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Passive Resistance, 1946 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1948
… from holding any meeting of the executive of the South Africa Indian Congress at which the duly authorised delegates …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… the policy of land dispossession and segregation in South Africa. In accordance with the Act, many Africans, Coloured … by the Apartheid government who…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the Constitutional Assembly on the occasion of the adoption of the new constitution Cape Town, 8 May 1996
… of millions. And so it has come to pass, that South Africa today undergoes her rebirth, cleansed of a horrible … these issues, lies a fundamental sea-change…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… ‘boererate’, and anybody was allowed to use them. South Africa is very rich in oral traditions. In the next unit … there are some examples of stories from…
EventZambian president Kenneth Kaunda refuses to take part in UK
… increased in intensity and frequency during 1978, South Africa, the US and Britain put pressure on Smith to enter … Mazrui, A (ed) General History of Africa,…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… at least one MK guerrilla managed to reach Durban, South Africa, but would later become an askari. Click here to read …
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… Vanessa Brereton worked as a human rights lawyer in South Africa, taking on high profile cases under the Apartheid …
EventLinguist and educationist Sedumedi Moloto is born
… as chairman of both the Tswana Language Committee of South Africa and the Botswana National Language Committee was born …
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… of the death penalty was suspended in February 1990, South Africa had one of the highest rates of judicial executions in …
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… PART I) PLANNING APARTHEID Dutch Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning transnational? … to address the theological backing of…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… It was through this informal trade that most of South Africa’s very first slaves reached her shores. Most of the … marked the first documented mixed marriage…
Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
… during the inaugural Gandhi Satyagraha Tour of South Africa, documenting the tour delegation led by Arun Gandhi in …
EventMinister promises relaxation of apartheid rules and elimination of racial segregation in sports
… selection of contestants for international events. South Africa was once excluded from participating in international …
EventA group of White men attack and assault Indian Passive Resisters
… by warning the Resisters to vacate their premises in South Africa. During that evening the police arrested 13 Resisters. … SAHO Indian passive resistance in…
EventThe Springbok rugby team receives the State President Sports Award
… significant that the award was made at the time when South Africa was barred from taking part in international sports … 20 February, (Available at the…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was later released on bail and in January …
EventThe Declaration of Windhoek
… many dangers and pressures faced by journalists working in Africa and other conflict regions. In addition, it was an …
EventOliver Tambo returns from exile
… of the African National Congress (ANC), returns to South Africa after going into exile nearly thirty years ago. Tambo …
EventWork is stopped at the Kimberley mine
… of diamond in 1867. The discovery of diamonds in South Africa attracted many Europeans who were lured by the … Archaelogy South Africa, 1996, ‘The Digging…
EventHunter and politician Johannes Viljoen dies
… et al. (eds)(1970). Standard Encyclopaedia of Southern Africa Vol.11, Cape Town: NASOU. …
EventOlive Schreiner, noted SA author, dies in Wynberg, Cape Town
… a century ago, seem to have predicted the modern day South Africa. Her first book about the story of an African farm …
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
… of Leadership bears testimony to the fact that South Africa and Uganda have bonds of friendship and history, which … this view was the fact that as a…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… was a respected leader in Black protest politics in South Africa. Gumede lived through an age when the African tribes … are to be found in archives and…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… succeed in uniting the different ethnic groups in South Africa against racism and colonialism, what his stance would … the day when a Black republic would be…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 73th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 1985
… our deepest aspirations and the blueprint for a new South Africa. 1984 saw us take bold steps forward on the road to … liberation, social justice and genuine…
PlaceFugard Theatre, Cape Town
… us laugh and cry, Fugard has told the story of South Africa and its difficulty and continues to make the world … as one of the heritage landscapes of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… of the Prime Ministers who governed white-dominated South Africa in the era between the two Bothas. This University was … and warmth as the head of state of…
Classroom activities: Learning about history
… day. We must remember that the full history in South Africa and all over the world has been hidden and distorted. …
Grade 10 Archive
… controversial issues regarding European intervention in Africa is the slave trade. The causes and results of the …
Performing Arts Council of the Transvaal (PACT)
… pillar of support in the art and culture sector of South Africa with the democratic government coming into power. PACT …