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BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… (ANC) who, together with nine others, was killed in what is today known as the Piet Retief Ambushes in June 1988, …
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… had to look after themselves and were basically free to do what they wanted. But when the British took over, they wanted … against Moshoeshoe many times,…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… at particular moments, who is engaged in struggle for what political ends, and according to whose actions do we … thus liberation war. The issue of whether…
PlaceBotswana
… the independent Republic of Botswana on September 30, 1966, and maintaining a position of stability and harmony … Only one party has ruled Botswana since…
The Children’s Charter
… states that children have special rights which include the right to “special care and assistance”. The United Nations … shout out their needs and demands”…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… Industry under Nkrumah During the Nkrumah regime, 1957-1966, the Ghanaian film industry became one of the most … an improvement in the production of films…
ArticleThe Constitution
… it is applicable, taking into account the nature of the right and the nature of any duty imposed by the right. When applying a provision of the Bill of…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
… them with the greatest sense of “oneness”—if that’s the right word. And I don’t have to take the photograph; just to … Photo Workshop. It marks your 80th…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… and Major Brits. A shot rang out and it hit Indres on his right shoulder. At the police station Vandeyar was severely …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of the Opposition have been taken into account. That is what the figures show. The hon. the Leader of the Opposition … extent of the Transkei should be; he…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
… books, If This be Treason (1963) and Tomorrow's sun (1966). One of the accused in the infamous Treason Trial of … involvement in the struggle of the South…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
… the release of Vukani – Awake, Ngakane showed the world what is regarded as his best work, Jemima and Johnny (1966). This short movie follows two children, a…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… this feeling to Hannah, but it was with bitter words about what I saw as the failure of the church. One day when Hannah … He was deliberately confronting the…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… headlines in the local papers. The general election of 1966 saw the National Party secure its largest victory yet. … Dupel Erasmus kept his seat, but he was…
The appointment of Judges
… to death, were not directly relevant: the core issue was what bearing the interim Constitution had on the death … 9, 10 and 11(2), which guaranteed every…
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
… India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka to introduce discussion of what was happening in South Africa. In the 1960s, however, … the Commonwealth. At the Lagos meeting…
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… These colonial writers were unsettled and intrigued by what they perceived to be exotic elements of indigenous … in Cape Town. Publication of New Coin , a…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
Professor Sir Raymond (Bill) Hoffenberg was born in Port Elizabeth, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) on 16 March 1923. He went to school in Port Elizabeth…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… was declared a whites-only residential zone on 11 February 1966 under the Group Areas Act. In the years that followed, … face of neighbourhood violence, she…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… Coloured families in the Cape Flats and District Six, in 1966. This was a result of the forced removal campaign by the … offices, community centres, soccer…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… city and the port. It represented the polar opposite of what the Apartheid government, inaugurated by the National … for destruction in the city of Cape…
PlaceLesotho
… baSotho and Dutch slowly eroded baSotho land holdings in what was to become the Orange Free State despite the … gained full independence from Britain on 4…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… criticise the ANC for allowing itself to be dominated by what he called ‘liberal-left-multi-racialists'. 1957 Sobukwe … confinement away from other prisoners…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… on them " if they went to work (Reverend Ambrose Reeves, 1966). However, many people joined the procession quite … pushed over and the crowd began to move…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… state in which blacks and white women were denied the right to vote. During negotiation to establish a new nation, … of the British Empire, there was an…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… two religious schools and a mosque. The proposed areas are what incited the action against the Minister of the Interior … (South African Institute for Race…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… People Shall Govern! Every man and woman shall have the right to vote for and to stand as a candidate for all bodies … all national groups and races; All…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One … France, where he finished his doctorate at…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… to make stories that would enlighten the world about what was happening in South Africa," says Knape. "His mission … Cole's powerful photographs offer a…
BiographyPeter Hlaole Molotsi
… A. P. Mda, who organised groups of select people into what later came to be known as Africanist groups. Membership … ANC was a large umbrella embracing…