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ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
Prior to the passage of apartheid laws both Black and White South Africans played rugby, albeit separately. After the onset of apartheid Black South Africans…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can tell us a lot about how people lived, what they…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
The beginning of 1974 was characterised by confusion and uncertainly in international relations. There was the Watergate scandal in which President Nixon of…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
“The truth is revealed in people’s eyes. Words have so little value. You need to get under people’s skins. See what is inside.”[1] -The Shadow of Imana:…
New Generation Sculpture
During the 1980s the work of a number of sculptors working in the northern part of the country, Gazankulu and Venda, came to the attention of academic…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… alternatively described as native reserves, bantustans and homelands. The Honourable Deputy President and Leader of …
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… is arbitrary for the 83 percent. Although Africans have "homelands" in such Bantustans as KwaZulu, where all Africans …
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… who come from the impoverished rural areas, the "homelands". But "uncontrolled squatting is not to be …
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
The participation of young people in the liberation struggle preceded the student uprising of June 16, 1976. Before the establishment of the African National…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,
Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Chairs of our Portfolio and Select Committees of Public Service and Administration, Members of Parliament and the National…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
As the 1950s gave way to the 1960s the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) both announced plans to tackle the pass laws for…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… the GDP, including the debt of the so-called independent homelands; The net open forward position of the South African …
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… pets because they didn’t have to carry passes or live in homelands and, initially, some even thought they were spies. …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
The Reverend Michael Scott was born on 30 July 1907 at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
Mr. Chairman, Distinguished leaders of the South African Jewish Community Ladies and Gentlemen, Compatriots and Friends, I consider it a privilege to…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
1980 25 January, Three MK cadres, on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were…
ArticlePolitical changes from 1750 to 1835
The section below on the Mfecane can be used as an introduction to this section. It is important to note that CAPS 2011 does not require it to be covered in…
Biography of Can Themba by Aisha Ahmed
Key Words: Can Themba, Apartheid, Writer in Exile, Drum Magazine Born: 1924 Marabastad, Pretoria Died: 1968 Swaziland Education: High School, Polokwane …
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… must be taken to include the pseudo-independent pseudo-homelands or Bantustans. Our estimates are that well over 100 …
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
Mr. Chairman, Your Excellency, Secretary General of the OAU, Distinguished Ministers, Fellow leaders of the National Liberation Movement, Your…
Post-detention weapons
… in South Africa (excluding the nominally independent-'homelands'), the number exceeding 100 each year except for …
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
The Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930 Indians began settling in Natal from 1860 when the first indentured workers arrived.1 They were followed from the mid-1870s…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… began to flex their muscles...you know Unions, homelands, schools, black student movements, black …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… of our people residing in the so-called "independent homelands", relegated to patches of arid land by the designs …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
Cape Town. Christmas 1977. I was thirteen years old. That seems like a very long time ago now, in a galaxy far, far away. We were living in a period of Civil…
New tactics in the revolt
… to break out again and continue if nothing is done. In the Homelands many schools have already been burned down because …
The strangulation of activity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The classical freedoms of association, assembly and…