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ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work by historian Shula Marks about Allison Champion’s influence on workers in the years leading…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
… properly understood is why and how such a radical shift in his own views and from the policy position adopted by the … Governance: The Battle Over…
Address by President of the Republic Commander-in-Chief of SANDF and Patron-in-Chief of Military Veterans at the funeral of Major General (retired) Mongameli Johnson Tshali (aka Lennox Lagu), Thaba Tshwane, 17 September 2011
… clarion call when it was time to take up arms again the apartheid regime. He served selflessly and tirelessly in all … he was given by our leadership,…
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… Mgijima, who had already gained quite a reputation in his region as a lay preacher and as an independent … evangelist, has a vision while hunting small game…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… approach I also hope to show that the advent of formal Apartheid is but a continuation of this logic. The focal … of a farmer, Henry Smith, on 17 January…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa … Xhosa kingdom by defeating the Cirha and Jwarha groups. His…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… individual policemen might have acted improperly, it was his belief that the force as a whole was impartial. Mandela's … judicial commission." The previous…
OR Tambo Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 25 October 2015, Port Elizabeth
… to go and galvanize international support for the anti-apartheid struggle. He was to set foot on the land of his birth again only three decades later. During…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… a role in South Africa’s legal sphere. The loss of his incisive mind and steady reasoning is enormous, and … took power and would proceed to usher in the…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… GraduÂates of the ELC fine art course have gone on to work as administrators and educators at virtually all of the … and many others. The interaction…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… Last updated: July 2008 Patric Tariq Mellet has written his own biography for the SAHO archive. This memoir speaks of growing up in a mixed race community…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… became the President of the organisation in 1904, stressed his organisation’s displeasure at the political … repatriated to their country in 1907) were…
Masango Caleb job Mayekiso
Masango Caleb Job Mayekiso was born 1913 in Idutywa Transkei. He was a factory worker in Port Elizabeth.He was a genuine working-class leader.In 1940's…
ArticleTimeline Interim Constitution 1991 to 1993
… groups were formed. 1992 The Working Groups started their work and met twice a week. Each group had almost eighty … was approved and it was duly endorsed by…
BiographyL.B. Mokele
… letter that he would be named or listed if continued with his Communist activities. …
Denis Farrell
… of Soweto voters pipped that of Nelson Mandela casting his vote, earning him a Pulitzer Prize nomination. …
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… partnership project Since the beginning of the struggle of apartheid in 1948, women were at the forefront of resisting … women to freely speak about women…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
… leaders in eugenics and “euthanasia”: Lessons for today." American journal of public health 108, no. 1 (2018): 53-57. … succession raised by the German…
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. "Someone had stolen the wheels … guard at the entrance make no difference…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… didn’t receive state funding until after the demise of the apartheid regime in the 1990’s. Due to the fact that the … ‘voice to the voiceless’ in confronting…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… about the kind of societies we have created- those who work with nature and its angers, the miners, the farmers , … of the first to put to music some of Ari…
ArticleMessage of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo
… struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the service of his people, a communist of world prominence; a dedicated and … it is by our…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… Cathedral in Central Johannesburg, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other people attending a prayer meeting are forced …
ArticleConvention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA)
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … the opening of parliament on February 2…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… Isadore W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded … Ngakane[Link to 1951, 1966] - besides being a filmmaker in his own…
ArticleRustenburg Timeline 1850-2001
… for a further 27 years. Pretorius and Potgieter agree to work together and submit to the authority of the Volksraad, … of land surveying. Paul Kruger…
ArticleFrontline States
… The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was … were formed in 1970 to co-ordinate their responses to apartheid and formulate a…
BiographyNtsoane Jackson
… and sentenced to 8 years imprisonment and banned on his release. …
BiographyAzaria Mbatha
… a brief teaching spell there. In 1970 Mbatha returned with his family to Sweden, where he still lives. Beginning in 1973 …
EventThe Rembrandt Tobacco Corporation was founded in South Africa
… and obtained interests in 27 countries. According to his biography, Anton Rupert's business career spanned over sixty years. He started his global empire in…