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EventDr Alexander Logie du Toit, South African geologist, is born in Cape Town
… Dr Alexander Logie du Toit was a South African geologist. His work raised him to prominence and he became South Africa’s … Toit studied both mining…
Colonial history of Polokwane
… the ZAR from Holland. Potgieter died in December 1852, and his son Piet Potgieter succeeded him. In 1854 Hermanus … over grazing and hunting territory and…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … best advantage. Victory demands…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … best advantage. Victory demands that…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 86th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1998
… has been shed on the gross human rights violations of the apartheid regime. As a result of this, many among us got to … prisoners and those awaiting trial…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… of the premier freedom fighters in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. She would also become the face of women’s anti-apartheid activism despite…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… Anti-apartheid cleric, Dr Richard Ambrose Reeves, Anglican (Church … Bishop of Johannesburg, returned to South Africa from his long leave spent in England…
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… to be formally educated to know that he wants to live with his family where he wants to live, and not where an official … not require a pass; to earn a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… should not fear the night. They must be able to travel to work, to school and other places without danger. But these … like to commend the Minister of Safety…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… the past. Speaking, in Moscow on June 16, 1969 as part of his final contribution and delivered as the general secretary … solidarity with the struggle for…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
… of one of its members, that Mr. W.P. van Schoor propounded his ideas on a subject which was finally published in booklet … a brief report on it in the local…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… intern at the University of Fort Hare in East London, his interests are in the study of the interaction between … in South Africa's rural reserves in the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no surprise to read … liberation was of a different sort from…
Address to the Botswana National Assembly, Gaborone, 11 March 2003
… We are grateful for the fact that even in the face of apartheid brutality that knew no bounds, you remained … I must make the point that the time has come…
EventGeneral Assembly adopts a resolution condemning the South African Foreign Minister
… censure the Foreign Minister of South Africa Eric Louw for his offensive speech in the General Assembly. A staunch defender of apartheid, Louw was also…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… and highlight African agency. With only an overview of apartheid, students undertook to read the biography of an apartheid resister. After getting acquainted…
EventSouth African writer J.M. Coetzee is born in Cape Town.
… Coetzee in Cape Town to Afrikaner parents, Coetzee uses his initials as his pen name. He studied at the University of Cape Town and … his life. He writes…
EventSir Ronald Ross, discoverer of the malaria mosquito is born
… and visited Madras, Burma and Andaman Islands developing his interest in poetry, literature and mathematics. Sir Ross began his study of malaria in 1892. He…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… the HIV-Aids denialist Castro Hlongwane booklet in his “Monday missives” – letters to South Africa which … ideal. I realised I never would or could achieve…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… are circumscribed by the realities of powerlessness. Under Apartheid in South Africa, Black workers and their families … exploiting the African's labour…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… Letters between Albertina and Walter Sisulu during his incarceration on Robben Island: A South African Love … correspondence between Walter and Albertina…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… himself in books, but today we find opportunity to talk to his wife, Mrs Sobukwe. Let us start this way, Mrs Sobukwe, … health. He said that I must request…
EventN.P. van Wyk Louw is born
… Louw. N.P. van Wyk Louw received various literary prizes. His best-known work is his epic poem Raka, recounting a black hero's desperate …
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… in the Youth League. Five years later ' she agreed to his election as the first full-time Secretary-General of the … in prison or on trial or underground or…
In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… a specific social context, in this instance that of the apartheid political structure. The South African landscape … that almost every artist working during…
EventEllen Kuzwayo becomes the first Black woman to receive an honorary degree from Wits University
… desire for teaching and instead pursued a career in social work. As a social worker she led a campaign to force the Apartheid government to introduce a form…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… of the law enjoy rights over and above those enjoyed by his fellow citizens and at their expense. Democracy, in the … find the answer, we must look at the…
David Goldblatt: Structures of Dominion & Democracy (Artthrob), 31 March 2015, Durban, Kwazulu Natal, South Africa
… series have concentrated on the period after the fall of apartheid, the exhibition at KZNSA contains images dating … at the KZNSA by Goldblatt begins,…
ANC pays tribute to the late Arthur Goldreich, 26 May 2011
… course of South African history. Not only did he sacrifice his privileges as a white South African but bore the pain of fighting against apartheid. As the…
EventNkosi Sikelel’iAfrica composer, Enoch Sontonga dies
… He wrote Nkosi Sikelel' IAfrica eight years before his death, at the age of twenty four. There were initially uncertainties around the exact year of his…