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EventBlack empowerment makes headway
… Africa's largest Black economic empowerment deal, Anglo American and the National Empowerment Consortium (NEC) signed …
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… Indian High School and moves to Pakistan to continue his education. 1963 After completing a two year science course in Lahore, Asvat begins his medical…
Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… and Langa. On Saturday 26 March he publicly burnt his pass. Mass support swung once again behind Congress. The … Langa for the first time to try to beat…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… has said, but relying on memory, I shall reply to some of his main criticisms. Gross Inaccuracies and Insults In his … true freedom and not the false freedom…
ArchiveDirector’s Report on the Activities of the Chris Hani Institute for the period October 2012 to September 2015
… inside the democratic movement. Our research, educational work and public engagement is from the perspective of working … people, from the losers rather than…
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… the sole significant female Xhosa poet up to now and her work is only now being rediscovered. She contributed close to … the role of rural people in the…
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… its unbanning in 1960. For 30 years they fought against apartheid through underground organisations. In 1990 the … and this would help the league to more…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… political processes required that they should continue to work together as government partners. Consequently, these two … with regard to the possible…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… in the years 1973 to 1975 and 1985 to 1986. Msimang's work particularly from the late 1960s is known for recording … in a cartoon-like style. Msimang…
ArticleThe New Group
… 'art by barter', where artists were able to exchange their work for goods. Lippy Lipshitz, for example, required piano lessons for his daughter, and Neville…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… Lapsley became involved in politics as he felt it was his duty to speak out against the injustices of the Apartheid regime. In 1976, the Apartheid…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting … Carta, the Bill of Rights, British Parliament and the American…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special … permission and was released on bail of R10 000. On…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… ”¦ There is a wave of unrest ”¦ communist influence is at work ”¦ on a fairly large scale ”¦ If one could devise … unit of labour, with no allowance for the…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… and many of our townships in a show of defiance to the apartheid system. Today, 31 years on, we have gathered here … to wage the struggle for a free South…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's … to erode' its independence. In its present form, on his…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
… William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. … films, and operas, which respond to the…
EventKuruman missionary Robert Moffat is born
… At the age of 21, he came to South Africa and started his ministry in Namaqualand. In May 1821 he and his wife Mary, an indispensible helpmate, carried on…
PlaceAthlone - or Cape Flats, Cape Town
… were established in the 1840's and 1850's and the work continued until well after 1875. At the time, the plan … enveloped vast tracts of land in short order…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… the men, life was very tough. The burden of agricultural work and the responsibility of keeping the family together … cut down on informal means of…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… motive in putting Blacks into camps, namely to make them work, either to grow crops for the troops or to dig trenches, be wagon drivers or work as miners…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… of this country as part of their heroic struggle against apartheid. We salute all our unsung heroines who, by their … non-racial and non-sexist society. For…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… had already arrived in New York to enlist support of the American people. However, the postponement of the United …
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… General Motors (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… as a result. It was also time for Malan to strengthen his racial policies for the benefit of Afrikanerdom and … between whites and “non-whites”. Malan also…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… whites only. This meant that black people would have to work for the mining industry or seek employment elsewhere. … James Mpanza as a 'father of Soweto'…
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… the release of Nelson Mandela. P. W. Botha disappointed his western allies by refusing to consider immediate and major reforms in the country's apartheid…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… ruled by the National Party. The NP government imposed the apartheid system and could only be voted for by white people. The apartheid system was greatly…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… where he visited studios, galleries and museums. Preller‘s work was hard for critics to classify. It seems to borrow … surrealism, though he rejected the…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
… a Black leader of a body could be appointed or relieved of his duties by the government of the time. This had drastic … and the government, an example of…