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UDF Poster ‘RELEASE OUR PEOPLE : The struggle for freedom & justice in our country is not an act of treason’ by United Democratic Front (UDF), 1985, South Africa
Only the Workers Can Free the Workers: the origin of the workers’ control tradition and the Trade Union Advisory Coordinating Committee (TUACC), 1970-1979 by Nicole Ulrich
ArchivePolice station operations, 1986, South African white arrested in blasts, by Alan Cowell, New York Times, 10 March 1986
BiographyHailu Mergia
Born in Debre Birhan, Showa Province, Ethiopia, in 1946 to parents of Amhara and Oromo descent, Mergia grew up absorbing traditional Amhara, Tigrinya and Oromo…
BiographyEdgar Harry Brookes
Edgar Harry Brookes was born in England on February 4th,1897 and emigrated to South Africa with his family in 1901.In 1920 he was hired to teach at the…
BiographyDorothy Ruth Boxall
Dorothy Ruth Boxall was born on 19 July 1895 in King William's Town, Eastern Cape, South Africa. She dedicated herself to the promotion of music in South…
BiographyNkosinathi Christopher ‘Nko’ Mbuyabo
Nkosinathi Christopher Mbuyabo was born at eCintas in East London on the 23 December 1967. Nko as he was popularly known was the fourth out of six children of…
BiographyGeorge Matthias Winkles
George Matthias Winkles was born in Birmingham, England, 1859. Winkles came to SA in 1889 to help a widowed sister stranded on the Kimberley diggings. He never…
BiographyLebo Mathosa
Lebo Mathosa was born in Daveyton in the East Rand. She began singing at the age of seven in the local church choir. The Mathosa family moved to Johannesburg…
BiographyIsaac Bangani Tabata
Isaac Bangani Tabata (known as I.B. Tabata) was born near Queenstown in the Cape in 1909 and received his secondary schooling at Lovedale. After attending Fort…
BiographyNomvula Paula Mokonyane
Nomvula Paula Mokonyane was born on 28 June 1963 in Kagiso on the West Rand, Transvaal (now Gauteng). She is the youngest in a family of 12, with six sisters…
BiographyAmina Desai
When her husband, Suliman Mohammed Desai, a Transvaal Indian Congress activist died in 1969, Amina Desai took over the running of his business.Political…
BiographyThenjiwe Mtintso
Thenjiwe Mtintso, was born on 7 November 1950 in Soweto, Johannesburg where she also grew up. Her mother Hanna Mtintso was a domestic worker and her father…
BiographyAlfred Mangena
Alfred Mangena was born in Escort in present day Kwazulu Natal circa 1879. He managed to acquire little formal public education, and eventually began to study…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and Current Chairman of PTA…
BiographyNtsikelelo Magwanya
Ntsikelelo Magwanya, aged 41, a resident of Peelton Location, Zwelitsha District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape] was accused of hampering the Acting…
PlaceBothasig, Cape Town
… land was taken over by the Municipality between 1961 and 1989. Bosmansdam was renamed Bothasig ("Botha's Vision") … red and gold. The official emblem and tie…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
Nontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza was born at King Edward Hospital, Umbilo, Durban, in June 1967. The second child of Zizile Cothoza, Nontsikelelo Cothoza, or…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… Democratic Movement's defiance campaign, Cape Town, August 1989. others. After 1994, the installation of the new …
Why have so many major South African films featured non South Africans in the starring roles?
… Brink's A Dry White Season was made into a film by MGM in 1989. Shot in Zimbabwe, it starred Donald Sutherland and …
ArchiveMaize price rise, hits SA Blacks 1975 - 1982
ArchiveFarmers face ruin as water is cut off 1977 - 1979
ArchiveMore blood in the black search for the Holy Grail 1974 - 1980
ArchiveTRC Amnesty Hearings, Johannes Mnisi, Part 3, 8 May 1998
ArchiveSabotasie poging by Sasol, Die Volksblad, 22 October 1981
ArchiveTerro sal 24 jaar sit, Beeld, 7 December 1982
ArchiveANC master bomber 'proud of cadres', The Citizen, 5 May 1998
ArchiveAmnesty hearing, Sipho Matthews Thobela, 8 May 1998, Day 5
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