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EventSouth African Parliament votes to restore citizenship to residents of so-called independent states
… with the reintegration of these territories into South Africa. The formal announcement on the restoration was made … that his homeland would never…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. … 1850 a group of them had established a synagogue. 2 Nearly all the…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that MK is their highly trained, … Politico-Military Strategy Commission …
EventThe first Non-White South African Table Tennis team participates at the World Championship
… 33 countries were divided into four sections and South Africa was competing in the section that included defending … (FIFA) executive lifts the Football…
EventClampdown on 'conflict diamonds' begins
… from more than thirty countries agree to certify all legitimate shipments of rough diamonds, in an … trade in gems that has been used to fund civil wars in…
Mandela and Fidel A film by Estela Bravo
… films have spotlighted events throghout Latin America, Africa, the Caribbean and the U.S Retrospectives of her films … memory while pursuing a more humane…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… the 1922 General Strike and the 1929 Stock Market collapse all played a role in prolonging this era, and it was not until 1932, when South Africa went off…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … of legislation ever to come before any Union Parliament. All other statutory…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one … narratives of precolonial and colonial…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… among certain people within the Xhosa community in South Africa, with threats of protest and strong criticism against … villages where these problems exist…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… slaves spoke Malagasy while slaves originating from East Africa had their own languages to communicate. Furthermore, … or two have to go out each day to…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… 21st century, a number of people lost their lives in South Africa amid liberation struggle. However, some of these … are killed by South African police while…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… the late Mr. Roosevelt and Generalissimo Stalin. They were all comparatively young men who took over leadership in the … Indians who might find a salary of …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… and Energy Affairs to say together with one voice: Let us all take responsibility for freeing our communities of crime … violence to achieve their goals…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of which she wrote. Many historians have also … through the significant effects of…
EventA Day of Prayer Called by the NIC
… Indians took a resistance pledge. Messages such as "After all civil resistance had its birth in Asia" and "Jesus was an Asiatic; if he was reborn and went to…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was … drastically curtailed my freedom and changed my…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in South Africa made many attempts to organise themselves into unions … the early 1960s onwards, the state…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho … August 1981 said, "THERE WOULD BE NO LLA, IF…
EventThe twentieth anniversary of the arrest of Nelson Mandela is marked by a call for his release by China
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
EventM.K. Gandhi is forcibly removed from a whites-only train carriage
… Gandhi was practising as a young Indian lawyer in South Africa at the time, and this event proved a remarkable … in protesting against policies of…
EventNelson Mandela and Walter Sisulu on Robben Island 5 August 1982
… Howick, KwaZulu-Natal, shortly after his return to South Africa on completing six months’ military training in Oujda, Morocco, and after attending the All…
Mission Stations - M
… the church at Mekuatling, the natives first got together all the stones, and prepared about 60,000 bricks; the wood … and for this purpose a number of skins…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… the foreign observer would be forgiven for thinking South Africa was experiencing its own “Arab Spring”. And, just as … it was marred by violence that did…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally … in a FIFA-sanctioned international.Cameroon arrived as Africa's most celebrated side, the…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… his role as both a chief and as ANC president. Yet South Africa was changing. When Buthelezi chose to engage with the … of the country ruled exclusively and…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… fight for food, tomorrow for the vote and for freedom for all.” In February 1945 women marched to the parliament to … passes, it instead introduced reference…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… indulging in fights. If you can do it, it's preferable at all times, and if one has regard to a nation, a group of … amount of heartache and saying well,…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… Bubonic plague and, between 1901 and 1903, most of South Africa's major towns recorded outbreaks of this disease. The … Port Elizabeth in 1901, and although…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… Book Fair taking place from 25-26 October 2013 at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg. This is the fair for … activities are geared to encourage reading…