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Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… home of a mutual friend because, ironically, Chief Lutuli, one of the world`s most distinguished citizens and a leader … or dies the Government wants to…
ArticleThe Order of the Baobab
… a tropical African tree. The origins of the name Baobab is part of the many rich legends and mysteries of Africa. It has …
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
… old. I stand here this evening to speak in celebration of one of the martyrs of this period, Stephen Bantu Biko. The … oppression with sheepish timidity." A…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… pronunciations of individual words that are for the most part reasonably close to those of modern South African Nama … notice them. Some of these words have…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… divine and supreme. She, too, must play her God-appointed part - and in this 20th century her part will be a great one." On January 12, 1914, she spoke at a…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… argument and an application to gag the media. 04 October, One of the Boeremag treason trial accused is rushed to a … Legal Aid Board disputes, have stretched…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… potentialities. It may be a clever anticipation, but one doomed to failure in the end. The Government knows it. In … record among progressive sections of the…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… the same set of historically accurate events. For example, one teacher explained to his racially homogeneous class that … explanations when interpreting…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… Court, the country’s highest court. This spring, as part of a cross-country teaching and lecture tour of the … government left him without his right arm and…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… Nigerian workers were finally consulted by the British as part of a much needed constitutional review. This review … partners proving their marriage to be a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the official opening of the Bram Fischer library at the legal resources centre Johannesburg, 27 September 1996
… of law and society. Today we give further recognition to one whose contribution to our nation was bound up with the … dispossession helped many communities,…
Constitution of the South African Native National Congress, September, 1919 [Extracts]
… Associations, Organisations or Vigilant Committees each one established for the purpose of advancing, observing and … manage, develop, let and deal in any…
PlaceGanyesa
… of South Africa is home to Ganyesa, which is formally part of the Kagisano / Molopo Municipality. This is a rural Village that is part of the traditional…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… the land, black workers needed to be paid only enough for one person. Factory owners were using the same excuses as the … noted in 1928: ‘Much of the semi…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for work on farms and mines. Today there are nearly one million African agricultural labourers, and over four … that, in times of trade recession, the…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… these two groups of men were employed by the Navy as one group, under the blanket name of ‘Kroomen’. [iii] The … resource took many forms. The oil from the…
Document 87 - “Lessons of the All-Bantu Convention”, The Spark, 2, 2, February 1936
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 87 - "Lessons of … government of the country, of which…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… last emerged from a long period of darkness and fear into one of light and a dream fulfilled. They should see that … of our continent would not have been…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… all the other crimes of apartheid. Clearly there is only one future that we can contemplate and that is for us to take … the impression that they do not…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
… international convention centre. I am delighted to be part of this auspicious occasion and to open this new centre, … Western Cape and South Africa. This…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… to give full expression to their innate abilities, as part of the effort to guarantee them full enjoyment of … conditions for accelerated and sustainable…
PlaceOlifants River, Limpopo
… is found all along the Olifants River! It is also one of the trees in Africa with the longest life span! The … Southern border of the Limpopo province. This…
The Origin of People
… you ever been told weird and wonderful stories about what one or other of your relatives did in the past? Some of these … The reasons become very clear when…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… in the context of violence. The image was indeed a violent one but it was an extreme example and nothing more. I … in the prosecution's opening address. I…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… only the people of South Africa but embraces the greater part of mankind: it is a bitter struggle and is being fought … which came to involve the whole of…
ArticleBrenda Fassie’s 1997 hit song Vulindlela still raises questions about South Africa as a nation
… my study I think about Fassie – and Mathosa and Mbau – as part of a broader lineage of women who are today … child. The child-like persona that Brenda…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… who is a well-known activist in Durban. She was also one the first Indian woman to qualify as a doctor. To begin … activity, that went on with regard to…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… republics - the Transvaal and Orange Free State - on the one hand and the British colonial governments of the Cape … Transvaal wins the election and forms a…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… their return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of Indonesia). 1653 Abraham van Batavia, the first … 1658 there were 11 slaves, 8 women and 3…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… all sharecroppers entering “black spots” were historically part of those communities. A significant number of … was compiled and the inhabitants were…