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ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the apartheid government…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
Port Elizabeth is now known as Gqeberha. The name change was approved by the South African government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown Institute where he…
ArticleSharpeville Massacre, 21 March 1960
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Durban on 16 December 1959, the President General of the ANC, Chief Albert Luthuli,…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… others, joined the strike. Many strikers congregated in townships and some went to Gandhi’s Phoenix settlement. …
Images That Preserve History, and Make It : ‘Rise and Fall of Apartheid’ at Center of Photography by Holland Cotter (The New York Times), 20 September 2012
Photography is the common language of modern history. It’s everywhere; and everyone, in some way, understands it. No institution presents and parses that…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… rise at the same rate. Transport costs for these far-flung townships for urban dwellers rise too, as do food costs. …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
1950 - 1960 In Fietas, Johannesburg, the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) initiates and implements the 'Decade of Defiance'. 1950 Florence Matomela…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped them…
PlaceSprings
The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni, in the Gauteng Province. It was…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… 30 000 and 50 000 Africans from surrounding African townships march into the centre of Cape Town led by Phillip …
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… for it provided them with unprecedented powers over townships. The lifting of restrictions imposed by the Group … organizations like the ANC, withÂdraw…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… millions that live in the desolate former Bantustans and townships, that were the dumping ground of Apartheid, accept …
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… has been brought to a halt by the carnage in the black townships. Over the last five to six years, at least 11,000 …
From Protest to Challenge: Documents of African Politics in South Africa 1882-1964 Volume 2
… Urban Areas Act. Self-government for locations, native townships, etc., pending their abolition. Repeal of Clause 29 …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… for a single nation. The huge inequalities between townships and suburbs; between black and white; between …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
During this period the ANC cooperated with other organisations such as the APO and the NIC to fight increasing segregation imposed by the white minority…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature Hannah Pagan Abstract The social model of disability has recently…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
Inseparable from the photographic images of world-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, are values. Values, like waves of light, are in some…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
Due to the apartheid racial classification systems, many black artists were not allowed to further their education and attend formal learning facilities such…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… not want to be herded into Johannesburg's controlled black townships to live under the "permit" system. The government …
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PlaceBraamfontein, a Suburb of Johannesburg
Bordering the City Centre and joined to Newtown by the Nelson Mandela Bridge – Joburg’s landmark equivalent of Cape Town’s Table Mountain – Braamfontein is…
ArchiveChapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 by Denis Goldberg
… - Xhosa, Zulus, Sesotho and so on - were segregated in the townships. And in the barracks on the mines there was a … to live in separate “locations”,…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… legalised an existing situation. A report by the Rand Townships Registrar stated that Stand 227, Ferreirastown, was … under the Gold Law, obtain a stand…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… legalised an existing situation. A report by the Rand Townships Registrar stated that Stand 227, Ferreirastown, was … under the Gold Law, obtain a stand…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… and Indians only, and the new dummy local councils in the townships. Assassinations, tortures, deaths in detention, troops in the townships, and mounting…