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Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… 30 YEARS AGO- RETURN TO PRISON 30 years ago on 12 June 1986 I was re-detained for … times, with a number plate I recognized. I immediately got back into my…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
… influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his country during … country. Eventually his life…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… a prisoner for all intents and purposes, and was sentenced to a year of hard labour by the Provincial Government. He somehow managed to strike a deal with…
Freedom Charter and the United Nations by E.S. Reddy
… DOCUMENT 37. "Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting." Article in Dome (University of Natal), … a 'Hello Baas, Hello Missus!' Instead of standing at…
EventSouth Africa celebrates the first National Women's Day
… this country's history, 20 000 women of all races marched to Pretoria's Union Buildings on 9 August 1956, to present a petition against the carrying of…
Workers of the world
… in centre containing a man and a woman worker standing back to back. Advertisement for books on workers' struggles in other …
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… union broke away from the SATLC because they were opposed to its socialist ideologies. The largely racially mixed unions were also concerned by government…
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… thank members most sincerely for giving us the opportunity to express before this body the aspirations, determination … apartheid. This year`s debate is of…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.6 No.1 Oct-Dec 1961
… and Congress in South Africa, Duma Nokwe. Out of the Strike, Nelson Mandela. Techniques of Revolt, A special …
Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… of a refreshment station at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck was to ensure a constant supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat for VOC ships. When the company…
Disbanding, 1990-1991
… mass demands were made for a constitutional assembly to create a new non-racial, democratic, and unitary South … the history of the ANC and of the UDF . As…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… government curbed Indians' trading rights, confined them to cramped locations and prevented them from acquiring land. … with Gandhi but soon daughters and…
ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… Natal and Limpopo where there is still attachment to the soil, differs greatly from that of the Free State and the Cape countryside where, to a large extent,…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
… century. 1914 28 June, Archduke Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and his wife … the Austro-Hungarian Legation at…
EventKing Mwanga of Uganda signs a contract with the British East Africa Company
… the death of his father, Muteesa I in 1884. Upon ascending to the throne, mwanga expelled all Christian missionaries and forced his people to abandon the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Development Bank of Southern Africa (DBSA) Johannesburg, 21 November 1997
… inclinations of its staff, their skills and energies were bound to serve the larger purposes of an unjust order seeking to perpetuate itself. Such is the…
34. Further immigration restrictions, 1903
… and Bridglal Pachai A fresh piece of legislation sought to tighten control over the entry of free Indians into Natal. … respectfully approach this Honourable…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
… Pachai A petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to the Secretary of State for the Colonies by three Parsees, … their arguments did not persuade the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… a stroke and with much difficulty she had persuaded him to hand over his house to her younger brother, Isaac, a … into a small room with three u rooms…
ArticleSS Clan Stuart
… engine ship, weighing 3,594 tons, but it was not designed to withstand strong weather conditions (Barnardt, 2013). This … interesting as the ship was used as…
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… Rugby Board. In 2005 the unified body changed its name to the South African Rugby Union (SARU). The history of the Rugby World Cup dates back to the 1980s…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… East India Company) in the Netherlands was set up in 1602 to trade. In 1647, the Haerlem, a Dutch trading ship, was … shipwrecked in Table Bay. When the…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… Comrades and compatriots, It is an honour and a privilege to participate in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the … Under its newly-elected national…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… at the Communist Party. Other formations that opposed to the government's racist policies also felt the wrath of … The term communism was extensively defined…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… of Johannesburg.” This Act was specifically instituted to displace Africans from Sophiatown, a largely African … township of Johannesburg, which had become a…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the academic year at the University of Stellenbosch on 22 February 1971
… home the seriousness of the colour question. He referred to the special problems that confront the people of South … their peaceful existence is ultimately…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… Introduction More than two and a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck … commission from the Dutch East India…
NEDLAC, Union Investment Companies, the Tripartite Alliance and the Shock of the Government's New Economic Policies by Sifiso Gwala
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference …
Allies or collaborators? Dladla, Buthelezi and the KwaZulu regime, 1972-75 by David Hemson
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference …
Chapter 14
… were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, but were more than ever in a state of … politics. Here, unable to evolve any new…