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ArchiveRemembering French Investments In Apartheid South Africa, 17 December 2013
… here. ↵ [3] Source: Los Angeles Times. ↵ [4] The original document available online at Persée. ↵ [5] See here for more …
Yet another Myth: Mbeki and the Monopolisation of Power by Thabo Mbeki, 25 January 2016
… in the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) document, which was endorsed by the 1997 50th National …
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… 40, August 1904). That Convention is the only Political document with which the Treaty of 1902 may safely be …
Address at the Opening of the World Conference Against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, Durban, 31 August 2001
… the means to realise the noble vision contained in that document. We have gathered in Durban to make the commitment …
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this,…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… People', which proclaims the 'Freedom Charter' , a policy document of the Congress Alliance. Kathrada serves on the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
… guilty of robbing Khoi-Khoi of their cattle, fastens a document accusing the government of tyranny and stating that …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… and the continent to adopt the Harare declaration as the document that would make negotiations possible in South …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
AFRICAN NATIONAL CONGRESS TIMELINE — 2011 – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… himself in similar terms. The Committee may be aware of a document known as the Freedom Charter which was adopted at a … we may have for the future. The…
Imijondolo
Published in 1985, Imijondolo, (the isi Zulu word for a shack or informal housing), is Omar Badsha's second book of photographs. Badsha's groundbreaking book…
EventThe Rivonia Trialists are charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the state
On this day in 1963, the Rivonia trialists were charged with sabotage and attempting to violently overthrow the South African government. This after a raid by…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
The building was designed by architect Stanley Hudson and was erected in 1911 as the Old Court House, and is the oldest public building in the central business…
ArticlePoverty and development
One of the most important issues for women in South Africa has always been that of poverty. During the apartheid years, black women were forced into the rural…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the Cape with the expansion of the Dutch colonial settlement established by Jan van…
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
For some time there had always been a question in peoples' minds as to why the government had allowed the Congress of the People in 1955, to take place. In…
ArticleUnited Democratic Front (UDF)
The United Democratic Front (UDF) was an anti-apartheid body that incorporated many anti-apartheid organisations. It was launched in 1983, in Mitchells Plain…
David Goldblatt - 'Mostly Unseen' at the Goodman Gallery by Sean O'Toole
'Mostly Unseen' presents a selection of photographs taken by David Goldblatt over the past five decades. At times, it is a show of subtle and understated…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… December 2015, his team leaked a confidential government document to close Gupta associates. The cabinet's master plan … before President Jacob Zuma and his…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new and competitive presence of Indians in the…
Event60,000 delegates attend the World Summit on Sustainable Development
Location: back to this day in history search archive  An estimated 60,000…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… the Growth, Employment and Redistribution (GEAR) programme document was released as a strategy to be employed in the … to assign some responsibility,…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… governments in 1989 to adopt the Harare Declaration, a document drafted by the Organization of African Unity (OAU)." … Significantly, both of these issues…
Bibliographical note and further reading
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai For the serious researcher investigating any aspect…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The AAM came to regard Luthuli’s statement as its founding document. According to Kader Asmal: ‘If any event galvanised … of Churches, attended the launch in…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,
… the Freedom Charter. The significance of this historic document reaches far beyond its origins, with its core …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The Early Years at the Rand
… in The Rand’s Early Afrikaner Workers later on this document. Many new arrivals from the land, both black and …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
KwaMuhle Museum depicts Durban as an African city searching for identity within a new political context. This museum shows a history experienced by the…