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BiographyZanele Muholi
This biography was written by Artthrob in collaboration with SAHO. Zanele Muholi is a photographer and visual activist based in Johannesburg. Muholi’s work…
EventInaugural Conference of the South African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… Sharpeville most of the office bearers of SACTU went into exile, were banned, banished, imprisoned for ANC and MK activities. SACTU office bearers in exile…
EventANC celebrates its 79th anniversary in Durban
… while others skipped the country and went to live in exile. As international pressure mounted on the South African … some members of the party who had spent…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… government’s determination to cut links between the ANC in exile and its networks within South Africa. The Apartheid … By the 1980s, although Mandela was in…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… government's determination to cut links between the ANC in exile and its networks within South Africa. The Apartheid … By the 1980s, although Mandela was in…
EventMiriam Makeba returns to South Africa
… returned to South Africa on 10 June 1990 after 31 years in exile. Known as Mama Africa , she had left in 1959 as part of … government revoked her passport in…
EventGertrude Shope, former president of the ANC Women’s League, is born
… to leave South Africa and join her husband, Mark Shope, in exile. While in exile, Gertrude and her husband travelled frequently to lobby …
ArticleThe 2nd Johannesburg Biennale
… grappling with the concepts of displacement, migration, exile, and trauma as pertains to identity and ideas of home. … organised by Olu Oguibe, where topics…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
Peter Brown was born in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo game. Despite this,…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
EventFrene Noshir Ginwala, former speaker of the SA Parliament, is born
… got involved in politics, and as a result she had to go to exile. She worked as an African National Congress (ANC) … University (UKZN) in 2005. Prior to her…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… as a musician and an activist. Masekela’s journey during exile was a significant part of his life where he was … time and this would mark the beginning of…
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… the military wing of the ANC, was based almost entirely in exile as apartheid policies were further tightened by B. J. … leadership of the South African…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… and to give the movement political direction. The ANC in exile called for immediate international action and the … to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by…
June 17
… and to give the movement political direction. The ANC in exile called for immediate international action and the …
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… leaders, who were not imprisoned by the state, fled into exile. A barrage of restrictive legislation effectively …
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… this opportunity to flee the country and began a life in exile. c. The banning of the ANC and PAC and the formation of … leaders and supporters were in jail…
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… Ruth as his wife. Tshekedi gave way and went into self-exile. The proclamation of a black chief with a white wife, …
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… was placed under house arrest; in 1964 he was forced into exile on an exit permit, never being allowed to return home to South Africa. In exile in Africa he…
Milton Obote by Angela Thompsell updated 28 February 2016
… powers. When the Kabaka objected, he was forced into exile. The Cold War and the Arab-Israeli War Obote’s Achilles … 1971, the West, Israel, and Uganda…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack by South African security … which he reacted to documentary video…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in … delegates, was the highest point the Party could…
ArticleThe Anglo-Zanzibar War of 1896
… 36, 443-462 (p.456). ↵ [ii] Frankl, P. (2006). The Exile of Sayyid Khalid Bin Barghash Al-Busa'Idi. British …
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… with Nelson Mandela in prison, and with the ANC in exile. More and more delegations, including White members of …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… could. Some leaders and rank and file members went into exile to join the ANC or PAC, while others tried to establish BC exile organisations. SASO, which…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… between 1964 and 1976, between 1978 and 1983 the head in exile of the ANC's internal reconstruction and development …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… and King Moshoeshoe II and the king was forced to go into exile in the United Kingdom. His son, Letsie III, was crowned … to operate in the country and…
BiographyBenjamin Ulenga
Benjamin (Ben) Ulenga was born in Owamboland. His father was a labourer, who from age 16 or 17 had to leave Owamboland to work on various English, Dutch,…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Kozain; Three Poems, Carsten Knoch; My Airlock out of Exile, Barry Feinberg; Praise Poem for Njabulo Ndebele, Keith … Sophie Peters; Voortrekker Road Apollo,…