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Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor,…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
The Afrikaner Bond
The Origins of the Afrikaner Bond The Afrikaner Bond, an Afrikaner political organisation that was effectively the first political party in South Africa, was…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer United Nations Organisations 1946 India Acts - Trade…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation, 9 February 2012
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Second Joint sitting of the third Democratic Parliament, Cape Town 11 February 2005 Madame…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
My Childhood at Phoenix Settlement I was born on 19th of October 1928 on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Houses of Parliament, Cape Town 6 February 2004 Madame Speaker Chairperson…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
It is not easy to write about prison. When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the prison…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker To Protector of Indian Immigrants, 27th June 1916. Dear Sir, …
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 4 - 19 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Over these two weeks it is impossible to tie the diary format to entries on particular days. Maria…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
The condemned MK activist arrived at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison immediately…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
‘”¦ when historians assess the democratic credentials of Thabo Mbeki’s government in future, it is likely that their most critical attentions will focus on its…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy President of the…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as Prime Minister that Adv. Vorster made this now well…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 waves of 'insubordination', 'defiance' and 'riots'…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Thandi Modise, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President David…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 14 February 2003 Madame Speaker of the National…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have shown in The Eye of the Needle that a participatory socialist democracy is not impossible, in…