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ArchiveChildren are the flowers of our struggle and the principal reason for our fight
… Day on 1st June 1983. Blocks with various images of people and children. … Children are the flowers of our struggle and the principal reason for our fight …
Joint communique of the Southern African Catholic Bishops Conference and the African National Congress
… Journal article containing a joint communique of the South African Catholic Bishops Conference and the … Joint communique of the Southern African Catholic…
ArchiveANC National Conference: Report of the Commission on the ANC Constitution: preamble to Clause 1
… Report of the Commission on the African National Congress … ANC National Conference: Report of the Commission on the ANC Constitution: preamble to Clause …
Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], “A History of the Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers’ Voice, 5, 5, September 1946
… Drew Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], "A History of the Franchise in S. Africa”, Workers' Voice, 5, 5, … Document 32 - Babeuf [K. A. Jordaan], “A…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… Esteemed Heads of State and Political Parties of the Frontline States, Distinguished heads of delegation … theme which started in 1958 in South Africa. We…
EventFormer diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs Jackie Selebi is set to lead SAPS
… government announced that former diplomat and Director of Foreign Affairs, Jacob Sello Selebi, would take over from … Former diplomat and Director of Foreign…
EventAhmed Ben Bella, former president of Algeria, is released after fourteen years in prison
… Former president of Algeria, Ahmed Ben Bella, was instrumental in Algeria’s … A. Ahmed Ben Bella Pan-Africanist and First President of Algeria from African…
EventThe first radio licence in SA is issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon
… first radio licence in SA was issued to Dr J. van Rensburg of Carnarvon. The first station in South Africa was put up by … Mishkind, B., " This is the…
EventCanadians, Frederick Banting and J.J.R. Macleod discover insulin, saving the lives of many diabetics
… with J.J.R. Macleod and Charles Best in the University of Toronto in Canada. Both Banting and Macleod were awarded … The Nobel Prize, The Discovery of…
PlaceThe Gallows Museum Exhibition
… more than 3 500 prisoners were executed at the prison, of which 132 were political prisoners. The gallows were … include opening it to the public. Due to the…
ArticleBlack Women’s Federation
… In 1973, Natal women formed a federation of Black women after Fatima Meer returned from the USA, where … women. The federation grew from monthly meetings to…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Do please explain. EDITOR:I am not surprised at your being…
If we want to understand African history, we need to understand the Battle of Adwa by Hannah Giorgis (Pambazuka News), 02 Mar 2016
… The battle - and the greater narrative of Ethiopia’s independence – is a powerful symbol of African resistance to European imperialism. “Ethiopianism” … were…
ArticleDefiance Campaign timeline 1948-1952
… measures against Blacks, Indian immigrants and those of mixed race. 1949 October 6 , Group comprising workers, … Committee is held to discuss the unjust laws…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a retrospective of the years 1948 to 1999 now at the Axa Gallery. They have ……
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… itself is progressive but that the implementation of these rights is significantly hindered for numerous … and entrenched mistrust of the police services,…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… der Stel’s father duly became the first Dutch Commander of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) in Mauritius. [1] His mother Maria was the daughter of Hendrik…
BiographyBartolomeu Dias
… He was a Portuguese navigator whose discovery in 1488 of the Cape of Good Hope showed Europeans there was a feasible route to … as all later maps indicate…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… Allan Aubury Boesak was born at Kakamas, Northern Cape, one of eight children. His father, a schoolteacher, died when … he became a sexton in the separate…
BiographyNana Sita
… Please note: this is an extract from E.S. Reddy collection of articles. Nana Sita was born in Matwadi, a village in … influence on Nanabhai`s life. He…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… in exile. 17 February, African Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) members, Armstrong Madoda, Gaby … his sister in Scotland - family members…
Speech by President Mandela on receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23 April 1998
… receiving an honorary doctoral degree from the University of South Australia at a graduation ceremony at Fort Hare University University of Fort Hare, 23…
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… not ANC members. Could it be that they were among the 37% of ANC members who did not renew their membership? Whatever … members falling off in three years…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… Codesa's first plenary session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of … actually fall away. Parliament would then be an…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… for sporting, cultural, academic and economic boycott of South Africa. March 19, The Pan-African Congress (PAC) … Pan Africanist Congress, including Robert…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business Community … women do. Oliver lived because he had…
BiographyElizabeth "Rocky" Mafekeng
… Cape Town in early 1930s. Mafekeng left school at the age of 15 to support the family. Her first job was at a “canning … married a fellow factory worker in…
BiographySally Gross
… August 22, 1953 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Sally Gross is one of the most challenging and important figures in our … at birth. She was raised as a boy named…
BiographyDavid Bruce
… he`s a pacifist, but because he won`t ``fight in defence of a racist political system.`` In January 1988, the SADF … South Africa, to be sentenced to the…
BiographyAlan Keith Brooks
… up. After completing high school, Brooks with the help of the Beit Scholarship, went to the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he registered for a law…