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January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2011
… benefits of our political liberation are shared amongst all our people. Our people have struggled selflessly for … Years since the formation of the Communist…
ArticleEskom Energy Crisis: Will there be a “just transition” to renewable energy? by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty
… caused by cyclone Idai that swept through Southern Africa and left the Mozambican city of Beira under water. The … for disadvantaged people and communities…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… of the reserve economies. Full proletarianisation in South Africa, would threaten the migrant labour system upon which … system had been abolished and we had…
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…
PlaceBaavianskloof Pass
This spectacular Kloof (which is part of the R332 route) links the Western section of the Baavianskloof with the higher Karoo hinterland, and more specifically…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ,…
BiographyPenny Heyns
… In 1992 at the age of 17 she was chosen to represent South Africa in the Olympic Games in Barcelona. She won no medal … Games, Heyns followed her conscious…
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…
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…
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…
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), …
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…
National Land Committee
… RESTITUTION PRINCIPLES ADDRESSING DISPOSSESSION IN SOUTH AFRICA The Restitution Programme should address the racially based dispossession of all forms of…
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…
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…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… of 1963 ). Aitchison joined the Liberal Party of South Africa in 1963 in his second year of studies at the … ordained deacon in the Church of the Province of…
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…
Mandela: Message to India
… to India 18 June 1994 [ On the occasion of an India-South Africa Solidarity Meet to discuss the post-apartheid South … sent a message in his capacity as the…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… Plain , grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her exact birthdate and birthplace are not … community-based safety initiatives in post…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1930-1939
… of unorganised or unregistered groups of workers in all industries. The Act aimed to raise the wages of … The Native Service Contracts Act of 1932 The Act…
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…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political … We shall see that women were prominent…