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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… white governments now hardened into the birth of the apartheid regime and as the 1940s gave way to the 1950s the … government began to implement a wide range…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… the Volunteer for Reconstruction and Development. By the work they did to help change the lives of our people for the … for the eradication of the legacy of…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… in Malmesbury and Cape Town. Abbotsdalers were not keen to work for White people and were proud to be independent … on the English mission station 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…
Directive concerning the nature of the forthcoming ANC consultative conference in Morogoro by Oliver Tambo, 01 March 1969
… to be taken to give a new impetus to organisational work in pursuance of the decision to make preparations for … to Dar to discuss and decide on issues…
Directive Concerning the Nature of the Forthcoming ANC Consultative Conference in Morogoro by O. R. Tambo, March 1969
… to be taken to give a new impetus to organisational work in pursuance of the decision to make preparations for … to Dar to discuss and decide on issues…
Turning-point elections in South Africa, 1910 - 2009
… the country will be plagued by continued unrest. Smuts in his famous address in May 1917 at the imperial institution in … a general policy which it may take…
ArticleCODESA 2 Timeline
… 1992: 5 Working Groups are constituted and begin their work shortly hereafter. 24 January 1992: The opening of … made on the government. 2 July 1992: De…
Chapter VIII - Treason - South African style 1
… we left the office. Nelson Mandela drove in from Soweto to his law office at the other end of town for a couple of hours' early morning work and would meet…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
… Biggs is a well-known orthopaedic surgeon in that city and his wife and Mrs. Corigall all familiar names in that … give me some information about your…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South … occasion is a celebration of what makes this democracy work. It…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… planters were unable to induce the local African populate work on the plantations for a wage and under contract. The … wife (patrivrata) worships her husband…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… In the next five years he not only held on to the core of his House of Assembly support but also increased it. By 1939 his wing of the United Party comprised…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his colleagues, Leuing Quinn and Thambi Naidoo, wrote from … dialogue reproduced below, Gandhi…
ArticleConstitution of the Republic of South Africa, 1996
… and set in motion processes that laid the foundation for apartheid. On 21 March 1960 police opened fire on a crowd … This resulted in the negotiations for…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… intellectual, journalist and activist Sol T Plaatje in his Boer War Diary: An African at Mafeking The Free State The … was on this island, that Nelson…
EventDutch Foreign Minister Luns is asked by the Johannesburg
… they call "irresponsible" utterances against the Union's apartheid laws and first to see that Holland "casts the beam … the national wishes of the…
EventPretoria receives city status
… Pretorius, a leader of the Voortrekkers who named it after his father Andries Pretorius. Andries Pretorius became a hero … of many dramatic incidents,…
EventRecord of Understanding is agreed to by the SA government and the ANC
… killed by the Ciskei Defence Force on 7 September 1992. In his statement the ANC President, Nelson Mandela regarded the killings as nothing but an indictment…
Closing Remarks to the 53rd National Conference of the ANC by President Jacob Zuma, December 2012, Mangaung
… The primary task of the ANC going forward is to work for unity at all levels of the organization. We must all … December 2012. Tata was admitted for tests in…
Document 17 - Letter from E. R. Roux to W.G. Ballinger, 19 March 1929
… Kadalie's expulsion of the Communists is on a par with his other acts of treachery and opportunism. You have … attached to the SANTUF. There is a tremendous…
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…
PlaceAngola
… the King asked to be baptised and in the process changed his name to João I [xxxi] . The Christianisation of Kongo … and through violence and intimidation…