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The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… new residential areas, new parallel institutions such as schools, universities and administrative bodies, and indeed, … place, but more importantly, students…
ArticleThe Women’s struggle Timeline 1905-2006
… A decade by decade events account of the women's struggle in South Africa. 1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South…
BiographyEla Gandhi
… Ela Gandhi was born in 1940 in Phoenix Settlement in the Inanda district, KwaZulu Natal . Indians, Coloured, … no tarred roads, public water supply and no…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Mbhazima Shilowa, Your Worship, Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Amos Masondo, MEC for Housing, … immigrants from Europe, those from China and…
BiographyDonald James Woods
… his Matriculation Examination, Woods enrolled at the University of Cape Town in 1952 to study law but switched to journalism. Woods initially supported the…
BiographyElize Botha
… , West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng ). She enrolled at the University of Stellenbosch, Western Cape, in 1948 and majored in English, Afrikaans and Dutch … a…
ArticleThe South African General Elections: 2019
… General elections will be held in South Africa on the 8th of May 2019 to elect a new National Assembly and new provincial legislatures in each province. This…
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
… Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) …
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand
… Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand …
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936 …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… Premier Raymond Mhlaba and members of the Provincial Government; Chairperson of the Transitional … Nceba Faku; Our host, Ric Wilson, Editor of the Eastern…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… Premier Raymond Mhlaba and members of the Provincial Government; Chairperson of the Transitional … Nceba Faku; Our host, Ric Wilson, Editor of the Eastern…
BiographySindiwe Magona
… Sindiwe Magona was born on 23 August 1943, in the village of Gungululu in rural Eastern Cape (formerly Transkei). The first born of eight children, Magona…
BiographyNana Sita
… Gujarat, India, in 1898, in a family which was active in the Indian freedom movement. He went to South Africa in 1913 … with General Smuts and stayed almost…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
BiographyZuleikha Mayat
… person who first came to South Africa from India at the age of five with his stepmother. Her mother, Amina, was … around their parent’s shop, which was very…
Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius
… Speech by President Mandela to the National Assembly of the Republic of Mauritius …
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Alusaf Hillside Smelter
… Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Alusaf Hillside Smelter …
Commission of Enquiry into the Penal System of the Republic of South Africa
… Commission of Enquiry into the Penal System of the Republic of South Africa …
Presidential Address to the 42nd Annual Conference of the African National Congress
… Presidential Address to the 42nd Annual Conference of the African National Congress …
Resolution of the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, Bombay, March 1946
… Resolution of the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, Bombay, March 1946 …
What was the world like in the mid-fifteenth century? (move to archive)
… What was the world like in the mid-fifteenth century? (move to archive) …
Message to the NEGRO people of the United States of America, September 1952
… Message to the NEGRO people of the United States of America, September 1952 …
Resolution of the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, Bombay, March 1946
… Resolution of the Working Committee of the Indian National Congress, Bombay, March 1946 …
Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP
… Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church
… Address by President Nelson Mandela to the annual conference of the Methodist Church …
Nelson Mandela's closing address to the 48th National conference of the ANC
… Nelson Mandela's closing address to the 48th National conference of the ANC …
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troop ship carrying the Fifth Battalion of the … carrying Black troops after the Mendi set sail from Cape Town. The…
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… On 29 July 1863, The Alabama, an American raider belonging to the Southern … sanctioned pirates. By the time the Alabama sailed into Cape Town she had sunk…
EventThe Trojan Horse Massacre
… In Athlone, Cape Town , Western Province (now Western Cape), the area bordered by Klipfontein Road, Belgravia Road, … The Trojan Horse Massacre …