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Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… offices were in the city, you know. CDV And, what kind of work were you doing, at this time? SS I was working in a … from South Africa, and then he went to…
EventUN report accuses Katangan President and Congo President of conspiracy to murder Patrice Lumumba
… Many argue that it was in the interests of the CIA and the American Government that Lumumba be neutralised to ensure …
EventTurkish newspapers criticise of ANC leader Nelson Mandela for refusing to accept Turkey’s peace award
… given by the largely Kurdish Northern Alliance to the American led invasion of Iraq improves their situation. …
Robert Sobukwe: What a sense of mission! By Sibonginkosi Mazibuko, 19 February 2015, South Africa
… marks 37 years since the passing away in the hands of the apartheid regime of the great pan-Africanist leader. His radical dedication to the total freedom,…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… a coherent explanation for the patronising reference to his inclusion on this year’s Poetry Africa bill. I suggest … only now am I being asked to participate…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… society: Advance in unity towards 2012, underscores the work that needs to be undertaken in preparation for what will … before. If we were able to defeat…
PlaceThe Space
… performed in various venues. [ii] He was inspired by the work they did and felt the desire to open up a theatre space … which was previously used for chrome…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… to any form of dance as long as it was a new contemporary work. The first edition of the festival opened in February 1989 with fourteen choreographers…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… a full liquor license in 1983. In those dark days of Apartheid, the Rainbow played an important role in the … night before was banned. By 1994 Billy Mthembu…
EventWinston Churchill, is captured by Boer forces during the Anglo-Boer War
… developed a keen interest in war correspondence. Some of his early literary works were reports on various military campaigns. This led Churchill to work as a…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… whole skin of an antelope. San children were not forced to work when they were young and mostly played and copied the … A young person's first wedding was…
EventSir John Frederick William Herschel dies
… and re-observed the many double stars discovered during his father's survey of the northern sky from 1783-1803. With his father he cast, ground and polished…
EventAllan Boesak is born
… himself as a spokesperson for Black South Africans against apartheid. During his involvement in politics Boesak occupied influential … of African National…
EventThe Rev. Allan Hendrickse steps down as a leader of the Labour Party
… new democratic Parliament. Hendrickse is remembered for his contribution to the struggle against apartheid and for the positive role he played in the…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… brutal suppression and external aggression. Botha and his generals saw this exercise as a means of consolidating … find puppets from among the black masses…
ArticleExample of a local history: Pretoria
… Africa. He called the new town Pretoria, in honour of his father. The city of Pretoria is 60 km from Johannesburg, … bought some Jacaranda trees from Rio de…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… the incremental transformation of Gumede’s philosophy. As his faith in the British sense of justice and fair play had … in any shape or form deserving to be…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 83th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1995
… of overcoming the political, social and economic legacy of apartheid colonialism, of racism, sexism and class … ANC separate from the people of South Africa…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… of South Africa. The church supported the system of apartheid, which institutionalized separation and … the World Alliance of Reformed Churches for its…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… schemes for African businessmen, himself included. During his presidency the ANC's membership fell to below 1 000 … pointing out the many good things on…
EventANC leader, James Arthur Calata, dies
… gatherings but was eventually allowed to carry on with his church work, although not without government harassment. In 1960, … ANC's structures both…
EventSA trade unionist Raymond Budd dies
… that of treasury. The South African government often used his expertise and talents in various commissions of inquiries relating to his work. It was after…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… Selby Taylor was born in the United Kingdom in 1909. His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor later trained…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… employed in Durban, had come out on strike. South Africa’s Apartheid Government and its White capitalist allies were … of basic human rights and racism that…
Nelson Mandela Speaks on Tolerance, April 30, 2006 on CBS (Video)
… and Tolerance than Nelson Mandela -- the power of his words in this message define how Mandela has lived his life and why he was able to lead South Africa…
EventSimon van der Stel, commander and governor of the Cape, is born
… official and Maria Lievens, the daughter of a freed slave. His father remained in the service of the DEIC until his death, upon which Simon went to Batavia,…
EventJohn Kani was born on this day
… Eastern Cape. He matriculated at Newell High School and his love for theatre led him to work with several drama groups in the New Brighton area where … plays…
EventPrime Minister B.J Vorster supports changes to Black labour
… would not obstruct changes in the country's traditional work patterns. The move to support changes to Black labour … caucus replacing assassinated Dr H F…
EventRobert Koch announces the discovery of a rinderpest vaccine
… and the Kimberley Diamond Fields Ad'lertisergave. During his stay he found that an inoculation of bile from an … germ' and took the first step in vaccine…
EventPixley Seme, lawyer, journalist and co-founder of SANNC is born
… passed that controlled and restricted Black movement and work. Seme, nephew of Chief Langalibalele Dube, was elected … Z.R. Mahabane. Subsequent to this,…