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Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992
Contents Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks... Chapter 3 - Historical…
Mondli Gungubele, trade unionist and MEC for Sport, Recreation, Arts & Culture, Gauteng Provincial Government 1999-, is bor
ArticleWestern Cape Civic Association (WCCA)
Civic organisation also experienced problems in organising across the racial divide. Initially the emerging civic organisation in African township and coloured…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
Mr. Chairman, Esteemed Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Ministers and fellow delegates, Comrades leaders of the liberation movements, Ladies…
The New Generation
A significant challenge to state policy as regards the visual arts was undertaken at The State of Art in South Africa Conference held in 1979 at the University…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… a document entitled Anatomy of Repression in December 1989. This document summarizes the many forms of repression … of apartheid repression as it appeared in…
BiographyElijah Thomas Zondi
Elijah Thomas Zondi was born on 22 October 1917 in Pietermaritzburg to Thomas Zondi, an evangelist and Bellinah Mchunu. He attended the Burnside Community…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The…
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… affiliated to the National Council of Trade Unions, and in 1989 he became the assistant general secretary of MEWUSA, …
BiographyFrank Wiles
Frank Wiles was born in Cambridge, England, 1881. Frank Wiles was the son of sculptor Henry Wiles and the brother or W. G. Wiles. Prior to his arrival in SA…
BiographySheila Cussons
Sheila Cussons was born at the Moravian Missionary Station near Piketberg, Western Cape. She matriculated at Hoër Meisieskool, Pretoria, Transvaal (now…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… The executions done in this prison lasted from 1968 to 1989. The prison held some of the most notorious and ruthless … Central was Jeffrey Boesman Mangena…
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…
The Legal Veneer
… annual gazetting of the Consolidated List was on 4 August 1989. A total of 537 names appeared on the list at that time. … stayaways or educational boycotts…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… government measures merely fuelled the struggle fires. In 1989, amid momentous global changes marked by the fall of the … the Apartheid government appeared…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… of the majority of the South African people. In 1989 the General Assembly adopted the "Declaration on … General Assembly 6th plenary meeting, 14 December…
ArchiveVerdict Brought by Dr Wendy Orr and 43 Others Restraining the Police from Assaulting Detainees in Port Elizabeth Prisons: Report Presented at National Conference 1986
Verdict Brought by Dr Wendy Orr and 43 Others Restraining the Police from Assaulting Detainees in Port Elizabeth Prisons: Report Presented at National…
Rafique Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
Reginald Mabuza
Died of natural causes in Angola on 11 November 1983
BiographyDouglas G. Wolton
Douglas G Wolton was a leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) from 1931 to 1933. He was born in Yorkshire, England, and immigrated to South…
BiographyVictor Mhleli Ntoni
Victor Mhleli Ntoni was born in Langa in 1947, Western Province (now Western Cape) learning music from his mother, a locally recognised singer and his uncle,…
BiographyEduardo Mondlane
Born in Manjacaze, Mozambique, the son of a tribal chief, Eduardo Mondlane worked for the UN and was also a History and Sociology Professor at Syracuse…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
Comrade Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Coordinator of the Executive Commission of the National Directorate of the Sandinista…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… indictment alone ran to 386 pages, took place from 1985 to 1989, taking a long time to reach its conclusion. The length … appeal, and all the defendants were…
David Magome
A member of the African National Congress. He died in exile in Hungary on 21 November 1986.
Shamar Abduraghman
Shamar Abduraghman was released from Robben Island prison on 9 June 1982. His prison number was 15/8157.
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… the South African National Students' Congress (SANSCO). In 1989, AZAPO formed its own armed wing the Azanian National …