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Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
… [iv] . Lefifi Tladi’s style is described as modernist and African. Tladi uses a plethora of disciplines for his … children of South Africa to grow up…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently been adopted by the…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… in the 1970s, it has become a focal point for a new housing scheme known as Onze Molen. It was declared a …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… is now 98 years since the founding of our movement - the African National Congress. It has been 98 years of principled … Á¢â‚¬Ëœa high premium on…
EventParliament passes legislation separating the people of South Africa into four distinct races
… It further voted to divide South Africa into separate areas (for the exclusive use of each race) through the Group Areas Act No. 41 of 1950. Both these Acts…
EventA proposed amendment to the Population Registration Act is made
… of the apartheid laws passed in the 1950s was the Group Areas Act, which determined where people of different racial groups could live. The Group Areas Act…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… ‘The South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New … (b.1930) began taking photographs in the gold-mining areas in his teens. Many of them,…
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… violence that reached alarming proportions in some areas. The effects of the conflict that broke out in the … of Zululand was triggered when students aligned…
EventCODESA II Talks end in deadlock
… ends in a deadlock. The negotiating parties ie. The South African Government and the country's liberation movements including the African National Congress …
PlaceGoede Hoop Wine Estate
… The Bestbier family first bought this farm in 1928 and today it’s still run by the family with Pieter Bestbier (now a third generation …
EventSASOL plant under attack
… crimes indefinitely, without access to a lawyer or family. Patrick was detained and tortured for two weeks. This … J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… name, in all humility. This was the birthplace of the African National Congress and the National Party, … steeds sigbaar in die afsonderlike woonbuurte…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were … trade union work; and "internal" work in the forward areas and inside the…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… local militias from the earliest days of all their West African missions. [19] The Nova Scotians formed the core of … the Temne, a detachment of European…
EventThe Rand Revolt strikers’ stronghold at Fordsburg Square falls to the government
… active role in the uprising. On 15 March 1992, the South African government's artillery bombarded the strikers' … From 15 to 19 March 1922, government troops…
PlaceHazyview
… the hazy, lazy days during summers, typical of the African Bushveld whilst on Safari. Hazyview is central to the … recognised, it was just a culmination of a…
Death of ANC Education Secretary, Seretse Choabi, 29 August 1991
… The African National Congress regrets to announce the untimely … of the ANC. We send our sincere condolences to the Choabi family. Your personal loss is one…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. Through the length and breadth of … tip of the continent to the Limpopo,…
BiographyFather Smangaliso Mkhatshwa
… to the church's general secretariat of the Southern African Catholic Bishops' Conference (SACBC) in Pretoria. In …
BiographyLothar Neethling
… Taiwanese government. In 1971, Neethling founded The South African Police’s forensic unit. His work in the unit earned …
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
… September 1956 in Willowvale, Eastern Cape. He joined the African National Congress (ANC) in June 1980 when he was …
BiographyRodger Bosch
… the early democracy with its most celebrated President, African leader and world statesman Nelson Mandela. Then, …
EventDurban magistrate rules the death of Dr Haffejee accidental
… ruled that Dr Haffejee's death was due to suicide. The family of Dr Haffejee believe that he was murdered in … Dr David Hobson Biggs, who was commissioned by…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… enormously to the concrete understanding of the African socio-political and economic situation. He emphasised … in serving as the Acting Chief Executive…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… rights advocate, born in 1957 to a large working-class family in what was then the British Protectorate of Uganda. … at Saints in the 60s: “They didn’t want…
PlaceMbaula Village, Phalaborwa
… / Congo language and a Bantu member of the Benue-Congo family of languages, spoken by c. 5 million people, mainly in … Niger/Congo language and a Bantu…
PlaceHeuningvlei, West Coast District Municipality
The area that the West Coast District Municipality (WCDM) serves stretches from the border of Cape Town Metropole to the border of the Northern Cape. The…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… Belafonte, Stokley Carmichae Miriam Makeba was a South African singer who dedicated her life to fighting for civil … needed a fresh start. Makeba left her…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… the beginning of his and later our lonely life away from family. It was never lonely on the farm because there were … paper the “Indian Opinion”. We had four…
Hunter-Gatherers in Southern Africa
… of thousands of years. A journey into the past An American family, the Marshalls, spent several years living with the …