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The ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - The 1987 attack at the Wits Command
… Star, 3 June 1980 In the Heart of the Whore, The story of apartheid's death squads, by Jacques Pauw Blue-Blooded Afrikaner as Anti-Apartheid Revolution, by…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… J.M. Coetzee is a two-time Booker prize winner, known for his political novels on South Africa. His style has been compared to Kafka and Beckett. He is best …
Launch of The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner
… movement and key in its radicalization. Turner acquired his doctorate at the Sorbonne in Paris, where he was inspired … by Steve Biko and the Black…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… He attended primary school in Alexandra, and completed his Junior High certificate at the Kilnerton Institute in Pretoria. He completed his matric at…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Pan African Parliament, Gallagher Estate, Midrand, 16 September 2004
… our countries from the inhuman systems of colonialism and apartheid. Even after most of our countries were free, those … our continent will be focused on you…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… felt would take up important positions in the country once apartheid was dismantled – something which British … 1961. Dan is currently in the process of…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression … her interrogators, she raised her…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
… the intentions of its leaders, as a key institution of the apartheid system. Whatever the inclinations of its staff, … water, sanitation, health-care, energy…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… of Africans throughout our continent who have continued to work in concert with their leaders to advance the cause of … the appalling economic conditions…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… traders and non-political youth groups into the work and activities of the Congress movement. In some areas … of the Congress Alliance. It served as a vision…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… – The man who was arrested alongside late anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol in 1971, took centre stage at … on Monday during the first sitting of the…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… try to walk the five miles. Father Leo Rakale drove me in his car, very slowly, at the back of the procession. I did … and their missiles didn't reach me…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson “Human … Economic Policies by Sifiso Gwala Gigs…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
… in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied …
PlaceSun City, Rustenburg
… Sculptures. " Danie de Jager - who pursued sculpture his whole life, struggled at the outset of his career. He doggedly entered every competition he could…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… African States attach to the speedy eradication of apartheid and its replacement by a united, non-racial and … Award, an illustrious award that our colleague…
ArticleTimeline of the Labour and Trade Union Movement in South Africa 1881 - 1919
… that mineworkers be stripped and searched as they leave work leads to the first mineworkers strike in the diamonds … that a united union would fight for …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister, P.W Botha, dies
… Pieter Willem Botha, died peacefully at the age of 90 at his house Die Anker near Wilderness in the Western Cape. … was found dead in bed just after 20:00 on…
EventEugene Terre Blanche, controversial leader of the AWB ( Afrikaner Resistance Movement), is born in Ventersdorp.
… before it became public. Terre'Blanche viewed the end of Apartheid in 1990 as the beginning of communism and … war. Following the end of Apartheid, Terre…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… that you don’t include SASO here as one of the anti-apartheid organizations - you may have a good reason not to … being a student within your professional…
UCT defends stance on artistic freedom after Goldblatt pulls out by Paul Herman (News24), 4 March 2017
… recently told UCT management that he wants to move his collection from the university after eight years, saying … transparencies, negatives and digital items…
PlaceBotshabelo, Motheo Region near Bloemfontein
… Thabelo Area '. People originally moved there in search of work, when they left their rural homes in the Free State to … something of an enclave of…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… former South African prime minister and chief architect of apartheid was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to Willem Johannes Verwoerd and his wife, Anje…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… Centre in Durban in November of that year. It is one of his early ,political speeches and was delivered in Zulu. This … the Africans. This pamphlet could…
EventFourth Nuclear bomb test by France in the Sahara
… colony. Further, France had lost faith in her British and American allies to defend French interests, after the United …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… residence, of Louis XII. [2] Louis XIV established his royal court and government at the palace in 1682. [3] … beginnings of revolution in France forced…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the … in the Boeremag treason trial will not be…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… how many people he thought died unnecessarily under Mao. His guess (and it was just a guess) was 1 million. The actual … doing it too: “Unfortunately such a…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… village, town and city. Despite the heavy presence of the Apartheid military machine, the spirit of South Africans … Every South African has the right to…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… camps. When grandfather returned after the war, he found his farmstead completely destroyed and his family living with relatives. When my father married, he …