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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…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… place, near or far, the better to be able to continue to work for our liberation. We salute the Founding Fathers of … did 75 years ago, to confront the…
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… He is commonly referred to as "Die Groot Krokodil" for his strong advocacy of the apartheid system. Botha's political career began when he … Israel,…
EventPrime Minister Botha visits Soweto
… the first South African prime minister to visit Soweto. His visit included talks with the Soweto Community Council … "we are all South Africans". These…
ArchiveConsultation in preparation for the meeting with law professors from white South Africa
… Notes regarding a meeting to discuss and work out an agenda for an African National Congress meeting … Law professors. Proposed agenda includes Human Rights…
ArchiveSpeak
… contraception and sexually transmitted diseases, better work conditions as well as representation by trade unions, including domestic workers, resistance to…
EventAndré Phillipus Brink, well-known SA author, is born
… Phillipus Brink was born on 29 May 1935. Brink obtained his Bachelor of Arts degree in Literature at the University of Potchefstroom in 1955. 1n 1958 he…
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…
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…
Statement of the African National Congress by Oliver Tambo, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
Forward to a People's Government by O. R. Tambo - Statement of the ANC, 18 March 1980
… P.W. Botha, surprised the world with the announcement that his Government had decided to summon a conference … we understand this move? Does it mean that…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
… ; South Africa - Politics and government - 20th century - Apartheid ; Bantu Education Act, 1955 ; Immediacy of oppression ; Anti-Apartheid Movement ; Exile ;…
EventIgnatius Iggy Mthebule remembered
… Johannesburg . He was working closely with Joy Harden an apartheid agent who he met while working in Maputo; Iggy had … a restaurant in Hillbrow ,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…