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EventCarte Blanche is denied permission to quote Oliver Tambo
On 30 January 1987 the Minister of Law and Order issued a message to the newspapers denying Carte Blanche, an investigative television programme permission to…
BiographyThabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki
Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki was born on June 18 1942, in Mbewuleni (meaning ‘place of seed’), a tiny village in Idutywa in Transkei (now Eastern Cape). His middle…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… the banned JB Marks . The African National Congress notes that the greatest achievement of the Defiance Campaign …
ANC statement on The Farming Sector Initiative, 1 November 2014
The African National Congress welcomes the Western Cape Farming Sector Engagement initiative by the national government today in Paarl, Western Cape. This…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy Norman Levy entered liberation politics during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the…
PlaceRoodepoort Museum
Set in the Roodepoort Civic Centre on Christiaan de Wet Road, the Roodepoort Museum capably covers Roodepoort’s long and diverse History, which dates back to…
EventSouth Africa deports Donald “Dolan” Acheson
Donald "Dolan" Acheson is purported to have been deported from South Africa on the 31 March 1991, having being fingered as the triggerman in the assassination…
EventBartholomew Dias, Portuguese discoverer of the Cape of Good Hope, drowns at sea
The first European known to set foot on South African soil was Bartholomew (or Bartolomeu) Dias. In December 1487 Dias sailed down the African coast, landing…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… Ntwakumba, Simone van der Colff & Thandile Xesi End notes [1] Douzinas, Costas and Zizek. “The idea of …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… Ilse Brookes, Amber Fox-Martin & Simone van der Colff End Notes [1] Author Unknown, “Feudal System Research Papers”, …
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… 1902. See South African News (S.A.N.), "Trade and Labour Notes," 11 October 1902; also 29 November 1902. See Evangelos … organ in Paarl "Voorwaarts", as…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
Mr. Chairman, Honourable Editors, Distinguished Guests, Allow me to express my heartfelt thanks for the invitation to partake in such a sumptuous meal and…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
Post-Election Political Violence
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As South Africa went to the polls on 27 April 1994,…
ArchiveRootedness and Openness in The Life and Works of Véronique Tadjo (b. 1955) by Tim Steckler
… Online and Principia College Partnership Project End Notes [1] Véronique Tadjo. The shadow of Imana: travels in …
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
Undaunted by power failure which today (27 July 2009) plunged most floors of Chief Albert Luthuli House - African National Congress headquarters – into…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A. B. Xuma, January 1946
The Chairman General Assembly United Nations Organisation West Minister London Africans South Africa Protest against [proposed] incorporation South West…
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
In terms of the notorious Group Areas Act (1950), the following proclamation was made in June 1958: 'In Cato Manor, Natal; 25,798 Indians, 2,107 Coloureds and…
EventSir Benjamin D’Urban accepts the Mfengu as British subjects
The Mfengu (or Fingo in the colonial lexicon) were defeated and left landless by King Shaka's Zulu army, and slowly arrived in Xhosa territory over a period of…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
Vasco da Gama carried out 2 expeditions between 1497 and 1502. This feature focuses on the first, as it was during this expedition that Vasco da Gama's crew…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
Address at 90th brthday celebration, by Nelson Mandela, 25 June 2008, London United Kingdom
Friends, thank you for joining us here this evening, and your support for our causes. It is a great privilege having been able to travel here in our 90th year…
Conference: African Indigenous Knowledge Systems
The conference will cover the following topics: v Towards the Commercialization of Traditional Knowledge and Bio-Diversity based products and services v …
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
"Protest against [proposed] incorporation South West Africa into Union" The Chairman General Assembly United Nations Organisation West Minister London…
EventAssassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
EventViolence erupts during Defiance Campaign
The first violence during the Defiance Campaign erupted in New Brighton, near Port Elizabeth. According to reports the riots followed after a Black person was…
EventWorld War I begins
19th century Europe had a complex system of political and military alliances in place. The assassination of Austrian Archduke Franz Ferdinand by a Serbian…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… Ilse Brookes, Amber Fox-Martin & Simone van der Colff End Notes [1] P. Richardson & J.J. van Helten.: “The Development … History [online], Available at https…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… it in a fully-fledged national movement. As Ismail Vadi notes in his 1995 history of the Freedom Charter: "The …