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ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… was restricted; there was turmoil everywhere and South Africa had in effect become a police state. When Botha … establishment of the rights of women in the…
ArticleHIV/Aids Origins
… not yet have a name, but it quickly became obvious that all the men were suffering from a common syndrome. The … of HIV infection probably occurred around…
Work and education
… inherited from the apartheid system. In January 1995, all government-run primary and secondary schools were … had begun. Eleven years into the new democratic…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… curtailed political rights of the Union of South Africa. Such a thought suggests a feature of our … Its sphere as regards territory has always embraced all…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… come from?". In the course of time, in trying to solve all these problems, they develop a complicated set of ideas, … of industrialisation and urbanisation…
BiographyTsepo Tiisetso Letlaka
… (PAC) in exile but in the 1970s returned to South Africa. Convicted and given a suspended sentence with other … In 1975 he accepted an invitation to return…
BiographyStanislaus Skumbuzo Mzilankatha Sangweni
… would take him in, since his he couldn’t return to South Africa. After 30 years as an exile living in Holland, … Director of the United Nations Economic…
BiographyMark Shinners
… the Pretoria branch of the African Students Union of South Africa (ASUSA). The aim of ASUSA was to bring African … played a pivotal role in the talks that…
BiographyTiego Moseneke
… passion for law. Moseneke attended the University of South Africa (UNISA) after being released from prison in 1986, … added. Moseneke was the founding…
BiographyNancy Graham Dick
… Nancy Dick was born in Durban , South Africa and was brought up in Cape Town . She was one of four … in the sugar cane industry. Olive Schreiner , one of…
PlaceCenturion, Gauteng
… its Mall - one of the largest shopping centres in South Africa with over 200 stores and restaurants! Centurion is … from- Midrand in the South to Valhalla in…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the … the kingdoms of Mali, Songhay, Benin and the Asante, all built on wealth from…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest, is that when Americans … years prior to that this heroic group of…
BiographyBernard Mafiyeka
… A National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa shop steward. Mafiyeka was gunned down by one of a …
ArchiveInterview with Absolom Zithulele Cindi
… in the late 1960s. In 1972 he joined the Black People's Convention [BPC] when it was founded, and rose through the …
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC) and the Black Parents Association (BPA), …
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… family were surprised and upset that he had not left all of his fortune to them, but rather to establish the … institution was established in 1900 and is…
Hinduism
… life to the whole tree. At the same time they see God in all of creation likes the leaves and the branches. This means … the earth. I am the brilliance in…
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… by European settlers in nineteenth-century South Africa to support their claims to land. Today this theory is … used them to make a claim that the Xhosa had…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… Motlanthe, Honourable Chief Justice of the Republic, and all esteemed members of the Judiciary, Honourable Ministers … with all the parties in Parliament as…
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… onslaught, the story went, was the threat posed to South Africa (and indeed to the Western world) by the Soviet … structures, but in addition members of the…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… General at the first ANC conference to be held in South Africa since the party was banned. 1993 Zuma becomes involved … 6 May, The National Prosecuting…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… death and school certificates, your passport – they are all endorsed by the Coat of Arms. Your smallest coin has it … means that it has been approved by the…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 1 by US Department of State
… 1993 Mahamane Ousmane was elected president, leader of the Convention Démocratique et Sociale (CDS, Democratic and Social Convention). Rivalries within the…
National Land Committee
… RESTITUTION PRINCIPLES ADDRESSING DISPOSSESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA The Restitution Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… birth to the Black Consciousness (BC) movement in South Africa. It was the key actor within the BC movement, … and, blacks doing ‘things for themselves and…
ArticleThe Homelands
… to prevent them from living in the urban areas of South Africa. The Bantustans were a major administrative mechanism … and any remaining rights a Black could…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
… with this pidgin; the spread of it across Southern Africa; the varieties of Fanakalo; and lastly, examples of … by most mining companies for labourers and…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
… his greatest achievement was in 1996 where he won South Africa’s only silver medal at the Olympic Games in Atlanta, … from the list of Olympic athletes…
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
… singing the country’s new national anthem ‘Ishe komborera Africa’ (God bless Africa) with a touch of reggae. In 2001, he released a song … has died ,…