SAHO global search

… institutions concerned with justice both in South Africa and across the world. Chaskalson's professional life … of the General Council of the Bar, he led South Africa's advocates in innumerable confrontations with the … the Turnhalle talks. He was a natural leader in South Africa's constitution-making process, and an early advocate …

… as a particularly important period in this respect. South Africa experienced an economic boom during World War 2 (1939- … and labour-saving techniques. By the end of the war South Africa was not only in a position to meet a large proportion … local production. The industrial output of South Africa more than doubled and the industrial work force …

… The transition in South Africa from Apartheid regime to democratic dispensation was …

… From:  Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic much neglected by historians and social … He was born in Durban and educated in England and South Africa. He was a teacher at St. Aidans Boys' School, …

… Side by Side by Helen Joseph Soon after my return to South Africa in 1955, I had a brief personal link with the Black … coloured vote was entrenched in the constitution of South Africa, but for the Nationalist government there must be only … black sashes in mourning for the constitution of South Africa, so soon to be violated, despite all protest. These …

… NationalCongress which was widely distributed in South Africa recently. Ina rousing CALL TO REVOLUTION which appears … Period of Revolutionary Upheavals Our country, South Africa, faces a period of ever-increasing …

… the causes of popular protests that erupted across South Africa between 1948 and 1960, showing that they were largely …

… book:  No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Biko was arrested for the last time on 18 August 1977 … the founder of the black consciousness movement in South Africa, died Monday (12th). Mr. Biko, honorary president of … Venter [a congress delegate] said about prisoners in South Africa having the 'democratic right' to starve themselves to …

… 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 in the development of Africa, requires a collective effort of all the people of our …

… 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; the A.N.C. claims South Africa for all. To the A.N.C. leadership the present … government is the properly elected government of South Africa whose policies, however, it does not approve of. And …

… lived to tell of the disaster - one of the worst in South Africa’s history. But the village of Arniston has dispelled … entire coast is a marine reserve, one of the biggest in Africa, and the rare African Black Oyster Catcher, the … for the protection of the threatened Damara, South Africa’s most endangered coastal bird. …

… biggest Container Terminal and one of the major Ports in Africa - the Durban Harbour. The modern Port of Durban was … more by clicking on the link in Further Reading) South Africa’s iconic polar research vessel, the SA Agulhas, has … up after a long and distinguished career supporting South Africa’s presence in Antarctica and the Southern Ocean …

… deal. On the other hand Payton Knopf, an adviser to the Africa program at the United States Institute of Peace, … from pro democracy movements.   [i] Letter from Africa: Why people keep cash under the mattress in Sudan. (10 … BBC News. Available at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-46761942 [Accessed 22 August 2019]   [ii] Letter from …

… to Brazil.  Cape Verde was strategically placed between Africa and the Americas for becoming a supply port for the … for independence for Portugal's colonial possessions in Africa. In 1975 Cape Verde and Guinea-Bissau declared … Bruce. 2006. ‘Cape Verde: the most democratic nation in Africa?’in The Journal of Modern African Studies , Vol. 44, …

… "We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need … land has always featured on the liberation agenda in South Africa. The Freedom Charter, demanded: "the land should be … land reform program at current land prices in South Africa. Instead, land speculation has been rife and rural …

… together, can we strengthen democracy and grow South Africa. Over the past 25 years, the lives of the people of South Africa have changed for the better. Millions of people have … it the most. The voter. Together with the people of South Africa, the ANC is ready to write the next chapter in our …

… domestic violence has always been alarmingly high in South Africa. Though domestic violence is not limited to female … and Judicial Systems Victims of assault and rape in South Africa are faced with a police system that is not bringing …

… War deeply affected the newly independent countries in Africa and the liberation struggles in southern Africa from the 1960s until the 1990s, when the Union of …

… 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 here from South Africa at different times, some of them from other parts of Africa, and they have gathered here in large numbers, each of …

… I opened my eyes to politics, I came across this slogan "Africa for the Africans". Then "Africa for the Africans, Africans for the World" was the … whether it was the slogan of the Pan African movement in Africa - not the Pan Africanists, but the African movement as …

… 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 illegal in South Africa. Contact, in defying apartheid, documented political struggles not only in the southern region of Africa but in Africa as a whole. …

… 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 …

… Women's League was the first women's organisation in South Africa. It was started in 1918 by one of our earliest women …

… of support for all creative practitioners in South Africa. ‘Tsetlo’, Mongane Serote’s second book of poetry, is …

… it is who in your view was the conflict between in South Africa between 1976 and 1990, I read from your book ( Protecting Human Rights in a New South Africa , 1990) that you reject a kind of either or … at the whole way white supremacy is, functions in South Africa, they in fact destroyed the African middle class. …

… a  'self-governing territory within the Republic of South Africa'. In elections, held before the status of … not be opposed by the newly inaugurated President of South Africa, F.W. de Klerk. Holomisa also announced that he would … wanted their homeland to be reincorporated into South Africa. All these events played out against a backdrop of …

… founding fathers of our movement- -the peoples of Southern Africa as a whole--who set up the ANC as their instrument to … our emancipation and to contribute to the liberation of Africa in its entirety. Tanzanians and South Africans, … perspective of a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa. It is in the realisation of this perspective that …

… as a dual representation of a figure that stimulated South Africa’s economy, but at the expense of the subjugation of …

… to limit contact between the different races in South Africa. Later known as "petty apartheid", this Act allowed … London: Routledge. p 103.|History World,  History of South Africa , from History World , [online], Available at  …