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Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… the great freedom movement but of the crucial role which women play in it. She is honoured, by her people as the … President of the multi-racial Federation…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
… for example, was such a well put together piece of our history struggling with funding? Surely the government would … in funding directors who want to expand…
The Detention Weapon
… and organisations and even at whole communities, including women and children; it can be used to extract information to … be, set the stage for permanent…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa dates … while in hospital. The other is…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… as a prolonged period of political quiescence in the history of the struggle against apartheid until the outbreak … often met with violent intolerance. In…
EventBophuthatswana is granted independence by the South African government
… leaving scores of people dead. References: South African History Online (2011). ‘Bophuthatswana’from South African History Online [online]. Available at www…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… References: Boddy-Evans A., 2011. ‘This Day in African History: 14 September’from African History [online] Available at www.africanhistory.about.com …
The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Progressive social movement organisations in South Africa, including…
PlaceMbunza Living Museum, Kavango-Namibia
… a detailed and authentic insight into the Traditional, pre-colonial Culture. The Living Museum, situated at the Samsitu …
PlaceQuanza Shipwreck, East London
… rushed in. The resulting pool became a popular place for women and children. As a consequence, the Town Council … In fact, two pools were built: one for Men,…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… South African War (1899-1902). She organised petitions, women’s meetings and received about 2 000 boxes of relief … She packed them personally and sent them…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… 1996. The Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, gave women of any age or marital status access to abortion … procedures. The law's passage was a crucial…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
… stage. Makalakalane went on to become coach of the women’s national team Banyana Banyana. In 2010, allegations … that required him to qualify Banyana for the…
EventRamaphosa and Motlatsi are arrested
… turned out to be the longest and costliest strike in the history of the mining industry. The strike was also costly … Click here to read more about the South…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… the most vulnerable sections of society: the poor, women, the disabled, children and the rural masses - the … Academy - interestingly the very first one in…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… the most vulnerable sections of society: the poor, women, the disabled, children and the rural masses - the … Academy - interestingly the very first one in…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… term had been the most disastrous in South Africa’s history and that the measures to enforce apartheid would see … five years , as numerous secret projects…
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… within a new political context. This museum shows a history experienced by the residents, a reality portrayed without criticism or bias, and reflects the…
On trial for treason
… of high treason. The next month after that protest of the women to the mayor in Port Elizabeth, the same year, 1956, a … Mrs. Matomela, Lily Diederichs, two…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
… of the Belgian King, Leopold II. So began the oppressive colonial history of corruption, bribery and theft on a scale … and the oppression and exploitation…
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In … country and when the oppressed peoples of India…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… our own radicals who wanted our struggle to be part of the colonial struggle and who were striving within the Indian and … and it is the duty of historians…
ArchiveMafika Gwala Second Annual Lecture and Book Launch, 5 October 2016
… Pascal Gwala Annual lecture was initiated by South African History Online in 2015 and is run in partnership with both … issues. The lecture series is in line…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… stupidity.’ Very obviously dumping his hysterical post-colonial angst, author and columnist Jonny Steinberg claimed … (by which time nearly 30 percent of…
Communique of the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC, presented by O. R. Tambo at a Press Conference, Lusaka 25 June, 1985
… an occasion will constitute yet another milestone in our history. It is most satisfying, especially in our present … years as we feel our way forward. "In…
Second National Consultative Conference Communiqué, 25 June 1985
… an occasion will constitute yet another milestone in our history. It is most satisfying, especially in our present … years as we feel our way forward. "In…
Statement by the ANC on the Invasion of Angola by South African Troops by O. R. Tambo, 31 October 1975
… transformation calculated to ensure the eradication of all colonial legacies. The ANC calls on the OAU, the African …
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… Unlike Zaire, however, the name Congo has origins in the colonial period, when Europeans identified the river with the …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day celebrations, Bisho Stadium, Eastern Cape, 27 April 2007
… robbing our people of their hard-earned valuables, raping women and children and in the process using unimaginable … for partnerships at community levels the…
EventThe first issue of the weekly periodical ‘TIME’ appeared on news stands
… On this day in history, the first issue of the weekly periodical TIME … languages. It is one of the most popular magazines in history, with readership…