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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
… in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied …
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 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…
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…
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…
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 …
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… Herold Macmillan; it was seven days after he made his famous speech "Winds of Change In Africa" in Cape Town. In the letter he was sending his gratitude 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 …
EventSA writer, Nadine Gordimer, wins Nobel Prize for Literature
… author of ten novels and more than 200 short stories; her work over the past forty years has insistently and … focused upon the legacies and moral…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… Badsha has also documented and archived history through his photography, the co-founding of the non-racial Afrapix … on funding. Some money has been moved to…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his journey of transforming from a successful Lawyer to a … and spirituality. Here on this land Gandhi…
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…
Cable to the United Nations, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, November 25, 1948
… Council Europeans and Africans that "Natives" would accept apartheid if it was total segregation. This was apropos … and meant to show that Africans like…
EventSteve Biko, a pioneer of the Black Consciousness Movement, is born
… Town, Eastern Cape. Biko’s unshaken stance against apartheid inspired the hope of freedom among millions in … detained several times by the apartheid…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… and to other African countries including South Africa. His commitment to the liberation of Africa from White … African leaders in denouncing the racist…
75. 1960: We are at a turning-point in the history of our country
… to the League of Nations. As from 1952 the application of apartheid and the practice of racial discrimination was … in South Africa in July 1960, was obliged…
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…
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…
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…
EventANC President Albert Luthuli banned
… to report frequently to the SA Police in the area. After his part in leading the 1952 Defiance Campaign, a non-violent, national, anti- pass protest, the…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… some of the reasons why you should BOYCOTT this fraud of apartheid and to help in your own political enslavement. YOU … means to accept political inferiority…