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Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… and Deputy Speaker, Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the NCOP, Honourable Ministers and Deputy Ministers, … Members, Ladies and Gentlemen: A recent…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited … republics as a response to their negative portrayal in Cape colonial and European…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education
… The historical debates aside, the significant revolutionary … and conflict. The extension of British power in the Cape, Eastern Cape and Natal contributed to…
ArchiveThe development of the struggle
… Paper by Scrape Mtshona on the history of the freedom struggle in South Africa. Includes request for assistance to the Unity Movement. … The development of…
ArchiveThe SACC and the Government
… Article about the meeting of delegates from the South African Council of Churches and the South African Prime Minister and his associates which … The SACC…
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… On 6 March 1957, the first South African Non-White sporting team participated at the World Table Tennis Board Championship in Stockholm, … (Available at…
ArchiveStanding for the truth: the mission of the Church
… Policy document issued by Standing for the Truth Committe about Christians and the defiance campaign against apartheid. … Standing for the truth: the mission…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election … workers, all master craftsmen in Johannesburg and Cape Town,…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… Sefako Mapogo Makgatho was born at GaMphahlele, in the Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province) … Mbenga, B., A New History of South Africa,…
ArchiveThe crisis over the land
… Article on the government's dispossession of Black's from their land and its policy of separate development resulting in the creation of Bantustans with…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… The student-led protests in Soweto in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto schools and…
The widows of the reserves
… living conditions experienced by African women living in the reserves while their husbands are forced to work in cities, mines and farms and because of the…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… During the past week, the entire country has been united in mourning … of the remarkable book: "South Africa: The Peasants Revolt." The taking up of arms by…
BiographyMaphuti Molatela Seopa
… Matlala’s ‘cause and in fomenting unrest and dissension in the tribe.’ Maphuti Molatela Seopa was the first-born daughter of Chief Sekgwari Matlala and…
Faith Gasa
… Gasa attained a Bachelor of Arts scholarship to study at the University of Zululand, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) from … went on to study History and Afrikaans…
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… Patrick Chamusso will be remembered for his role in the bombing of Sasol’s Secunda power plant in the 1980s as a protest against the apartheid regime. But…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… Honourable Prime Minister; Distinguished leaders of the opposition parties; Elected representatives of the people … meeting between ourselves and the…
Event523 people die in the Black concentration camps of the Second Anglo Boer War
… 1899 war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. In March 1901 Lord Kitchener, the commander of the British forces, decided to cut off the … …
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… resistance at Crossroads and at KTC in the Western Cape has made it impossible for Koornhof to carry out his … is among these builders of a new order in our…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language The special list 1: Names of the Korana clans by Menán du Plessis
… This ia a chapter from the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis … Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language The…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 5: The Heritage texts of the Korana people by Menán du Plessis
… This ia a chapter from the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis … Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… Legacy: History of Education in South Africa White schools Initial education requirements set in the 19th century in the Free State were not high, and it was…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - … rigged. Similar issues were arising in the Cape ANC. At the national ANC…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Second Joint sitting of the third Democratic Parliament, Cape Town 11 February 2005 Madame…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… bodies useless and wasteful? Certainly not. Not only do we join the powerful mass of mankind fighting the same enemies, … imperialist powers and offers them…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris … in Port Elizabeth in 1886, Hudson and Hopkins in Cape…
EventAdoption of the Orange Free State constitution
… The Orange Free State constitution was adopted on 7 April … Initially the Boers (Voortrekkers) who came from the Cape Colony in the Great Trek settled just…
ArchiveCHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo
… This chapter comes from the book … CHAPTER FOUR: The Revival Of Alliance Politics, 1982-1984 by Kumi Naidoo …
PlaceAasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron
… This spectacular sandstone Mountain is a backdrop for the town of Zastron , in the South-Eastern Free State … highest peak in the province, and takes its…
ArchiveThe TRC: commissioning the past
… Notice of the conference held at Wits University from 11-14th June 1999. … The TRC: commissioning the past …