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BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
… in. I got a shock. He collapsed. Then he struggles to his feet and asked, ‘How are you?’ I asked him how he had … While in banishment, hesuffered paralysis…
BiographyHarry Mphahlele
… Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] on 19 February 1953. His order was revoked on 18 September 1962. …
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… then Von Brandis Square, where the Mining Commissioner had his home. At that early stage the northern and eastern ends … between the wishes of diggers to…
South African Government of National Unity (GNU) – 1994 – 1999
… headed by Nelson Mandela as a president and FW De Klerk as his deputy president. Mandela’s cabinet included ministers … to ensure inclusivity during the…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… to participate so prominently in the remembrance of his memory. Let me at the outset thank the Committee from the … brought by the Group Areas Act and its…
EventMzwakhe Mbuli is sentenced to 13 years in jail
… "people's poet" as a result of the style and content of his poetry. He covered issues like drugs and Apartheid and the former government banned his work,…
BiographyMartha Helena Cillie
… (SA). She was the daughter of Charl Daniel Cillié and his wife, Martha Helena Marais. She came from an illustrious …
Basetsana Julia, aka “Bassie” Kumalo
… African celebrities. This included Dr Nelson Mandela and his wife Graca Machel . Three years later she gave birth to …
BiographyNamedi Mphahlele
… Namedi Mphahlele was banished on 19 February 1953 from his residence in Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal … the book, Forgotten People - Political…
BiographyIsaac Molife
… Xhalanga District, Eastern Province [now Eastern Cape] His order was revoked on 7 September 1962. …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… and repression only led to reveal the fact that the apartheid state was weak. The country had in effect become … the light of this situation, the UDF…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… liberation and then proceed to a socialist revolution? In his thesis Lenin avoided any definite strategic commitment, … tend it as a god ... On every…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… In time, this place became a wasteland as both the apartheid government and the mining bosses refused to regard … there could have been hopelessness. T.S…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… massacre on 21 March 1960 . Soon thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National Congress … intending to scare Mokoena off so that he could…
Address at the SANEF Conference on the Media, the AU, NEPAD and Democracy ,12 April 2003
… The African Union has committed itself to cooperate and work in partnership with the different African formations of … to the Africans". During the years of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline
… the two world wars, the suppression of communism and his untimely demise during the 1980s when Apartheid had it reached its zenith. …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
… Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the … female black institution [viii] . The shifts in domestic work that…
David Goldblatt: In the time of AIDS by Galeria Elba Benitez, 31 March 2009, Madrid
… exhibition at the galería elba benítez the artist presents his “In the time of AIDS” suite, which features medium sized … view and calculated lack of poetic…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… South African children, most of whom had suffered under apartheid for many years. Some had been detained without … labour practices not be required or…
Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… of the fight against AIDS. In an image of a man watering his lawn, it is painted on the side of a small white building … might expect of witness-bearing…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… imported into South Africa, specifically for agricultural work. These slaves arrived at the Cape on 28 March 1658 on … It is clear that Reijnier and Manika's…
ArticleMoses Kotane Timeline
… second eldest son of eleven children. 1918 Kotane goes to work at Driefontein farm, near Zwartruggens. He works for the … years Kotane moves from job to job…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… African security agents during the arduous fight to end apartheid. Sachs, 78, went on to help negotiate South … interview in which he reacted to documentary…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… was born in Verulam, Natal and began fighting against apartheid from an early age. He was involved in the student … where he became a coordinator of the…
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… that it led to the most sustained period of resistance to apartheid since the period before the banning of the African … a major role in the student…
BiographyPepsi Mahlangu
… and killed by an unknown gunman in KwaThema, Springs on his return from exile in July 1991. …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… in West Bromwich to bring the project to the UK. His new subjects include Adellah Snape, a woman from … addicted to crack cocaine and heroin, resorted to…
ArticleGrade 12 - The Cold War
… more than four decades, Russian President Gorbachev and American President G. H.W Bush declared the Cold War … 1945: Cold War begins 1946: Winston…
BiographyThabang Sampson Phathakge Makwetla
… in 1974. Makwetla fled South Africa in the middle of his matriculation examinations in 1976 and matriculated from … Province from 2001 to 2004. This later…
ArticleThe Information Scandal
… Prime Minister. However, the Muldergate scandal would ruin his political career. The central figures in the scandal … influence international and local…