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Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… Mohapi; Distinguished Guests; Citizens of Bloemfontein, The history of South Africa would have been very different … in Bloemfontein. Bloemfontein is an…
Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS)
… PACOFS operated from Bloemfontein with Rex Hugo as the first director. In 1996, state subsidy was reduced and … a non-profit entity. It was restructured as…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… to live and work together with their spouses in the Cape peninsula. Having substantially destroyed African family … teachers to some extent. Up to 1960, 80…
EventChief Mqikela dies
… The Paramount Chief Mqikela, eldest son of Chief Faku and … but because he supported the Griquas of Kokstad in their revolt against the Cape government in…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… protest politics and African nationalist thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African National Congress … in 1926. They proposed to remove Africans…
Invitation to the TB Davie Memorial Lecture
… You are invited to the 2017 TB Davie Memorial Lecture, where Professor Mahmood … Makerere University (1980–93) and the University of Cape Town (1996–99). He…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… Many people were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These … and others were in Soweto itself and elsewhere across the country…
Address by Nelson R. Mandela to the plenary session of the Multi-Party negotiations process World Trade Centre, Kempton Park, 17 November 1993
… of all delegations present here today. We have reached the end of an era. We are at the beginning of a new era. Whereas apartheid deprived … glorious future…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… This article was written by Peter LaNasa and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: This essay discusses the…
Speech on the Occasion of the Award of an Honorary Doctorate to Nelson Mandela by The Karl Marx University of the German Democratic Republic by O. R. Tambo, Leipzig, 11 November 1987
… esteemed rector of Karl Marx University, Members of the Central Committee of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany, Members of the … the forefront of the…
South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980
… Introduction Document 1: Extracts from 'Keeping the Red Flag Flying, An Address th the S.A. Labour Party', … Party of South Africa as adopted at the…
ArchiveThe Meteorite at the End of the Lens
… The Meteorite at the End of the Lens …
ArchiveThe Smile on the Face of the Botha
… The Smile on the Face of the Botha …
ArchiveThe University, The Church and the Political Conscience
… The University, The Church and the Political Conscience …
ArchiveThe working class - the horse and the carriage
… The working class - the horse and the carriage …
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… of education including the building and equipping of schools, on improving policing and so on, then we have to cut … we established new symbols and role…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 79 - "What is the Communist Party? Lesson 4: What will be Done in the Bantu … out anywhere on account of their…
BiographySandile Dikeni
… Sandile Dikeni was born in Victoria West, Northern Cape in 1966. He began writing poetry while in detention for his anti-apartheid activism in the 1980s. He…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you, dear Brother Leader and the people of the Great Socialist People's Libyan Arab … Brother Leader that one of our Provinces,…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… and Communist Party.His expulsion as a teacher brought the schools to a halt in the Brakpan area when 7000 residents … often in healthy competition with…
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
… The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock tower was only added in 1883. The City…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… By 1980, the Black Consciousness organisations were in a gradual … pamphlets demanding the release of Walter Sisulu . Schools became the site of fierce…
ArchiveThe government has abandoned the unemployed to roam the streets
… Offset litho; black and red; The government has abandoned the unemployed to roam the streets : Support the memorandum … The government has abandoned the…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… won Britain's Booker Prize, Coetzee taught extensively in the United States, while also holding a number of prominent positions at the University of Cape…
ArchiveThe National Situation: the real problems of the liberatory movement 3
… Draft of an article by I B Tabata on the political situation in South Africa and an alliance of the African National Congress, the Coloured People's Union…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The … paid chiefs. Thus, in 1833 Waterboer was brought to Cape Town and went…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… Let Us Rise to the Occasion Speech by Comrade President, O.R. Tambo on the … of Portuguese colonialism, the birth of Guinea Bissau, Cape Verde and Sao Tome e…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
… article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He … racism manifested in cricket through…
BiographyPaul Mokabe
… Mokabe was one of the students who stood up against the introduction of Afrikaans as a medium of instruction in African schools in 1976. In 1977, Mokabe…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… Trade unionist who brought the grievances of black workers int white homes through a … Johannesburg municipal workers in 1980.Mr Mavi was born in the…