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How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… 1971 with Salim Essop] had died the previous day in a fall from a tenth-floor window at the police headquarters … family. Various pleas were made for Mr…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… eastern Nigeria. She was the eldest of six children born to parents, Christopher Ljeoma, an agent for the United Africa Company and Martha Nwapa, a drama…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… whom punishment extended beyond the prison cells, with not a day of remission of their sentences. On release they were … Act of 1950. Some were banished away…
Statement at Press Conference in Dar es Salaam Concerning Sentences in the Rivinia Trial by O. R. Tambo, 12 June 1964
… Dennis Goldberg and Elias Motsoaledi were today sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia trial which since last … - have been proclaimed criminals at…
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… 's term as State President of South Africa. In an attempt to deflect attention from his role in the scandal, Voster had … administrator in the Department of…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… With the coming of the Dutch settlers, the Khoikhoi faced a stronger demand for their cattle. Trade disputes and … places. Into this increasingly volatile…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played … of some 20 000 women on the Union Buildings in Pretoria to petition…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … Congress and the South African Indian Congress resolved to embark upon a mass…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… 1907 Document 2 - Letter from the Cape Labour Party to James Ramsay, 12 August 1908 Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,…
Address at the Commonwealth Local Government Forum, 4 March 2003
… Formations, Distinguished Ladies and Gentlemen: Welcome to South Africa, to the City of Tshwane and to this important … The Newsweek magazine of September…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… A joint planning council of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress resolved to embark upon a mass campaign for the repeal of a…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… of political analysts and commentators is that a government based on an ethnic, racial or religious group … increase of the black population from just over 8…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
… the Alliance; Comrades and Friends I feel really honoured to be part of this celebration of a historic day in South Africa's political calendar. The 75th…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony will … them infinitely more important point,…
ArchiveLiving in the Interregnum by Nadine Gordimer (The New York Review of Books), 20 January 1983
… I live at 6,000 feet in a society whirling, stamping, swaying with the force of … that nineteenth-century colonialism should finally come to its end there,…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… task of our National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is to grapple with the complex and ever-changing world order. … and Africa, in particular. Our vision is to…
The Congress of the people
… by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner There were such a lot of things happening at that time, and some very good things too. In 1955 a very great thing…
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… In 1931 a strike started in a factory over the dismissal of a number of workers. The workers were divided and about one-third refused to strike. The strikers…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… Disciplinary Committee of Appeal (NDCA) on 4 February 2012 to hear evidence in mitigation and aggravation of sanction in … its decisions have been made on…
Reports Concerning Slaves from India in South Africa
… Jacob van der Heiden, a political prisoner, spent part of his confinement in … "murderer and incendiary". This burgher took a liking to his brown companion…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
… We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Statement of the ANC National Disciplinary committee in the case of Mbulelo Goniwe, 14 December 2006
… The ANC National Disciplinary Committee (NDC) held a disciplinary hearing at Chief Albert Luthuli House in … charges brought against Cde Mbulelo Goniwe. This…
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… We are gathered here to pay homage to an outstanding leader of the African liberatory struggle, a comrade and friend who devoted most of his life in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… most sincerely for this opportunity - too long delayed - to meet with the leaders of the peoples of the Caribbean. It … tireless efforts in pursuit of that…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison … Drew Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] "The T…
In memory of Archbishop Dennis Hurley by Phyllis Naidoo, 16 September 2009, Durban
… remembered some other insights of Hurley that I would like to share with you. You cannot expect these in order in which … was priest in charge. You noticed…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A provisional settlement was reached in 1911. But…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… did we think then that six years later we should have to admit that not only have we failed to achieve any positive … the Pass Laws and the Poll tax—we have…
EventStudents at Lovedale strike against new Code of Conduct
… Students at Lovedale College embarked on a strike against the new Code of Conduct and the appointment … from the school or imprisoned after the strike. Close…
EventJohn Thomas Baines, South African painter, traveller and writer, is born
… was born in England on 27 November 1820. Apprenticed to a coach painter at a young age, he left for South Africa in 1842 to work as a … at: howgego.co.uk …