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ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… city and the effect it has on people who leave the rural areas, as well as those who remain in the rural areas. For … people like Robert Mugabe saying that…
PlaceMapungubwe Interpretation Centre
… Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre exemplifies contemporary African architecture. Visible from its entrance gate, the … Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour movement. It developed as a response to … effectively submit themselves to the…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… now in place to ensure the following: • the delivery of housing and related services; • steady improvement in the … support for emergent farmers; •…
1. The Way to Fox Street
… born in 1899 in Witzieshoek (now known as Qwa Qwa), a tiny African reserve squeezed into a valley on the south-eastern … worked out understandings with…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… Today, January 8th, 1987, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 75 years old. Con sequently, we … Council, the use of the army in the…
ArticleMapungubwe
… have been the centre of the largest known kingdom in the African sub-continent. The civilization thrived as a … gold smelting. A large amount of artifacts…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… and celebrate the 91st Anniversary of our movement, the African National Congress. This day also marks the beginning … of small and medium business, in both…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Prixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different … Prof. Jabavu, delegates draft…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… bodies. In 1902 Coloureds in Cape Town formed the African People's Organisation to represent the interests of … assumed new urgency with the formation of the…
BiographyGriffiths Mlungisi Mxenge
… At Fort Hare Mxenge joined the Youth League of the African National Congress (ANCYL). After obtaining his BA … political activists of the time. Despite his…
BiographyAnthony Richard Stubbs
… Stubbs met was Steve Biko , the first President of South African Students' Organization (SASO). Stubbs said later …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… artwork. Intangible heritage includes things such as our family heritage, religion, praise poetry, music, songs, dance … Gleaming skyscrapers contrast with…
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… anti-apartheid activist, and Director of Publicity of the African National Congress (ANC) External Mission, Marimuthu … struggle abroad. Leaders and…
EventSASO leader, Abram Tiro is assassinated
… Onkgopotse Abram Tiro, a leader of the South African Students' Organisation (SASO), was killed by a parcel … by the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) and…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… was born in 1919 in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in … for many years. She went on to become one of the…
PlaceSomalia
… century CE, migrants from Oman began to arrive on the East African coastline and introduced the Somali inhabitants to … the Kingdom of Ifat. [ix] The…
PlaceVryheid, Northern KwaZulu-Natal
… and Portugal. It was later incorporated into the South African Republic, but at the end of the Second Boer War; the …
BiographyGodfrey Rosenbaum Zibuse Kuzwayo
… Township, Johannesburg. Kuzwayo was founding member of the African Democratic Party in 1943. He died in 1965. … Businessman, journalist and founding member…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… could be maintained. Provision was made inside for the housing of about 100 men, together with stores, food and …
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… their personal interests or that of their factions, family and friends. At worst 'comrades leaders' reach a stage … of these challenges on our vision and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Diverse Culture Artistic and Linguistic Heritage
… also recognises other non-official languages such as South African sign language, Khoe Khoe and the San. Many other … They are found in and around Mopani…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Banquet help in honour of President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi Cape Town, 2 June 1998
… good medical services, nutritional food and adequate housing. Not long ago we met in Blantyre as the SADC Summit … democracy are permanent features of the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… the value of socialism as expressed in the precolonial African communal tradition. It was Lembede, together with A. … the Johannesburg Municipality on legal…
Chaskalson transcended his bias and loyalties by Tony Leon, 4 December 2012
… and judicial independence. Only a statement by the South African Communist Party (SACP) drew attention to the fact … although his nomination was at the…
Edited Transcript of Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Heads of Mission at the Presidential Guest House, Tshwane, 13 October 2005
… to do in order to increase the rate of growth of the South African economy. And that is one of the central principal … so on, Transnet is of course a…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… The build-up to the killing of 34 mineworkers by the South African Police was marked by incidents of intimidation and … vehicles torched. Striking workers…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress … being banned. The decline of the Federation of South…
BiographyThemba Godi
… and Industry. In November 2005 he was appointed the first African Chairperson of the Standing Committee on Public … away from the PAC and became the founding…
EventThe ANC sends a report on police violence to President F. W. de Klerk
… The African National Congress (ANC) sent a report on police … end to "the shocking inhumanity" of police action in rural areas. The report was based on about…