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Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… had already taken a firm resolution which said "Freedom or Death", and firmly believed that no matter how difficult the … to the gallows, living up to the MK…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… was among the most cited historians in the world. In his twelve volume A Study of History he argued that the … apartheid laws, told a foreign journalist…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.3 and No.4 1988
… Loveknots by Cherry Clayton; Giovanni Jacopo Meditates (on his Regio Absens) by Douglas Livingstone; Giovanni Jacopo … Photograph of a Communist by Peter…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… day the new town was named Port Elizabeth in honour of his late wife. 1820s The Hill, North End and South End are … arrives in Port Elizabeth and begins…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… areas. Yet it is striking that Gumede was allowed to voice his protests at numerous political rallies. This phenomenon … on the historical developments and…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… and assured the pickets that no scabs would be employed in his factory. The police remained, however, but within an hour … Pirow feared that the strike might…
Mission Stations - A-F
… this with fortitude. He took the precaution to cover in his house with a terrace, instead of an ordinary roof, in order to be safe from fire, and to secure a…
PlaceTranskei
… " cattle killing " led to the starvation, and ultimate death of some 70 000 Xhosa people. In a brief period of 6 … politics of the homeland. Although chief…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1869-1948
… if the events. This timeline covers the major events of his life and his struggle. …
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… over the company, asking them to help him get slaves for his settlement . From the beginning of the settlement there … way to deal with this issue, but the…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… the HRC has become aware of 2 major effects. Firstly, death and injury caused to the community primarily in the … in activities falling outside the…
ArticleAfrican Traditional Religion
… community and separation from it is sometimes worse than death. A believer's family still has influence over him or …
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… sentence of five years imprisonment and could impose the death penalty. The 90-day law enabled the security police to … in hiding with Reverend Ian Eve, an…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… was so cross. She was telling me how much Jeff had enjoyed his trip to the Transkei while she was panicking about him … wanted him to know. After all, she…
Opening Statement at the Second National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, 16 June, 1985
… these excellent conditions, thanks to a decision taken by His Excellency Comrade President Kenneth Kaunda and the … moment we should extend our heartfelt…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
… first president. The same aircraft which had bombed his followers in neighbouring states did a fly-past to honour … And next to the new president stood one…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from
… Missionary Society in Southern Africa, in building up his reputation as the "defender" first of the Khoikhoin and … Acts was imprisonment without trial, or…
The Legal Veneer
… a State of Emergency in part or all of South Africa, if in his opinion 'it appears that circumstances have arisen which … in the country was by no means…
EventMultiparty negotiating forum meets for the first time since December 1993
… hypocrisy and no more than cheap politicking on life-and-death issues. Buthelezi's statement came out despite the four …
EventInkatha Freedom Party is concerned about stability
… All were members of the African National Congress. The death of Xolo came after a series of killings and arson. …
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… typhoid fever, diphtheria and dysentery resulted in the death of 1 in every 5 people. 26 370 Boer women and children …
EventMore than 400 miners killed in what was the worst mining disaster in South Africa
… miners were suffocated by methane gas and crushed to death by rockfall. No machine capable of drilling holes large …
ArticleAn Introduction to Sophiatown
… acres of land, laid out the streets, and named them after his children and family - Edith, Gerty, Bertha, Toby, Sol - and called the suburb-to-be Sophiatown…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… fathers of our continental organisation. Prior to that his vision of a liberated Africa had led him to establish … PAFMECSA - the forerunner to the present…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… Leopold ideas reflected the racist ideas of most of his European counterparts at the time. He thought that Africa was "stagnant, primitive and dark", and…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
… shattered the same femur three times), was hunted for his life by the regime’s forces and experienced both the … he cherished a half-century-plus, love…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Association 'was killed because he refused to sell his people for thirty pieces of silver.' 24 March, South … , and many more at the Durban Central Prison,…
EventSandra Smith is the last woman to be executed in South Africa
… executions. Under the democratic dispensation, the death penalty was completely abolished, bringing an end to a …
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Queen Elizabeth I ascended to the throne following the death of her half-sister, Mary. The Queen of England, who was …
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… ties with Moscow. In the entire discourse on the death of Lumumba, the role of the United Nations is seldom …