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BiographyMaqadaza Magushe
… • SADET, The Road to Democracy in South Africa - Vol 1 [1960 - 1970], Zebra Press, 2004, Cape Town …
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… and his death drew worldwide condemnation of South Africa's detention practices and repressive laws. Two years … on the cause of his death. Even close allies…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… what was regarded as the most formidable defence force in Africa. But in the end white-ruled South Africa needed a political solution, not military victories…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … (1934) The basis of the economic structure of South Africa is the Native…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
… Comrades and Friends; Last but not least- People of South Africa: Today will be indelibly imprinted in the history of … years, the ANC has led the struggle…
PlaceGallery 101
… closing in 1976 was the sole commercial gallery from South Africa with a satellite space in Britain, exhibiting works of … & Phyllida Barlow (shown 1975). …
EventRenowned Nigerian writer, Chinua Achebe, is born in Ogidi, Nigeria
… Broadcasting Company in Lagos in 1954 he traveled in Africa and America, and worked for a short time as a teacher. … response to what he saw as inaccurate…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
… in Kenya and thought to have significant knowledge of Africa. Notcutt ran the unit and decided to use local actors … became one of the most sophisticated…
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… I remember that many lives have been lost in Africa, starting with Livingstone of old to this day. Lives worthily lost to redeem Africa. It is significant…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… the mid-1880s when the discovery of gold propelled South Africa through a European-style industrial revolution … them, and the ones that followed, tell the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 68th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1980
… 68th anniversary of the African National Congress of South Africa. Today is January 8th, the birthday of the African … wake of these epoch-making events came…
Presidential Address to the Extended Meeting of the National Executive Committee of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, April 1975
… focus exclusively on the struggle of our people in South Africa. The NEC must fortify and give political coverage to … task that has faced any people in the…
EventAngola becomes independent of Portuguese colonial rule
… Union and UNITA which went to war was supported by South Africa and the USA.The independence of Angola paved way for other liberation movements in Southern…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… record about150 000 years ago, and they first appear in Africa (and possibly South Africa). Human footprints found at Nahoon Point, up the coast … 190 000…
ArticleDutch settlement, the Indian Ocean slave trade and slavery at the Cape - seventeenth and eighteenth centuries
… of the Cape, Natal and eventually the whole of South Africa. Activity 3 List the names of the 5 bastions … by then, allowed to trade only along the East…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… to be otherwise? The last Indian delegation came to South Africa in response to the urgent call of the Transvaal … surplus population, and suggested that…
Introduction
… and internationally to bring about changes in South Africa. 'Little does puny South Africa realise’, said the Natal Indian Congress president in … the…
BiographyA. B. Nogoya
Born 1925. Factory worker. Joined African National Congress in 1949 and during the Defiance Campaign led a batch of 40 volunteers to defy apartheid regulations…
BiographyJohnson Dhlwati
He was born in the Clarkebury district of the Cape and educated at the Clarkebury Training Institution, where he later taught boot making. Dhlwati was a…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Chinese miners are repatriated. 31 May, the Union of South Africa comes into being despite the strong objections of … illegally deported to Britain. None…
PlaceOld Pretoria Iron Mines Ltd Buildings, Iscor, Pretoria
… was produced on a large scale for the first time in South Africa. Delfos became a major promoter of Iscor when it was … old NMC legislation on 10 August 1979…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… This is indeed an historic day for the people of South Africa as we join with the people of Nicaragua in celebrating … Congress and the entire mass…
PlaceDie Kraal, Brummeria, Pretoria
… Jacob Hendrik Pierneef is one of South Africa’s most well known artists. He was born in Pretoria in … Boer War. He studied there and then returned home to…
EventDr Ali Bacher, director of the SACU, announces the shortening of the ‘rebel cricket tour ‘as a gesture of support for the country’s dramatic political changes
… between the period of 1982 and 1990, a time when South Africa was banned from International Cricket. In 1990, when South Africa went through a transformation…
EventCrime statistics released
… Management Centre released statistics that confirm South Africa's status as the most violent country in the world … unless more funding was provided to…
EventYusuf Dadoo, political activist, is born
… the struggle for liberation. His family arrived in South Africa in the 1890s, three decades after the first group of Indian immigrant labours entered South…
EventAlexis Preller, SA visual artist, dies
… art at the Westminster School of Art. He returned to South Africa in 1935 before leaving again, this time for Paris, … description for his work. Described by…
Artscape: Legacy Exhibition
… caught the attention of the late Alf Kumalo – one of South Africa’s most famous photographers and personal friend of … with us his incredible journey to…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… way home to the United States, Canada, Australia and South Africa, spent a few weeks or months in London. The young … learnt a great deal of the truth about…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… faced certain objective weaknesses: · changes in Southern Africa were making it increasingly difficult for the ANC in … of regional conflicts to the fore,…