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EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… subject matter in the past has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and … life in a racially-divided country. She often…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… centralization actually lowers the costs, but once the city becomes very large, the costs of movement of goods and … of the demand each factory should meet…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 9
… and is fairly safe from defeat in the House on major issues affecting Europeans in South Africa. I am afraid, … to meet the substantial case put forward by…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … every thinking person in our country and…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… to an arrogant reaffirmation by P.W. Botha that the apartheid system will continue unchanged. At a time when … every thinking person in our country and…
Address at the Opening of The XIII Summit Conference of the Non Aligned Movement 24 February 2003
… accorded to us since our arrival in this beautiful city of Kuala Lumpur. I thank You, Mr Prime Minister, your … about the post - Cold war period. As we meet…
Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… all the workers lived far away from the centre of the city and a trip home would have involved them in extra … Several hundred more strikers went round…
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… males met. Mosques also dominated the skyline in most urban centres and became the most visible symbol of the … a revered Sufi shakh. In the context of…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
… play professionally in Europe when he signed for Coventry City in 1955, Egbers published ‘De Zwarte Meteoor’ (The Black … South Africa competing in the 1968…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest … and a system that is openly hostile to Black people”. Apartheid…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… shorthand introduction to what the struggle against train apartheid was all about, what its difficulties were from the … A.E. (Sonny) Abdurahman, a bare two…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
EventThe Chinese Community in South Africa is granted ‘White’ status
… for sport and leisure. In 2008 years after the fall of the Apartheid Regime the Chinese have been classed 'Black' … and others who were subject to…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… promised fair treatment for Black people who resided in urban areas, though he persisted with influx control. He …
ArchiveThis violence is not unique to SA by Daniel Magaziner, 09 September 2019
… the opportunity to implement its plans to segregate the city. Blacks and Indians lived cheek by jowl in and around the docks and city centre, in hostels and…
PlaceAntipolis and Romelia Shipwrecks, Cape Town
… . The tug had made an unscheduled stop in Abidjan, (a City on the Southern Atlantic coast of Côte d'Ivoire, in West … shore dive and it was quite visible at…
PlaceGranger Bay
… only 20 minutes' from the airport , is minutes from the city or Cape Town's International Conference Centre - … Club , which lies within the Green Point…
Statement at the Symposium on the Survival and Development of Children in the Frontline States and Southern Africa, Harare, March 1-5, 1988
… is because we have to contend still with the reality of apartheid, oppression, repression and aggression. The … amply demonstrates the correctness of the…
EventMandela signs a law into bill creating the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… was primarily to uncover human rights abuses during the Apartheid era, through public hearings. The lack of racial … and 1994, alongside the human right…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against Apartheid) expressed very serious…
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at teh Development Planning Summit Hosted by the Intergovernmental Forum, 27 November 1995
… now produced initial perspectives, which identify the key issues and constraints. These will feed into our national … minds on removing obstacles to growth…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… attitude How did archaeological research contradict apartheid historiography? Let us turn to one such university … the University doing when others were…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… projected an image of a jailer who had nothing to do with apartheid, but he was exposed by the regulations he had to … routine. Almost daily we were given…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and … to make South Africa ungovernable - thereby…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… characterised by the complete eradication of the system of apartheid, fundamental socio-economic transformation, peace … level of mass mobilisation and mass…
The Legal Veneer
… A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The apartheid government always had an obsession with…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He became the first apartheid minister to approach and…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Anti-apartheid activist and Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo … took place and the rand plunged. At the end of apartheid, Tutu was appointed head of the Truth…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… provisions. The Europeans hold mass meeting in the Durban City Hall and plan demonstrations on the docks if the Indians … land 1897 January 7, Whites hold a…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this exhibition … drawings are poignant evocations of the…