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ArchiveAn Inconsolable Memory by Aryan Kaganof
… Combining formal innovation with empathy and shattering political analysis, Kaganof succeeds in creating a cathartic …
ArchiveEstablishing the Constitutional Assembly
After South Africa’s first democratic elections, the newly elected parliament would double as a Constitutional Assembly and would be responsible for writing…
PlaceKhwe Living Museum, Namibia
… has a turbulent history, determined by relocation, political restraint and marginalization by other, bigger …
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… extracted money from communities while offering no real political representation. The uprising resulted in the deaths …
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… ANC veteran Billy Nair . She was arrested in 1966 for her political activities in her hometown, Umkhumbane, Durban and …
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… M. Ramgobin. These bannings have not only removed from the political scene some of the present leaders of the community … laws which enable the Government to…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… and staging Socialist plays. Seeking avenues of political activity, the club members found several social … A small group of Lenin Club members, intent on…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… The band fled South Africa in 1964 to seek musical and political freedom from the apartheid government. [11] Johnny … opinions during interviews and began…
Liberation
… of the rural poor, as did the manifestos of all other political organisations. Thus even though land and agrarian … as yet). Thus the inputs of NGOs,…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Govan Mbeki publishes Transkei in the Making a work of political analysis which is deeply critical of the system of … Agent-General, Sir Benegal Rama Rau, to…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… arrival of distinguished Islamic teachers in the form of political exiles from Batavia also strengthened the presence … end of the eighteenth century. The…
Insurrections: The Storming
… globally dark present, and to address the inadequacy of political expression in our times. This was not to be a glib … Inkululeko, a choral ensemble formed…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… globally dark present, and to address the inadequacy of political expression in our times. This was not to be a glib … Inkululeko, a choral ensemble formed…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… , Chief Luthuli is banned for one year from attending any political or public gatherings and prohibited from entering … campaign to make ordinary Black…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… Cape Town. He was influenced by the various progressive political trends in South Africa and internationally. He was …
EventCharlotte Maxeke, politician and founder of the Bantu Women's League of South Africa, is born
… Africa, Maxeke took up teaching and also took part in political activities in the African National Congress (ANC). …
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti-apartheid movement were kept …
Selfless Biko 40 Years On by Barney Pityana (City Press), 10 September 2017
… we took positions that sought to challenge both the political system of apartheid, and the politics of both … the country, talking to students, but also…
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development" by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
… Africa, will emerge from those elections as the largest political force in the country. The ANC therefore represents … Africa through its transition,…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… groups has caused and is continuing to cause enormous political damage"; an "impression has become even more … here a Party that is struggling for its own…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on receiving a Honorary LLD degree at the University of the Witwatersrand 6 September 1991
… and consider that they function best when independent of political organisations and the state. This is indeed one of … because it is crucial that it is not…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… the NEUM because, unlike the ANC, it had developed its own political literature in the writings of Isaac B. Tabata, … of Alexandra because of apartheid but…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… was gained in 1990, SWAPO became the country’s leading political party. The Formation of the People’s Liberation …
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… of power between Governor Janssens and the officials. A political council of four, of whom two had to be colonists, …
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… government leaders. The moral failure of our democracy's political leadership encourages a cynical attitude toward …
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… while working as the editor of a newsletter for an Indian political group in Durban. 1942 Peter Abrahams published his …
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
… on both, resulting not only from the war, but from political and social dynamics within South African society. …
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… The mineral revolution created both the traffic and the political will for a railway. For President Paul Kruger's …
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… horror and brutality of the past is being exaggerated for political reasons. British policy 1788 to 1900 The British …