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ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… going at the same time. It was difficult to hear what was being said in a roomful of chattering people. It … tutus which they had altered to make them fit…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… best, mingled up with modern Urbanization, trendsetting what South Africa is best known for, its diverse cultures and … he and Minister Nel visited the South…
BiographyJomo Kenyatta
… He had failed on his quest for all except one point, the right to develop independent educational institutions for … opposition party, the Kenya People's…
Poonoosamy Ruthnam Pather
… strongly. He also felt strongly about the maintenance of what he termed 'civilised' laws and regulations, beliefs he … Settlement. I.C Meer worked with PR…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… the House of Commons he became Prime Minister Gladstone’s right-hand man. In 1882, during his second ministry, … methods to hold the empire together, and he…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… and a comrade. The refusal to talk about Molly and what had happened was typical of Bram's character. He was a … exploitation. In November 1965 Bram was…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding 186 in what becomes known as the Sharpeville Massacre . Two others … a pistol at point blank range. One…
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… then touring Paul Simon’s “Graceland” in the 80s and 90s. What is less discussed is the music, and the innovative … with wife Miriam Makeba (the marriage…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… touring Paul Simon’s “Graceland” in the 80s and 90s. What is less discussed is the music, and the innovative … with wife Miriam Makeba (the marriage lasted…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… 1896, he chose the then new Suburb of Doornfontein as the right spot for purchasing a large Stand and Building the … for over 20 years. Reunert led the drive…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… where young Afrikaners-without capital, but with the right skills and personality traits-became part of the … that it concedes and wishes to give to others…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1966, the Government appointed a National Indian Council, a … but suffice to say that the indentured…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… born in Johannesburg, South Africa in 1933. She grew up in what she described as a Jewish middle-class household where … and two young children to go into…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… the terrors of slavery ought to be able to appreciate what freedom means. Surely they cannot feel justified in … the position of slaves in Abyssinia …
The National Flag
… behind, a speaker at a meeting, it must be on her or his right-hand side. And when placed, elsewhere in the hall or meeting place, it should be to the right…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… ways to highlight the injustices and the realities of what Black people were going through under the apartheid …
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… in Robben Island prison , yet here he was with us for what became famously known as the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria . … they had a duty to stay to contribute…
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… struggle in South Africa. In doing so, he has given us what is undoubtedly the richest collection of incident and … own terms. For ten of MK’s 30 years of…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… Thus they required additional incentives to remain in what was commonly regarded at the time as an unsophisticated … in relation to the metropolitan…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding 186 in what becomes known as the Sharpeville Massacre . Two others … arrested at Lilliesleaf Farm, are…
Article2016 in Review
… 15 years of being a public open source heritage site. What a journey it has been. At the end of the first week of … Goodman Gallery in Hyde Park,…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… The election – and the conference – was characterised by what Malema himself later described as “unbecoming conduct”. … campuses and other platforms where…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… the case not understand - but just think back a little to what South Africa was twenty years ago and what it is today. … have meant that not only should we…
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… than these traditional rights and liberties by including what were relatively innovative rights for a national Constitution such as the right of access to…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… ascendancy. It abolished British citizenship and the right of appeal to the Privy Council (1950). It scrapped God … more permanent basis. (Liberation…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… Dorothy Nyembe was significant not just because of what she represented, but also because she became the longest … thus far in her young political and…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… to be released or not, but they would refuse. In February 1966 they transferred him to Karl Bremer. They did not tell … for his release. I wanted him to be…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… Black, out of the country, behind bars, or into a grave. What remains is a free country with very few heroes to … his family’s religious background (Viljoen…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
… the Government. On April 16 you are going to exercise your right to vote for your representative in Parliament. You may perhaps ask what this has to do with…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… for granted we must know about him. And dreamily he said what a wonderful thing it would be if all the negroes in the … and family history to flesh out…