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January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… areas, and assist them to break free of the paradigm that places them in a position of social outcasts. Current … contains the critical challenges that our…
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… New Dictionary of South African Places Peter E. Raper …
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
Hinduism
Hinduism What do Hindus believe? Hindus believe in one god that appears in different forms. Source: www.theholidayspot.com Hindus believe in one God, or…
ArticleA history of Apartheid in South Africa
Background and policy of apartheidBefore we can look at the history of the apartheid period it is necessary to understand what apartheid was and how it…
ArticleThe spread of these ideas to Europe and Australia
The indigenous inhabitants of Australia The continent of Australia was settled about 60,000 years ago. Before European settlement, most of the inhabitants of…
PlaceEntabeni Safari Conservancy, Waterberg
Entabeni Safari Conservancy, rightfully dubbed “The Place of the Mountain”, is situated in the World Heritage, Waterberg Biosphere. Approximately a three-hour…
Canon Collins Memorial Lecture by Oliver Tambo, 28 May 1987, London
… those who say they want to see an end to apartheid. This places the Western Powers in the position in which they have …
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
Prehistory of Southern AfricaFarming people did not inhabit the Greater Johannesburg region until the Late Iron Age. Then, beginning in the 15th century,…
PlaceBlinkwater
Like many isolated rural villages, Blinkwater in the Eastern Cape has never had access to any electricity. A plan supported by the United Nation Development…
Thirty years ago by Raymond Suttner (extract from 'Inside Apartheid's Prison')
… sitting there, I did not know what was happening in most places outside my cell. Suddenly, one day, a man in a suit …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 4 - Participatory Democracy
… But by the very nature of the case the trade union places merely a negative check on management, which retains …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XII - End and Beginning
… Department wants is to make all the principal day-schools places of manual industry as well as of book instruction." In …
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… provides a sketch of the vocal tract in which the various places of articulation referred to in the chart are … Figure 3.2 Sketch of the vocal tract, showing…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
Patric Tariq Mellet was born and grew up in the working class districts of old Cape Town – Salt River, Woodstock and District Six. His family were poor working…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
IntroductionNovember 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King…
PlaceFort Beaufort/KwaMaqoma- Amatola District, Eastern Cape
Fort Beaufort (Xhosa: iBhofolo). Fort Beaufort is situated in the Eastern Cape Province. The town is surrounded by magnificent Mountain Ranges and it is known…
PlaceVarsche River, Table Mountain
To the Cape’s indigenous people – the Khoi pastoralists and the San hunter-gatherers – the area now occupied by Cape Town City Centre were known as- Camissa,…
PlaceThaba Chewa Municipality
Thaba Chweu Municipality is a local Municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The Municipality is…
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
Lusaka - Zambia's independence hero and first president Kenneth Kaunda was to be discharged from hospital on Tuesday, four days after being admitted with an…
77. The South African Indian Council: an assessment from within, 1978
… It has been made perfectly clear that registration places no obligation on the voter to exercise his vote. He or … an articulate and incensed section of the…
Fictional Cape Town
South Africa, thanks to the 2010 World Cup, has been topical lately. But what I have to offer is not a football story, but an unusual reportage located in…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1970-1979
1970 16 February, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela and 21 others, who were detained under the Suppression of Communism Act, in May 1969, are acquitted. Three are…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… do so. I have always wanted to speak about the people and places and events and ideas that shaped me and in a complex …
ArchiveAri Sitas in Conversation with Sumangala Damodaran
… the elegant Italian Paggio from India. It still takes me places. It carries me through the Karoo but the imagery makes …
PlaceCyril Ceoghegan Cycling Track, Durban
The track is named after champion cyclist and ex SACF (South African Cycling Federation) president, Cyril Geoghegan. It is situated in Durban, Kwa Zulu Natal,…
PlaceSoebatsfontein, Northern Cape
The name of this small Village ('fountain of pleading') comes from a Spring in the middle of the Village. Legend has it that a man named Hendrik Stievert…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… no one who attended would be arrested because in other places outside people have had meetings with leaders and … they were a group from Nyanga East. They…
ArchiveStatement fron Anant Singh on the 30th Anniversary of Nelson Mandela's Release from Prison
The 11th of February 1990 will be remembered as one of the most significant days in the history of the world. It was the day that dramatic change took place –…