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PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing … that operated between Kimberley and Pretoria. With…
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…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… of a century and more; the murder of thousands by the apartheid army and police and their secret murder squad; the … who have suffered from the daily…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… and the decisions of this, its Eighth Summit Meeting, His Excellency Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi has handed over the baton of leadership of this Movement to…
ArticlePassive Resistance in South Africa
… period of the armed struggle. This feature includes anti apartheid mass actions which demonstrates the links and … Passive or non-violent mass action…
ArchiveEleanor Kasrils: From Detainment to National Liberation by Nathan Greenhaw
… party that supported increased racial segregation and apartheid legislation, took increasingly authoritarian … her escape from Fort Napier, which he then…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… harbouring strong connections to the most popular anti-apartheid movements of the time. In 1987 to 1989 NACTU held several meetings with the ANC, the PAC…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… Nelson Mandela , Yusuf Dadoo and Walter Sisulu defied apartheid laws in Johannesburg and other major city centres. … sitting on benches marked for whites, or…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… culture was sustainably integrated into trade unions work. The paper will aver that, partly based on the … and working class youth who were engaged in using…
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
… was a man of the people who dedicated sixty years of his life to the course of freedom. During these sixty years … the ANC as he was a leader of the trade…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… the National Party (NP) came into power at the start of Apartheid. [11] This change in legislation was caused by the … J.“The Water Act, No. 54 of 1956 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…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… Nelson Mandela said that he was very much influenced by his fellow students at Wits in 1946 "when Ismail Meer, J.N. … efforts to promote effective…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the book launch of the series on Southern African leaders 1 August 1994
… flame of truth continues to flicker under the darkness of apartheid. No less crucial in this effort were the students … without delay. We must urgently deal…
EventSA Prime Minister, P.W. Botha calls for unity against Marxism
… statement came at the height of the struggle against apartheid in South Africa. Just months after his speech, South African Defence Force (SADF) crossed the …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister JG Strijdom dies
… Malan and became prime minister in 1954. It was during his tenure, in 1955, in Kliptown near Johannesburg, that the … a republic, and strengthened and…
EventThe SA government presents a promotion of Constitutional Development Bill
… by FW de Klerk who shortly after taking office announced his policy of reform. De Klerk hoped to create a suitable climate for negotiations which would end…
EventUnion of South Africa officially ceases to exist
… leadership of Verwoerd. The country was criticised for its Apartheid policies by members of the Commonwealth. In just three years after taking office,…
No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa
… What exactly happened to Biko in room 619 is known only to his interrogators. But from a close reading of the inquest … again the inherently ruthless and…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the House of Commons by O. R. Tambo, London, 29 October 1985
… CHAIRMAN: I welcome Mr. Oliver Tambo and his friends, Mr. Thabo Mbeki and Mr. Aziz Pahad, and I am … to the internal struggle. Then for largely international…
EventDesmond Dube was born on this day.
… played an important role in social transformation through his philanthropic work and is respected as a devoted family man. He is the …
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… this event proved a remarkable influence on the future of his political life. Gandhi was later instrumental in … did not only affect where Indians could…
EventANC leader Walter Sisulu is convicted and sentenced to six years in prison for contravening the unlawful Organisations Act
… Act. The defiant Sisulu continued with the ANC underground work and less than five months after his release on bail he made a short broadcast from a secret …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… Here a labour tenant from Vrede describes aspects of his working life in 1926. I don't know what terms were made … only to have a right of settling on the…
History of Muslims in South Africa: Introduction by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… to see its realization. May Allah subhanahu wa ta'ala rest his soul in Jannat al-Firdaus: Amin! I wish to record my … for encouraging me in the completion of…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… African National Congress (ANC) in its campaign against Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie September were two of … sentiment among Afrikaners, and a…
2004 Gruber Justice Prize: Arthur Chaskalson
… he represented defendants against South Africa's apartheid government, including the infamous Rivonia Trial of … process and at times through the court…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… conquerors who called upon Chiefs to supply young men to work on what was then known as Isibhalo. They were in other … setting us up as a separate…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
… treaties with a great show of military might, while his negotiator and interpreter was young Theophilus … question is a powerful engine by which the war…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… Party a much firmer mandate to press ahead with its apartheid, Bantustan policy. The result was not unexpected. … This, taken together with the attitude of…