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Message sent to Canon Collins by ALbert Luthuli, 1 March 1956
… We have not forgotten your inspiring visit to South Africa some time back. One wonders whether we shall be given … in their struggle for freedom in the Union…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… nickname “Msikiti”, is one of the smallest churches in Africa. It was built on the slopes of the Rift Valley by … 12 people during mass. What is the history…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to be the answer to chronic … guerilla attacks between 1976 and 1986…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to be the answer to chronic … the 634 guerilla attacks between 1976 and…
The strangulation of activity
… expression did not, of course, escape the apartheid mill. All were comprehensively and ruthlessly repressed, … of Communism Act. It declared the Communist…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… towards the end of 1990, the ANC Women's League lobbied all the women's organisations to set up a coalition. The task … based on the priorities and concerns…
PlaceMarket Theatre
… to providing the highest level of artistic excellence in all aspects of the performing and visual arts in which the … Award and became internationally…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… All South African labour laws have objectionable features … cause bitter resentment among the workers, and nearly all of them are punitive in character…
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng's 2 years suspension
… Athletics South Africa (ASA) announced that South Africa's former Olympic … medallist Hezekiel Sepeng was banned on 11 May 2005 from all competition for two…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
… labour that kept the city’s wages the lowest in South Africa. In 1926 a Wage Board investigation expressed concern … (CWIU) and the Transport and General…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… Her stories encompass the lives of inpiduals throughout Africa, myths with deep origins throughout the continent, the … the old pulling one from their place…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… They had come free but they left in police custody, all except one, Wilton Mkwayi, who had actually been pushed … police and told to get out. He did ”” right…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… this expedition that Vasco da Gama's crew landed in South Africa. The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted commas … which still exists. Lacking able…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… consequences not just for the Cape, but for Southern Africa. Firstly, ‘discovery’ of the Cape by European sailors … as a trading area. Vasco da Gama who…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… 1846 February, The Cape government decides to move all lepers and paupers in the colony to Robben Island. A … the occasion. 1 May, The first telephone…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
… with social and religious customs in common. Like all other societies, their technology, food and hunting … was so rapid that it was believed that they would…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… He warned, during the first satyagraha in South Africa, as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi must be afraid … Two were killed and a number of others wounded. In…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… Grand Cess and Five Tribes or Krao. [v] Although they all shared a common language, the original Kru were in fact … was absorbed by the other dake and in…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… future, but not yet apprehensive because it was all so unreal. I had seen the mass endurance of the … 1 April, the Department of Native Affairs was to take…
PlaceiSimangaliso Wetland Park, former Greater St. Lucia Wetlands Park
… , Coastal Forest and Kosi Bay. A very special slice of Africa, the iSimangaliso Wetland Park offers eco-tourists … Park in KwaZulu-Natal protects rare Swamp…
PlaceRobertson, Route 62
… of red and yellow Cannas as well as bright Bougainvilleas all form the back drop to this delightful Town. This Region … Library and by 1880 a branch of the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu All true Christians in South Africa will have just cause for gratitude over the consummation of this…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… Coloured man for the first time in the history of South Africa being recognised as part of the Nation, with full … of the Coloured people. The Bill contains…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
… free themselves from the yoke of apartheid oppression, by all possible means, regardless of the consequences. This same … choices - submit or fight. That…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament
… were demanding authentic democracy and equal rights for all. Analysts have seen the ‘reform’ process as a move from …
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… an artist were opposed by her parents, and she put all her energy into writing as she became a doctor. How … points out that “if we go back to ancient…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… us about trade unions, we were told that this country with all its wealth belongs to us, the Bantu people. We had been … the South African freedom fighters…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the … According to Bibi (1999), “Ray Alexander was a mother to…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… to me that she would end up as a dried-up old stick. After all, I might never be with her again. There were times when I … we could not touch, and a warder…
Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… others McGreal said that as President of the ANC and South Africa, Thabo Mbeki had “wielded power as if it was his … of the presidency – exuded arrogance and…