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Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… undermines all the fundamental premises upon which apartheid bases its rule. Pretoria continuously seeks to … 27 years the regime continues to keep Nelson…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… Central Prison in Durban by deliberately standing with his young wife Maggie between them and white apartheid police pointing Sten guns, only days after the …
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… which various political reforms were instituted by the apartheid state and there was an intensification of political … bantustan. Buthelezi was intensely…
Invitation: BikoHausen - Steve Bantu Biko and Karlheinz Stockhausen in Johannesburg, 1971
… in March 1971, the composer Karlheinz Stockhausen and his wife Mary Bauermeister visited Soweto. They were … We can however imagine and extemporize. Together…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid in Stockholm, I asked the Chairman, Ambassador … peace for the future. We wish you all…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… High School in Dundee, Kwazulu-Natal and later earned his BSc at the university of Zululand in 1969 and his PED IMD in Switzerland in 1995. Khoza professes…
EventJoaquim Chissano succeeds Samora Machel as president of Mozambique
… Soviet Union and RENAMO, supported by United States and apartheid South Africa. At this time, the African National … He was re-elected in 1999, but stepped…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… against reputed corrupt councillors and the unjust apartheid system was not taken into consideration during the … for giving counseling to the victims of…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… President General of the African National Congress. His dark face was softly etched in the lamplight, … at that Evaton meeting that he said, "People ask me…
![”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/social_conditions_among_bantu_women_and_girls.jpg?itok=-8M0Ng6G)
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
… their husbands, are forced in most cases to go out and work, to bring sufficient into the homes to keep their … has gone to town and left her, forgetting…
EventFlorence Josephine Zerffi, SA still life and landscape painter, dies
… Not only did Zerfifi paint, but she also used needle work as a medium. She loved colour and always used it to bring an expressive element in her work. She…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… is marginalised when the story of the CYL is told. Perhaps his political fluidity and how he left the ANC in the 1950s … intellectual and programmatic…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Rugby Board as a result of the nation's continuation of apartheid policies. 1988 Danie Craven and Louis Luyt of the … away. The challenge lies with South…
Mission Stations - I-L
… was used for a school. There were a few (Xhosa) huts near his dwelling, and fifteen kraals within six miles. "At … Umhala's Caffers. The Missionary Julius…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… in Johannesburg on 11 November 1965. On 23 March 1966 his trial began in Pretoria. Fischer was convicted of … On 9 May 1966 he was sentenced to life…
EventDe Klerk resigns as NP leader
… F.W. de Klerk, former South African president announced his retirement as the leader of the National Party (NP) and from public life. It was under his…
ArticlePort Elizabeth the Segregated city
… Contents 1910-1950 Apartheid ideology and implementation from 1950 Conclusion … in ‘White’ areas subject to a permit system which Apartheid legislation…
Address to the National Health Summit, 19 November 2001
… antagonistic. Our public health service was split on apartheid lines and resources were concentrated for … planning since 1999. All Ministries and…
ArticleThe Landless People’s Movement
… for land reform as a fundamental requirement of post-apartheid transformation” and that the decision to boycott … Movements. The LPM chose not to join the…
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… University. A year later he began to write fiction, with his first book, Dusklands, being published in 1974. Following … 1999, Coetzee won the Booker Prize a…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work ethic and passion for wine, he soon built up a booming wine export business. After starting his…
PlaceEastern Fort/Battery and Blockhouse, Chapman’s Peak, overlooking Hout Bay, Cape Town
… Netherlands came out in support of the newly independent American colonies and declared war on England. At this stage …
EventThe second Anglo-Boer war, also known as the South African war, breaks out
… as important in the making of modern South Africa as the American Civil War was in the history of the United States. …
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
… Visually it is very satisfying. It may not be a great work of art, but it is certainly a fine Memorial, beautifully … in the First World War, attaining the…
PlaceGood Hope Centre, Cape Town
… one of Pier Luigi Nervi’s last works , featuring some of his most famous building techniques and architectural forms: … of multiracial audiences (what…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… rule in South Africa and encouraged the struggle against apartheid to continue. In his speech he stated that: "Throughout these long years the … Nyerere…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… my Head of Department had tried to remove me entirely on his own initiative, and this led to his academic career rather than mine collapsing a short while ……
ArticleGrade 12 - How SA emerged as a democracy from the crises of the 1990s
… During the 1980s, the apartheid government came under increasing internal pressure. … system of governance tampered with, but did not challenge apartheid…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving and Honorary Doctorate from Harvard University Boston, 18 September 1998
… to the mind and to the future memory of this great American institution, the name of an African is now added to … men and women of learning and thought…
EventNumber of banned persons in South Africa totals 936
… When the system of apartheid was implemented in South Africa in 1948, certain … (1927) were enforced to deal with resistance against the apartheid government…