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‘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…
BiographyZakeria Mohammed Yacoob
… To read his biography, click here …
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…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… to Fatima Meer, once a shining light in the fight against apartheid, now a thorn in the side of the fat-cat … drive around in fancy cars mimicking wealthy…
BiographyErnest Mabaso
… Shot dead as he was leaving his home. …
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…
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…
PlaceMonterey House, Klaasens Road, Wynberg
… South African War. Shortly thereafter it was sold to an American, Hugh Tevis, who spent approximately £237000 on … School building with the bell tower and…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Mzukisi Nobhadula
… of perjury and had been held for 6 days at the time of his death.The perjury charge arose from evidence he gave in a … asthmatic.A statement by the prisons…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyMazizi Magekaza
… of the African National Congress (ANC). He was killed in his hospital bed, in a raid in Lesotho, 1988. …
BiographyAzaria Mbatha
… a brief teaching spell there. In 1970 Mbatha returned with his family to Sweden, where he still lives. Beginning in 1973 …
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…
EventNational Day of Prayer is observed peacefully
… Cathedral in Central Johannesburg, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and other people attending a prayer meeting are forced …
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…
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…
BiographySam Mabe
… Deputy Editor of the Sowetan newspaper. Was shot dead in his car by two gunmen. …
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…