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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…
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…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 8 - The Impracticality of Realism
… required for social action, to control the meaning of our work, to control those hidden social forces that places … percent of the annual use waste of…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… desperately and urgently needed in this region. In Natal, apartheid is a deadly cancer in our midst, setting house … Tax) and other regulations designed to…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Sitting of Parliament to Report on the Processing of Some Presidential Pardons: Cape Town, 21 November 2007.
… which lost some of their kith and kin as a result of apartheid repression and aggression. Yesterday, one of our … for hours, the apartheid police unit made…
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…
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 …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… the 1950s as it sought to deal with dissent and entrench apartheid. Leading political activists were forced operate … Square in Cape Town. Phillip Kgosana…
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…
PlaceOppenheimer Gardens, Kimberley
… their heads. Their strength and power is seen as they work hard under the weight of the sieve. This is a working … sculptor who was born in Hungary in 1906…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
… much devotion, sacrifice and dignity all have done their work to great effect and much credit to themselves. The … Party Government has extended and…
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…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… and other structures are established to assist us to work better and more efficiently to implement that national … our address to this house yesterday we…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… day in history search archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a former apartheid-era security police colonel, who was involved in … tortured and murdered at the behest of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… on the world to outlaw and isolate the inhuman system of apartheid, to say nothing of their outrage when we took up … policemen and women have continued to…
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…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… to democracy as soon as he became President. To dwell on his preceding career as an apartheid apparatchik seems perverse in the light of such a … If…
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… at a young age, he left for South Africa in 1842 to work as a portrait artist. Baines was first employed as a … work as a storekeeper and artist. This…
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… born in Boksburg, Transvaal. He left for Paris to further his studies in 1938. Mancoba never returned to live in South Africa again, but visited the country…
PlaceSharpeville, Gauteng
… is situated +/-14 km from Vereeniging . In 1960, during Apartheid a large unarmed group headed to the Police Station … around the Town. Due to influx of…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… our people are denied equal opportunities in education and work, much positive development has occurred in South Africa. … is to make good the enormous lag…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 104th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… ago and which bravely led the armed struggle against the apartheid regime. This year marks the fortieth year since the … one is born hating another person…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… was established in response to a crisis faced by the apartheid state, as South African capitalism has been facing … rule (the period during which a Black man…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
… up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter application of … held in Johannesburg where Dr James Moroka…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… goes back many years to when I was a junior social work student and had just met and fallen in love with Nelson … our first date on March 10 1956, Madiba…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… 10 February, Gandhi is violently assaulted by a Pathan on his way to the registration office. 10 Feb – 9 May: Voluntary … Smuts and doubts whether the…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
… Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair? Goldblatt: I've chosen … Then. The newer ones show the work I've been doing on post-apartheid public…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… was even worse. The worker who is compelled to turn his home into a workshop usually belongs to the poorest of … dingy lighting and bad ventilation. The…
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…