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Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
Apollo Milton Obote (some say Milton Apollo Obote) was the 2nd and 4th President of Uganda. He first came to power in 1962 but was ousted by Idi Amin in 1971…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
On June 15 this year the Azanian Students Organisation will celebrate its birth 25 years ago as a forerunner to the current leading student organisation SASCO…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… after the death in detention of Mapetha Mohapi of the BPC; and there was a march of 500 students through the …
EventInitial experiments on the body of Egyptian King,Tutankhamen, conclude he is a fifteen year old boy
Tutankhamen (also spelled Tutankhamun/Tutankhamon) was an Egyptian Pharoah who ruled in the period known as the 18th Dynasty, the years between 1332 and 1323…
EventScientists uncover possible reason for SS Waratah’s disappearance 100 years later
The SS Waratah was a luxury steamer, en route from Cape Town to Durban, South Africa, on 26 July 1909. The ship, built in Scotland, was meant to serve as a…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
Diepkloof covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). It is located on…
EventGambia is admitted to the United Nations
Situated on the west coast of Africa, the banks of the River Gambia have been inhabited for many centuries. The first known written record of The Gambia is a…
The Arrival of the Khoisan
About 2 000 years ago (100 BC), life began to change significantly in the Western part of Southern Africa. Herders, also known as the Khoikhoi, arrived,…
ArticleAll Members of South Africa’s 5th Democratic Parliament 2014
Surname First names Party Abrahams …
EventPort Natal is renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D’Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 1837
On 23 June 1835 Port Natal was renamed Durban in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, governor of the Cape Colony from 1834 - 37. It is thought that the first…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
While President Pierre Nkurunziza was stuck in Dar es Salaam tweeting up a storm, his former intelligence chief was busy taking over the country. Many welcomed…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
In 1988 Vita Promotions, in conjunction with two individuals, both journalists, (Adrienne Sichel and Marilyn Jenkins) with a passionate interest in…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming apparent, security police detained Biko, the outspoken student…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
… of the North in 1969, the Black People’s Convention (BPC) formed in 1972, and the South African Students Movement …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
… of the North in 1969, the Black People’s Convention (BPC) formed in 1972, and the South African Students Movement …
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure and membership,…
Biennale Dak’Art 2018 : Open Call for Submissions - Deadline: 31 Jul 2017
The 13th edition of the Biennale de l’Art Africain Contemporain Dak’Art / Biennial of Contemporary African Art Dak’art will be held May–June 2018 in Dakar,…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
1906 The African National Congress (ANC) sends a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had…
ANC ‘Military High Command’ Leader Interviewed
From the "Focus on Africa" program BBC World Service 4th July 1986 South African police today launched a campaign to fight a spate of urban bombs. There have…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
PlaceGhana
Before March 1957 Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
For each individual photographer, there was the struggle to overcome the blind spots resulting from an internalised apartheid ideology. To see what had not…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… and black self reliance. But what happened is that the BPC operation grew in the Eastern Cape and by the time of the …
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
In the late 1950s Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in Cape Town. Ottilie…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… Organisation (SASO) and the Black Peoples Convention (BPC). The ANC in Lusaka denied an SABC report that it had …
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
The Postal system The act of sending letters from one person to another developed soon after the invention of writing, however, the creation of a formal…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner government through…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
The 11th of February 1990 will be remembered as one of the most significant days in the history of the world. It was the day that dramatic change took place –…
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book