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… Fishes' for whom the chairman of the Labour Party pleaded his detestation as a round for soliciting votes, whereas … the dangers were mentioned of party…
Judaism
… about 4 000 years ago, God makes a promise to Abraham and his descendants and says, " I will be your God and you will … was called David and he made the…
EventBram Fischer born today
… Abraham (Bram) Fischer, lawyer and champion against apartheid, was born in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State on 23 … African (CPSA), openly participating in…
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…
ArchiveClosing address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4 December 1980.
… Total Strategy. Speaker made personal reference to his own banning orders which had prevented him from continuing his association with the National Union…
EventChris Ntuli is stabbed to death
… incident, believed to be a political murder, happened on his return from reporting to Inanda police station in compliance with his restriction orders…
EventEdgar Wallace (56), author and newspaper editor in South Africa, dies in Hollywood.
… Richard Horatio Edgar Wallace was born in London in 1875. His mother, unmarried and struggling to make a living, gave … and Stoughton publishers in 1921. The…
EventM K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to Independence, is born
… he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in South Africa was a turning point in his career and changed…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… then to Egypt and to Palestine. He wrote vivid letters to his two children, enclosing pressed flowers for me from … from the Hills and the novels of one B.M…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. … Botha (later Prime Minister and then…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… of the executive committee of the S.A.I.C., who declared his intention to vote; the other by Dr. Essop Jassat, … we can advance better arguments as to why we…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… attention to what appears to us to be the one fault in his otherwise unexceptionable summary of the year's work in restricting immigration into the Colony…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… who authored the M-Plan with the realisation that the apartheid regime was becoming more vicious with time. He argued that we needed to change the method of…
EventBenjamin Mzimkulu Macala, SA artist, is born
… the US. Macala’s chosen technique was pastel on paper, and his work has come to be recognized by this medium. He has used other media from time to time. His…
EventMacmillan’s 'winds of change’ speech in Parliament
… Macmillan, British Conservative prime minister, delivered his 'winds of change' speech, condemning apartheid, to members of both Houses of Parliament in Cape…
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… of the arms embargo imposed on South Africa due to its Apartheid policies and due to the performance of the South … The initial design was strongly…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… the Black Consciousness (BC) movement were banned by the apartheid government. COSAS organized students at secondary … the transfer of Mathew Goniwe , a…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… was at its height, Terence Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85, told the left-wing … build up." In early 1968 - soon after the…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… victory of the National Party(NP), with its platform of apartheid, during the 1948 elections. Though it did not … wartime Premier and a famous international…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
… It explores some of the turning points in the history of apartheid: the Sharpeville massacre, the Langa march, … accurate events. For example, one teacher…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
… is to look after the children while their parents are at work. All the earlier methods of education had one thing in … discourages the development of self…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the … rate. The revolt threatened to derail plans to…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… June, Passed the London Matriculation examination on his second attempt. Later in the year, he met two … it impressed him immensely. Later, it became the…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist was hanged for his role in the MK and anti-apartheid resistance. As a member of the South African … (ANC) member to be…
EventMazisi Kunene, Zulu poet and ANC activist, is born
… University of Natal and later won a scholarship to further his studies at the School of Oriental and African Studies … was a member of the African National…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
… through the United Nations Organisation, is pledged to work actively to ensure respect for basic human rights as … freedom lovers - "life is more than meat"…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom … house to house, beating up Africans and driving…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… review the ANC still viewed (non-violent) political work as subject to military imperatives. But traces of … these new forces might jeopardise the struggle…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, 20 June 1989, Stockholm
… an anxiety based on our knowledge of the dishonesty of the apartheid regime. Regrettably, subsequent events have … P.W. Botha declared that he would not…
Statement to the Ordinary Congress of the Socialist International, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, 20 June 1989
… an anxiety based on our knowledge of the dishonesty of the apartheid regime. Regrettably, subsequent events have … P.W. Botha declared that he would not…