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A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973 - Chapter 2
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973 - Chapter 1
A Survey Of Race Relations In South Africa 1973
Excerpt "During 1973 the National party has been faced with increasing manifestations of black dissatisfaction and anger. The Black Conciousness movement…
Latest in the SAHO archive: 15 May 2013 - 28 May 2013
Map: African reserves in South Africa, September 1969
EventNelson Mandela arrives on Robben Island to serve his five-year sentence
27 May, 2013 marked for 50th anniversary of Nelson Mandela arriving on Robben Island as prisoner. On 5 August they were stopped and arrested just outside the…
Well-read Red: Lessons from Chris Hani
Of Ruth First and Joe Slovo: Let Us Now Remember Past Activists
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
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EventWorld No Tobacco Day is observed
World Tobacco day was declared by the World Health Organization in 1987. The day is observed by abstaining from tobacco for a period of 24 hours around the…
EventTranskei Constitution Act No 48 commences
On 30 May 1963 the Transkei Constitution Act No 48 commenced. The history of this Act could be traced back to April 1961 when the Transkei Regional Authority…
EventHamilton Naki, a laboratory assistant to cardiac surgeon Christian Barnard, dies
Hamilton Naki was a gardener who later became a laboratory assistant without any formal training. He first worked for Robert Goetz, who asked him to assist him…
Le Grange Commission declares CISA activities a danger to the state
EventArtist, Thomas Trevor Motswai , award-winning South African artist is born
Thomas Trevor Motswai (known as Tommy) is an award-winning South African artist. He has achieved national and international acclaim. Motswai was born on 27 May…
EventDemonstrating Clergymen are arrested in central Johannesburg
Fifty-three churchmen were arrested while demonstrating in central Johannesburg against the detention of a fellow clergyman who had supported the school…
EventSouth African tenor opera singer, Siphiwo Ntshebe dies
Siphiwo Ntshebe was born in Brighton, Port Elizabeth. He was a great opera singer, whose career ended abruptly when he died of meningitis on 25 May 2010…
Cutting Through The Mountain - Acknowledgements
Cutting Through The Mountain - The Interviewers
Cutting Through The Mountain - Glossary
Cutting Through The Mountain - Afterword
EventThe Young Communist League (YCLSA) is officially formed
The plans for the formation of the Young Communist League (YCL) were laid in 1921 when the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) was established. Youth groups…