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EventWW2: Italy invades Ethiopia
… Abyssinian Somaliland, where 200 soldiers lost their lives. Both parties were exonerated in the incident, much to …
EventThe South African security police bombed two houses in Manzini, Swaziland
… two houses in Manzini, Swaziland. The attacks claimed the lives of Umkhonto we Sizwe member Patrick Makau and …
Cutting Through The Mountain
… meant to them, and how it was impacted on their unfolding lives. The Interviews are honest and compelling. They reveal …
Address on South African Freedom Day 2001, Pietersburg, 27 April 2001
… the poverty and underdevelopment that still blights the lives of millions of South Africans. But we also know that … in action can bring about change for the…
Albert Luthuli’s Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize, Oslo, December 10, 1961
… has paid for the maintenance of peace the price of many lives. It was in the cause of his activities in the interest … the passing of Dag HammarskjÁ¶ld. I…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… formation of equitable and efficient policy to improve the lives of citizens. In her spare time she enjoys reading, …
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… role in the everyday administration of their areas and the lives of traditional people. Traditional authorities provided …
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… series, with the first two books focusing on the lives of Ruth First and Albert Luthuli, at the Idasa offices …
ArticlePoverty and development
… opportunities and choices allowing them to build decent lives for themselves. Only some were fortunate enough to …
Address by ANC President, Nelson R Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour Johannesburg, 29 September, 1992
… listen to how they want to reconstruct their dismembered lives. Development cannot be imposed from above: to be … that all that creative energy and concern…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… in the struggle, who fought to take control of their lives and to mobilise others to do the same. The record of … and white ”” to deepen and enhance the…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… on our own, I mean if you think for instance of Steve Biko, and you think of the others, you know. They never … Yeah, because to my mind Black Consciousness…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate Library
The library at Vergelegen Wine Estate situated in Somerset West, Western Cape used to be a winery that was built during 1816. It was converted to a library in…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… Because Richard Rive resisted apartheid both through his writings and by living “otherwise”, this paper will follow … prose, then to the novel or short story…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… from a system of apartheid which had controlled their lives for nearly fifty years. Twenty-one years later, South … All political, social, and economic…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Freedom Day Celebrations: Landsdown Stadium, Cape Town, April 27, 2008
… the Group Areas Act and many more laws that made the lives of black people unbearable – are testimonies that our … other things, as we continue in our work…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
The South African Communist Party and Mozambique Introduction The Mozambique Liberation Front, popularly known by its Portuguese acronym, FRELIMO (Frente…
On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013
… respect for every individual cannot perish. While the ANC lives, Oliver Tambo cannot die! Issued by: Jackson Mthembu …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.3 1992
… Banner, Visual Arts Group. Review: The Art of Poise: Nine Lives by T. Afrika, Dirk Klopper …
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… From the late 1950s until 1966 he portrayed the everyday lives of black South Africans with warmth and empathy. As one …
PlaceDiamond Hill Battle, Garden of Remembrance
… Nineteen British soldiers and three Boers lost their lives. During 1961 and 1963, many troops laid to rest in …
EventAt least 100 people drown in a flood at Laingsburg
… were left visible. At least 100 residents lost their lives and the bodies of 72 people were never found. A total …
EventAdriaan Vlok, Minister of Law and Order, announces a ban on the carrying of pangas, bush knives and axes weapons in “conflict situations”
… weapons be banned. Factional violence had claimed 6000 lives within five years. However, to many people these …
EventBlast opposite the Athlone Magistrate’s Court and police complex kills two people
… Magistrate's Court and police complex, which took the lives of two African National Congress (ANC) activists. Two …
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
… matter in the past has been the effect of apartheid on the lives of South Africans, the moral and psychological tensions …
Document 71 - National Committee for Liberation, Announcement [20 December 1961]
… and not individuals, and our are trained to protect the lives of people in all circumstances. We warm the Government …
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… to excessive complications the plan failed and with many lives lost in the process. References: Boddy-Evans A., 2011. …
PlaceuMnambithi was called Ladysmith
… The Qedusizi dam , established in 1997, for water storage. Lives up to its name- meaning ‘suffering’; by flooding its …
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… The recommendation in the Timol case, as in the Steve Biko case below it, was not. Image source But here was the …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… Eastern Cape, like Thabo Mbeki , Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko . Capital : Bisho Main languages : isiXhosa , Afrikaans … Eastern Cape, like Thabo Mbeki,…