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The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
… the trade unions, have focused on the burden of the past – apartheid and colonialism. Very little attention has been … for the majority who exist with little…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… around this issue. Evolutionary theory Charles Darwin. His theory of evolution describes how we developed to become … more about archaeology. You can read…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid … encountered Dingane. Nervous about white…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… of a life’s obsession for the soon-to-be 84-year-old. And his open-ended visual essay about the things humans put up in … and the obligation of an artist to…
Address at the Meeting of Nigerian and South African Business 2 October 2000
… as well as to our respective regions and continent. In his recent epic poem "Mental Flight", Ben Okri writes the … This new Africa will emerge out of…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… hegemonic dominance and the language and structures of apartheid. …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… to plead to the Indian Government to send its citizens to work in their cane fields. After protracted negotiations … considers it reasonable that the…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Albert Luthuli, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. I say this because I … raised go far beyond them. He brings…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… state president in South Africa from 1948 to the end of Apartheid in 1994 was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond . … power and were opposed to a further…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… athletic, bow-legged Major John Harding, who walked us to his prison. Harding, a Frederik van Zyl Slabbert look- alike, … like to study in prison and whether…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married, Jacobus Christoffel Wessels, whose … interesting and there is reason to…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… would sweep all White people into the sea. Sarhili ordered his subordinate chiefs to obey the injunctions. The first … 30,000 streamed across the border in…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces Whites-only referendum results
… referendum were hailed worldwide and signalled the end of Apartheid in South Africa. The Netherlands' Prime Minister … of African Unity (OAU), Ibrahim…
EventA meeting titled “Conference for Concerned South Africans” is held, bringing together homeland leaders and conservative Afrikaner parties.
… support him should the ANC try to enter the Ciskei. These apartheid puppets were more vocal when Treurnicht promised … further defence from any attack by the…
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… weapons" by Vlok was considered proof by the ANC that the Apartheid government to a large extent was fuelling the … this eventually led to a demand that Vlok…
EventSix Treason Trialists miss resumption of trial
… they were. During the proceedings, Robert Resha resumed his evidence under cross examination by Mr. J. Trengove, for … Trial dates back on 5 December 1956,…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for … since Chief Autshumato was imprisoned…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… the main aim of the project is to look at a range of anti-apartheid NGOs, particularly those that have focussed on … (Mandela) had been playing, and the…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… your glory and triumph. I salute Nelson Mandela who turned his prison cell into a theatre of struggle. In particular, I honour him for generously allowing…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… of the proposed Arabic chair, Dr Daud Mall and his wife, Sakina [Bibi Mall] flew to Cannes, France, to seek … based organisations in the Transvaal to get…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… The Group Areas Act is designed to intensify the policy of Apartheid to which the Nationalist Government is wedded. It … people and is designed to frustrate…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… living in their homes. If their children could not find work or keep their jobs, the lodger's fee meant that they had … ' Oubaas ' Weeks was an overbearing…
ArticleThe South African General Elections: 2019
… This will be the sixth election held since the end of the apartheid system in 1994. This election will determine who …
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… African Bolshevik-Leninists in this great and responsible work to which they have set themselves. The South African … lie of being above the class struggle…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… for the Liberation Struggle Nelson Mandela, delivering his presidential address to the ANC Youth League in December … or limit the possibilities of mass…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… soon became too small as the population expanded, so, when work on the Castle was begun in 1666, one of the timber sheds … urgent. On 16th December 1677,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… political activist at the time, recalls the views of his political circle: [B]y 1977, it was becoming quite clear … this lustre openly it hid much political…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
… as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. Stanley … AFCON. Ephraim "Shakes" Mashaba (2002-2003…
David Goldblatt, once and future freedom hero by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 28 November 2012, South Africa
… presented to him at a ceremony in April 2012. In his email, Goldblatt writes: “I profoundly regret to inform … conscience. Possibly most famously, John…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… been killings, pursued in the interests of preserving the apartheid system, nothing on that scale had occurred since the accession to power of the apartheid…