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EventChief of the Zondi, Bambata is killed
… a police force near Greytown and killed four policemen, one of whose body was mutilated. He fled to the home of chief …
EventAnglo-Boer War 2 - Kitchener proposes establishment of concentration camps
… had perished. Most historians observe that this is the one single incident that inspired the rise and growth of …
EventDr Robert Broom is born
… over the past 3.5 million years have been found, but one of the most significant discoveries was made in 1947 by …
EventMahatma Gandhi leaves the Tolstoy Farm 1913
… and Kallenbach's deep admiration for Count Leo Tolstoy. One of the aims of establishing the farm was to serve as …
Introduction
… of free Indians into Natal. A law of 1897, replaced by one of 1903, devised a literacy test to be applied in a …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… and had to receive his award outside in pouring rain. In one photograph, Gary Player, looking distinctly miffed, has … thoughts about these subjects. Rare…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… Chief Albert Luthuli. Even when I was arrested I was from one of those consultations. The importance of this Siyakha … the beginning of a long march towards…
Biography: Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf, Liberia's 'Iron Lady' by Alistair Boddy-Evans updated 08 August 2016
… Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf rejects the suggestion that she is one of the elite: "If such a class existed, it has been … spending. As the 70s progressed, life…
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
… Many thus become victims of complacency. Among whites one gets some day-dreaming of a white South Africa that is … a basis for making a much-needed agonising…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… an ongoing coup attempt by former intelligence chief and one-time presidential ally Major General Godefroid Niyombare. … is under control, there is no coup…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… by age 18. He went on to translate Shakespeare and author one of the first novels written in English by a Black South … No. 22 of 1916 would prohibit a…
Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew 2 000 Protest against … the Minister of Native Affairs to expel…
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 79 - "What is the … Everyone who wants land will be able…
2004 New Year’s Eve Broadcast, 30 December 2003
… Letsema. We must draw many more of our people to work as one in a people's contract to ensure that acting together, we … they are in hospital or lying at…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
… In May 1972, a local clergyman, Rev David Russell, led one of the most effective apartheid era protests when he … not easily obtainable elsewhere. Access…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… of the Gold Coast’s (present-day Ghana) film industry. One of the Colonial Film Unit’s “Mobile Cinema” mobile units. … regime, 1957-1966, the Ghanaian film…
The Causes of the Boer War by Prof. Marius Swart
… disappeared as yet. In fact, people who were in some way part of or directly influenced by the Three Years War are …
Statement at the Sixth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries, Havana, Cuba by O. R. Tambo, 3 - 9 September 1979
… our gathering is attended by representatives of more than one hundred countries, accounting for two-thirds of mankind, … colonialism and United States…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
… includes two of his praise poems. Among us blacks no one has bothered to ask, why did Steve have to die? We all … It is difficult to convince oneself of the…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… death in 1988 was never fully investigated, and remains one of South Africa’s biggest mysteries. Dulcie September’s … Africans despite their education and…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… familiar sense of Badsha’s effervescent activist spirit; one that embraces struggles that are continuously being … (Photo by Gallo Images / Alet Pretorius)…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… regime negotiate with the ANC. The students thus became part of an ever-growing constituency, whose representatives … Persons Group a chance. The Pretoria…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… government’s closure of Johannesburg Indian High School – part of its Group Areas policy to force Fordsburg’s Indian … Worker and Azania Frontline as…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the Freedom Day Celebrations at the ABSA Stadium, Durban 27 April 2005
… steadily become a country that belongs to all because, in part, where there could have been serious racial conflicts … Indeed, it is critical that the mass…
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… Tour as being ranked seventh in the world.[iii] Botha is one of the world’s best and most successful surfers, the …
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… with studios and exhibition space in Woodstock , and is one of the few active non-commercial spaces in Cape Town . …
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… was an anti-Apartheid and LGBT rights activist. She was one of the founding members of GLOW, South Africa’s first …
Oliver Tambo call for the observance of the 70th birthday of Nelson Mandela, 18 June 1988
… to themselves - all keep alive the flame of freedom. And one person has come to embody the aspirations of all the …
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… to themselves - all keep alive the flame of freedom. And one person has come to embody the aspirations of all the …
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… condolences to the Choabi family. Your personal loss is one felt by the entire nation. Hamba Kahle, Comrade Seretse …