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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,…
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…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… she wrote that: "The child is not dead the child lifts his fists against his mother who shouts Africa!... The child … is also acutely conscious of the fact…
Archive1995 - President Mandela: State of the Nation Address, 24 February 1995 (after National Elections)
… commitment expressed by all the parties in this chamber to work together for the good of the country. We welcome this … Mbeki to take this matter up as soon…
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,…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… hegemonic dominance and the language and structures of apartheid. …
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… at the Hendrina-based mine for almost 12 years. He says his salary has been paid irregularly for a year now and … to score multi-billion dollar contracts for…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… what was going on but we couldn't. So many of the mothers work. The Day Hospital had closed at 11.00 a.m. and those … who remained. The last to come was…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… which supplied the conditions for the operation of his military genius. As a result of these developments some … such impoverished conditions that they were…
African farmers in Southern Africa
… Africa came the spread of crop farming. Martin West, in his study of this period, points out that all the African … in these societies. Looking after the…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… called Langlaagte to visit a friend, George Walker. On his way, Harrison found an outcrop of rock and after crushing … and policies that were later…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
… Apartheid's Truimph Over Non-Racialism The destruction of … Nationalist Party (NP) government's model for its urban apartheid legislation and policies…
ArticleSouth African Police Services (SAPS)
… 1 040 police stations. South African riot police during Apartheid in the 1950’s. Source: www.capetown.at The most … of the country. South African riot police…
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 …
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…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… climate of Cape Town Johnny Gomas seemed to have found his niche: organising workers through the vehicle of the ICU, … the white settlers began to look down…
ArticleMcGill University Project
… researchers and who supported students as they did their work. The student essays formed part of their South African …
Media briefing statement by ANC National Chairperson, Comrade Baleka Mbete, following the occasion of the Republic of South Sudans 9th July Independence Day Celebrations
… which the CPA has been implemented and we will continue to work with them to ensure that all outstanding matters related … shared offices in the dark days of…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
… is critically to review our policies, to facilitate the work of the National Congress, the only body that has the … we inherited from our long history of…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… University. Emecheta stayed in Lagos and worked at the American Embassy for two years to support her children while … their separation. After separating,…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… sleeves and dirtying our hands with no funding. All the work that has been done here so far was paid for from our own … There was a roster for the women…
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
… journeys between Holland and East Asia. Within weeks of his arrival at the Cape, Van Riebeeck requested slaves to work at setting up the refreshment, as the…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… than one person. You must remember that every person has his or her own opinion and that you need different views to … If so, what is it? Who were/are you…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… in our country, which was formed in 1985 at the height of apartheid oppression and in the midst of the State of … understanding which propelled the…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… on the political, economic, cultural and moral fronts. His ideas about love, truth, soul force (‘brahmacharya’) and … of colonialism. These years also…