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PlaceSomalia
… Somalia is the Eastern most Country on mainland Africa, situated at the tip of the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward … an…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… There is no such thing as freedom of opportunity in South Africa. The outcome of the protest against the quota bill was … education for all in a united and…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… of the SA economy. All these monopolies operating in South Africa are themselves controlled by big capital from the … controlling it. The development of…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
… more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first President and ruled the country … domination, but worked closely with…
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… old hands alike life was one long, bitter struggle. South Africa has always had "alien" communities who "did not … on the one hand and of poverty on the…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… as a dual representation of a figure that stimulated South Africa’s economy, but at the expense of the subjugation of …
EventNational Arts Festival celebrates 37 years in Grahamstown
… On 30 June 2011 the biggest Arts event in South Africa, known as the National Arts Festival, will be … (n.d.), ‘Information on Grahamstown, Eastern Cape,…
EventBanned PAC Leader, Robert Sobukwe, is refused an exit permit to leave SA
… by the Minister of Interior Affairs) to leave South Africa for his studies in the United States. The Minister of …
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… The discovery was declared the richest strike in South Africa's history. According to reports, no shares soared as …
EventFollowing the infamous Treason Trial, ANC leader Chief Albert Luthuli is banished by the Apartheid Government for five years
… and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1961, was one of South Africa's greatest leaders. In 1952, the Apartheid Government … A Documentary History of African…
EventJapanese submarines attack naval base in Madagascar
… use these colonies as bases to launch attacks on India and Africa, as well as deny the British access to the Indian …
EventA.G. Visser, SA physician and poet, dies in Heidelberg, Transvaal
… the farm Zaaifontein, in the district of Fraserburg, South Africa. Visser attended the Huguenot Memorial School in the …
EventThe apartheid government agrees to eliminate racial segregation in theatres but not in cinemas
… to limit contact between the different races in South Africa. Later known as "petty apartheid", this Act allowed … London: Routledge. p 103.|History World, …
EventF.W. de Klerk announces Nelson Mandela will be freed on 11 February
… paved the way for the birth of a Democratic South Africa . …
EventA military coup deposes the Lesotho Government
… rule through a military council chaired by Lekhanya. South Africa denied playing any part in the coup, but lifted the …
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… that would be very valuable in treating malaria in South Africa, where people suffer from the disease in certain parts …
EventPrime Minister Sir Abubakar Tafawa Balewa is killed in Nigeria’s first military coup
… in his condemnation of the Sharpeville massacre in South Africa. He was knighted in 1960 by Queen Elizabeth II. …
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… it was repealed by the Constitution of Republic of South Africa Act No 200 of 1993. An interim constitution that … Inter-Parliamentary Union, ' South Africa:…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… permitted the exploitation of the Coloured races of South Africa. I said that " the Orange River Colony and the … I was denounced, this time by the whole…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… of the most representative gatherings ever held in South Africa. Like the launching conference of the UDF in August … comrades, the biggest difficulty we are…
ArchiveWhite and Black nationalism, ethnicity and the future of the homelands
… Chief M Gatsha Buthelezi who addresses the future of South Africa with regards to separate development for the Blacks … He discusses the existing multi…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… of oppression was therefore very deep in South Africa and cemented the Alliance. The unity in action of the … which was forged in struggle. It is only in…
ANC mourns the death of Cde Basil "Jomo" Mavuso, 12 July 2012
… who always place the needs of ANC and the people South Africa ahead of his own needs. He was a real man of reason. …
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… classic The Eye of the Needle is still relevant in South Africa today. Tony Morphet , Halton Cheadle , Premesh Lalu …
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… of the school boycotts in the northern parts of South Africa. After his capture in 1977, which was preceded by his …
BiographyKlaas Matlala
Klaas Matlala was arrested in the fields where he resided at Matlala's Location, Pietersburg District, [Northern] Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo Province]…
BiographyLothar Neethling
General Lothar Paul Neethling was born in East Prussia. In 1948, the Afrikaners who were supporters of Nazi Germany during World War II came up with a plan to…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… and particularly working-class black women, in South Africa's political economy. District Committee of the …
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… We have achieved a good deal of progress in making South Africa ungovernable. Correctly, we concentrated on the … to make the apartheid system unworkable and…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… We have achieved a good deal of progress in making South Africa ungovernable. Correctly, we concentrated on the … to make the apartheid system unworkable and…