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Coloured by History, Shaped by Place - New perspectives on Coloured Identities in Cape Town
… what it means to be coloured in post- apartheid South Africa. It argues that coloured identities are a valid part … Soft cover : ISBN 0-7957-0136-5 Who is…
EventANC Consultative Conference comes to an end
… It was the first party conference held within South Africa in thirty-one years and was opened by ANC president … a call to relax international sanctions…
EventNamibia’s constitution is ratified
… traced to an accord agreed upon by Cuba, Angola and South Africa. The reason that these particular parties were … independence is that Namibia was a…
EventGeneral Motors fails to leave RSA quietly
… (GM), the American owned automobile industry in South Africa, pulled out of the country amidst a series of disputes … to introduce tough economic sanctions…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Uprising, Tutu supported an economic boycott of South Africa. The boycott became successful as disinvestments took … up to deal with the atrocities of the…
EventFormer Prime Minister H.F. Verwoerd is born
… cause in Anglo-Boer War 2, the family immigrated to South Africa in 1903. Verwoerd was elected by the caucus of the … et al. (eds)(1970). Standard…
EventThe trial of Fred Carneson, a listed communist begins at the Supreme Court in Cape Town
… on 24 February 1972, following which he left South Africa to join his family in London. Eventually, he was … of Teachers in London. The Carnesons returned to…
ArchiveYouth and the building of the nation
… I B Tabata, to the 1st Conference of the Society of Young Africa (SOYA) held on 20th December 1951. This is an … and what their purpose is to the development…
BiographyPasqual Macamba
Pasqual Macamba, also known as (Khauleza Ndawe), a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) died from natural casues in the…
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… not only on my own behalf, but that of my country South Africa, and the people I represent. While I am proud today to … the warm relations that exist between…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… organisations in the 1950s, such as the South West Africa Student Body (SWASB) and South West Africa People’s Association (SWAPA). This incipient … attempts…
Polokwane an Overview
… way station for travellers to and from Zimbabwe and North Africa. Polokwane, now the capital of the newly created … was elected to be one of only nine cities…
Professor Zakes Mda review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
… want to understand the dynamics of race and class in South Africa …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… working class. The initial growth of capitalism in South Africa was based on the exploitation of the workers on the … producing on a bigger scale and more…
ArchiveThe National Situation: the real problems of the liberatory movement 3
… article by I B Tabata on the political situation in South Africa and an alliance of the African National Congress, the …
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… Natal' to discuss the front's formation. Back inside South Africa, an ad hoc national secretariat established to oversee … which then communicated with its…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… brought for the majority of people in South Africa. From being farmers with varying degrees of … to overcome their hardships. Workers' resistance in South…
BiographyRobert Tunsi
Robert Tunsi was born in 1914. He was a businessman and he joined the African National Congress (ANC) in 1937. He was chairman of the committee which built the…
BiographyMaqadaza Magushe
… • SADET, The Road to Democracy in South Africa - Vol 1 [1960 - 1970], Zebra Press, 2004, Cape Town …
ArchiveEen Azania : Een Natie : Een Volk
… poster. Black lettering. Green artwork of continent of Africa outlined in black, yellow and white. African woman …
The Cape Northern Frontier
… expansion. These British settlers had been sent to South Africa to alleviate unemployment and poverty in England and …
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… "This Award could not be for me alone, nor for just South Africa, but for Africa as a whole". That historic award was one of the most … we celebrate 50 years…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… the Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In a particularly … in all respects had a right to live…
Address to the International Labour Conference Geneva, 8 June 1990
… None can tell how many bodies lie strewn across southern Africa, the victims of a merciless campaign of repression within South Africa and Namibia, of…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… mainly in Swaziland, he had sometimes crossed into South Africa on operations. The last that South African … in the defence force of a putative post…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela. Africa and the world descended upon our shores to celebrate … the life of this giant of our struggle,…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the 12th International meeting of the Communist and Workers Parties, 3 December 2010, Centurion, Pretoria
… Congress. It is a great honour to welcome you to South Africa for this important meeting of the International … and Workers Parties, which is taking place in…
BiographyMartin Tose
The quiet and yet temperamental Martin Qgibinsizi Tose was born in Germiston, Johannesburg during the first decade of Apartheid. His birth coincided with the…
BiographyCijimpi Mnyandu
Cijimpi Mnyaundu, a trade union leader and African National Congress (ANC) member, who worked in Durban, was from the Makhanya Tribal Area, Umlazi District, on…
BiographyDr James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe
James Lowell Zwelinzima Njongwe was one of the most dynamic leaders of the African National Congress(ANC) after its turn to mass action in the 1950s, Njongwe…