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Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
Abstract: This paper focuses on the life on Lefifi Tladi. Tladi is an artist, poet, and jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first…
Who was Khwezi? Here’s what we learnt during the Zuma rape trial by TMG Digital (Sowetan) ,10 October 2016
The woman who accused President Jacob Zuma of rape‚ Fezekile Ntsukela Kuzwayo‚ was from a family of political exiles whose life was spread across Zimbabwe‚…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… being arrested by the Botswana Special Branch and left in 1989. [xvi] During his arrest, he was given a top secret …
PlaceCampanile, Port Elizabeth
… a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 12 May 1989. Normal Opening times are between Monday and Friday from …
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
Ray Alexander Simons nee Alexandrowich arrives in South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… and outside of South Africa brought us to the point in 1989 when, in its consensus Declaration on Apartheid and its … in the General Assembly Declaration on…
PlaceMajuba Power Station, Volksrust-Mpumalanga
This 4 110 megawatt Station, constructed at a cost of R 11.9 Billion, is one of the five biggest Power Stations in the World and the first to have been…
PlaceAngola
Angola has a long and rich history, and is home to some of the largest historical kingdoms in Africa such as the Kingdom of Kongo or the Kingdom of Ndongo. The…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa homehomepolitics & governanceliberation struggleemerging…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
When Black workers in Durban embarked on a wave of strikes in January 1973, the government and employers were shocked, and they responded mainly by giving in…
![Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/archive-files2/let19690815.032.009.743.thumb.gif?itok=6M3u975_)
ArchiveLetter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
A request for financial assistance from the University Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution"by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
The Spirit of Bandung - Address to the International Conference in Support of the Liberation Movements of Southern Africa and in Support of the Frontline States by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 10 April 1979
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
In 1959, Hugh Lewin, who has died aged 79, joined the South African Liberal party: shortly afterwards it became the only legal non-racial political party in…
ArticleThe Influenza epidemic
In March 1918 an international influenza pandemic broke out, that led to the deaths of 50 million people worldwide. The pandemic spread simultaneously in…
BiographyPitika Ntuli
Born in Springs, situated east of Johannesburg, Pitika Ntuli grew up with a keen interest in art. As a young man, he got involved in politics, and he was an…
EventLadybrand Four story told at the TRC
In December 1986, uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) cadres Joyce ‘Betty Boom’ Koekanyetswe, Nomasonto Mashiya and Tax Sejaname were abducted by members of the Orange Free…
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
On 18 January 2020, Peter “Terror” Mathebula South Africa’s first black world champion boxer died. Mathebula was born on 3 July 1952, in Transvaal (now Gauteng…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being taught in Afrikaans and were subsequently gunned down, detained, and exiled, led the…
Address by President Jacob Zuma during the commissioning of the OR Tambo school of Leadership, 26 March 2010, Kaweweta, Uganda
… first contingent of 152 MK soldiers arrived in Kaweweta in 1989. During the period 1989-1994 the population of Kaweweta was to increase to over …
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… of Parliament. The general election on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic … of the Chinese mainland for greater…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic … of the Chinese mainland for greater…
PlaceWaaihoek Farm
Waaihoek is a remote Farm situated near Ladysmith in Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). The first rent paying Tenants were 47 families who arrived in November 1984…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
The woman accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to…
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
Chinua Achebe (1930-) is a prominent Igbo (Ibo) writer, famous for his novels describing the effects of Western customs and values on traditional African…
ArticleThe impact of the War on Agriculture and Land
During the war agricultural production in South Africa received a major stimulus as a result of increased demand inside the country and a growing export market…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
Based on a speech at the University of Connecticut under the Auspices of UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights The tenth anniversary of the…