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Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… you were. Comrade President Tambo painted a poignant in his foreword to the Book entitled No Easy Walk to Freedom by … inferiority, and maintains them as…
Grade 4 term 2 Timeline: Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… in the suburbs of Cape Town 1985 Mandela rejects, through his daughter, Zindzi, South African President PW Botha's … He says that the government must first…
BiographyLevi Mabe
… 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…
BiographyMankopodi Sekhukhune
… of 1927 by commenting on matters that did not fall within his jurisdiction. All the while, Mankopodi Sekhukhune, was … the book, Forgotten People - Political…
EventThree British mercenaries are sentenced to death for their part in the Angolan civil war
… on the 28 June 1976. Three British mercenaries and an American were sentenced to death, with the remaining captured … them in the United Kingdom, expressed…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… received extreme criticism which then led Dhlomo to write his own version of the story. Figures such as Sol Plaatjie … there and shared in the ideals of the…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… parties of the different imperialist countries must work in conjunction with the proletarian parties of the … is as yet no real labour union. In the Pacific…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… and the destruction of the evil and degrading system of apartheid. This time last year we said that victory was … the idea in the first instance. P W Botha…
EventRugby player Breyton Paulse is included in the national team after the ANCYL challenged the decision to omit him
… of ruby developed along with the political ideology of apartheid, and soon became representative of the exclusion … to keep rugby as an exclusive sport for…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
… who was the pioneer of the conquest of Zimbabwe, with his British South African Company (BSAC), bought a written … base for the army. Their function was to…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It prohibited adultery, attempted … different population groups could own…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… for the first time. He had been in prison since 1962. His "NO EASY WALK TO FREEDOM" was their first reading. They … Dutch Reformed Church. Yes, the same…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… stuff from the UK to our settlements in Tanzania sent in his packers at the last minute. We were astonished that only … our feet there, and for me getting to…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the introduction of the … waving placards and singing. A white…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… became the hero of millions of Africans who rejected apartheid. At Wentworth, Natal University’s medical school … to people,” said Barney Pityana (Biko’s…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 68th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1980
… of Vietnam through the defeat of the occupation forces of American imperialism and their puppets throughout Indo-China. … South Africa had forced the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… of Vietnam through the defeat of the occupation forces American imperialism and their puppets throughout Indo-China. … South Africa had forced the Secretary…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Cape Dutch Reformed clergy were not happy when he baptised his converts. After seven years, he had to end his work and leave the country, in 1745. The…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of … health, the fight against crime, creating decent work as well as…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Cuba made to help speed up the defeat of colonialism and apartheid in Southern Africa. Even today, your actions … African patriots. We agree with the…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… Cuba made to help speed up the defeat of colonialism and apartheid in Southern Africa. Even today, your actions … African patriots. We agree with the…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… Congress of Azania (PAC). One of the students that the apartheid colonialist police shot dead on 16 June 1976 was … high school in Soweto, the first student…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
… distance from Cape Town to Somerset West. In 1987, Anglo-American Farms Limited (AmFarms) bought Vergelegen from Tom Barlow, who took over in 1966 from his…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Report on Delegations, Publications and Organisations of the PRC
… to publicise the Passive Resistance struggle to acquaint American public opinion of the injustice of colour bar laws … difficult conditions, Mr. Choudree did…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… and convoys. Ruth Robb was known for her outstanding work leading and being a huge part of the Black Sash … World War I, he was held a prisoner of war…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… an impressive basis for world-wide workers' action against apartheid. It united for the first time in many years all the … steadily and spectacularly from 57…
Early civilisations from around the world: Mesopotamia, China, Indus River Valley, the Mesoamerican empires
… They accepted the idea that the Gods created people to work for them. The role of people was to cultivate the land … The gods were represented on earth by…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in … in…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… instilled in the youth obviously agitated the Apartheid regime. The process leading up to the Soweto … Consciousness, but it must be noted that Biko had…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… Louis Botha's death in 1919. The Pact Government had to work on establishing a new South African identity marking its … so he used “Swart Gevaar” (Black…