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ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Police Service (SAPS) officers shot and killed at least 34 striking miners and injured 75 people in Marikana, North West …
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… Owing to the upsetting of Bismarck’s carefully laid balance of power in European politics caused by Leopold’s …
EventThe Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa (Contralesa) is launched to articulate the interests of Traditional Leaders and act as an extra…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
… United Nations and was aimed at finding ways to strike a balance between economic development and environmental …
KwaMsiza - A Ndebele village: References/Bibliography
BATTISS, JUNOD, FRANZ and GROSSERT. 1958. The Art of Africa. Pietermaritzburg: Shuter and Shooter. BEINART, Julian. Undated. The Popular Art of Africa…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… [Accessed 31 March 2021]. [11] The Balance. n.d. The Economy in the 1920s and What Caused the … [Accessed 6 April 2021]. [18] Ibid. [19] The Balance. n.d…
Foreword, By Nelson Mandela
This compilation of speeches of Dr Monty Naicker is an invaluable chapter in the history of our struggle for liberation. Monty, as we all referred to him…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
ArchiveAppendix 4 Manifesto of Umkhonto we Sizwe by Denis Goldberg
… of Umkhonto we Sizwe mark a break with that past. We are striking out along a new road for the liberation of the … and its policies of race oppression . It…
Post-Election Political Violence
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to the polls on 27 April 1994,…
EventSouth Africa mandated to govern South
The League of Nations, the world body formed after World War 1 in 1919, afforded South Africa a mandate to govern South-West Africa (now Namibia). The mandate…
The Bill of Rights
… must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of …
ArticleThe Constitution
… practicality, expense, regional circumstances and the balance of the needs and preferences of the population as a …
EventP.W. Botha becomes Prime Minister
… the Conservative Party. This move shifted the political balance in favour of "reformism" among remaining …
BiographyHerbert Isaac Ernest Dhlomo
… a world in which Africans are free (Dhlomo, 1941). What is striking about Dhlomo’s poetic writing style is that while he …
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… to Xhosa customs, but eventually, he found some degree of balance in the maintenance of two identities. [32] This …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
As the German publisher Gerhard Steidl prepares a series of books on the life work of David Goldblatt, Jeffrey Ladd spoke with the South African photographer…
Hendrik Verwoerd’s response to the ‘Winds of Change’ speech
… themselves and settled in. But similarly, we believe in balance, we believe in allowing exactly those same full …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… spiritual make-up, the Africans exhibit indications of striking affinity to the people of the Orient, i.e., … of the human soul. In their spiritualism,…
PlaceNZASM Station, George Norton Street, Krugersdorp
… cornices and voussoirs at window and door arches. The most striking feature is the imposing Neo-Dutch Renaissance gable …
Document 5 - “Trade Union Notes”, The Bolshevik, March 1920 (Extract)
… Workers' Union in calling upon the miners to scab upon the striking native workers is the limit of treachery to the …
EventAsiatic Law Amendment Act is passed in Transvaal parliament leading to increased Indian protest under MK Gandhi
… many occasions. Protesters were flogged or even shot for striking, refusing to register, burning their registration …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… were one or two occasions when we stumbled across some striking misconceptions about notions of ownership, where …
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… and were not possible to meet. After five months of striking, both the platinum companies and AMCU settled for a …
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… revived with a focus on civic work. In the 1980s the most striking of the campaigns embarked on by NIC was the …
Book launch: Attacking the Heart of Apartheid by Yunus Carrim
For over three decades, the remarkable story of Umkhonto we Sizwe’s Special Operations Unit has remained largely untold. Formed under the direct command of ANC…
Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999
… a fundamental question of policy is to achieve the right balance, for that society, between the production of … and our common drive for sustained growth,…
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonated a car bomb by remote control outside Ellis Park Stadium…