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EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… introduced its first racist policy on sport. Previous to this, in keeping with pre-apartheid segregation, leagues … equal members with White-owned clubs…
EventSASO founder and Black Consciousness leader, Steve Biko dies in detention
… of Grahamstown on 18 August 1977. During his detention in a Port Elizabeth police cell he had been chained to a grill at night and left to lie in urine…
Statement of alliance secretariat following meeting held 5th Feb, 6 February 2015
… 5 February 2015, at Luthuli house in its regular meeting to discuss issues common interests, as well as to reflect on … Majakaneng, and Randfontein. The…
EventMarien Ngouabi, President of Congo dies
… Paratrooper Battalion in the Republic of the Congo, rose to this position after the ousting of former President Massamba-DÁƒÂƒ©bat during a military coup in…
EventJohn Koenakeefe Mohl , SA artist and founder member of Artists Under the Sun, dies in Soweto
… in Zeerust in the Noth West province. He began drawing at a very young age and would often get in trouble in school for not paying attention to his studies. …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… On 12 January 1984, a strong delegation of African National Congress (ANC) … Sizwe(MK) in the town of Malanje, Angola. Normally, such a visit by the ANC…
ArchiveSeparate Representation of Voters Act, Act No 46 of 1951
… The Act was to make provision for the separate representation in … Hope of Europeans and non-Europeans in that province, and to that end to amend the law…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 60th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1972
… The Building of a Nation Speech by O.R. Tambo - commemorating the 60th … people converged on Bloemfontein on January 8, 1912, to found the African Nation,…
ArchiveCHAPTER FIVE: The Politics Of Collaboration: The Campaign for Participation In The Tricameral Parliament by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
… Introduction The first elections to the Indian House of Delegates (HoD) in the racially … Indians would “be selling [their] birthright for a mess of pottage”…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He … steadiness with vivacity, and capability of instructing to…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… The Nelson Mandela Bridge is a relatively new addition to the Johannesburg skyline, but has already gained iconic … The Bridge was specially designed to be…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven … by Bothma. After his death the farm…
PlaceUtrecht
… as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area where their health were going … in the sunny South Africa and Utrecht…
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S…
PlaceTsolo
… (prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on … in the…
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … Some 29 people submitted the following complaint jointly to the Protector on 31…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the … all to see. The lines are clearly drawn: the…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the … all to see. The lines are clearly drawn:…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… starting from the conflicts and divisions of the past to the reconciliation of today. When you give me the Freedom … honouring this achievement of our whole…
ArchiveBlack Community Programmes: Year report 1972
… The goals of the Black community programmes are to help the Black community become aware of its own identity, to help the Black community create a sense of…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist approach, she is poised to break down gender-based…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly Street attempted a…
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… Francisco de Almeida served as the viceroy to the Portuguese State of India from 1505 to 1509. Upon his … successor taking over he sailed back to his…
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… for Black children would be introduced in stages, with a first programme beginning near Pretoria. Implementation … Grade 1 in selected schools. The pupils…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… Themba Sono was forced to resign as president of the South African Student … held in Hammanskraal. Sono's expulsion came after giving a controversial opening…
EventC James reports that South Africa is a poor market for produce
… official of the British colonial administration, went on a voyage to South Africa to evaluate the market for produce. He … voyage during the South African…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
… The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer It's two and a half years since Maria said those words. Things stayed … the special February examinations passed, so…
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces the Group Areas Act will be repealed.
… be replaced by new non-discriminatory measures acceptable to all Houses of Parliament. The announcement meant a new dawn which brought liberty to many whom…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others … loss. Born in November 1923, Nadine…