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Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… economic and moral, from outside and within South Africa, could bring about a change of mind. I added that this … my desperate attempt to make them…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
… Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President on 10 May 1994. All over the world the ANC closed the offices of its … Msimang, became the first Ambassador of the…
Address by President Jacob Zuma on the departure of former president Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… will be accorded a state funeral. I have ordered that all flags of the Republic of South Africa be lowered to half-mast from tomorrow, December 6, and … non…
PlaceStone House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… example of Arts and Crafts movement craftsmanship in South Africa. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC … was moved to write in his journal: 'I…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote … to vote in favour or against it. Botha's move to draw all the whites…
PlaceMapungubwe
… site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa , Zimbabwe and Botswana , 75 km from Messina. It sits … The best known of these objects is…
PlaceAkkoordskop, a Hill in the Western Cape
… aboard the ‘Mauritius’ and the Khoikhoi locals of South Africa near Mossel Bay… The sailors require fresh meat and … of scurvy and the Khoikhoi locals wanted…
Grassroots
… a voice to the 'voiceless' and oppressed peoples of South Africa. Only 5000 copies of the first (March 1980) edition … trade unions and the United Democratic…
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's greatest leaders. In 1952, the Apartheid Government … 'Treason Trial' trial lasted for four…
EventThe Korean War ends
… of 50 officers and 157 other ranks, including 38 pilots, all volunteers and highly experienced, sailed for Japan to … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… British Loyalty. It was feared that Japan would overrun all the allied colonies in the Indian Ocean, and use these colonies as bases to launch attacks on…
EventSA Corps of Military Police is reorganised
… Force) to that of Military Police Corps (MPC). It brought all Military Police detachments under the control of one … Companies of the Corps rendered valuable…
EventLeaders of six homelands reject new constitution
… As a result of the adoption of the Republic of South Africa Act, which made provision for a three-chamber … preferring to continue to fight for political…
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… Amenities Act in 1953. The Act enforced segregation of all public facilities, including buildings, and transport, in … to limit contact between the different…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… organization was banned in 1960. ″It was only then, when all other forms of resistance were no longer open to us, that … paved the way for the birth of a…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… was issued that stated, among other things, that all attempts to disrupt the economic development of Southern Africa by sanctions, boycotts and similar…
EventThe first Comrades Marathon takes place
… awarded in 1921 was a Silver Medal which was awarded to all finishers of the event up until 1931. An exception to … Comrades Marathon is the most popular…
Cutting Through The Mountain
… with South Africans - most of them prominent and all of them Jewish - who fought against institutionalised racism in South Africa. Denis Goldberg, Helen…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
… both the National Assembly and Provincial Legislatures. 2. All the undersigned parties reject violence and will … free and fair elections throughout the…
EventFirst United Nations General Assembly opens
… Nations was put in place to ensure that war is avoided at all costs globally. The organisation would prevent war and … issues over the years, including…
EventState of emergency declared after Sharpeville Massacre
… During the 1960 State of Emergency the government banned all pubic meetings greater than 3 people. The event that … This event signaled the start of armed…
Document 3 - National Anti-CAD Conference Agenda, Oddfellows Hall, Hope Street, Cape Town, Saturday, 29 May [1943]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … to continue the struggle unabatedly throughout South Africa until these…
The fight against passes continues
… Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner All this time there was still this thing of passes for women … passes. That was a very strong…
ArticleA list of South African Shipwrecks
… at the port of Luderitz, then part of German South West Africa. She was returned to the Cape mail run in 1918, was … she carried the Duke of Connaught and…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… kind, as well as motifs of violence linked back to South Africa’s history. This essay explores these issues in direct … one would expect from a novel set in…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… stance. Within the context of Post-Apartheid South Africa, Mda’s novel traces the diverging arguments related to … alternative and autonomous development…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… industrial standards of that period. The rest were nearly all sweatshops, some large, some small. The making of … needles, scissors and the power of self…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who defended … during the Apartheid regime.[ii] Moosa…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… to submit or fight. That time has now come to South Africa. We will not submit but will fight back with all means at our disposal in defence of our rights,…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
… highlighting the aim of being an organisation to represent all parts of the population. In the afternoon, the conference … the need for a broad organisation…