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BiographyDulcie Howes
… general training in creative movement, contemporary and African dance. The aspirant classical ballet dancer has to … classical ballet would always have a…
BiographyEugène Ney Terre’Blanche
… . His father was a Lieutenant Colonel in the then South African Defence Force and also the head of the Commando of … FW de Klerk handed power to Nelson…
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins … under any tradition, or a system of…
Cecile Mella
… Cecile was born into a family with American, Italian, French and Mexican influences …
PlaceWinburg
… is an ideal destination for those interested in South African History and Culture!" The Town’s rich Historical … proximity to the Sand River and the nearby…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… 1986]. *Slovo, J., The Theories of Regis Debray, an African Communist pamphlet (London:SACP, n.d. [circa … 22 July 1985'. *[ANC], `Take the Struggle into…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… of South Africa during the period of expropriation of the African. The military defeat of the Ama-Xhosa tribes was … Secondly, it prevents the settling down…
PlaceSarah Baartman Centre for Women and Children, Manenberg
… all basic victim rights as encapsulated in the South African Victims Charter and the UN Conventions protecting the … In 2004, the Centre opened the first…
ArchiveExtract from Minutes of State Security Council Meeting, 4 June 1979
… Meeting. Dicussions included ANC and PAC terrorism and urban terrorism. …
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
… overthrowing the government. This was before the formation African National Congres s (ANC)’s armed wing uMkhonto … in Paarl and Langa in Cape Town became…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… States (US) economic blockade – expended in support of African liberation struggles. Cuba supported the armed … with provisional governments and independent…
ArticleGarveyism: Early 1900s philosophy
… including members of the ICU, the Communist Party and the African National Congress (ANC) - were influenced to varying … the teachings of Garvey to fit in…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… the multiracial and liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In particular, NUSAS was outspoken … discouraged blacks from defying…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… for freedom, reconstruction and development. As the African National Congress and its allies, we were bequeathed … continues to stalk millions;the problems…
ArchiveIntroduction: Mdantsane
… Forced removals in East London and urban relocation, including the history of Mdantsane and …
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… Law was declared invalid and the Government introduced the Urban Areas Act. This Act was amended in 1937. Africans were … Ministers for Coloured Churches. Mr…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt brings ex-offender portrait series to British jails by Helen Stoilas, 30 May 2017
… The South African photographer David Goldblatt has installed … Goldblatt’s work is also in a display of Jean Pigozzi’s African art collection, on view at the…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… enough courses to get his law degree before he died. The family moved to King William’s Town, and in 1948 to Ginsberg. … no reason at all. But in retrospect…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… families that make up the collectivity of the Southern African Khoisan languages. The chapter concludes –in the … conjectured relations between languages of…
EventThe apartheid government establishes a Department for Coloured Affairs' (CAD)
… the Mixed Marriages Act, the Immorality Act and the Group Areas Act. Though not aimed exclusively at "Coloureds", this …
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… ... [and has] ... now become a recognised part of South African life. Let us hope that this young sapling may grow to become a great tree, the roof-tree of a…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1960 - 1969 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Mahomed Mahida 1960 Muslim Population According to South African Government statistics the Muslim population of South … Muslim organisaÂtions with the aims…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… conquered and began to exploit virtually the entire African continent. European powers were slow to realise the … Prior to the conference, European diplomacy…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… an artist collective which was largely made up of South African exiles. • Paul Weinberg and Lesley Lawson met with … In March, Peter McKenzie moved to…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… between the various languages that belong to the Khoe family, and the processes over time that have been involved … British, some writers – including the…
PlaceHamburg Village
… ago, to the delight of the Community it was selected as an Urban Regeneration Project. The government consulted with the …
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… of Defiance of Unjust Laws," launched jointly by the African National Congress and the South African Indian … African building workers the right to work in …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.9 No.4 1991
… West End Becoming, David Goldblatt; The Renewal of South African Literature, Andries Walter Oliphant; A Freedom Charter For South African Artists, Albie…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… and security of tenure for Blacks qualified to be in White areas. The Minister of Cooperation and Development, Piet … References: Kalley, J. A. et al (1999)…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… late 1970s was the formation of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (FOSATU) in 1979. FOSATU was the first South African trade union federation that…