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EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… his dedication to securing freedom and democracy in South Africa. Govan Mbeki passed away on 30 August 2001 at the age …
EventJ.M. Coetzee wins the Booker Prize
… caused by the injustices of the former regime in South Africa. Related: List of Coetzee's Novels …
PlaceVoortrekker Girl
… and Parents of Oranje Girls School in Bloemfontein, South Africa, about their experience of the influence the School’s …
EventA strong delegation of the ANC NEC members arrives at Caculam, Angola
… randomly into the air. According Searchlight South Africa, it was pointed out to all the commanding personnel in … 1984 Mutiny of Umkhonto We Sizwe’ , from…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… wherein I went". For me the door to the future of South Africa is the Freedom Charter and just as it had stood for … Louw, dedicated to the free enterprise…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… of women to the struggle for freedom and justice in South Africa. Today as we remember those twenty thousand women who … their rightful place on centre-stage…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
… the Great Depression of 1929 to 1932 was followed by South Africa’s departure from the Gold Standard . It is argued that …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… had made the journey. Those are the women of South Africa; the women who are prepared to fight because they want … first came up, it now declared the 9…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… the men. How much more so in a backward country like South Africa. The meetings and the affairs of the union were … when dealing with major social questions…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… about in freedom or imprisoned in some cells somewhere in Africa. It doesn`t rest with us. I`m struck here by the … vast population of young people who came…
ArchiveRestoration of the Old Cape Archives by Michael Scurr (The Heritage Portal), 03 October 2016
… of Pretoria and the Heritage Association of South Africa for giving us permission to publish . The Old Cape … culturally significant buildings throughout…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 14 … guests, friends and comrades; People of…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… had once called Turner ‘the most dangerous man in South Africa’, suggests, if not who, but why he was killed. But why … his PhD in 1966, Turner and his…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… prosperous, non-sexist, non-racial and democratic South Africa. You seek no glory and no accolades. Your actions, … of the Pan African Freedom Movement of…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… the Football Club of the Premier Soccer League. When South Africa won the bid to host the 2010 FIFA World Cup , Orlando … symbol of resistance, resilience,…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… has been made, this period could have been decades. South Africa is in a momentous process of change, blazing a trail … made public last year, has for the…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… has been made, this period could have been decades. South Africa is in a momentous process of change, blazing a trail … made public last year, has for the…
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… background on this crusader against apartheid in South Africa, including a reprise of several of his appearances on … against apartheid, the white minority…
Article1970’s: Poetry Timeline
… of support for all creative practitioners in South Africa. ‘Tsetlo’, Mongane Serote’s second book of poetry, is …
Women’s Enfranchisement Association of the Union (WEAU)
… for white women Until 1930 there were no women in South Africa who had the right to vote. It was felt that a women's …
Bantu Women’s League
… Women's League was the first women's organisation in South Africa. It was started in 1918 by one of our earliest women …
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… moments in our country's history. As the Union of South Africa was established to the exclusion of the majority of … order, the ANC produced the Africans'…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Union NUMSA , National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa NUTW, National Union of Textile Workers SACP , South … Council UWUSA , United Workers’ Union of…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… the PlanÂning Council for the campaign throughout South Africa. This was conceived as a campaign in three stages: … capitalism (especially in its monopoly…
EventJohn Vorster says SA will welcome Maoris
… Prime Minister John Vorster said that South Africa would welcome Maoris in New Zealand rugby teams. The … indigenous New Zealand population, was contrary to…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… situation like this. Then you proceed to say, "While South Africa as represented by its governments in parliament will … is a joint message to the Congress…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… 16, 1948 21 I was eight years old when Gandhiji left South Africa. I could not understand then the intricacies of … had perfected during his career as a…
PlaceInanda, Phoenix
… Place) is a township in Eastern KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa that is situated 24 km inland from Durban; it now … went to London to study law and then arrived…
PlaceBo-Kaap, Cape Town
… who were brought from Malaysia , Indonesia and the rest of Africa to work in the Cape. Houses are a mix of Cape Dutch … Muslims). The first established…