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ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… I had a window seat and I could see the drought ravaged land of Eastern Africa as we flew northwards. I felt ill as I … laws that make Palestinians aliens in…
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
… deprivation. People were dispossessed of their land, marginalised and suffered severe human rights …
ArchiveCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
Perched on the outskirts of Observatory in Cape Town, just above the Black River, stands the South African Astronomical Observatory; initially known as the…
BiographyRick Turner
Rick Turner [Richard Albert David Turner] was a charismatic political philosopher and theorist who was also an activist and educationist. He was highly…
Bathandwa Ndondo
As a young child, Ndondo’s maternal grandmother raised himwhile his mother, Lulama Sidumo (nee Ndondo),worked. Following the death of his grandmother, his…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Preamble Although I had known Vishnu for nearly…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
… law, human rights, social stability, the resolution of the land question, economic recovery, and the current food …
FREEDOM IN OUR LIFETIME, Durban, December 12-14, 1958
… to have allocated them, being 8 million, only 13% of the land in South Africa when whites, who are only 3 million, hold practically the rest of the land, i.e…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… away so much money and good time, and invest more in land. Every negro should have a family, and should own his own land." " IN THEIR OWN WAY " That puts the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Millennium Debate of the Joint Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 19 November 1999
… wild bush will conquer your roads and pathways; your land will yield less and less while your offspring multiply; …
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… I read before. There's a current that hits onto the main land, and then, because of obstruction, it hits on the Island, and then back onto the main land. You…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… was “poor in technique and based on the extravagant use of land”. Ideas of an almighty or creator had no practical … that we happened to be in a Coloured…
BiographyDr. Neville Edward Alexander
Neville Edward Alexander was the first of six children of Dimbiti Bisho Alexander, a primary-school teacher, and David James Alexander, a carpenter. It was in…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… written Constitution that serves as the highest law of the land;as a social compact guaranteeing the protection of the …
PlaceAugrabies Fall National Park, Northern Cape
Augrabies is a small Town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, situated on the South bank of the Orange River about 100 kilometres downstream from…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with…
INTERNATIONAL NGO CONFERENCE AGAINST APARTHEID AND COLONIALISM IN AFRICA Geneva, 2 - 4 September 1974
Statement by Sean MacBride United Nations Commissioner for Namibia Having had the honour and privilege of presiding over the Special NGO Committee on Human…
PlaceKingsmead Cricket Stadium, Durban
Although it operates under the sponsorship-based name of Sahara Stadium Kingsmead, this cricket ground in Durban, KwaZulu-Natal is more commonly referred to as…
PlaceLambert's Bay
Welcome to the seafood hotspot of the West Coast! Lambert’s Bay is known as the Diamond of the West Coast and the crayfish mecca of South Africa. Called this…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
Named after Lewis Peter Ford of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house miners. The…
Mission Stations - I-L
… station was laid out by Mr Moffat, who to his services as land-surveyor and architect added with equal diligence the …
BiographyAlfred Milner
Alfred Milner, a statesman and colonial administrator, became Governor of the Cape and High Commissioner of South Africa in 1897. He pushed the Transvaal…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and apartheid-South Africa” Wolfram Kistner [1975] makes an…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… you told the listener that of the sacred rivers of our land, the closet to Esuano was the Pra? Let the listener know …
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… It is only by doing the same that the minorities in this land, the European, Coloured, and Indian, can secure mental …
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
… It is only doing the same that the minorities in this land, the European, coloured and Indian, can secure mental …
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… leaders of their people. Now they had returned to the land of their humiliation, but it was the land of their birth. At the airport, Lilian had dropped to …