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EventP.W. Botha, former South African State President, appears in court for refusing to testify at the TRC
… handed over by the TRC. The documents contained details of his involvement in the gruesome apartheid killings of black freedom fighters allegedly … a…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… by its implications. There is a trace of despair in his presidential address when he declared that discriminatory legislation would continue to be passed…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… no pay" set by the Trust management, refused to return to work, their demands being clear and significant: (a) Payment … become a financial colossus in 1910,…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… no pay" set by the Trust management, refused to return to work, their demands being clear and significant: (a) Payment … become a financial colossus in 1910,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… country was still clawing its way out of decades of the apartheid nightmare. Our first ever democratic elections … have made very good progress, thanks in…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… the Council was given statutory powers PR and a few of his colleagues accepted invitations to serve on it. In … document that PR produced was an article…
ArchiveThoughts on Winnie Mandela by Enuga Reddy
… 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…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
… belongs to all who live in it, was made at a time when the apartheid state felt supremely confident of its power and … the all-white South African Convention…
EventLiberia is established
… and instituted a government modelled on that of the US. American-born Joseph Jenkins Roberts became the first …
EventArthur Conan Doyle, medic during the Second Anglo, is born
… Scotland on 22 May 1859. Although Doyle is best known for his writing of the Sherlock Holmes crime novel series, he … had graduated from Edinburgh University…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… political storm. As you are aware Comrade Mbeki resigned his position in line with the wishes of the organisation. In … of action that will engage all our…
EventJack Penn, sculptor and one of the world’s best plastic surgeon is born
… born on 14 August 1909 in Cape Town. Penn later moved with his family to Johannesburg, where he attended Parktown High … After marrying Diana Malkin in 1934,…
Pravin Gordhan vs the Law, as defined by clichés by Mervyn E. Bennun (Politics Web), 08 September 2016
… answer 27 questions about certain matters relating to his time as head of the South African Revenue Service; we … well by Ntlemeza’s experience gained while…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… March Ace Magashule, Free State Province Premier, delivers his State of the Province address at the University of the … It reveals that between the first and…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… to think seriously of organising among African workers. His visit inspired a mood of international worker solidarity … campaign. It served to consolidate an…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… guilty of criminal offences when absenting themselves from work without lawful cause. In consequence of the industrial … conception of the "master and…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… a blacksmith, leading a mass strike in 1909. This cost him his job, and he went to work on the Johannesburg tramways. These were the IWW’s … body. The key…
Photographer Juda Ngwenya was the face of Reuters in Africa and a special friend by Siphiwe Sibeko (Mail and Guardian), 25 Oct 2016
… soon and we are all still grappling to come to terms with his departure. Juda had respect for everyone, regardless of … Juda, but even before that I knew of…
Liberation
… to know. We are the people who have borne the brunt of apartheid, of forced removals from our homes, of poverty in … in 1994.) The challenge to undo…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… Sir John Jackson and Co Ltd. were chosen to do the work and construction began in 1900. The new harbour would … residents were moved from the outskirts of…
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… refuse to surrender; the hundreds on hunger strikes inside apartheid`s jails refusing to submit; the hundreds of … for over a quarter of a century, Mandela…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… refuse to surrender; the hundreds on hunger strikes inside apartheid's jails refusing to submit; the hundreds of … for over a quarter of a century, Mandela…
PlaceDie Grootkerk in Bosmanstraat
… story of our country especially with regards to the Apartheid era. As “Moederkerk” of the Dutch Reformed … PEN Ministries, who was very much involved in…
EventJustice Sfiso Ka-Mkame, SA artist, is born in Durban
… art in the 80’s and gained fame in 1988 when he sold his ‘Letters to God’ series of drawings to the South African National Gallery in cape Town. In 1996 he…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… has been killed by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President Machel … of (word indistinct)…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… has been killed by the only enemy who stands to gain by his death, the apartheid regime of Pretoria and its agents. President … of (word indistinct) to…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… or, whether we have blocked its advance away from our apartheid past. We should ask ourselves whether we have … of Vuk'uzenzele. In this Second Decade of…
EventGerard Moerdijk, SA architect of several church buildings and the Voortrekker monument, dies
… Gerard Moerdijk, the architect whose most famous work is the Voortreker Monument in Pretoria, died on 29 March … architecture at the Architectural…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… to levels which seriously threatened the survival of the apartheid system and frightened the enemy into unprecedented … our struggle has known, the enemy has…
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… to levels which seriously threatened the survival of the apartheid system and frightened the enemy into unprecedented … our struggle has known, the enemy has…