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Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… vehemently for the change of the strategy together with his comrade and friend and brother, one of our leaders as … a man we still have to celebrate, a man…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… President of the Ladysmith Branch of the APO, said that his organisation, though not an Indian body, supported the … shown the house in Newcastle which…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… have attempted to find a time suitable to both myself and His Grace, Bishop Lekganyane, so that we could confer about … bands of vigilantes, overcame the…
Colonial history of Rustenburg
… with Mzilikazi are contradictory. Paul Kruger , in his memoirs, describes how the Boers had crossed the Vaal … had crossed the Crocodile River. Kruger also…
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… doctoral political science student, Izak Daniel de Vries. His interpretative testimony was based on the use of the … overthrowing of the government. De Vries…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… Group Areas Act of 1950. 1954 H.F. Verwoerd states in his speech in Senate that the human reality needs to be … a tramp living in Fietas disappeared. On…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… the ZAR from Holland. Potgieter died in December 1852, and his son Piet Potgieter succeeded him. In 1854 Hermanus … over grazing and hunting territory and…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… larger unit of Southern Sotho groups, who had fallen under his centralized authority due to competition for resources, … protection from other marauding…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter X - Triumph of disunity (2)
… of the baSotho, but he is not the central figure. To tell his story would to tell the story of the Builder of a Nation … Before the Whites appeared on the…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from … prison diary that he kept whilst in…
Conflict among civic organisations
… was carried out Rodney Wilkinson with assistance from his girlfriend Heather Gray. Wilkinson was former South … electric cables under the main control room…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… as any and feared that they were going to be sentenced to death. So when the verdict came, the sense of relief was … forgotten? He had this dazzling moment…
ArticleTransport in the air
… Daedalus was an artist, inventor and engineer. He and his son were prisoners of King Minos, and Daedalus invented wings for him and his son to fly away with…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
… their offences, de Wet was released within six months of his conviction and sentence, and the rest within a year. This … is Billy Nair, who has already…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… heard once to express the hope that the trial would end in his lifetime. Yet it was not to end in Pirow's. On 12 October … we should stand with the rest of…
ArticleThe Transkei
… Botha Sigcau, a man already discredited in the eyes of his people. As far back as 1939, when the choice had had to … of the day had picked on Chief Botha in…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… exploiting the African's labour-power, failed to record his surname or address, or even if this were done, failed to … if disabled for less than seven days…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… member of the Congress of Democrats offered her a job at his private college. She was eventually imprisoned for her … found out when a man named Petr…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… of today's visitors was Miss M. She passed an old man on his way to church, all prepared with his Bible tucked under his arm. Two girls walked by going in ……
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… unit of labour, with no allowance for the maintenance of his family. The system, somewhat modified but with a new … it described the mineworker “as a chattel…
PlaceIziko South African Maritime Centre
… at the Centre namely, “The Last Voyage of the Mendi: Death in Foreign Waters” which provides an overview of the SS …
PlacePiet Retief now officially known as eMkhondo
… reminded the settlers so much of Scotland, during summer. His settlement was part of a plan of the old Transvaal … poet), Bonnie Brook and Londina'. After…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… David Livingstone, was to follow the same route on his way to the Zambesi, and still later Rhodes and the … was educated to assist the missionaries as a…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… residence, of Louis XII. [2] Louis XIV established his royal court and government at the palace in 1682. [3] … beginnings of revolution in France forced…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… stalwart Raymond "Oom Ray" Mhlaba. Since the news of her death, tributes have been pouring from throughout the …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… ‘long 1970s’, defined as the period stretching from the death of Hendrik Verwoerd (1966) to the Soweto uprising and …
PlaceSouth African National Archive in Cape Town
… Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds, Wedding, Birth and Death Certificates. The South African National Archive has … Documents pertaining to Titles Deeds,…
EventMiriam Makeba, South African singer, dies
… for Roberto Saviano, an Italian writer threatened with death by the Mafia after he exposed their underground …
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… then and George Bizos, a school friend, was still in his early career. These were not exactly halcyon years – far … official gave no indication of the…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… of Cambridge. An advocate of interdisciplinary research, his work often focuses on the means through which literature … Joshua’s main interest is Early…