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ArchiveIntroduction: Mdantsane
… Forced removals in East London and urban relocation, including the history of Mdantsane and …
ArticleCustomary Marriages in South Africa: Understanding The Recognition of Customary Marriages Act of 1998
… accordance with the traditions and customs of indigenous African customary law. There exist certain requirements that … are often not a matter of simple…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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)…
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…
BiographyThomas Benjamin Davis
… built in 1886, and the next year presented it to the South African nation for use as a merchant navy training ship. It … 1942 and the ship was sunk in 1947…
BiographyPixie Benjamin
… occurred in England, where she and her husband allowed African National Congress (ANC) activists to stay while they … Party and became involved in the…
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…
ArchiveHomeless
… Coloured photograph of family sitting under a tree. Title in black letters. Quote from the Bible 1 Corinthians 4 : 11. South African Council of Churches…
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…
ArticleTimeline of State Action Against the Press in the 1960s
… The Post Office refused to handle a cable from the South African representative of the Daily Express in London which … Michael Harmel, The Guardian and later…
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…
ArchiveNichts wird uns trennen
… about apartheid in Osterreich (Austria). Photograph of African family dated 1984. Issued by Anti-Apartheid-Bewegung in …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Women’s Day Celebrations, Atlantic Park Stadium, Witbank, Mpumalanga, 9 August 2004
… anniversary of the formation of the Federation of South African Women and the adoption of the Women's Charter. We … and others, today women play a central…
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…
ArchiveChildren learn what they live
… South African Council of Churches poster, Home and Family Life Department. Title poem, by Dorothy Law Nolte, in …