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Document 112 - Note from Claremont branch of the National Liberation League of South Africa, 26 March 1938
… 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew National Liberation League of S.A. The Stables", Belvedere Road Claremont. 26/3/38 Claremont. That this meeting of the Executive…
EventDr Canaan Sodindo Banana is selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe
… Canaan Sodindo Banana was selected as the first President of the newly independent Republic of Zimbabwe. He was officially inaugurated on 18 April of the…
ArchiveLetter from S.E. Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to the partners of Media Training workshop
… Letter from S.E Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to the partners of Media Training Workshop regarding their current account as from the records…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 24 March 1983
… Transcript of evidence from Reverend Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoda, of the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches (SACC), … Commission…
EventThe Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announces the lifting of the ‘72-hour curfew’
… The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Dr. Piet Koornhof, announced … on a trial basis in Pretoria and Bloemfontein, as part of a plan to remove all…
ArchiveStatement on the question of a united front to the 20th session of the O.A.U. Liberation Committee
… Edited statement by Oliver Tambo on the question of a united front, presented to the 20th session of the Organisation of African Unity Liberation Committee. …
ArchiveCiskei Commission: transcript of an interview with Leah Tutu, President of the Domestic Workers and Empoyers Project
… Transcript of an interview with Leah Tutu, President of the Domestic Workers and Employers Project regarding the independence of the Ciskei and its socio…
ArchiveLetter from M J Jonker, Chief Director of the Highveld Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission
… Letter from M J Jonker, Chief Director of the Highveld Administration Board to the Secretary of the Ciskei Commission supplying population statistics of the…
ArchiveStatement of the African National Congress of South Africa to the Ad Hoc Committee on Human Rights
… Statement of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Committee on Human Rights of the United Nations on how the imperialist powers opposed … Rights resolutions regarding South…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President, Sons and daughters of Africa: On behalf of the Executive Committee of the African National Congress, I have great pleasure in ……
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
… One of the most striking buildings in Port Elizabeth is the … Smith Bodill reveals the history behind the creation of this remarkable structure. The piece…
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
… NAME: The name of the Organisation shall be "African National Congress Youth … National Congress, in its struggle for National Liberation of the African…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 4 - Participatory Democracy
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner A Christian society is one in … expressed love. Our problem is to work out what kind of institutions,…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… On 10 November 1939, shortly after the outbreak of the Second World War (WW2), Proclamation 276 of Government Gazette 2699 was published. This proclamation…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the religion. Its primary objective has…
Affirming the history of all South Africans
… At the beginning of the second term of our new democracy, we South Africans are fully aware that we have not as yet told the full story of the sacrifice of…
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… Within twenty-four hours of adoption, the executive director of the Constitutional Assembly began receiving calls from the Constitutional Court enquiring how…
EventThe Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act commences
… On July 1949,the Prohibition of Mixed Marriages Act, Act No 55 of 1949 that prohibited marriage or a sexual relationship between White people and people of…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… the Dutch and finally the French, becoming a part of French West Africa around half a century earlier. With … political system was introduced. After being…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… brother, Emecheta’s childhood was filled with the stories of her people and culture, told to her by her grandmother. … finally persuading her parents to…
PlaceFederated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre
… The Federated Union of Black Artists Arts Centre was established in 1978 by Benjy … in their various forms as well as to resolve legal issues of ownership…
ArchiveYouth and the building of the nation
… Opening address by I B Tabata, to the 1st Conference of the Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held on 20th December 1951. This is an … it is here that SOYA is…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi must be afraid neither of imprisonment nor of deportation. He must neither mind being reduced to poverty, nor be frightened,…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… also married while still attending. Her father was the son of a miner in apartheid South Africa, her mother the daughter of a man who would later train to be…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… for a republic. This was also the first time in 12 years of government that the National Party (NP) was able to gain a … in March 1961 to give formal notice…
EventHendrik Witbooi, Chief of the Nama, dies
… educated at a Lutheran Mission and was fluent in a number of European languages, as well as his own Nama. Witbooi's grandfather and father were both chiefs…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… in Oguta, located in eastern Nigeria. She was the eldest of six children born to parents, Christopher Ljeoma, an agent … education, Nwapa read and fell in…
EventInternational Day for the Abolition of Slavery
… This day recalls the date of the adoption by the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA,GA), of the United Nations Convention for the Suppression of the…
EventHaile Selassi I, Emperor of Ethiopia, is born
… Selassi was born as Lij Tafari Makonnen in the village of Ejersa Gor, in the Harar province of Ethiopia. Heir to a 13th century dynasty, he ascended to the…
EventArrival of Chinese labourers in South Africa
… at the gold mines on the Rand resulted in the importation of Chinese labour in 1904. This situation, in part, was the result of the Anglo-Boer War (South…