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EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… members for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). Gwala was sent to Robben Island prison. In 1972 he was released from prison and restricted to Maritzburg in Natal Province…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he went to South African in search of work. Three years later, he had … Workers Union (ICU) in 1919. The…
EventIvory Coast's new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… crime rose dramatically in the capital, Abijan. By 1990, a strike of civil servants and students led to the establishment of a multiparty democracy. … worked…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East … have been closed. Africans no longer…
PlaceTable View
… Africans call an "informal settlement". It's situated to the east of Table View, and north of Killarney Gardens. … safe Opposite the Lifesaver's Club. Little…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter weekends … Police killed 69 Africans most of…
BiographyCecil Edwin Frans Skotnes
… in the South African Forces in Italy. Before returning to South Africa he studied drawing under Heinrich Steiner in … he studied at the Technikon…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… wiped out. Thereby they will not only bring deliverance to themselves but also point the way to the Africans and … among the Africans and the great African…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the 25th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, 16 December 1986
… by the racist State. The time had arrived when we needed to reinforce our mass political action with the hammer blows … The formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe…
"Umkhonto we Sizwe - Born of the People": Statement of the National Executive Comittee of the ANC on the 25th Anniversary of the Formation of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1986
… by the racist State. The time had arrived when we needed to reinforce our mass political action with the hammer blows … The formation of Umkhonto we…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… that reveals much about this old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the mid-1800’s. Its clock tower was…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… international journals. He was involved in politics dating back to the 1960s. He was detained in 1977, the same year as Steve Biko. He used his writings to…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos THE CHANGE TO WAGE LABOUR has described some of the different ways in … The new industry expanded rapidly — it…
BiographyDaniel Cornelis Boonzaier
… in any of its exhibitions. He most likely saw no need to exhibit since his work appeared in the Press on a regular … in Cape Town, where he remained as…
BiographyKhanare Elais Monesa
… Their baby lived only a couple of days. According to his brother, Motlalepula Monesa,""My brother supported his … we only had each other. The situation at…
BiographyJohn Gomas
… of South Africa (CP) in the late 1920s and was elected to the CPSA political bureau in 1933. He was the western Cape … he was secretary of the Tin Workers'…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… interest of South Africa began in 1950”²s when he went to study at the School of Oriental and African Studies at the University of London. Initially he was…
EventThe SA department of foreign affairs announces that the bodies of two South Africans have been found in Thailand
… in particular were deeply involved in desperate attempts to locate survivors as well as the remains of victims. A call centre was established to help family…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to Estcourt in Natal . It is here that she attended the first … Two years after the end of the war the…
BiographyErrol T. Shanley
… after completing his primary school, aged age 17, he went to work for a firm of building suppliers and joined the Shop … When HA Naidoo and his wife Pauline…
BiographyStanley Bongani Nkosi
… Natal. When Nkosi was three years old his family moved to Dukhatole tear Germiston in the Transvaal. He attended … as a private student with Peter Hayden…
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
… school, Evelyn Baring High School, and taught from 1980 to 1983. In 1984 she entered the legal profession as a legal … Wood & Allied Workers Union where she…
Cornelius Judah Fazzie
… Africanist Bureau of African Nationalism. He was elected to the national executive committee of the Pan Africanist … Cape provincial secretary of the ANCYL…
BiographyGideon Mendel
… the brutality of the South African state’s response to peaceful protest, ‘marked him’ on some level and for much … of his subsequent career his focus has…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion of Dutch colonial settlements in the Cape . … With increasing conquest of…
Chapter 5
… and the crisis of the Hertzog Bills had compelled them to organise on a nation-wide scale. The creation of the … caught up in petty and personal concerns…
On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013
… inhumane apartheid regime. We will forever remain indebted to Comrade Tambo who delivered back to South Africa a united and strong African National Congress …
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
… and on information obtained from other comrades from time to time. . . . WHAT IS WRONG? . . . No one in the movement … known before. . . . Theoretical. . . …
Jail
… Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner When I got to court they said, 'Eh, you will be very surprised to see who is going to give evidence against you…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… in 1652, and subsequently exported from the Western Cape to the Afrikaner Republics of the Orange Free State and the … Many South Africans are the…