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Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… and from the indignity and insult of racism and apartheid. As an expression of its glorious humanism, the new … our actual programme that we reach out to…
PlaceStendahl Mission
… London Missionary Society. Rather than doubling up on the work of this society, the focus shifted Eastwards and great … families living at Stendahl. He then…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… of that future would also constitute our commitment to work to ensure that we transform what may seem to be a dream … century of this millennium, in which he…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… Table Bay with a fleet in search of fresh water. Some of his crew went to a nearby Khoikhoi settlement in the area … and return him to the Cape where it was…
ArticleHistory of ‘New Age’ Newspaper
… a leading voice in the South African struggle against apartheid, especially in the 1940s. As a result of this …
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… black men and women about to do the most highly skilled work, because the Bantu under imperialism have not been … by poll tax and land hunger and starvation…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then … iconic. The story of the Blue Notes is…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… is that our people have been subjected to the policy of apartheid which the United Nations has determined is a crime … in human rights violations ...". Judge…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as … the Whites, the Coloureds, the Asians and the Bantu…
PlaceVan Reenen's Pass, KwaZulu Natal
… septuagenarian, Gillis van Schalkwyk , has spent much of his life exploring them and their History, and wrapped his knowledge into a self-published book,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress (ANC) office bearers
… 1912 with each name linked to a biography. This list is a work in progress, any omissions are unintentional. Please …
The Children’s Charter
… affection and security. Children should not be made to work before a certain age. Children should not be beaten or …
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
… Congress and on behalf of the objects of colonialism, apartheid, racism, fascism and brutal exploitation in South … Order. Our victories on this front will…
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… to rally international support for the isolation of the apartheid state. We also had to create a reliable rear base … me with tremendous support and help. I…
ArticleAZAPO’s Women’s Wing - Imbeleko
… address the specific challenges faced by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from AZAPO's recognition … organising in the Black…
Indian South Africans timeline 2000s
… was honoured by the House of Traditional Leaders for his role in the underground struggle. His son, Dr Daya Appavoo, received a scroll on his behalf at Kidds…
ArticleNapoleon Bonaparte
… Bonaparte rapidly in the ranks of the French army and his victories over France’s enemies soon made him a popular … a director from 1799 to 1815. Napoleon…
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1910 - 1919
… , a Cambridge University graduate and a barrister and his companions are imprisoned for their opposition to … the Gandhi – Smuts Agreement , Gandhi…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… as a neighbourhood for Black Africans long before Apartheid increased in the country. During the Sharpeville … spirit. It played a pivotal role in the…
ArticleJohn Maxwell Coetzee timeline 1940-2003
… magistrate who begins to question the motives of his employers, and receives critical acclaim in Coetzee's country as well as his first recognition…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
… me as your deputy president. The tremendous volume of work which was occasioned by the many repressive Bills which … anything at all”¦. You will value how…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… for generations on the beaches of Durban, was checking on his boats at Addington Beach for fear they may be smashed by the storm, when some of his workers…
Address of Nelson Mandela, President of the African National Congress on Receiving an Honorary LLD Degree at the University of Fort Hare 9 May 1992
… or into ever-increasing violence the fruits of years of apartheid. Either the people govern, establish a truly … we consent to the continued rule of those…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… in particular, by the deepened crisis against the apartheid regime, the heightened mass struggle, and global … 1990, a month before de Klerk's announcements…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… religious occasions. This is how a Jewish tailor described his everyday life in a tailoring "sweatshop": When I enter … many Jewish tailors being dismissed…
EventJohn Thomas Baines is born
… at a young age, he left for South Africa in 1842 to work as a portrait artist. Baines was first employed as a … work as a storekeeper and artist. This…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… to people all over the country. People who wanted to work in the gold mines went by train. New towns grew up … leaving their land and coming to the…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… it is founded win growing acceptance as man develops from his past to his future. The African National Congress, born of the … been before to carry our…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner Factory work After my children were born I started working again, but now I went to work at the factories…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
… was initially a member of the ZAC following the healing of his eye ailment through the tri-baptismal the church … Lekganyane left ZAFM late 1924 or early…