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EventSamora Machel pledges solidarity with the people of South Africa
… and was later executed when he refused to cooperate with apartheid security agencies and betray his comrades. …
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… linked to the resistance of racial discrimination and apartheid. Dadoo was known by many for always forging closer … and Coloured people in the struggle for…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… who were subjected to humiliations by the white rulers. In his account of that struggle, Satyagraha in South Africa , he … was not involved in the anti-war…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… being forced backtrack. Shamefully defending the statue of apartheid architect Hendrick Verwoed and subsequently … the party has delivered electricity to her…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… our actions in light of the continued intransigence of the apartheid regime and the brutality in the methods which it … return. Our bases are the people, the…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… and stand firmly united in order to turn back the tide of apartheid tyranny. One of the most important and … single penny we can to support New Age. We must…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… partner of Nelson Mandela but I was even more importantly his partner in the struggle for liberation. His imprisonment … of the policy of the ANC from its…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… weeks done to Gatsha Buthelezi? AG Well for one thing his leadership among many people has now got a question mark … You see people did suspect that he…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
… ill, the doctor said the climate in Paarl was not good for his health so we moved to Cape Town where he worked as a … life was very difficult because there…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… and contempt shall be punishable crimes; All apartheid laws and practices shall be set aside. THE PEOPLE … and professions. THE LAND SHALL BE SHARED AMONG…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… fitted, and whether he will have a chance in life to use his knowledge ”¦ What is the use of teaching the Bantu child … massacre. And during the next decade…
Address At The Commerce Faculty Graduation Ceremony(Media friendly) by Saleem Badat, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… appearances. It tries to discover the deeper processes at work in society that maintain and reproduce, or/and erode and … and their meanings in a society…
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… the struggle and that such participation entailed not only work, but suffering as well; that unless the people were … ground against hooliganism. Not a…
How cases reach the Constitutional Court
… arguments. Each judge sitting in a case must indicate his or her decision; the ruling is then determined by … the Court has public hearings. But the bulk of…
PlaceLiliesleaf Farm, Rivonia- Johannesburg
… prominent leaders of the opposition to South Africa's Apartheid Government used to attend meetings in order to plan … Apartheid years. "Liliesleaf was an old…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town. He completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town … School in Beaufort West where he met,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Accepting the Deutscher Medienpreis Baden-Baden, 28 January 1999
… your enduring support and solidarity. The fight against apartheid will, I am certain, be remembered by future … miracle happened because of, amongst other…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
… over 40 years ago, in the same sea waters that isolated his former involuntary temporary home, Robben Island, from … that for many of us, our country’s…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… who had been assassinated, killed or executed by the apartheid regime. Then they would sing of the great leaders … was executed while we were in Central…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… who was principled to the end, and never shifted from his loyalty to his country and his people and his organisation, the ANC. The … paid the price and…
PlaceZimbabwe
… in the southern part of the middle Zambezi valley he and his followers conquered the Tawara peoples and founded the … from the Rozwi Kingdom moved to Ndebele…
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
… It was the day that dramatic change took place – the apartheid regime released Nelson Mandela after he served 27 … from apartheid to freedom. I met…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… known as Swede Wessels when he adopted the surname of his sweetheart, Martha Wessels. Theirs was a great love … story: Martha's husband disappeared without a…
ArchiveThe Tay Bridge Disaster by Peter Ball (The Heritage Portal), 24 September 2016
… Alas history is littered with instances where his words would have fallen on deaf ears. Hubris, which means … of the first Tay Railway Bridge, in Scotland,…
The Unsung Hero of South African Photography
… is never a trivial part of the analysis of any artist’s work.” Niami writes. “in Tshabangu’s case the contextual … to render fundamental clues to a deeper…
The Unsung Hero of South African Photography
… is never a trivial part of the analysis of any artist’s work.” Niami writes. “in Tshabangu’s case the contextual … to render fundamental clues to a deeper…
EventJosephine Wood, founder of the South African Library for the Blind, is born in Grahamstown
… of the first mayor of Grahamstown, George Samuel Wood and his wife, Frances Elizabeth Wood (nee Hoole). After … Wood was trained as a teacher. In 1919 Wood…
Message by Albert Luthuli to people of Western Areas, 7 February 1955, Johannesburg
… Areas. Chief Lutuli sent this message to the people from his sick-bed.] There are no guns or bullets or clubs which … but to end the spread of the evil and…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… resisting moving after every 20 minutes, failing to keep his goods in a vehicle and for trading in a restricted area … Too many wayward laws were passed in…
EventAbdullah Abdurahman, medical doctor and Cape community leader, dies in Cape Town
… this day at the age of 69. Founder and leader of the anti-apartheid African People's Organisation (APO) , he was the … a member of the Cape Town City Council…