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ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… The Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) was … at a consultative conference held in Johannesburg. The aim of FOSACO was to establish a…
The Ideology of the Black Consciousness Movement
… The emergence of the Black Consciousness movement that swept across the … country in the 1970s can best be explained in the context of the events from 1960…
The 1980s and the crisis of Apartheid
… 3 pages: Use the page navigation on the right or bottom of the page Introduction During the 1980s , the apartheid … creating the cosmetic Tricameral…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… Introduction The National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU) is South Africa's second largest … 400 000 members. Its largest affiliate is the Association of…
ArticleThe People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN)
… A Brief Overview The People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN) was an armed wing of the South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO), the major…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… Apartheid Eli Weinberg was born in 1908 in the port city of Libau, Latvia to a Jewish family. Growing up, he … even considering himself South African despite…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… The series of clashes historically known as, Frontier Wars date back to … which in turn dispossessed Xhosa and Khoikhoi people of their land and cattle among…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… Nelson Mandela. On 20 and 21 December the first session of CODESA (Convention for a Democratic South Africa) was … this event. All parties agreed to support…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands, for Blacks. Under the … for a different ethnic group…
Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA)
… The Trade Union Council of South Africa (TUCSA) was founded in October 1954 by 61 … unions mainly representing White workers and mixed unions of Coloured and…
The Gambia: 50 years of independence, 20 years of terror by Fatou Diagne (Pambazuka News), 17 March 2015
… He claimed to be a different kind of soldier and promised not to hang on to power, and never to … national sovereignty. This independence, far from being…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… and ideological affiliations. Conservative members of the union were against the amendment of its discriminatory constitution, the formation of the local…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… believe that the San people were the descendants of the original Homo sapiens who lived in South Africa for at … AND THE EUROPEAN SETTLERS: Europeans arrived…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… There are two types of World Heritage Sites. The first represents cultural and … sites Cultural heritage sites have to show a masterpiece of human creativity…
Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT)
… Arts Council (NAPAC) and the Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS) other three organisations … culture administration, that remained the…
Address as Chair of the Non-Aligned Movement at the 9th Session of the Islamic Summit Conferences, Doha, State Of Qatar, 12 November 2000
… Sheik Hamad Bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairman of the 9th Islamic Summit Conference Your Majesties Your … with which they received us, as well as our gratitude…
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… place was in the home and that politics was the domain of men. A small group of suffragists met in Durban in 1911 and formed the Women's Enfranchisement…
BiographyIsaac Osier Horvitch
… 1930s while still at school he became an active member of the Communist Party, speaking at public meetings and … newspaper, The Guardian. He studied at the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner There are two kinds of "impossibility": the absolute impossibility and the "other things being equal"…
Speech on the installation of professor Bundy as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand
… Speech on the installation of professor Bundy as Vice-Chancellor and Principal, University of the Witwatersrand …
"Racial Crisis in South Africa". Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… "Racial Crisis in South Africa". Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961 …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the unveiling of the Coat of Arms, 27 April 2000
… Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the unveiling of the Coat of Arms, 27 April 2000 …
Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the European parliament
… Address of the Deputy President of the African National Congress Nelson Mandela, at the …
Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946
… Report to the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa", Freedom, 5, 4, August-September 1946 …
Committee of Action of the Non-European United Front, Non-European United Front, Cape Town (1939)
… Committee of Action of the Non-European United Front, Non-European United Front, …
Letter from Workers' Party of South Africa to the Intemational Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L).
… Letter from Workers' Party of South Africa to the Intemational Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L). …
The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s
… The impact of the collapse of the USSR on re-imagining African nations in the 1990s …
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… Mr. Speaker, Mr. President; Esteemed Members of the United States Congress; Your Excellencies, Ambassadors … sister and brother, a fellow South African, an…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… between establishing self government, joining the Union of South Africa or continuing under the British South Africa … of Southern Rhodesia until 1923. In…