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ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… a Mexican woman called Anna Moreno Cervantes, then in 1989 an English woman, Elissa Dereford, and in 2016 he died …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa…
Nelson Mandela Sending Photographs
Introduction To someone cut off from friends and relatives, restricted to seeing only a selected few people and even these not as frequently as in normal…
EventAlbertina Sisulu addresses a major anti-apartheid rally in London.
… Sisulu addressed a rally held in London on 21 June 1989 to protest against Margaret Thatcher and F.W. de Klerk …
Entering Namibia without visas
… [2] See George M. Houser, No One Can Stop the Rain , 1989, pages 243-6 …
BiographyArthur Nuthall Fula
Arthur Nuthall Fula was born on 16 May 1908 in East London, Transkei (now Eastern Cape Province). In 1910, his parents – Samuel and Alice (née Stuurman) Fula –…
BiographyBenson Tsele
Benson Tsele died on 21 March 1968 in combat against the then white supremacist Rhodesian army. The Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) guerrilla was part of the Luthuli…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, ANC seeks amnesty for atrocities, by Koopman, Brans and Masipa, Cape Times, 28 January 1998
UDF Poster ‘UDF one million signature campaign. Make your mark against apartheid!’ by UDF, 1985, South Africa
Closing Speech at the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa"by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 December 1987
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… After the unbanning of the liberation movements in 1989, Nzo formed part of the ANC delegation that entered into …
PlaceFunda Community College
Funda Community College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on land which was donated by the Urban…
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
During apartheid, the term "Coloured" was used to refer to group of people generally considered to be of mixed race origin. Coloured people, throughout the…
ArticleJohn Langalibalele Dube Timeline 1940-1950
1840s John Dube’s grandmother, Dalitha becomes the first convert of the Lindley Mission Station in Inanda. 1871 22 February, John Langalibalele Dube is…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
Though first publicized as a respected medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and…
Slavery in South Africa
… Middletown, Connecticut: Wesleyan University Press, 1989. In the Cape: "Three of the first interracial marriages …
PlaceSeal Island
… Island to see the Cape Fur Seals from Hout Bay since 1989. The cruises are offered in either an open boat that …
EventThe South African Air Force is established
… van Ryneveld was shot down, but he survived. From 1966 to 1989, the SAAF was committed to the Border War, which was …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
Introduction Apart from a prostate operation in 1985 and equally successful treatment for TB in 1988, Nelson's health had been good. At a time when the Press…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents' meeting
The Ciskeian police disrupted a residents' meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
ENEMIES DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so if they make peace. This was so on…
EventSouth West African People's Organisation (SWAPO) is founded to oppose South African rule
… of Namibia. SWAPO won the first independent election in 1989 and Sam Nujoma became the first president of Namibia. …
Education Feature from Frene Ginwala's Thesis
Originally no provision was made for the education of Indians. The Reverend Stott of the Wesleyan Mission established a school for Indian labourers in 1868 and…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… strikes, and armed struggle (Lodge & Nasson, 1992). In 1989, the election of reformist F.W. de Klerk marked a change …
EventFawcett Commission into Concentration Camps in South Africa
… 3, Cape Town: Nasou, pp. 378 - 380. Barker, B. J. et al (1989). Illustrated History of South Africa: The Real story, …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
… of communism in Eastern Europe in the last months of 1989. No army of liberation marched into Pretoria, but …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… has lectured on African and environmental history since 1989, teaching courses which cover the South African … He was within POPCRU structures since its…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… which provided political support and bases for MK in 1989, when we had to leave Angola following the passing of UN …