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Documents released by the National Security Archive, a U.S.-based research organisation, show US officials knew of the Rwandan
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… not what it claimed to be, but rather became a justifying document for the colonisation of the Ndebele and the Shona. … South Africa, was his institution of…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… has been accompanied by a renewed effort to write and document the history of the resistance against apartheid and … of people, the armed struggle has proved…
BiographyLivingstone Mqotsi
Livingstone Mqotsi (Livie) was born in the village of Rabula in the Keiskammahoek district in the former Ciskei, now Eastern Cape, on 18 April 1921. Mqotsi…
Documents of the National Fundraising Workshop held on 14 - 20 March, 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, Tanzania
Report in booklet format of the first African National Congress National Fundraising Workshop held in March 1986, at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College in…
The Prime Minister and Chief Kaiser Matanzima sign a total of sixty-five documents concerning the establishment of an independe
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo
Andrew Mandla Lekoto Masondo was born in Soweto, Johannesburg. He attended school at Saint Angsgurs Primary School in 1946 and matriculated in 1954 from the…
BiographyDeputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke
Dikgang Moseneke was born in Pretoria on 20 December 1947. He is the eldest of the four children of Karabo Mabel and a school headmaster Samuel John Sedise…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
Gertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper, the second-youngest of eight children was born in King Williamstown but grew up Worcester where her father, an engineer…
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… for the sake of the nation. On 31 May 1902, the peace document was signed at Pretoria. Afterwards, De la Rey went …
The police raid the editorial offices of the Rand Daily Mail in Johannesburg and confiscate documents relating to a series of a
Scorpion investigators raid the upmarket Glenhurst wine farm boxes of documents are removed. The raid is part of an ongoing b
BiographyChief Maqoma
"Without question Maqoma was the most renowned Xhosa chief in South Africa's 19th-century frontier wars.Born in 1798, he was the Right Hand Son of Ngqika, King…
Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act No 67 commences, repealing the laws relating to the carrying of
Identification Act No 72 commences. It repealed the 1952 Blacks (Abolition of Passes and Co-ordination of Documents) Act and la
Police seize documents and videos from the home of the general secretary of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
BiographyJeanette Eleanor Kasrils
Eleanor Kasrils was born in Scotland in 1936. She came to Durban as an infant. In March 1960, Ronnie Kasrils, later, her husband, visited Durban, to visit his…
ArticleThe legacy of the French Revolution
… of Man One of the legacies of the French Revolution is a document called The Declaration of the Rights of Man, which became part of French law on 16 August…
BiographyJeremy Patrick Cronin
Jeremy Patrick Cronin was born on 12 September 1949 in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). He grew up in Cape Town, the son of a naval officer who died when…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… Charter Committee produced a politically significant document entitled African Claims, which chartered the path to …
ArticleThe Aftermath of the war
… and by 31 May 1902 the peace agreement was official. The document was signed in Pretoria at Melrose House. The Treaty … Click here for the Original Treaty…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… until 1986 when he was issued with a highly restricted document; being granted limited passports in 1987 and 1988 to …
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… as ANC president, he outlined his vision for Congress in a document entitled ‘The Policy and Platform of the African … role in helping Xuma coordinate the…
BiographySamson Ratshilumela Mudzunga
Samson Ratshilumela Mudzunga was born in 1934 in the Nzhelele district of the former Venda ‘homeland’, now Limpopo province. However, Apartheid-era documents…
BiographyVictoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge
Victoria Nonyamezelo Mxenge was born in 1942 in Tamara Village in King William’s Town, Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) to Wilmot Goso and Nobantu Ntebe…
It comes to light that thousands of unwitting South African women, who lost their ID documents in the past, may be married ille
ArticleOral history guidelines
… This guidelines contains articles that document how to conduct oral history. It looks at conducting …
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… 980 in the transcripts. Where I have made reference to a document in the Appendix of rare or hitherto confidential … letter A or B, indicating in which of…
Some documents on Indians in South Africa and India’s support to the Struggle for Freedom in South Africa 1914-1988, compiled by E.S.Reddy
10 YEARS PROJECT
… close Document 17 The Groote Schuur Minute 4 May 1990 The … (a) The leaving of the country without a valid travel document. (b) Any offences related merely…