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EventIt is announced that a child prostitution and trafficking task team rescues 14 underage prostitutes in downtown Johannesburg
… fact that child trafficking is on the increase in South Africa, child prostitution and trafficking task teams have … missing. Almost 1,700 children go…
ArticleMedu Art Ensemble
… varied from 15 to as many as 50 members. Most were South Africa exiles. The visual arts unit of Medu included: Thami … artistic arms. Members argued that few…
Indian Community
… workers and the birth of this community in South Africa. Durban is home to the largest Indian population in South Africa. They contribute to the…
Sechaba
… from the organisation's perspective, for freedom in South Africa and for the freedom of South Africa - freedom from racial discrimination, from legislation ……
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… a representative of the majority of the people of South Africa has been allowed and invited to share this prestigious … Congress and the entire liberation…
PlaceApartheid Museum, Johannesburg
… Museum in the World dealing with 20th Century South Africa, at the heart of which is the Apartheid story! The … wanting to understand and experience what…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… terror, shut up behind the iron curtain of apartheid South Africa, where every day we have to bury hundreds of black … and seriousness of purpose of the…
BiographyWilliam Mothipa (Willie) Madisha
Willie Madisha grew up in the Atteridgeville Township of Pretoria. He completed his high school education in Attridgeville and then studied to become a teacher…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
EventAlbert Luthuli accepts the Nobel Peace Prize
… non-violent resistance to racial discrimination in South Africa. Though the apartheid government restricted his … the sacrifices made by the peoples of all…
The Court’s position in the justice system
… The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest court on constitutional matters. So its … of Justice", sets out the structure of South Africa's court…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… of "white power", to a more systematized usufruct of South Africa's black population as a source of cheap labour. At the … after the rise of white Afrikaner…
EventLesotho’s Foreign Affairs Minister reveals details of agreement with Pik Botha
… been directing LLA operatives from there. However, South Africa continued to deny that it had any knowledge of LLA … governments. A 'friendship' between…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa. The organisation was developed as a resolution to the … and organisation of theatre and…
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…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… southeast Asia, and beyond, to the distant shores of Africa... one could smell sandalwood from India or Java... … relations with the world, that contact…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… African National Congress of South Africa expresses full support and solidarity with United Arab … and a springboard to threaten peace in the Middle East,…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… Sacred Mission. This organisation transferred him to South Africa in 1973. Father Lapsley served as a university … chaplain at three campuses in Durban,…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… opposition activists who had taken refuge in some of South Africa's neighbouring states were kidnapped and forcibly returned to South Africa. In each…
BiographyEthel Edwards
On 2 January 1907 The Cape Argus Weekly Edition published a photograph of Ethel Edwards in its supplement on "Famous South African Artists". In it she stands…
Wellington Mlungisi Tshazibane
Mr Wellington Tshazibane,aged 30,an employee of the De Beers-Lesotho Mining Company,was detained on 9th December 1976 at Rand Airport,Johannesburg.He was held…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
Mavuso (Walter) Msimang was stationed and trained primarily in central Tanzania, at Kongwa, an ANC military base in the 1960s. He became a leading member of…
BiographyReverend Walker Stanley Gawe
… March 2009]|Naidoo, P. (2006) 156 Hands that built South Africa . Published by the author. p. 66 - 68|Gail M. Gerhart, …
BiographyWilliam Stewart Ainslie
William Stewart (Bill) Ainslie was born on 10 April 1934 in Bedford (Eastern Cape). Studied at the university of Natal, Pietermartizburg (BA) 1952-1955 and (BA…
New Year Message to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 December, 1964
… perpetrated by the racist Government of Verwoerd in South Africa in pursuance of policies that constitute a serious threat to peace in Africa and the world. …
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… readership. The Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa is synonymous with its founder, Biko. From the …
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… in court, based on the equal rights provision in South Africa's constitution. After a long legal battle the Supreme … amend existing legislation within a…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… The Union Buildings are considered South Africa's Architectural Masterpiece! Designed and built by … houses the Administrative offices of the Union of South…
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… The former Prime Minister of South Africa and apartheid mastermind, Dr H.F. Verwoerd opened South Africa's first atomic reactor, SAFARI-1 (South African ……
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… who, eight years ago, decided to establish the Southern Africa Development Coordination Conference, the SADCC. This … the ordinary British people, decided to…