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EventNovelist and poet Kgadime Matsepe is born
… (South African Academy for Arts and Science), namely for his work Kgorong ya Mosate (At the king's court) in 1964 and Meyokgo ya bjoko (Tears of the brain)…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… attend as the organisation as it was prevented by the apartheid government from doing so. However, a memorandum was … Trialist , who left the country without…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Glossary
… for himselfor to procure it directly or indirectly for his children”. populism - advocating mass or broad public … method segregationist policies - those…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… and strategists of our liberation movement, and indeed, his passing on closes an important chapter in the struggle … teachers and workers in the urban…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… have attempted to find a time suitable to both myself and His Grace, Bishop Lekganyane, so that we could confer about … to make different, commit an ugly sin…
Emergency convocation of churches in South Africa: package of preparation material
… An Emergency Convocation of Churches was decided upon to work on and develop effective non-violent actions to pressure … church to refuse to collaborate with…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… has worked, together with the masses, first to defeat the apartheid system, and then to vanquish the legacy of racial … the African National Congress. We…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… Reforms Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin and his new communist government initiated many reforms. They … workers. Exploitative working conditions…
EventJohn Davidson Rockerfeller, US philanthropist, donates $10 million towards the building of a museum in Cairo, Egypt
… and a philanthropist who founded the Standard American Oil Company. Rockefeller family is one of the …
EventAdelaide Tambo returns to South Africa after 30 years
… age of ten. While she attended high school, she started to work as a courier for the African National Congress (ANC). At … and in 1960, they were asked by…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… 3 November 1926 Document 39 Report by J. La Guma to Anglo-American Secretariat, ECCI, 10 March 1927 [Extract] Document … [October 1927] Document 48 Minutes…
EventTseko Simon Nkoli dies
… related illness. Nkoli was one of the first Black anti-apartheid activists to publicly identify as gay and … diagnosed with HIV whilst in prison and went…
Broadcast to South Africa by OR Tambo on the 8th Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe, 16 December 1969
… of our fathers, this time against the modern oppressor and his allies. Already that army has won historic battles in the … enemy agents in our midst. We are…
Capture the Citadel. Broadcast to South Africa on the eighth Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1969
… of our fathers, this time against the modern oppressor and his allies. Already that army has won historic battles in the … enemy agents in our midst. We are…
Justice Arthur Chaskalson: President of Constitutional Court interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 2 February 2000, The Braamfontein, Johannesburg
… project is trying to do, is it to look at the role of anti-apartheid NGOs within South Africa and how they had an … was something that appealed very much to…
Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999
… when he walked and worked with us; when he showed us his sharpness and the quality that made him our leader. The … no matter what indignation he held in his…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… Legislation This period marks the beginning of the rise of apartheid. Although South Africa was already a very … The Fagan Report stated that total…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… government. AZAPO saw the capitalist system rather than apartheid as the main oppressing force in South Africa and … to bring about an equal distribution of…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… as a pastor in Paarl between 1967 and 1970. After received his PhD from a university in New York, he led a parish in … this platform to speak out against the…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… One cannot exhaust nor adequately portray the ugliness of apartheid ills. Much could and should be said by the … House demands that we actively support…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… range of views of the man whose full official title was: “His Imperial Majesty Haile Selassie I, Conquering Lion of the … fairly be compared to the 19th…
Speech by the Minister of Higher Education and Training, Dr. Blade Nzimande at SAHO Graduate Internship Programme launch, 30 October, 2012
… SAHO interns are indeed lucky to get this opportunity to work in an area that they love and to mobile it with … new, exciting and relevant ways. It should…
Address by President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the 62nd session of the United Nations’ General Assembly, New York
… by adding my voice to the many salutations directed to His Excellency, Ban Ki-Moon for being elected as the … Excellency, a fruitful tenure, trusting that…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… if only they would be patient and go quietly on with the work in the old conditions. By the time the Commission … cross examining and contradicting witnesses…
EventArchbishop Owen Cardinal McCann becomes South Africa’s first cardinal.
… Church Archbishop of Cape Town, Owen McCann, an enemy of Apartheid, became South Africa's first Cardinal when he was … on its racial segregation policy and…
EventThe first missionary in Southern Africa, Gonçalo da Silveira, is murdered
… as provincial superior for the Jesuits, before he began his work in southern Africa. He first arrived at Sofala … and proceeded to Otongwe near Cape…
EventGriffiths Mxenge is murdered
… Mxenge , an African National Congress (ANC) veteran and apartheid activist, was assassinated and his body was severely mutilated in an act of barbaric…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… arguments against miscegenation, as well as a poem. [7] His published poems include “Paul Kruger’s Dream”, “Tshaka’s … he quoted (thereby reprinting) at…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… class and working class Focus is on the individual and his/her own progress in life Communism System of government … ideology of communism People need one…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… Association 'was killed because he refused to sell his people for thirty pieces of silver.' 24 March, South … , and many more at the Durban Central Prison,…