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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… National Prosecuting Authority, the Directorate of Special Operations (Scorpions) was launched to ‘complement the … as well as his own relatives, who had…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
Introduction Since independence, English has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy and remains contested. This timeline…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
Address on the Occasion of the State Banquet, Tripoli, Libya, 12 June 2002
… it will benefit our two countries and our peoples. This co-operations will also help to advance the growth and …
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… centralisation of the Native population at that centre, operations in connection with the establishment of a location …
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
It started off with a small Jetty, built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the Dutch…
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BiographyB J Vorster [John Vorster]
… of the Department of Information to embark on a major but covert campaign to boost SA's image abroad. Rhoodie was …
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
Gangen George Ponnen was born on 1 June 1913 in the district of Rooikopjes near Durban, in the then Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His father Ponnen, born in…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… operational commanders based in Mozambique and Swaziland. Operations they had conducted in the past had suffered … on a false passport just after Christmas…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The first set of documents in Part II relates to…
ArticleInanda Seminary and its Influence on Education in South Africa by Claire Wilt
This article was written by Claire Wilt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractInanda Seminary, a private all…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
The Mau Mau uprising began in 1952 as a reaction to inequalities and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
… farms on either side of the Vaal River. As agricultural operations became mechanized, farmers’ demand for labour …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… guilty parties to pursue their policies of deception and covert complicity. If we sound over-pessimistic, it is …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1946 Albert Christopher promises return of Old Guard …
Minutes of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, February 1-2, 1947
SATURDAY - 1st FEB. 1947, 8 P.M. PRESENT: Dr. A.B. Xuma (in the chair) Messrs. J.B. Marks, C.S. Ramohanoe, R.G. Baloyi, J.E. Malepe, L.K. Ntlabati, A.M…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… were being sent back to camps in Tanzania,” and interior operations in South Africa were reliant on underground cells with covert members. [5] The South…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 At 1 a.m. on Thursday, 9 December 1982,…
The Wankie Campaign
… in will probably go down in the history of MK military operations as one of the most heroic. . . . So this caught …
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… give them a leading role in restructuring public sector operations. It is also their contribution to improving …
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount a … the Soweto Civic Association was…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
… Wankie Game Reserve (Hwange National Park) on their first covert mission. 13 August, The Luthuli contingent is engaged …
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… restricted. If I was roaming on an estate that had ceased operations many years before, a mine policeman might appear …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… and later Zambia. Botswana functioned as a conduit for operations in South Africa rather than being a site for … and Lesotho. The MK leadership in Lesotho…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… state would have to employ restraint in counter-insurgency operations in black townships, so as not to endanger ‘the … they needed to be in charge of this…
ArticleThe Contentious Relationship Between Ngqika And Ndlambe
Introduction King Ngqika and Prince Ndlambe led the Rharhabe people of the Amaxhosa in the early 19th century. Their relationship is of significance regarding…
PlaceEastern Cape Province
Before 1993, the Eastern Cape was part of the Cape Province. Today it includes the old homelands of Ciskei and Transkei. Many of South Africa's leaders were…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter V - Political role of the mission
… River into Great Namaqualand. But their most intensive operations were among the Bantu tribes, both in the east and … they make the Native chiefs the…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…