this …
Archive2008 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2008
… of course, continue to carry out our tasks in the United Nations Security Council. Critical in this regard, is the …
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… prompted a relocation to other areas. The notable new host nations were Tanzania, Uganda, India, Zimbabwe, Ghana and …
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… as chairman. I was the chairlady of the ANC Women's League in Paarl but I said they should get other women … take the lead. I was vice-chairlady of the ANC…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered its third year in…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… to be paid to ideological work within the ANC Women's League, and ensuring that women become an active part of ANC …
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… Student Movement of Azania (PASMA) and ANC Youth League (ANCYL), the groups issued a joint statement that, …
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… everywhere or nowhere. What is poetry which does not save nations or peoples? —Czeslaw Milosz I have already delineated …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… Sanctions Now! Compatriots, in your name we salute the nations and the peoples of the world who have over the years, …