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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 …
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE SA FREEDOM DAY CELEBRATIONS Upington, 27 April 1997
… Three years have passed since the people of South Africa proclaimed their freedom;three years since we made a … Three years have passed since the people of…
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…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl Walker Question: Do you … to discuss the history of women's suffrage in South…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… of industrialisation and urbanisation in which South Africa has been involved, for the last century has … Afrikaner agrarian-populism. In addition blacks in…
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…
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
… that have an important bearing on the future of South Africa, and especially on the Coloured races. Thanks, … the conditions that prevailed at the time when…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… of ‘demographic representivity’ in 1930s white South Africa (something he was not able to put in practice) and … solution to Jewish ‘domination’ of the…
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…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the differences of the worlds they … and visual to draw attention to the…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… squads. During the Convention for a Democratic South Africa, the IFP aligned itself with the Afrikaner … Giliomee, H. and Mbenga, B. (2007). New History of…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… attended 16 teacher-training colleges (Union of South Africa, 1961:E7). By 1948 black university students numbered … at the part-time correspondence…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… is important because Party membership throughout South Africa during these years is often pegged as at least several … A few months later, the Comintern…
BiographyAmbrose Mzimkhulu Makiwane
Ambrose Makiwane was born in 29th of November in1921 near Cala in the Transkei. He attended Clarkebury School and was expelled after participating in a student…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Bloemfontein 16 May 1997
… Guests; Citizens of Bloemfontein, The history of South Africa would have been very different without events that … It is the proud host of the Supreme Court…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… who had sacrificed their lives for freedom in Southern Africa. Candles were lit for those who were being remembered, … ensure that people of different…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
… will vote together as equals in an undivided South Africa. As we move into this phase let us ensure that this … country stated in the Freedom Charter in 1955…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
… "Forward to Independence,Tomorrow the United States of Africa." When the marchers reached Sharpeville's police … magazine online, 4 April|Apartheid…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… a political force unprecedented in the history of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments … the tribal homelands. The students that…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… to learn of it. But the pass does so in the Union of South Africa. Each year half a million of my people are arrested … have come to understand that the well…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
… The Orange River, Southern Africa’s longest waterway, rises high in the Drakensberg … called ‘The River of Diamonds’, stones from the heart of Africa have…
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… Party was the only legal multi-racial party in South Africa during this period, but was dissolved in 1968, when … the Government made multi-racial parties…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… ' which flows through the City. Xhosa is one of South Africa's 11 official languages and one of the few in the … Cape Town , he was informed of his new…
EventHaile Selassie, Emperor of Ethiopia, warns the League of Nations that he is going to mobilise his forces after threats of invasion by Italy
… been one of the few states to survive "the scramble for Africa" by the major European powers in the late 19th … Roman Empire" around the Mediterranean sea…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… the result of a mentality that continues to speak of South Africa as though it were an island, completely cut off from … We claim Afrika for the Africans;…
’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… On 31 January 1985 the State President of South Africa, PW Botha, speaking in parliament, offered Mandela his … for a national convention for all the people…