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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 79th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1991
… struggle for the liberation of our people from the yoke of apartheid tyranny. As a result of the victories scored … broad principles within which the…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her full potential. GUMEDE’S BIRTH AND CHILDHOOD Josiah … like teaching, interpreting, policing,…
PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… Herschel purchased and set at the centre of rotation of his great telescope can be seen. On one side of the obelisk … in this colony Sir John Herschel…
Chapter 6. Conclusion by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… grown to appalling dimensions. Comrades, have we not other work to do than to create a third Europe? The West saw itself … to push man around, to tear him…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… Guguletu attempts were made to stop workers leaving for work and. riot squad cars that arrived to stop this action … flag, went in to negotiate the release…
”Malan Cannot Succeed Where Hitler Failed”: Interview To , Cape Town, June 1950
… from their hands and stamped out under the jackboot of apartheid tyranny. Rather than let this happen they will … expression of their united opinion by…
PlaceNelson Mandela Museum, Mthatha
… collection and tribute to him, but a living Memorial to his values and vision. I t must inspire and enrich all who … the life of South Africa’s iconic Former…
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…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… raising for milk, meat and skins, and the agricultural work. The Songhai kingdom was the last major one in the … African kingdoms had relied on slaves to…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
… 3B The source below is an extract from David Buffam’s (American Consul in Leipzig) account of the Kristallnacht … pay a heavy penance for this mass murder of…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… over the company, asking them to help him get slaves for his settlement . From the beginning of the settlement there … way to deal with this issue, but the…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Islam at the Cape was observed by George Foster in 1770 in his book, A Voyage Round the World , [London, 1977]: he … Tuan Sa‘id served a prison sentence of…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… of the masses of the people in active struggle against the apartheid tyranny. What do we mean by the masses of the … do not see eye to eye on all issues, but…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… people, including Koranna and Tswana people, began to work on large maize and cattle farms around the 1880s. The … of the location had been using residents…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… in the rural areas to move into the urban centres to seek work. The government was thus forced to relax its influx … reformist policies he adopted. One of…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… 11 February, Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker makes his maiden speech at the City Hall. He takes a forceful … Durban. He made a statement that became…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him to survive the … during which he engaged in full-time underground…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… devoted leader of the African National Congress. His rigorous self-discipline enabled him to survive the … during which he engaged in full-time underground…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
… parties involved were. POM What if General Malan and his co-defendants are found innocent? What message will that … come, we've looked at the situation,…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… the parties to which you belong, represent the common anti-apartheid and democratic positions of the overwhelming … is between us common cause that we have…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… the most widely respected South African historians, whose work is widely published, both nationally and internationally. He chose to centre his already well…
PlaceBensusan Museum of Photography and Library, Johannesburg
… For example, a very early Daguerre camera - bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that the … images. The museum also specialises in…
EventWhite women achieve suffrage in South Africa
… in 1902 in Durban. It was established through the work of an English couple, the Ancketills, who had settled in … women in parliament, on condition that they…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… been a political army. MK was established to fight against apartheid, at a time when all other forms of resistance had … created, and the bulk of these…
Danny van der Merwe
… I have been a professional video cameraman for 18 years. My work as a photographer bears little or no relation to my job. …
EventSouth African Journalist, Zwelakhe Sisulu is abducted.
… Zwelakhe Sisulu was a prominent journalist in the apartheid era who fought for justice and freedom. Sisulu was … was the editor of the New Nation, Sisulu was…
EventCriminal Law Amendment Act No 8 commences
… be presumed guilty and would have the burden of proving his or her innocence. It also effectively prevented an editor … which was organised in protest…
EventThe first hearing looking into the mysterious death of Samora Machel begins
… a meeting of African leaders held in Lusaka, Zambia when his plane crashed. The fact that it chrashed over South … about the possibilities of the involvement…
EventIan Woodall and Cathy O’Dowd becomethe first official South African team to conquer the Mount Everest
… the summit hours later, and is thought to have died on his descent. Until the end of apartheid, South Africans had not been able to get a permit …