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EventOliver Kgadime Matsepe, Northern Sotho writer and poet dies in Tafelkop, Groblersdal district.
… in the Groblersdal District on 22 March 1932. He received his education in various mission schools in Northrern … ultimately baptized in the Lutheran church…
EventStompie Seipei’s murderer goes to jail
… The Rand Supreme Court sentences Jerry Richardson to death for the murder 14-year-old Stompie Seipei. Stompie … for being a police informer, a charge that…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… sense of self-esteem, grounded in a deep insecurity about his race and station. The sort of perverse satisfaction … voice indeed, that shouts commands to him…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… and adventure stories, beginning in the early 1880s. His most famous book is King Solomon's Mines (1886), a … servant, (Quartermain's Zulu retainer…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… of a life’s obsession for the soon-to-be 84-year-old. And his open-ended visual essay about the things humans put up in … and the obligation of an artist to…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… country to gain. Mahlangu - Unbroken and Unbreakable In his brief but full life Solomon Mahlangu towered like a … hangmen buried Solomon, bound by a…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… He was re-elected for another term in 1969 after his party won the elections that year. Surrounded by a … president of Botswana, Seretse Khama, was acutely…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… in 1828 and performed by a white New Yorker who blackened his face and danced a ridiculous jig. This stereotypical … Till, a black teenager from Chicago who…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… the 19th century that the movement gained real momentum. His concept was to stage an Olympic Games every four years in … could meet in peace and get to know…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… every part of the world, notably to Karl Marx, who wrote his most famous and influential tome, Das Kapital , in the … call. Indeed, when Prime Minister…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
… Wembley Stadium to greet Nelson Mandela and to celebrate his release. But it will also be an occasion for the African … which compelled the regime to release…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… I knew Anton Muziwakhe Lembede for only four years before his tragic and untimely death. But those four years were his most productive and significant ””…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
… to indentured migrants who had arrived in the 1860s. His father, Narrainsamy Paupiah, arrived from Chingleput, … India on the Earl of Hardwick in September…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… (1881-1951) was the founder of the ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States and … President-General of Congress. He…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
… to a special human being like Mr Juda Ngwenya. He leaves his nation with a gaping wound and his profession with a void that will be hard to fill. I … to go…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
… two men convicted of the killing of Dr Abu Baker Asvat at his Soweto surgery on January 27 1989 described this week how … “Mrs Mandela promised us R20 000 to…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… among the Kikuyu chiefs, was assassinated near Nairobi. His death prompted celebration amongst Mau Mau supporters and … of the Mau Mau forest fighters, lies…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… in Sekhukhuneland in the Eastern Transvaal, and installed his own puppet, an uprising ensued, and police moved in to … While IDAF had backed the winning side…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
… are facing charges of treason and may be sentenced to death simply because they have struggled for a political … A few days later, he could not avoid coming…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… us your children as he has done already. Vorster and his gangsters have already claimed that last week's shootings … to instigate you to murder your own…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
… to the secret armed organisation known as Unification of Death (also the Black Hand). The motivation behind the … would free the land of Habsburg rule. He…
EventWorld War I begins
… to the secret armed organisation known as Unification of Death (also the Black Hand). The motivation behind the … would free the land of Habsburg rule. He…
EventMembers of Bambathas homestead are pursued by policemen for refusing to pay the ‘hut tax’
… Administrators and autonomous African chiefdoms. The death of Cetshwayo in Eshowe in 1884, the last of the … resisted colonial measures imposing a poll tax…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… had last seen him when, during 1948, I spent a few days in his home. Similarly, I could see Comrade Braganza talking … refusal to abandon her principles. Her…
Buddhism
… Reincarnation is the rebirth of a living thing after death into a new body, a human, animal or a supernatural …
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… of April 1993. Exactly two weeks before President Tambo`s death, Cde Chris Hani was cowardly assassinated outside his home in Dawn Park, Boksburg. We marked…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… on the issue of HIV and AIDS. Here is a transcript of his comments in the documentary: Leung [the filmmaker]: You … were correct when he said them?…
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… hospitalisation of both Kotane and Marks in 1970, and the death of the latter in August 1972, the leadership of the … he was however not in a position to…
ArticleImperialism and socialism in the context of Africa
… powers. The Prime Minister of France, Jules Ferry in his justification of this policy told his parliament that: "I repeat that the superior races … example,…
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… as police fired on unarmed protesters resulting in the death of 69 people and injury of 180. Subsequent to protest … Square in Cape Town. Phillip Kgosana…