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ArticleThe Empire of Mali (1230-1600)
… the land, thus making him the guardian of the ancestors. His empire extended from the fringes of the forest in the … Mali [xxv] . Mansa Wali would, in turn…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… Mr. S. Kahn" Mr. Kahn pointed out the difficulty of his task, as he had no clear conception of the Government's … time wanted to pacify certain whites. He…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… in northern KwaZulu-Natal . 1932 Pixley Seme outlines his reform scheme, desperately seeking to improve the … decline Pixley Seme uses the votes of women to…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… to make our people impotent in the economic field so that apartheid oppression can be completed and all the non-white … Areas Act is described as the…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… values specially recognize the male child as compared to his female counterpart. “In communities where such gender … and during the Nigerian Civil War…
EventThe Chinese Community in South Africa is granted ‘White’ status
… for sport and leisure. In 2008 years after the fall of the Apartheid Regime the Chinese have been classed 'Black' … and others who were subject to…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… shorthand introduction to what the struggle against train apartheid was all about, what its difficulties were from the … A.E. (Sonny) Abdurahman, a bare two…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
… Culture); officially changed the name to Solomon Linda. His full name was Solomon Popoli Ntsele, (he was also known by his clan name “Linda”). He was a South…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… They delivered goods and undertook other kinds of manual work in the commercial firms. Or they went into domestic … -scale unemployment of whites, and…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… heard once to express the hope that the trial would end in his lifetime. Yet it was not to end in Pirow's. On 12 October … we should stand with the rest of…
Address at the Africa Regional Disability Consultative Conference Johannesburg, 6th May 2003
… of life of disabled persons and ensure that we improve our work in promoting, protecting and advancing the rights of … that we must continue to understand…
Indian South Africans timeline 1950-1959
… From 1978 to 1990 he was bound by the restrictions of his 1950 listing. 1951 May, Walter Sisulu believed that … unity and was ‘dismayed by the attitudes he…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein , describes Florence … of the era, participating in the resistance against the apartheid…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the National Council of Provinces, Limpopo, 4 November 2005
… public works programme, we need strong municipalities to work in partnership with other spheres of government, … National Council should make every effort to…
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
… by President of the ANC, Cde Jacob Zuma, to have his case, once more, struck off the roll…The judgement … wrote: “It is a surprise…that Mbeki did not employ…
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… - arrived in Pretoria in 1848 [i] . At the time of his arrival , King Mzilikazi and the southern Ndebele peoples … bought two farms, the Elandspoort and…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
… ‘revolves. It is from this premise that the author bases his arguments, that the general propaganda for a democratic … denounce Tonjeni at present. He has…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… approve the establishment and identify members of NIA to work within the HRIU? Provide evidence 14. Were there things … submitting an early retirement from…
PlaceEthiopia
… were killed. Mengistu remained leader until 1991, when his greatest supporter, the Soviet Union, dismantled itself. … disposed Ethiopia ruler, Emperor Haile…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… guarantee him an independent pursuit of destiny or ensure his leading a free and unhampered life. He had been defeated … heritage of all Mankind and claims…
A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
… on the issue of HIV and AIDS. Here is a transcript of his comments in the documentary: Leung [the filmmaker]: You … are not infected with HIV; so their…
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife. He then went on to bigger ventures such as setting … motor dealerships, a BMW franchise and…
Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… characterised by the complete eradication of the system of apartheid, fundamental socio-economic transformation, peace … level of mass mobilisation and mass…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the … forgotten? He had this dazzling…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… aboard the ship Malacca, claiming to have run away from his master, Cornelis Lichthart of Batavia. Abraham was set to work at the Cape. 1654 A slaving voyage…
Minutes of Extended Management Committee, 11 August 1981
… meeting to discuss Workers Unity, Dar Es Salaam, internal work, Co-ordination of ANC and South African Council of Trade Unions work, various ANC regions, and…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years … to other restrictions for having opposed the policy of apartheid". Despite numerous…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… like Nelson Mandela, who are held in the prisons of apartheid. In inviting the African National Congress to … of the world have flowed the policies of…
EventThe Motsuenyane Commission finds the African National Congress (ANC) guilty of abuse in its camps
… Human rights abuses were common in South Africa during the apartheid era and the liberation struggle was aimed at bringing these abuses to an end. When…
EventThe United Democratic Front (UDF) is dissolved
… in August 1983, and was one of the most prominent anti-apartheid movements, comprising of over 400 workers', church, … National Congress (ANC) to strengthen…