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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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 - 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…
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…
BiographyLouis Botha
… at Standerton. Botha was faced with the problem of what to do with General J B M Hertzog, a controversial but … lands. The bill caused intense anxiety among…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…