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BiographyJean Clarice Middleton
… Durban Girls' College and received an MA in English from Natal University (now the University of KwaZulu-Natal). … Herbstein D. (2011) Jean Middleton…
BiographyKing Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu
… of the constraints placed on him, which prevented him from commenting on political issues. The ANC was particularly …
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… more than twice the number of attacks in any year since 1976. It was responsible for most, if not all, of 55 attacks … RPG rockets, grenades and rifles. For…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… of Kaunda and left Zambia to seek asylum in Mozambique in 1976. . Once safely ensconced in Mozambique, ZANLA increased … of Africa, "Africa Since 1935", p…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… the history of youth in South Africa, particularly those from the English community, has never been analysed in this … no experience of television within…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… defence during the lengthy trial of nine student leaders from the Black People's Convention and the South African … language to simplify some abstruse…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… at this conference do not indicate a fundamental shift from the policies that the ANC has adopted since it has come … eloquently in a message to the ANC in…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… On 27 June 1976, almost two weeks after the Soweto Uprising on 16 June, … Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid…
Afrikaner
… From European to "Africaander” The modern Afrikaner is descended mainly from Western Europeans who settled on the southern tip of … of anti-apartheid protest…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments and…
PlaceFort Cox
… the building itself has not survived. Most of the stones from the fort which once housed colonial troops have been … War by Major William Cox of the British…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… South Africa in the wake of the Soweto uprisings in June 1976 and the violence that started in the Vaal Triangle in … article will focus on MK's more recent…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… new speed, in some instances, a dazzling pace. The period from the Lisbon coup to the installation of a transitional … such a representative meeting attended…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… Come Back Africa) if it were adopted, to advance from sporadic sabotage attacks to a sustained armed uprising. … powerful state, Great Britain, with troops…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… recognized the need for an art of beauty, for a release from the harshre alities of the political domain. But this ' … served to divert artists from the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… Pretoria has been forced to concede a formal withdrawal from Namibia. We look forward to a great triumph to be … rise to the assistance of SWAPO, which is…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… Pretoria has been forced to concede a formal withdrawal from Namibia. We look forward to a great triumph to be … rise to the assistance of SWAPO, which is…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… personal loss. Born in November 1923, Nadine Gordimer came from a different era. Her first task was to discover that … European; by definition that was where…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… ANC and other organisations. Years later after her return from exile, Mbete joined the African National Congress … the institution removed and released Mbete…
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
… to Abdullah Ibrahim to fit his new cultural identity. From a young age Ibrahim expressed an interest in music and … continued to study jazz music and…
Debate in the House of Assembly during the second reading of the Immorality Amendment Bill on 23 February 1962
… Justice. Though harrassed by numerous interjections. Adv. Vorster explained the basic principles underlying this … to say at once that I have not heard a…
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
… the past twelve months. We must together analyse and learn from our experience on the battlefront to victory, to carve … patriots who were massacred by the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
… the past twelve months. We must together analyse and learn from our experience on the battlefront to victory, to carve … patriots who were massacred by the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… power, the South African regime, which must be dislodged from Namibia and crushed in South Africa. Attention will … African troops were required to save the…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… National Executive I might have been elected as a delegate from the Western Cape. That would have opened up the … pupils who rose up against apartheid racism…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… in the period after the Great Depression, especially from 1938 to 1942 saw the federation step up its activities. … were removed to the township of Tlhabane,…
ArchiveThe Participation of Women in African Litterature Pre and Post-Colonialism: The Life of Micere Githae Mugo by Caroline Gathogo
… I am,” [1] an expression of the ideology of Ubuntu from the Shona of Zimbabwe and Nguni of South Africa. In East … her 1978 Visions of Africa (literary…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… time coming; 13 years earlier Mokone had been released from a New York jail after serving 12 years for a crime he … again he never delivered on his early…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid … Although important strides were made between 1973 and 1976, the process of building new trade unions…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… in these early years South African society was still far from accepting female unionisation as a legitimate idea, … sat on the tracks and were successful in…