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GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 2) by Thabo Mbeki, 28 March, 2016
… wrong, and if so, in what way were they wrong; and, (xiii) if they were not wrong, does this mean that the RDP …
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
Many of the obituaries of F.W. de Klerk were rather bad-tempered and some were downright spiteful. It seemed to stick in the throat of many people to have to…
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
Alternating from prison to fort to prison to museum, the Old Fort in Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purposes since its creation in 1893.[1] In an…
ArchiveObituary for Andrew Verster
Andrew Verster died peacefully in his bed on Sunday 16th February. It was the kind if death he would have wished for. No fuss, no drama – an end to a life…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… or 'preventive' purposes, without access to the courts, lawyers, family or friends, has been widely practiced … Over the years increasingly heavy use has…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
… to Indians without fear of them having recourse to the courts. The “Indian question” was a key political issue in …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Impact of Slave Trade and Colonisation on Indigenous Societies at the Cape Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper …
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Africa in Chancellor House, opposite the magistrates' courts in downtown Johannesburg. About these years Mandela …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… attitude of the African people towards South African law courts. It will assist the new movement for Penal Reform …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… 177,890 Africans were arrested and brought before the courts for failure to pay tax. Extension of University …
Community histories of Rustenburg
Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… 86 shelters for victims, 62 designated sexual offence courts and 10 Thuthuzela (‘comfort’) care centres which …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… traders and hawkers and denies them the right of appeal to courts of law. 27 June, A Parsee, Sorabji Shapurji Adajania, …
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… thousand Africans per day are convicted by South African courts for petty pass offences. There are also convictions … The practice makes the law, the police…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… thousand Africans per day are convicted by South African courts for petty pass offences. There are also convictions … The practice makes the law, the police,…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… our people, especially by improving the functioning of our courts and increasing our conviction rates to strengthen the … government service centres,…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… philanthropically paid for the maintenance of the tennis courts at Number One Square in Alexandra. He ran his business … at the western end of the city, near…
PlaceVredehoek
Vredehoek is a hillside neighbourhood at the base of Devil’s Peak. The stairways here were built in the early twentieth Century to connect homes to streets and…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… the “legal discipline” so long applied by counsel in the courts was challenged. What might have been a dreary, formal … laws or to seek the protection of the…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… will also encourage the government to prosecute and the courts to convict everyone who preaches the slogan - we have … obscured and forgotten, and in which…
Closing Remarks to the 53rd National Conference of the ANC by President Jacob Zuma, December 2012, Mangaung
… the ANC to be now run on technicalities and through the courts. We will be building cadres who respect actions taken …
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… and trial, and their life imprisonment by the apartheid courts. Thus Walter Sisulu was to spend 25 years of his life …
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… and there too each victory for the union or myself in the courts had great political significance. The thousands of …
PlaceLady Grey, Eastern Cape
Before 1856, Farmers in this Area attended the Church in Aliwal North. Primitive transport, bad Roads, Rivers and other obstacles made it an ordeal to go to;…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… and in it discusses street committees and people’s courts as the ‘organs of people’s power’. From the outset, …
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
The vhaVenda clans of northern South Africa, in present-day Limpopo Province, are among the nation’s most traditional, hewing to rituals and practices passed…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… the legislation dealing with group areas came before the courts (South African Institute of Race Relations, 1960: … but also any part of a controlled area…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the presidential desk in Washington Image Source Essay Question: To what extent did Roosevelt’s New Deal succeed in mitigating…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
… For years we worked side by side in the offices near the Courts. To reach our desks each morning, Nelson and I ran the …