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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…
ArticleGarment Workers Union (GWU)
… in the garment industry across colour and class, and under his guidance, the GWU became the most active and … left South Africa in 1953 and settled in…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
… angry, some demanding the government to bring back the death penalty. The National Assembly speaker, Thandi Modise … alleged killer finds Post Office…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… In 1993, the country’s fortunes began to change with the death of the first president Felix Houphouët-Boigney, and a … before she embarks on her journey. She…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Davidson Don Tengo (D.D.T.) Jabavu refuses to give his opinion regarding World War II. 1941 Council for … Dr. Alfred Bitini (A.B.) Xuma, vice president of…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… (private property) for Belgium’s King Leopold II and under his rule, over half of the region’s population died. At the … produced, and the food shortage…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… at the University of Natal in 1967 (where Steve Biko began his in 1966) and it was here that she met and fell in love … Movement. She too was a member of…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… people around the Lowveld gathered at Lekhulenis home for his funeral, teargas and rubber bullets were fired at the … was none other than Jan van Riebeeck…