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EventHajara Ibrahim appears before a Nigerian Islamic court to launch an appeal against her conviction for adultery
… flogging, amputation and stoning for crimes like adultery. One of the first instances when Sharia law in Nigeria was …
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… during the colonial period were Sayed Abdurahman Moturu, one of Cape Town's first imams, and the Xhosa prophets, …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
… arrived from Port Nolloth and ended the siege. This was one of the last military actions by Boer forces, as the war …
EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… of marine diamonds off the coast of Namibia. De Beers was one of the first South African companies to address the …
PlacePhillipton
… "stirring up" the Khoi, he was repeatedly censured and, at one stage, prevented from returning to Philipton after the …
EventParliament convenes to consider the resignation of President Thabo Mbeki
… the Democratic DA) secured fifty votes. There were forty one spoilt ballots. Motlanthe was sworn in as the third …
EventDay of Reconciliation celebrated as a public holiday in SA for the first time
… tasked with promoting reconciliation and national unity. One way in which it aimed to do this symbolically was to …
PlaceClearwater, Now Known as Griquastad- in the Northern Cape
… Crime Novel has been written about the infamous murders by one of South Africa's leading reporters, Jacques Steenkamp, …
PlaceMariammen Temple, Pretoria
… upon layer of horizontal tiers in true Dravidian style and one which closely follows the Silpa Sastras. The plain …
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… played a major role in the struggle for Freedom and is one of the Historic Tourist Attractions in South Africa. …
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The programme of the Fourth … have to travel if labour unity is to…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… question, “Am I Next?” [10] This march turned into one of the largest protests in recent South African history … protests in September 2019 were not the…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… forward look and co-operativeness that should drive every one of you to do his best for the Freedom cause. It should … Africa in particular that our struggle…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… record as an armed revolutionary movement was such a poor one. Even a superficial examination of the ANC's operational … revolution, thereafter it became…
Message to the Soweto Rally to Welcome Released Leaders by O. R. Tambo, 29 October 1989
… is also in part a tribute to that magnificent struggle by one of our longest-serving political prisoners, Nelson … a bitter conflict between the forces of…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… being written the Marikana massacre is being remembered, one of the symptoms of an unchecked use of force, part of the … of Zuma outside the court room…
Address at the Launch of the Millenium Labour Council, 7 July 2000
… work and productiveness to many other millions. I see one-third of a nation ill-housed, ill-clad, ill- nourished. … the destiny of both parties is bound up…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… it "shall be aimed at ending all forms of exploitation of one man by another" Anybody who cares to observe the living … Blacks alienated from it. For the BCM…
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa summit Cape Town, 9 June 1994
… interest too. This challenge is as much as South African one as it applies to the region as a whole. Now that we have … Democratic South Africa enters this…
Document 6 - Report of Delegation to All-African Convention and Unify Conference 16-17 December 1943. Presented to 2nd National Anti-CAD Conference, 4-5 January 1944
… The meeting of the A.A.C. was the most important one since 1935, which was the peak point in the resistance of … and 2 Vice Chairmen; Dr. G. H. Gool of the…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… two major confrontations between police and workers. No-one was killed. However, without the strength of unions … of strikes were less than three days and…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… regarded as a favour. The wooden hoe, later replaced by one of iron, was the main tool women used to till the fields. … more settled village life. It became…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… to takeout such certificates. But an illiterate person or one otherwise not known would come to grief by following … their finger-prints. READER: Well, a…
PlaceConstantia
… and sold. His cousin Johannes Paulus Eksteen acquired one part in 1830, described as the remainder although it was … no homestead on Bergvliet until P. M…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… African Reserve Bank (SARB), Mr Lesetja Kganyago, Heads of Chapter 9 institutions, Leaders of faith-based organisations, … improved. They are signs of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 94th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2006
… March on Pretoria, which consolidated the role of women as one of the central players for our liberation, which also … finally to place the task of the…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… and independence. Unlike Alice there is a Road Map, but one shared with another traveller whose intentions are by no … likenesses down to a grinning Cheshire…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… for a nonracial, democratic and united South Africa on the one side and on the other the armed defenders of the … of Eminent Persons submitted on 12th June…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… for a nonracial, democratic and united South Africa on the one side and on the other the armed defenders of the … of Eminent Persons submitted on 12th June…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… When the ANC was banned and leaders were in exile, he is one of those who played a key role inside the country, … to our angry youth and their frustrated…