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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…
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…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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,…
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. …
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…
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 ……
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…
EventAbdul Samad Minty, anti apartheid activist, is born
… for the International Defence and Aid Fund for Southern Africa. Between 1962 and 1995 he was the Honorary Secretary … the defence strategy of the apartheid…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally … in a FIFA-sanctioned international.Cameroon arrived as Africa's most celebrated side, the…
"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…
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…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … to struggle together against racism: above all in…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… murdered in the black township of Sharpeville, South Africa, when police fired on unarmed and peaceful … to struggle together against racism: above all in…
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…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… Meeting, New Delhi, 28 January 1948 You know in South Africa our people are fighting for their rights ... They … move from one province to another without a…
EventSixty ANC refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho
… refugees are airlifted out of Lesotho to counter South Africa's threat of a blockade against that country. A year … Lesotho refused to sign a non aggression…
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…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Our immediate enemies, the white fascist regime in South Africa, are an important and integral part of the imperialist … Israel acts as catspaw of…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… supporters of the heroic struggle of the people of South Africa, Comrades, The names of the founding fathers are in … had declared in 1906: "The brighter day…