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EventBophuthatswana decide not to publish report of Smith Commission
… not to publish the findings of Mr Justice E.A.T. Smith, one-man commission of inquiry into the shootings at …
EventThe hijacking of an Egypt Air passenger jet to Malta ends in bloodshed.
… the plane - were also pushed out onto the tarmac. Said one of the passengers, "They were constantly aggressive, …
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
… forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history. …
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… persuading slaves and Khoi servants to join them. Only in one instance did the march encounter resistance. In fact, …
EventThe burghers were victorious in their struggle against Cape Governor Willem Adriaan van der Stel and his officials
… fleet. Tas was arrested and Jacobus van der Heiden - one of the most intractable witnesses - was thrown into the …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Silkaatsnek begins
… Boer actions, of which the action of Silkaatsnek was but one of three successes, with resultant timely encouragement …
PlaceGlen Grey Division
… course this was annexed to the Cape. Throughout this time one group of amaThembu abstained from the fighting and, as a …
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in …
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… After a number of years, we have produced a documentary on one of the unsung heroes of our struggle," Samuel said. …
58. Congress has sold our rights
… is doing great injury to the public. I am glad at least one man has come forward to show them up in their true …
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
… to join his brother Munsamy who has been here for about one year. As nine-tenths of the Indians in this division are …
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… (a) that even the name of the Free State could lead one to conclude that all men have equal rights; (b) that the …
PlaceCape Town Civic Centre and the CBD of Cape Town
… is for these beautiful sites that Cape Town is hailed as one of the most beautiful Cities in the World. Being the …
PlaceAasvoelberg known as The Eye Of Zastron
… the town was founded, took responsibility for making this. One day, so the legend goes, he was out hunting below the …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Glossary
… control of a country, city, etc. by force. Conquistador: One of the Spanish people who took control of Mexico and Peru … people lived before. Slavery: This…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… their South African citizenship and makes them citizens of one of the homelands or Bantustans irrespective of their … a ‘leaflet bomb’ in Cape Town. 1978…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… need for housing before any relocation turned out to be one of the major problems faced by Sowetans, especially the … of Johannesburg be relocated to the…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… in 1976 and a critic of the apartheid government, was one of the founding members of TAC. He too had resigned in … their degrees rather than indulge in…
Zulu Community
… twelve years of his reign (1816-1828), he had forged one of the mightiest empires the African continent has ever … to great bitterness and outbreaks of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… of apartheid. While the laws segregated society on the one hand, they galvanised different racial groups to … divisions and the Coloureds received the right…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleBritain takes control of the Cape
… boost to the English-speaking population. This period saw one of the largest stages of British settlement in Africa, … for the rights of oppressed black Cape…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
… a 'Programme of Action’ at their conference. This marked one of the most important turning points in the history of … entering locations and public…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… Organiser did the printing at a reduced rate. Bob Fine, one of its leading members, was active in solidarity work for … believed in the need for a single…
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
… Rhodesian and South West African questions will be settled one way or other within the next six months and an evaluation … of relations between the People's…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… taking place around the Suez Canal in Egypt. In 1956, one year after Nawal el-Saadawi married, the new President … in the war. Her husband however was…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
… over which we preside in which the very poor prey on one another with knives and guns, in which we have to contend … its foundation and remain its principal…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… degrees of independence, most people became involved in one or other form of wage labour. A large number were forced … a man called Clements Kadalie . The…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
… and the Orange Free State. The first phase of the war was one of the set-piece battles, but from July 1900 onwards the …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… of musical forms of the 1970s and 1980s. The Movies One of the major contributors to Sophiatown culture was the …