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ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… the [ANC] military's wishes, for the first time, military work was a complement to political work... [V]isibly through … boycotts, etc... Molefe now…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… British and then bitterly regretted it, as we may see in his autobiography 2. As has been proven by recent historical … to that organization of races which…
EventTranskei announces plans to unban ANC and PAC
… of the Transkei homeland, Tutor Ndamase, announced that his homeland government plans to unban the African National … of this homeland. Moreover, because the…
EventEugéne Nielen Marais, S.A. poet, writer, lawyer and naturalist, is born
… became famous as an Afrikaans writer, even though much of his early writings and early education were in English. He matriculated at the age of sixteen and…
EventTodd Tozama Matshikiza, musician, composer and writer, is born in Queenstown, Eastern Cape
… Music. He was also one of the first black journalists to work for Drum Magazine. Matshikiza wrote the music for the … a huge success both locally and abroad…
EventAn inquest into the death in detention of the white trade union leader, Dr. Neil Aggett opens
… Pieter Kotze, found that no one was to blame for his death. The verdict, which completely exonerates the … person to die in detention since 1963. At the time…
EventPieter-Dirk Uys, SA activist, satirist, playwright and novelist, is born in Cape Town
… industry. Uys writes, directs, performs and produces his own work. A creative writer, he has written in many genres. One his books, Trekking to Teema, became…
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
… of: who he was, what he thought, what he did, and what is his legacy. Who was he? To BCM colleagues, he was a … politically and culturally aware. The…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little attention was paid to what transpired … Hendricks. [4] It is through many of…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… San Francisco, USA. Michael Edwards, in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the … for this confidence are the results of hard and consistent…
ArchiveChapter 13 A negotiated release by Denis Goldberg
… been visiting him regularly since 1970 and, at present, am his only regular visitor. 3. I am 46 years of age, married to … John Collins in the 1950s for the…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was forced to consider reforms to Apartheid policy, pressured by growing…
EventDr Frederik van Zyl Slabbert resigns from parliament
… Slabbert, a staunch opponent of 'separate development' (Apartheid) and leader of the opposition Progressive Federal … Party (PFP), resigned as leader of the…
EventDr. Connie Mulder is acquitted and discharged on charges of contempt
… 1977, however, Mulder was involved in scandal that brought his political career to an end. It was revealed that Mulder, … had planned to use defence force…
EventLucas Ntuba Radebe, SA soccer hero, is born in Diepkloof, Soweto
… legend was born in Diepkloof, Soweto. At the age of 15 his parents sent him to live in Bophuthatswana so could be … the political violence of the 1980’s…
PlaceCredo Mutwa Cultural Village
… said to have the powers to predict the future, depicted in his statues believed to depict the AIDs epidemic. The village … through the life of this…
EventNelson and Winnie Mandela travel to Canada.
… 1990, Nelson Mandela visited Ottawa, Canada escorted by his then wife Winnie Madikizela Mandela. He travelled to Canada a few months after his release from…
EventCol Eugene de Kock testifies in Court
… Former Police Colonel Eugene de Kock began with his testimony in Pretoria Supreme Court by revealing his part in the apartheid regime's 'dirty tricks'…
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
… one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at the age of 82, following a stroke. Early…
PlaceTranskei
… to establish segregated districts before the period of apartheid. The Glen Gray Act of 1894 saw the establishment of … politics of the homeland. Although…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
… I predict that in the year 2100, students of post-apartheid South African rhetoric the world over will continue to recognise his 1996 “I am an African”…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato … living in Britain. During the Second World War, increased work opportunities and the…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… and in South Africa increasingly turned to the mines for work. By the early 1990s, an estimated 100,000 Basuto worked … homelands in and around the Orange…
EventSouth African poet Vincent Oliphant is born
… a small town near Port Elizabeth in the Eastern Cape. His first book of poems, Bloed vloei in stilte (Blood flows … in the annual Poetry International…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… of the people have been robbed of their land and forced to work for a pittance on farms and plantations, in mines and … Africa continues to be financed…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… the British Central Africa Protectorate, but the date of his birth is disputed. Officially he was born in 1906, but he … later that it might have been 1898. …
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
… Wembley Stadium to greet Nelson Mandela and to celebrate his release. But it will also be an occasion for the African … in their own oppression. Their…
Chapter 14
… At the Conference itself Dr. Xuma was conspicuous by his absence and it became necessary for the sponsors … the Non-Europeans, with the alarm of the people…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… for economic reasons. In other words they are admitted as work-seekers, not as settlers'. - Dr. W. W. M. Eiselen, … the opposite of what the measures contain…
Event1300 Volkswagen workers dismissed for unprocedural strike against NUMSA leadership
… 2000 in Uitenhage, Eastern Cape, for not returning to work after going out on an unprocedural wildcat strike. What … workers would be retrenched if they did…