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ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
… as a social group and a ‘race’, which led to the apartheid regime. The article briefly traces the key events … when Frederik Bezidenhout was reported to have…
ArchiveMeeting between the Honorable R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Ambassador H Nickel of the United States: Cape Town, 12 March 1984
… South African Foreign Affairs Minister, Pik Botha and the American Ambassador, Mr H Nickel, about a statement made by …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… UN and South Africa. The implementation of the policy of apartheid by the NP put South Africa on the UN General … agenda. After the UN General Assembly…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people … himself in return for an early release…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Diocese of Johannesburg. 9 During the early years of his life, he was a committed socialist and a leading member … Value and Profit" were studied together…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… the mid-1930s, it was difficult for black women to find work in the formal sector. Domestic service tended to be … as African men. As a result, black women…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
… plans. Power resides in the office of the Prime Minister. His department has 5 Ministers dealing with 47 Departments. … growing among those who have neither…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The … groups were formed on 20 January 1992…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… and youth in Britain to continue resistance against apartheid. In 1964 Mbeki, Essop Pahad and others convened a … Shortly after they were elected, Mbeki…
EventAdriaan Vlok applies for amnesty
… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, … Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade…
Rafique Mayet
… the African Photography Festival in Bamako, Mali and had his first solo exhibition at the NSA Gallery in Durban. It … submitted essays for the show "Blank -…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… 1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer … age of 17, he leaves school in his matriculation year to work full-time…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… captured the children and women as cheap labour sources to work on farms. The Khoi lost grazing land and their … Ngqika as the official sovereign of the…
PlaceMamelodi
… given to President Paul Kruger by the Africans because of his ability to whistle and imitate birds, also meaning Mother … and the pain they endured after…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… boarding house food and a very low SRC poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of the University gave … him to return to university after the…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… expand on some of their influences and themes in their work as well as highlighting some of their most notable … journalist and novelist, Zukiswa Wanner has…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… subject matter in the past has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and … life in a racially-divided country. She often…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… well-established networks, linked to international anti-apartheid movements, in Europe and the US. Through its … organisations that would help the movement…
March on Washington
… American poster from the National Campaign for Peace in the …
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… fundamentally warmhearted and friendly. The African in his kraal, even in his squalid "Shanty Town", and in the … at the City Deep Mine and the rest were…
Mission Stations - N-S
… (as mentioned in my former Journal, with about sixty of his people,) paid me a visit on my arrival at George Town, on … and their native servants. "We found…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… the estate inventory of Hendrick Willem van der Merwe and his deceased wife, Aletta Keijser, 6 October 1750. WCA, MOOC … than those in the town. Rural slaves…
PlaceUniversity of Cape Town
… Daniel Hahn, convinced the Council to admit 4 women into his Chemistry Class, on a trial basis. Owing to the exceptional standard of work by the Women…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… the raid. What name has the 16th taken on now in anti - apartheid circles, I am not sure. It used to be MK day - … in the Harry Gwala trial in 1977, many…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… which, in tum, are continually on the move. Lenin, in his famous address to the young communists of the University … the creation of conditions which will…
Mission Stations - M
… of king Rapusa of Swaziland, the missionary Allison and his wife arrived at Matemba, capital of the Swazis. He … mission house and the church, was destroyed…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities … Andrew Masondo, were convinced it was…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… frisky synth solos and the whirling rhythms of Latin American bolero and salsa. All of it is dazingly repetitive … but Analog Africa founder Samy Ben Redjeb…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 February 1977, Volume 108
… Willem Hendrik du Toit, Personnel Consultant for Anglo American Corporation and others, to the Commission of Inquiry …
Nadine Gordimer`s key note speech - Amnesty International Ambassador of Conscience Award
… some human advancement. That is the context in which his name will live in history, beyond the new millennium. … despite the grim fact that mysterious deaths…