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BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… Albertina soon became a freedom struggle leader in her own right. In 1944 Sisulu attended the ANC annual national … Cape Franchise Action Committee. This was…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… Magubane found out he was so furious that he smacked Cole right in the middle of the office. On another occasion Cole … as a correspondent for the newspaper…
ArticleAfrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB)
… The Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) was an ultra-right wing organisation led by Eugene Terreblanche , that … parade of the AWB, he announced : "This land…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… of Rights, entitled "Children", says: Every child has the right to - a name and a nationality from birth; family care … for the shortest appropriate period…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… husband’s Cold War spying activities eight years later in 1966 but chose not to turn him in, fearing that he would be … forcing the couple’s separation. She…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
Teboho MacDonald "Tsietsi" Mashinini was born on 27 January 1957 in Central Western Jabavu, Soweto. Mashinini was the second son of Ramothibi, a lay preacher…
BiographyAdam Small
… apartheid as an abomination that stripped people of their right to experience their humaneness. As a young … at the Artscape Theatre. Before his passing, the…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Preface In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed ' Bill of Rights ' and ' The Atlantic … of movement, no freedom of choice of…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… time. Not only was the Republic established as a result of what they did, but even the fiercest opponents of that … where our forefathers and this Government…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… Party (NP) and an opportunity to silence the white right-wing. The latter group, constituted as the Conservative … the “Yes” vote. Adverts in newspapers…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… and Dockyard handyman father could not give him. But what they did give him he values greatly. “They were the right parents for me, because although they…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… First, accept the urban black as a permanent inhabitant of what is wrongly called white South Africa with consequent … need to be taken into account. It is…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… First, accept the urban black as a permanent inhabitant of what is wrongly called white South Africa with consequent … need to be taken into account. It is…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… of newspapers were published from the 1870s onwards. What follows is a survey of key Afrikaner newspapers, with … independence from the National Party,…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… liberal-democratic nature of post-apartheid politics. In what follows I will review the arguments of these books as … (p. 91). Key to this is how Butler…
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… apartheid. The reforms had the opposite affect to what the apartheid regime intended. Reforms provided renewed … resulting in the crisis Use the page…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… of ‘race’ and imperialism. They had to make sense of what was happening politically. Locally, in South Africa, the … The plainer name is Segregation. And…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… went on trial for their lives on charges of sabotage. In what was arguably the most profound moment in the trial, … with the coming of independence: Zambia …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… out attacks against both black and white targets in what they believed were preparations for a general … and 124 had been found guilty of murder”. In April…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… the circumstances without courting unnecessary reprisals. What they needed from the Congress leadership was a lead in … opposed the new turn. Bram Fischer,…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… your teacher. Please click on the feedback icon on the right if you have anything to contribute or if you have any … of Germany and Berlin Use the page…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… the UNO and you will permit me to say a few words about it right at the start of my speech this afternoon. 2 You all … has not the time arrived for him to…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… the photographer’s flight, aged 25, from South Africa in 1966. But even without the archive, just how bright Cole’s … but later that newspaper’s Executive…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… 156 Congress leaders are arrested and tried for treason in what becomes known as the Treason Trial . Bram is part of the … so that new and extended charges…
ArticleNdebele architecture and settlement patterns
… the left-hand side being deemed the side of the woman, the right the side of the man. Thus the left was called the side of life, where a woman would give…
ArticleThe Women’s Charter
… as women, and that deprive us in any way of our inherent right to the advantages, responsibilities and opportunities … farms, and in the towns earning our…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… was set up in 1901 and called the Union of South Africa. What, then, was the position of women in South African … unsolved, the march in 1956 was a victory…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… contrary a number of parties in South Africa, particularly right-wing nationalists of European descent, maintain that … the Great Fish River. This, the…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… going at the same time. It was difficult to hear what was being said in a roomful of chattering people. It … tutus which they had altered to make them fit…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… best, mingled up with modern Urbanization, trendsetting what South Africa is best known for, its diverse cultures and … he and Minister Nel visited the South…