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Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… patriot. In unbridled savagery, they extensively mutilated his face and cut off his ears. A member of the African National Congress since the … years on…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has … this tension isn’t inevitable, gender…
Pretoria Socialist Society
… especially its more aggressive form, White baaskap and apartheid. It is in the economic sphere that this disastrous … and domineering manner in which the…
ArchiveColour and Christian community
… experience and travels and makes mention of the African American community and their political condition in the …
EventEgyptian and US Archaeologists discover a 5000 years old fleet of ships near the Nile
… 1991 (21 December according to other sources) Egyptian and American Archaeologists discovered a 5000 years old fleet of …
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…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… working people and played an important role in defeating apartheid. First, the strikes triggered the formation of … had begun to rely on black workers to do…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… is appointed full-time General Organiser for the SANNC. His duties include touring the Union in search of financial … the local one-roomed primary school…
ArchiveThe Little Acknowledged Legacy of Steve Biko by Prithiraj Dullay, (Daily News), 08 Sept 2008
… Thirty years ago in 1977 the beast of Apartheid snuffed out the life of one of the greatest … core of the monster. He had to be eliminated so that his ideas…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… than this. Slavery is a history which until the fall of apartheid in 1994 remained largely forgotten in public … to remote and dangerous racially-exclusive…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… task of sabotaging the Johannesburg area. Joe Modise and his unit were to sabotage the Kliptown area while Masondo and his unit were given the administrative…
EventLegendary photographer Sam Nzima dies
… in Bushbuck Ridge, Limpopo . He grew up in a farm where his father worked and his family lived. Nzima’s teacher had a camera and he was … 1976 Soweto…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… the indigenous people using the social system of their old American masters as a basis for their new society). These … William Tolbert was executed along…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by RIXAKA, January 1985
… artists who, in their works, are fighting against the apartheid system with all its injustices. Foreign artists who … and modern crafts. The range is…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Rixaka, 05 January 1985
… artists who, in their works, are fighting against the apartheid system with all its injustices. Foreign artists who … and modern crafts. The range is…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation leader, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, whose … South Africa’s liberation struggle…
Albie Sachs: SA Constitutional Court Judge interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg Constitutional Court
… community who were incorporated into the structures of apartheid - benefited from it and defended it. And… so that … rather late in the day, to engage in…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the ANC’s manifesto launch 24 August 1995
… We turned our backs on the division and conflict of apartheid, and we set the nation irreversibly on the path of … in government. At last communities will…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… priest all rolled into one. The Pharaoh, screening much of his work and status in a kind of confusing mystery, centralized … of the pharaohs and bureaucrats…
David Goldblatt,The Transported of KwaNdebele by L'oeil De La Photographie, 26 September 2016
… has documented the social and political developments of his native South Africa with a critical yet compassionate … of everyday life to reveal the far…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… ; South Africa - Politics and government - 20th century - Apartheid ; Bantu Education Act, 1955 ; Immediacy of oppression ; Anti-Apartheid Movement ; Exile ;…
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… By the late 1980s, Nigeria's debt totalled 30 billion American dollars despite the fact that the country was the …
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the apartheid government arrested a number of black political … My father, Aggrey Klaaste, was one of…
EventNeil Aggett is buried in Johannesburg
… Johannesburg. It was estimated that 15 000 people attended his funeral. His labour organisation issued a call that on 11 February … the day of his burial,…
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress, Nelson Mandela, to the Parliament of Canada Ottawa, 18 June 1990
… country, even as guests, emphasises the iniquity of the apartheid system which we are all determined to abolished … passionate sermons which proclaimed that…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… but in most cases, this meant an employee going along with his employer. On the Boer side, Black people assisted at … and spare rifles and even load up the…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… on an anti-pass campaign on Monday the 21st. According to his "Testimony about the Launch of the Campaign," Sobukwe … who worked in Vereeniging. Many people…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… in South Africa were brought as indentured labourers to work on the Transvaal gold mines. Within a few days, on 11 … Smuts did not repeal the Black Act as he…
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… after passing the Bar 1893 He travels to South Africa to work under a year-long contract with Dada Abdulla & Co., an … He organizes an Indian ambulance corps…
Glossary: Learning from Leaders
… Ambassador A person who officially represents his or her government in another country. Banish Send someone … A group of families with a common forefather…