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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…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… on education at the Cape. 1798 Joseph Lancaster starts his method of education (monitorial system) for working class … desk which the Superintendent-General…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ””…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
PlaceMqhekezweni - Mandela's Ancestral Home, OR Tambo District, Eastern Cape
… in grooming the young Nelson Mandela after the death of his father. "Mqhekezweni was a mission station of … date and Westernised than Qunu. Mandela recalled…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… granted criminal jurisdiction. He could have augmented his meagre salary through exacting fines, legally or … teacher at Adams College, where he was working…
!U’S STORY - Photographs 16 - 19
… The territory to which a person belongs may be that of his father's people or that of his mother's people: whatever territory his family is settled … We must…