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Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… Claims, an African Bill of Rights that was inspired in part by the Atlantic Charter. Freedom in our lifetime, the …
ArchiveAn Inconsolable Memory by Aryan Kaganof
… What was Eoan? What did it mean to the people who took part in its many productions? These questions propel …
PlaceMbunza Living Museum, Kavango-Namibia
… with Mangetti nut oil refined leather. An essential part of the interactive program of the Living Museum is the …
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and was part of the 1956 Union Buildings March which saw 20 000 women …
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…
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…
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)…
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 …
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
… that the route to follow in the Zimbabwean situation is one of `quiet diplomacy` instead of a fan fare approach. The …
Apartheid’s Twisted Dream: David Goldblatt’s South Africa by Joseph Lelyveld, 2 July 2010
… described as his country’s Walker Evans. Though Evans was one of Goldblatt’s models when he was starting out more than …
Author uncovers Gandhi’s links with early ANC leaders by Anelisa Kubheka (Daily News), 02 March 2012, Durban
… Dube made an eloquent speech and he was an African whom one should know. He kept in contact with Dube,” he said. He …
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… and the South African Communist Party. [iii] Mashamba was one of the longest serving MEC’s and at the time of her death …
PlaceJoubertina
… suffered little notoriety and languished as something of a one-horse town in much the same vein as its Neighbour's. Now …
EventProVerb, the South Africa hip hop artist, television and radio presenter is born
… ambassador for the province in 2005. In 2010, ProVerb was one of the celebrity contestants on the reality show, …
EventRiaad Moosa, the South African comedian is born
… African Film and Television Award for Best Actor.[v] His one-man comedy shows are “Strictly Halaal” and “For the …
EventJack Parow, the Afrikaans rap artist is born
… was born in Parow, Cape Town on 22 February 1982.[i] He is one of the most popular Afrikaans hip hop artists in South …