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Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
BiographyGovin Reddy
Govindasamy Reddy (Govin Reddy) was born on 16 June 1943 in Kranskloof, a farming area next to Claremont on the outskirts of Durban, Natal (now known as…
XIII - The Courts
… Minister of Justice denied that there was any attempt to cover up the death of Mdluli. Then on 13 May the ANC released …
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… of the late Professor Archie Mafeje. Secondly, to cover relevant issues affecting the practical and theoretical …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Festival of the Cultures and Civilisations of World Deserts, Dubai: 16 April 2005.
… to this Festival. Chairperson, As many of us know, deserts cover some 20% of the land surface of our planet, and provide …
PlacePanorama Route, Mpumalanga
The Panorama Route starts at, Nelspruit where you can go visit the Lowveld Botanical Garden. It moves on to White River where you can go play Golf and visit a…
ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
… stratum. Actually this policy served merely as a cover for efforts to hold back the workers' struggle within …
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… a betrayal for us to have used the necessary secrecy to cover up for an affaire. The stress and the excitement of …
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… Act. National sovereignty can no longer be used as a cover for gross abuses such as genocide. There will now be a …
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
… Charter. It had taken five days of giving evidence to cover all that we wanted to put before the court and it …
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
POLITICAL HARASSMENT FAROUK ASVAT was banned by the South African regime between 1973 and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
Robert Gabriel Mugabe was born on 21 February 1924, in Katama, a Jesuit mission station in the Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of…
BiographyAbdul Samad Minty
Abdul Samad Minty was born on 31 October 1933 in Hartebeesfontein, Northern Transvaal (now known as Limpopo Province). Minty grew up in Johannesburg where he…
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the Cape Province (now…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
BiographySiyamthanda Kolisi
Siyamthanda “Siya” Kolisi was born on 16 June 1991 in Zwide Township in Port Elizabeth (PE), Eastern Cape. He was born exactly 15 years after the Soweto Youth…
BiographyChief Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk
Hendrik ‘Hennie’ van Wyk was born in Vredendal, Cape Province (now Western Cape) on 14th July 1936. His childhood witnessed the final days of colonial rule and…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
Hemant Kumar Waghmarae was born on 24 October 1948 in Mumbai, India to Vishnu Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. …
BiographyChris Ledochowski
Chris Ledochowski was born in 1956 in Pretoria. He grew up in Johannesburg and from 1968 to 1974 he attended Waterford- Kamhlaba, a non racial boarding school…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… resolved to come up with an alternative to the LRA to cover all workers, and to present Saccola with a list of six …
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… The Nkandla issue eventually leads to a series of cover-ups by state officials, Cabinet ministers loyal to Zuma …
Document 130 - Communists in Conference: The 1943/44 National Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa
… organised. Wage Determinations must be extended to cover these country areas. Ray Alexander replies to the … for this amendment and for the extension of the…
In the Belly of the Beast - Speech at Conference of the International Committee against Apartheid, Racism and Colonialism in Southern Africa (ICSA) by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, April 1980
… who sought the friendship of African States as cover for deadly designs against national liberation and …
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
Written documents are very important sources of history. Letters, diaries, and even old shopping lists can tell us a lot about how people lived, what they…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… Oom At Geel, who is in the stories and who is on the cover of my book, Some Afrikaners Photographed, was the …
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… and industrial research. State control will be extended to cover the nationalization of some sectors of what at present …
ArticleAfrapix
Afrapix – Comrades with Cameras A history of a South African anti apartheid Documentary Photography Collective Afrapix, a progressive photographers'…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… allow the UCM to hire a full-time secretary, buy a car and cover programme costs. 1968 July, At the Annual Nusas …
Adapted from De Rietfonteyn: Founding of Grahamstown By Elron Kleinhans
Q: How did we get a place called Grahamstown? A: Before there was a town, the place was called Egume by the local people. Then the British came and named it…