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Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… Free State. [vii] End Notes [i]Harry Hart, http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ha/harry-hart-1.html … 2017). ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s…
ArchiveSport: Threat to the security of the state
… Brutus expounds on Special Branch interference in sports in line with apartheid ideology of white dominance. … of people and events connected with the South…
PlacePietermaritzburg, Umgungundlovu District Municipality
… Marathon House, the headquarters for an epic yearly road race between Pietermaritzburg and Durban , which takes place …
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… equality of treatment and citizenship irrespective of race, class, creed or origin, equal share in the direction of … affairs, and direct representation by…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… behavioural attributes. Many people argue that the word 'race' should no longer be used for the following reasons: … scientists today would say that there is…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… as the vanguard of consciousness, in southern African liberation history, engaging with the largely silenced … geographical insulation? In other words, how…
African History Books
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BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… His deployment was a cover for an Azanian People’s Liberation Army (APLA) assignment to strengthen ties with the …
EventWillie Smith, South Africa’s bantamweight champion boxer is born
… ↵ [iii] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 190. ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… large numbers of young people left the country to join the liberation movements in exile while others were detained. Yet … AZAPO was forced to consider …
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
… cabinet has thrown a gauntlet to every worker, politician, sports person, artist, business person, professional, … We remain inspired by his role in the…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… that the Freedom Charter paved the way for national liberation but not for an end to capitalism. A Workers’ … leadership of the African National Congress …
EventWendy Botha, South Africa’s world champion surfer is born
… May 2017). ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 237. ↵ [v] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… a much needed foundation in the forced-absence of other liberation organizations. It main features were That race was the source of continuing struggle in SA…
Learning about history through writing
… Board shortly following the end of the international sports boycott due to the apartheid. South Africa …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… strikes erupted, followed by the youth revolt in 1976. The Liberation Struggle in Retreat 1967-1976 - Background During … (1969) ushered in a new era in the…
EventMarianne Kriel was born on this day
… ↵ [iv] David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 141. ↵ [v] … 3, https://www.brandsouthafrica.com/people…
EventSA President P.W Botha meets with leaders of independent homelands
… these homeland leaders in case of a backlash by the banned liberation movements. Homelands are a direct result of the … which separated South African people…
EventCliff Drysdale, the tennis star is born
… ↵ [ii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports Trivia (Cape Town: Zebra Press, 2005), p. 204. ↵ [iii]David van Lill, Van Lill’s South African Sports…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
… Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket … Resistance against the tour was led by the National Sports…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… full equality of opportunity for all women, regardless of race, colour or creed; to remove social, legal and economic … the primary task at hand was the…
BiographyKgalema Petrus Motlanthe
… flagging.” He told jokes, he centralised the different sports committees into a more unified one with Nkosi, and he …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… with the Culture, Arts, Tourism, Hospitality and Sports Sector Education and Training Authority (CATHSSETA). … Masters of History, with interest on the South…
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… they have the additional burden of a whole system of race discrimination measures which keep them socially and … unit. Such a revolution does not by itself…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… D., `Zipra and Zipa in the Zimbabwe War of National Liberation', paper presented to the Conference on the … Penguin, 1987). Cooper, C., et al (cmplrs.), Race…
EventSewsunkerlal Bahadur Singh dies in Durban
… He was born in 1890 and played an active role in SA sports as, inter alia, president of the South African … (SAFA). Singh was also a regular contributor to…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… in particular circumstances, such as support of national liberation movements, peasant movements etc., are intended to … and lynched by the whites…
A City within a city: Vestiges of the socio-spatial imprint of colonial and apartheid Durban, from the 1870s to 1980s by Leonard Glenn Rosenberg
… Central to the life of this "town" was Currie’s Fountain sports ground, popularly known as "Currie’s", which served as a sports, cultural and political…
BiographyReverend Allan Aubrey Boesak
… first ever-official permission granted in the thirty-year liberation struggle. In 1990, he resigned from his ecumenical …
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… consciousness. It was this that drove him to join the liberation struggle. Singh joined the Natal Indian Youth …