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ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
… that students play only a limited role in the overall struggle The duty of the students was to lend support to … succeeded in drawing community support for…
BiographyJames Steven Mzilikazi Khumalo
… to the liberation movement by depicting Black peoples’ struggle through various creative mediums, including choral …
Biography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… She garnered international support for the liberation struggle, working for economic sanctions and cultural … into politics. She claims that she was ‘born…
BiographyAri Sitas
Ari Sitas (b.1952) is a creative socialist thinker, an activist and one of the key intellectuals of the post 1980s generation in South Africa. He is a…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… who was later to play a leading and decisive role in the struggle for independence in India, arrived in South Africa … him to postpone his departure in order…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Centenary Celebrations
… socialist movement and other stalwarts of the liberation struggle, such as Bunting, Kotane and Roux, have fast been … the power of the nation-state, by neo…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… and make black South Africans take control of their own struggle against Apartheid. Indeed, as Steve Biko, one of the … espousing the view that they had…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… a memory of the early years of the liberation and armed struggle anchored in the banning of the South African … in the words of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela,…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… also conducted and published interviews with liberation struggle leaders. The memoirs of SWAPO members John Ya-Otto … Through the Flames: Poems from the…
BiographyAnna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo
Anna 'Sister Nannie' Tempo, was born of a slave mother and father who were kidnapped as children off the coast of Mozambique. She was born in the late 1870s…
BiographyPhaswane Mpe
Phaswane Mpe was born and brought up in Pietersburg, Northern Transvaal (now Polokwane, Limpopo). At the age of 19, he left for Johannesburg to study African…
BiographyNana Henrietta Moabi
Nana Henrietta Moabi (nee Radadi) was born in Lichtenburg, Western Transvaal (now North West Province) on 18 September 1938. She completed her lower primary…
ArticleSouth African Youth Congress (SAYCO)
… they saw as being the decisive force in the liberation struggle. At the local level its general aims were to: … people in their communities and in the…
Pledging to Debate History: Values and education
… play and have historically played that role. The freedom struggle was won politically, but as a society we are still … respect, dignity and justice - from…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… highlight a conundrum faced by those in the liberation struggle: the way that justice was often at odds with … addressed this problem by using the courts as…
BiographyHermanus Gabriel Loots
… Hermanus informed his parents of his decision to join the struggle against Apartheid they were heartbroken, not because …
BiographyJoyce Sikhakhane-Rankin
… of South African Students (white) and how to take the struggle forward. Ultimately the Black People's Convention …
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… Summit was gained, and after a desperate and sanguinary struggle, the enemy was subdued. Sekhukhune however, like …
BiographyHorst Gerhard Hermann Kleinschmidt
… and as a consequence also accept an armed and violent struggle to overthrow apartheid. Eventually, Kleinschmidt …
BiographyJacobus Herculaas de la Rey
… among the dead. After nine hours, Methuen gave up the struggle and withdrew to the Modder, leaving the Boers as …
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… The creation of MK signalled the beginning of the armed struggle against the apartheid. Alongside the MK soldiers and … risked his life in order to end the…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… a convergence of rural resistance and the rising tide of struggle in urban cities and towns. The role that migrant … and agrarian reform on the centre-stage…
ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
… of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national liberation, democracy and socialism. … and exploitation of workers. Trade union…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… A new generation of young Blacks were committed to the struggle against apartheid under the slogan 'Liberation … countries. For most of the students, joining…
Message to the Rally to Relaunch the ANC Women's League by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 9 August 1990
… and all those heroines before and after her who fell in struggle. I ask you to observe a minute's silence in their … emancipation of women into the practice…
ArticleConclusion: Black Consciousness Movement
… the death of Biko would signal the end of resistance, the struggle instead escalated as political activism increased. … became a martyr and symbol of Black…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government in the 1980s. This decade witnessed an increase in…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… subsequently viewed the Silverton Trio as heroes of the struggle. Towards negotiation and reconciliation By 1990, as … the activities of MK and its role in…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… aid anti-colonial and anti-apartheid campaigns with the struggle against the inequality, and directed all of her own … lives of Ruth First and her husband…