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ArticleTanzania and its Support of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
Tanzania and its Suipport of Southern African Liberation Movements
… The role of Tanzania in fostering African Liberation movements The emergence of organised popular liberation movements throughout Africa following the end of…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… In May 1918 a group of fourteen railway clerks, clergymen and policemen formed an … was renamed the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The formation of the AB was…
ArticleThe formation of SASO and the Black People’s Convention
… through the multiracial and liberal National Union of South African Students (NUSAS). In particular, NUSAS was outspoken in its criticism of government…
Message from the President, South African Society of Artists
… The South African Society of Artists celebrated its centenary on 26 September 2002 and on 9 December we mark the centenary of its first exhibition held at…
ArticleLouis van Mauritius and the Slave Revolt of 1808
… The unique nature of slavery in the Cape Colony hindered many attempts at wide-scale resistance on the part of Cape slaves. Instead many slaves’ attempts at…
Pottery, division of labour, trade, medicine and healing, hunting
… Pottery production was also a very important feature of Iron Age society. The Iron Age women were skilled potters. … is still developing content for this…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… artists who were sidelined, staging large retrospectives of the likes of Dumile Feni and, more recently, Kay Hassan. Although this exhibition is obviously an…
ArticleSouth Africa - First 20 Years of Democracy (1994 - 2014)
… vote for the first time on 27 April 1994 to mark the end of apartheid rule and establish a new Constitutional order. This year, 2014, marks 20 years of…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
… (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted … immediately to the government’s…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon … of Umkhonto’s initial campaigning,…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… came about in the 1960s. This change was the result of combined elements, including the formation of the PAC, growing frustration among black people, the…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… for the privilege accorded to me to address this important body. It was with considerable reluctance that I applied for … policies which are a cruel scourge…
BiographyHaile Selassie I
… was Lij Tafari Makonnen. He was the only surviving son of the governor of Harar, Ras Makonnen Wolde Michael. Selassie traced his linage back to Menelik I,…
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a descendant of a…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… clandestinely playing polo outside the restriction zone of his 60s banning order. He was educated privately at … Cambridge. He left this university in his…
Performing Arts Council of the Orange Free State (PACOFS)
… a non-profit entity. It was restructured as an agency of the Department of Arts and Culture under the name Performing Arts Centre of the Free State , which…
BiographyGünther Komnick
… was born in Insterburg in the former German province of East Prussia in 1929 into a cultured family of artists. He lived through the monumental events of…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban attorney,the son of immigrant eastern European jews and a leader of…
A list of Books and Speeches pertaining to Robert Sobukwe
… A list of archive items pertaining to Robert Sobukwe: Books : Time … Speech, April 1959 Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of…
Professor Zakes Mda review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
… The work is clearly a result of meticulous research and depends on extensive primary … approach it will be an indispensable text for the students of history…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 Kajee … India should have been informed first."…
BiographyBob Hepple
… , was a trade unionist and Labour Party member, Member of Parliament, the Chairman of the Treason Trial Defence Fund and Chairman of the South … 1957. He…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the revival of armed activity 1970s-1980s
… The independence of Mozambique, in particular, gave tremendous momentum to the … with the outside.” Throughout 1975 up to the first half of 1976, many people…
ArticleA history of Indians in South Africa Timeline: 1654-2008
… This is a collection of timelines of Indians in South Africa from 1654 until 2008. … A history of Indians in South Africa Timeline: 1654-2008 …
List of ANC and MK members killed in combat
… This is a list is part of the The ANC and the turn to the armed struggle: UMkhonto … | 1970s | 1980s | 1990s MK Real Name MK Name Date Cause of death Place…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of student discontent into a political force unprecedented in … King William’s Town, 60km away,…
BiographyMabaso Siqila
… Mabaso Siqila and Nikisi Feni were said to be the leaders of ‘recalcitrant Natives’ in Xengxe Location, near King … motivating their banishment reported that…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… Minister of Safety and Security of the Republic of South Africa since 7 May 2002 and current … MP's in parliament (who were not satisfied that enough was…
Address of the president of the republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, to the summit meeting of the OAU heads of state and government Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, June 8 1998
… Mr Chairman;Distinguished Heads of State and Government;Heads of Delegation;Honourable Ministers;Ambassadors and Members of … when, behind those sovereign…