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ArticleRichard David Turner Timeline 1941 - 1978
… 1966 Completes doctorate and returns to South Africa with his family 1967 Farms at his mother’s farm, Welcarmes, in Stellenbosch 1969 Teaches … with SPRO-CAS…
ArticleWhat makes a good or great leader?
… like a rabbi or a minister. 5. At your mom or dad's work, her or his boss is a leader. 6. Political leaders include the … Here are some of them: A good…
BiographyLettie Malindi
Lettie Malindi was born in Firgrove, near Stellenbosch, on 26 March 1922, the fifth of eleven children. Her father, John Matibi, was a railway worker from the…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… and who might be forced into exile. Mandela had come into his own, more assertive, more combative towards the regime … there was much covert activity and…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… Africans from the position of a common humanity. Jonker's work was condemned by her father, then a leading member of … of the parliamentary committee…
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… to the mine at De Beer's, which marked the beginning of his dominance of the diamond mining industry in South Africa. … Trading Company (DTC) in 2000. Harry…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments that emerged in the high phase of apartheid, when the…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to … that date. (3764) Second, Pelser did not want to…
BiographySelf Mampuru
… to 1939. He was unsuccessful in organising cooperatives on his return to South Africa. In 1943, critical of the inaction …
BiographyTom Lebekoe
… Vryburg District on 6 June 1956. There is no evidence of his order of 6 June 1956 being revoked. … the book, Forgotten People - Political Banishment under…
BiographyDarius Segatle
… Province] until the end of 1960, when he was dismissed for his purported anti-state activities. He was accused of … the book, Forgotten People - Political…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… in hidden bases were plotting strikes against the evil apartheid empire. Security Police Storm Troopers hunted down … immediately and died twenty minutes…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… prior to the introduction and institutionalisation of the Apartheid policy by the NP. Legislations that had an … adopted the ANC-like mode of operations,…
ArticleAftermath of the Bhambatha Rebellion 1906
… roles as chiefs. King Dinizulu was arrested near Nongoma. His trial took place in Greytown. Although he was defended by … of treason and sentenced to four…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… the point where under the National Party the ideology of apartheid had become the official vision. It was part of the … and sever the “golden chains of…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… this dyer situation spawned a movement which forced the apartheid regime to the bargaining table. Richard Turner … that ideas were not dormant in libraries…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is indeed a singular honour today to deliver a … political activities cost him his…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… for nearly forty years, it was only in 2013 that I got to work with him. It was on a special edition of Transformation … Eddie, he had begun to probe these…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ and with regard to the organizational challenges … of class and national struggle and that…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… often used as platforms for building new ones during the apartheid era, [ii] so to understand those which famously … the increasing need for people to find…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… of having to play those games did not sit well with me. My work in the ANC had been building solidarity and I felt we … Secretary, Rodney Bickerstaff, let it…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… decades in the ferment of civil wars in KwaZulu-Natal. His poetry is all about that and he is more than an insider … country’s best artists are their…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… areas of the Eastern Cape known to be instruments of the Apartheid government became primary targets. A lorry carrying … time, attacked Berger with axes…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Bernstein who was present at that first meeting, noted in his autobiography that as he listened to Professor Z.K. … who was encouraged by the favourable…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… gathered to perpetrate violence against the repressive apartheid state. Succeeding the Sharpeville incident, a … recruited straight to the SACP Central…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… Clermont under the Apartheid days was a black middle income Township, in … road and is named after Sir Clermont, a farmer who sold his land. It was the only…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Sindile Moya
… member of PAC provincially, and is still an activist in his community in Langa. He is also an executive member of the … the fear of guns. These tools were a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… the ANC and SACP later forged an alliance to fight against apartheid. Anti pass protests and strikes became was a common … 11 June, Meshach Pelem president…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… on Robben Island Although banned and house arrested after his release from Robben Island in 1973, Indres Naidoo … an influential behind-the-scenes role in…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… together, preserved and unified them originally for his own and, ultimately, the public’s enjoyment. Thus the … necessary and valuable course through which…