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BiographyRajes Pillay
… of the Kimberley Branch of the Tamil Vedic Society and secretary of the Cape Coloured People's Association. He … a listed person. The Security Police used to…
EventANC member and UDF-leader Christmas Tinto, is born in Mqanduli in the Transkei
… students uprising, Tinto was detained in Pollsmoor Prison and on Robben Island until his release in 1978.In 1983, … ANC member and UDF-leader Christmas…
ArticleAfrikaans community, 1883-1899
… launched its industrial revolution between the late 1860's and the end of the 1890's were crucial in the shaping of … diamonds in Griqualand West in 1868 and…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of … presence in the chamber as an affront to…
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to enlarge and view other pages Industrialization and British … to their country in 1907) were imported to work…
BiographyRick Turner
… David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly influential in the … unsuccessful…
Article2016 in Review
… nice to know that we are making a difference in classrooms and lecture halls, at home and worldwide. We also published … Caster Semenya was also victorious…
BiographyMatthew Goniwe
… of Cradock in the Eastern Cape. His parents David and Elizabeth were farm labourers. He was the youngest of … eight children. Goniwe attended St James'…
Opening address by CDE Nelson Mandela on the occassion of the signing of a statement of intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research and Policy formulation
… intent to set up a national capacity for Economic Research and Policy formulation …
Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935
… League (B-L) to the Workers' Party of South Africa and the Communist League of South Africa, 12 October 1935 …
"Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers' Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935 …
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… Susan Booysen. 2011. The African National Congress and the Regeneration of Political Power. Johannesburg: Wits … Lissoni, Jon Soske, Natasha Erlank, Noor…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis
… tolerance that has come my way from members of the Koranna and Griqua community in Bloemfontein in whose midst the book was first conceived; and for the…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… me to present this paper to the conference on Torture and the Future. Torture has recently been often in the news … human being, have to care about putting…
Address at the National Summit of Unity and Reconciliation in Rwanda Kigali 19 October 2000
… Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Brothers and Sisters of Rwanda, We bring the greetings of the people … has been our pain as well. The progress…
Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… Among others McGreal said that as President of the ANC and South Africa, Thabo Mbeki had “wielded power as if it was … Buildings – the seat of the presidency…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… that he fought on the political, economic, cultural and moral fronts. His ideas about love, truth, soul force (‘brahmacharya’) and Satyagraha have universal…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… debate; individuals from a variety of communities and political perspectives have raised similar questions: to … to South African history falsely isolate the…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… that military action was complementing political action, and political action facilitating military action" . Mac … rationalisations central to ANC strategy,…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders: Reconsiderations of the … One of the key generalisations of political…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… Zulu Mission (AZM) in Natal on 22 February 1871 to James and Elizabeth Dube. ‘Langalibalele’, his middle name, means … way of life. The Christian way of life…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… in 1976 known as the Soweto Uprising claimed many lives and left many injured. The protests began in Soweto schools and spread across the country. The unrest…
ArchiveCivil Society vs. the State: identity, institutions, and the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… theory of transtions from authoritarian rule and tests it on the case of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa between 1966 and 1979. It begins by…
EventSouth Africa, Cuba and Angola Sign formal peace agreement, allowing Namibian independence from South Africa
… U.N. Resolution 435, which calls for Namibian independence and for supervised elections in the onetime German colony. … delicately intertwined interests…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist who fell from the 10th Floor of … Imtiaz Ahmed Cajee, author of, …
EventThe Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period of time
… The Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period, when Gert Maritz moved his own laager and several small laagers scattered over a…
EventSimon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrive at the Cape to assist dissatisfied burghers
… On 23 June 1792, Simon Hendrik Freykenius and Sebastiaan Cornelis Nederburgh arrived in the Cape. Both Freykenius and Nederburgh were Commissioner-Generals…
ArchiveMinutes of a Meeting between the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development, Mr. M. C. Botha, officials of the Department of Bantu Administration and Development .... held in the Bantu Administration Building, Pretoria on 19 June 1976
… Education, West Rand Bantu Affairs Administration Board and Representatives of the Urban Council, School Board and Teachers of Soweto in which issues such as…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… in the British Foreign Office in the late 19th century and early 20th century died in Canterbury, England. Milner … Anglo- Boer War). His mission was to…
EventFour South Africans and a British national charged with illegally exporting military equipment to South Africa
… came to light on the 2 April 1984 when four South Africans and three British nationals, were charged with illegally exporting high-pressure gas cylinders and…