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EventMolly Blackburn, political activist and civil rights campaigner is killed in a car accident
… very unpopular with the police and they received numerous death threats. Blackburn, was killed in a car accident near … Bishop. Brian was also killed in the…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
… anger? No, it was not a whispered, corroding rage fed by his personal fears or the tedious humiliations that a black … He was a kind man, gentle, a loving…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… 'non-white' by the apartheid state. At the end of his third year at university he was expelled for his political activities. He was under constant…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… our struggle has known, the enemy has attacked with all his might, employing every means at his disposal in a bid to wipe out the liberation movement of ……
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… our struggle has known, the enemy has attacked with all his might, employing every means at his disposal in a bid to wipe out the liberation movement of ……
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… as Kipling called colonised Asians and Africans in his 1899 poem The White Man’s Burden. These colonial subjects … In 1917, the US president, Woodrow Wilson,…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… Vergelegen from Tom Barlow, who took over in 1966 from his father Charles ‘Punch’ Barlow. Their family had been in charge of the estate since 1941, a Year…
Statement by Mfanafuthi Makatini in the Plenary Meeting of the General Assembly, 27 November 1981
… unavoidable obligations from being with us today. It was his intention, on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of … become my pleasant task to congratulate…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
… with aggravating circumstances. They were sentenced to death while six others were given prison sentences. The … men. On 2 June 1982 President Marais Viljoen…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… the Council was given statutory powers PR and a few of his colleagues accepted invitations to serve on it. In … stance he adopted towards the government…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… of Germany by other politicians who had hoped that his party (Nazi Party) would bring economic change in … of the German army did not want him on board…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… arrived at the Cape with 100 men and women, including his wife Maria de la Quellerie. The first thing the men did … at the Cape. Jan Van Riebeeck wrote the…
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… me at 5am one morning that the patient had to externalise his/ her trauma. Until some of us could be sent out of … front of the flat we hoped to be…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… under the name Frank Talk - a name that captured both his defiance and his directness. At its core, I Write What I Like articulates … First published in 1978…
ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… Rights Violations in 1996. Sam Nzima poses in 2011 with his iconic photo of Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old shot by … police officer in uniform carrying a…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… towns. In August the trial of Mosibudi Mangena ended with his conviction, after he was found guilty of trying to … recovered from the bannings. According to…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… 'Abdurahman, hailed from an esteemed Cape Town family. His paternal grandfather, 'Abdul Jamalee, had been a slave who managed to purchase his own freedom and…
EventBrenda Fassie, South African singer and diva, dies in her sleep at Sunninghill Hospital
… heard about Brenda and brought her to Soweto to live with his family. She soon joined the group Joy and later formed … on 9 May 2004 after spending two…
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… M. Hertzog became Prime Minister of South Africa in 1924. His greatest ambition was the elevation of the Afrikaner The … South Africa. Once he obtained…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… our first date on March 10 1956, Madiba spoke to me about his classmates from Wits University, Fatima and Ismail Meer. … he said he wanted to see Fatima to…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… embarked on the Sao Gabriel accompanied by his pilot, Pedro de Alenquer. Vasco's brother, Paulo, … the Christian explorers, who again narrowly escaped death…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
… by the Mvalwana family who were enquiring about the death and burial of their father and grandfather, Zincwasile … age, had been told by one of the family’s…
ArticleDefeat of the Liberation struggle
… leader was killed in detention. Within a month of Biko’s death, thousands were detained or prosecuted and sentenced to …
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… weapon of satyagraha which Gandhiji had perfected during his career as a public man in South Africa. When I reached … writings of Gandhiji, and although I…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… is a tragedy on an epic level. The official figure of the death toll to white Boer women and children in the camps is … the 21st December 1900, Lord…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… However, on that occasion two other detectives met him at his trade union office, leaving only after they’d scrutinized … “Swart was more or less under an…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… army (under the leadership of Emperor Menelik II and his wife, Empress Taytu – sometimes spelt Taitu) took place. … Italians were forced to retreat, and…
Post-Election Political Violence
… ever downwards. By way of comparison, the average monthly death tolls from political violence recorded by HRC in … periods are shown below Average monthly…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… last supper came so unannounced with no premonition of death and with their bodies digestive functions held in … in the Harry Gwala trial in 1977, many…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… of when Kallie Hanekom at 8 oak Street had wat I called his underground left library that he made available to us. I … military general of the time Francisco…