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EventAstley Hilary Goodwin, first professional archaeologist in SA, is born
… including developing the standard terminology of South African archaeology. He founded the South African Archaeological Society and wrote books like The…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… was poised to break out of the near irrelevance to South African affairs into which its miscalculations of the 1960s … the ANC external mission’s ability to…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… - Mr. Houser describes the work of the Americans for South African Resistance (AFAR) in support of the Defiance Campaign … against Unjust Laws of South…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
… societies and became culturally disintegrated as their African identity and traditions were torn away. The Cape … der Colff [1] Author Unknown, “Africa,…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
… Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1 and C10. The South African Police security section had broader control over … seen as opponents of the apartheid…
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
… exÂploitation and national oppression of the African people - could now be carried forward. In action, the African working class had begun to show its…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… early twentieth century, the twin concerns of the South African state were guaranteeing capital accumulation on the … provision of facilities, for black, and…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… duty to define ourselves. We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not … living, who we relate to and how. Our…
Address at the University of Havana, Cuba, 28 March 2001
… duty to define ourselves. We speak about the need for the African Renaissance in part so that we, ourselves, and not … living, who we relate to and how. Our…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest fraternal … whose experience, dedication and skill as the doyen…
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… more to undermine our interests than any other black African.” [2] The US government was determined to depose … Nkrumah before he managed to unite Africa…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… general tone of the commentaries – including the governing African National Congress (ANC’s) - has been sympathetic. … It displays a cavalier attitude…
EventLlewellyn Herbert was born on this day
… July 1977 in Bethal, Mpumalanga.[i] Herbert was the South African 400 metre hurdle champion from 1996 to 2003.[ii] He … Olympic Games.[v] He was known as the…
EventJoyce Mashamba passed away
… for the liberation struggle. [ii] She served under the African National Congress, ANC’s Women’s League and the South African Communist Party. [iii] Mashamba…
EventKhulane Morule, the Motswako rapper is born
… the Best Venacular Hip Hop Album award at the South African Traditional Music Awards.[iv] His Lost In Time album … such as the Best Collaboration award at…
Document 11 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Annual Conference Agenda, St Phillips School, Chapel Street. District 6, Cape Town, 18 January 1923
… 1923 1. Minimum or Standard rate of wages for all the African Workers throughout South. Conditions of the Railways … at the Head Office. 7. "One Big Union"…
EventThe Republic of South Africa is established
… the actions of the revolutionary elements, the South African government adopted legislation which increasingly … of Southern Africa, Cape Town: NASOU. 3…
EventThe Flag of the Union of South Africa is hoisted on Prince Edward Island
… Edward Island is one of two Islands annexed by South African which includes Marion Island. The Island lies about … play a strategic role. The British worked…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and Afrikaans, unanimously … the bill. In its place, a new self…
EventA group of six White and several Black rebel army troops mounted another coup attempt on 21/22 November in Transkei, a Black ‘homeland’
… in a bloodless coup in 1987. Holomisa accused the South African government of having had knowledge of Duli's … Africa were strained, since Holomisa openly…
EventFormer Minister of Defence and others are charged with murder
… back to this day in history search archive Former South African Defence Force Minister, General Magnus Malan and 19 … between the Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP)…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… when he went to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Initially he … to study Indian or Middle Eastern law, but…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… F.W. de Klerk to release Nelson Mandela and unban the African National Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… origin. Coloured people, throughout the course of South African history, have been regarded as neither white nor … basis that the CRC was completely…
ArticleDefining culture, heritage and identity
… some overview of what is meant when people speak of South African Heritage. Culture Like 'heritage' and 'identity,' … Africa at large, to innocently enquire…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… black women. This can be partly explained by the fact that African women did not have to carry passes until the 1950s, and were thus not as easily controlled…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… settlers, and these wars dominated 19th century South African History. The first frontier war broke out in 1780 and … harbour. However, developments…
ArticleZulu
… years, he had forged one of the mightiest empires the African continent has ever known. The Zulu empire weakened … for all Black South Africans, and in 1953…
ArchiveNUSAS Congress 1984: Head Office report
… Report of the Head Office of the National Union of South African Students to the Annual Congress of the National … the Azanian Students Organisation, the…
EventMK operatives, Jerry Mosolodi, Terry Mogoerane and Thabo Motaung are executed
… police station, a car bomb exploded outside the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African Defence Force (SADF) Military Intelligence … at…