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Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
EventThe first cable connection between SA and Europe is launched
On 31 July 1879, the first cable connection between South Africa and Europe, via Aden, was launched. It was laid by the British electrical engineer Charles…
Article1994 Cabinet
… Deputy President. Agriculture, merged in July 1996 with Land to become Agriculture and Land Kraai van Niekerk (Agriculture); from July 1996 Derek Hanekom …
Address during the 90th Birthday Celebration of Mr Walter Sisulu 18 May 2002 Mr President, Ladies and Gentleman, Comrades and Friends
We are highly privileged to be able to celebrate the 90th birthday of such a giant and a cornerstone of our movement. Our movement has made its name in the…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
There is a saying that goes: “Show me your friends and I will tell you who you are.” I am what I am because I was inspired, motivated and mentored by Juda…
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
The ongoing violence between African National Congress (ANC) and Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) supporters during the negotiations that led up to the first…
Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa
International political processes leading to the "Declaration on Apartheid and its Destructive Consequences in Southern Africa" can be traced back to the year…
I will not Compromise About my Work: David Goldblatt on Artistic Freedom, Censorship, and Moving His Archive Out of South Africa by Robin Scher ( ArtsNews.com), 2017
… expansionist who provided the original endowment of land for the founding of the University of Cape Town. Rhodes … by Nelson Mandela, Baartman’s body was…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… of the Ingonyama Trust, a fund established to manage land owned by the KwaZulu government. These lands, … or their material well-being.” Motlanthe also saw…
ArchiveMessage of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members.
Message of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members.
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 September, Volume 9 and Volume 10
Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Sophie Topsie Tema and Sam Nzima, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… pitched the five tents on a piece of vacant Municipal land in defiance of the Ghetto Act. The sixteen other … Council published the following pamphlets: 1…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… workers, the landless and those struggling with a bit of land, the intellectuals and lower middle class people, and …
PlaceMacfarlan, Village in the Eastern Cape
… Valley of today reflects the stability of people living on land that has been in their individual families for nearly, … donkeys and poultry graze among the…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… of pre-apartheid legislation include the 1913 Native Land Act , the 1906 and 1908 Asiatic Law Amendment Ordinance 29 , and the 1936 Native Trust Land Act . …
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now Gauteng). After his father's death, his mother could only afford to keep him…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 2: Sources of the Cape Khoekhoe and Kora records Vocabularies, Language Data and Texts by Menán du Plessis
This ia a chapter from the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
ArchiveMeeting between the Director-General of Foreign Affairs and Information and the Mocambican Minister of State for Security Affairs: Paris, 5 December 1980
Discussions between South Africa and Mozambique regarding the political situation in the frontline states with a view to a negotiated settlement in the region
PlaceSomerset Hospital, Cape Town
… Charles Somerset the Governor of the Cape Colony who gave land for the construction. The cornerstone for the new …
PlaceHotazel
… modern history of the town began in 1915, when a team of land surveyors was mapping out farms on a scorching Kalahari … Field contains between 70% and 80% of…
PlaceWaterloo Bay, East London
… is an Area of water surrounded or otherwise demarcated by Land. Bays generally have calmer waters than the surrounding sea, due to the surrounding land…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter Abstract: The Black Consciousness…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… were given permission to build the clinic on Gawe’s church land. Biko had a good relationship to Tyamzashe, who was a …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… Extended in 1623 and 1647. 1615 Sir Thomas Roe attempts to land some deported British criminals at the Cape, but those … indigenous communities there as well…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student and popular mobilisation and collective action. However,…
ArchiveClass and Ethnicity: The Politics and Ideologies of the Greek Community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924 by Evangelos Anastasios Mantzaris
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