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Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… adopted on the eve of the seventies, in 1969. Yet by 1976, the author of this document, none other than Henry … this process of change. Speaking in Lusaka in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… adopted on the eve of the Seventies, in 1969. Yet by 1976, the author of this document, none other than Henry … this process of change. Speaking in Lusaka in…
BiographyNickle Mjekula
… Party's Suppression of Communisn Act. He was also banned from attending gatehrings.He was imprisoned under the …
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of … year 1948 stands out as the time of a qualitative shift from the ad hoc art of control to the…
PlaceGauteng Province
… The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. … of gold'. Alternatively the ‘gaut’ could also…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and of African Affairs, and is currently the Desmond Tutu Professor in the Faculty of the Social Sciences at the … on a specific topic, informed heavily by…
BiographyPenny Heyns
… and silver but there were some signs of her slowing down from her previous form. On 20 September 2000 she announced her retirement from swimming having set…
BiographyMhlabuvelile Hlamandana
… Chief Mhlabuvelile Hlamandana (Faku), from Bizana District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], … been issued, on 27 November 1960. They were transported…
Henrietta Rebecca Stakesby Lewis
… abandoned babies and a home for individuals who suffered from alcoholism and mental illness. Her husband passed away after suffering for long from a heart…
BiographyHarry Mphahlele
… Harry Mphahlele, from Pietersburg District, Northern Transvaal [now Polokwane, …
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
… cadres. When Abdulhay Jassat and Mosie Moolla escaped from Marshall Square, by chance they came across Moonsammy, who had just returned from work in the…
BiographyJon Lynton David Hrusa
… was born in Cape Town on October 24 1965. He matriculated from St Stithians College in the mid-1980’s and went on to … he became mesmerized and enchanted by…
BiographyKewpie
… Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six . A gender fluid individual who identified … a hidden archive of local queer lives and…
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
… to solitary confinement for years during the 1970s. Moved from one prison to the next, she endured some of the worst … eventually became so severe that she…
BiographyLeo Linda Sihlali
… and also later received a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Africa (UNISA). In the 1940s … 1951 and 1953 he also served as President of…
BiographyMary Thipe
… used the beer hall as a strategy to keep the men away from the struggle by enticing them with alcohol, therefore keeping them drunk and away from their wives…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
… the suspension of the South African Olympic Committee from the Olympic movement. In 1969 he graduated with an MSc … Council Arms Embargo Committee between…
BiographyRobert Anthony Basil Waterwitch
… devout Catholic himself, Waterwitch experienced resistance from the Roman Catholic church leaders at the school when, … was inspired by the Sandinista…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
… , and 16 months after the release of Nelson Mandela from prison, in the midst of South Africa’s transition to … people, so he had to sleep on a special…
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… the youngster into a torch, causing life-threatening burns from just under his right ear down to his chest and his right … him on his face. He stumbled to…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… Congress (ANC) underground. Singh had just been released from Robben Island after serving eight years. Nyawose was … recruit among Swaziland’s notorious…
BiographyLillian Diedericks
… family, classified as Coloured, were forcefully removed from their home by the apartheid government in 1940 when it … hundred and forty six delegates…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… in Soweto (ANC Women’s League, 2021), and matriculated from the Matatiele Boarding School. Motshekga later studied … Congress Women's League (ANCWL) in the…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… passports in 1987 and 1988 to take up his scholarships. From 1971 to 1995 Farouk Asvat received numerous death threats from both the Security Police of the…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… thanks the advice and encouragement that I have received from my supervisor. Dr. John Forrester. But the subject, the … South Africa’, Economy and Society ,…
BiographyMonica Molife
… Monica Molife, from Nqutu District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was banished …
BiographyNamedi Mphahlele
… Namedi Mphahlele was banished on 19 February 1953 from his residence in Pietersburg District, [Northern] … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University, 2012…
BiographyIsaac Molife
… Isaac Molife, from Nqutu District, Natal [now KwaZulu-Natal] was banished …
BiographyPiet Mabukela
… Piet Mabukela was banished on 28 July 1952 from Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now … Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes…
BiographyRalekeke Rantuba
… Ralekeke Rantuba, from Evaton Township, Vereeniging District, Transvaal [now … Professor S. Badat on Banishment, Rhodes University, 2012. From the book,…