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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…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… Cape, KwaZulu-Natal. The party also lost support in townships, according to a study by the Council for Scientific …
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… The focus we have placed on revamping industrial parks in townships and rural areas has brought about discernible … to small and medium enterprises in the…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… Durban . Santu Mofokeng 's exhibition, Distorting Mirror: Townships Imagined , opens at the Worker's Library, …
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
… in industry has also concentrated them in great urban townships. The particular structure of the South African …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
… of the state of emergency, withdrawal of troops from the townships and release of all political prisoners. To continue …
Steve Biko revisited by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 21 June 2016
I’ve been trying to understand what’s happening at my alma mater and employer for over 40 years, the University of Cape Town (UCT). Part of this endeavour…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… at the right moment; but word circulated around the townships, and on the grapevines of political rumour. The …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… our newspapers and on our billboards that proliferate our townships. Photography can't be divorced from the political, …
Chapter 7
… have bazaars and barracks. The Coloureds have Coloured townships which will grow more and more even in the Cape, as …
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… as a result of the close proximity of the factories to the townships” (The Unresolved National Question; 237). Secondly, …
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
Dear Student Movements of 1976, (Dear ex-student behind the movement, who made personal sacrifices that affected your own future- without media coverage-…
ArchiveThe defiance campaign
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1952 the ANC decided that we are going to organize a Defiance Campaign…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… 09/05/85 SAP personnel: two grenade attacks in Pretoria townships- No details 15/05/85 SAP building and personnel: …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… December The CPSA organizes nine separate meetings in the townships to overcome the restrictions of the Urban Areas …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… ICU official whose power base was in Durban's African townships. In a disputed election in 1945 that Xuma had to …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
Programme Directors, Ntombazana Botha and Barbara Creecy, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Your Excellency, Vice…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… of civil society (unions, civic associations in the townships and other open, ‘above ground’ working class … shop stewards (who were active ANC cadres in the…
The strangulation of activity
… were in force on all funerals in over 70 black townships as at December 1989. Additional conditions include … After the 1976 student uprising in Soweto and…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
Sbongiseni Dladla (SD): How did you feel in hearing the street would be named after you Gogo? Lulu Dube (LD): I did not know that this street would be named…
PlaceHeritage Route of King Shaka
Memorial Complex- Shakas two half brothers; Dingane and Mhlangana and his body servant, Mbopa assassinated King Shaka on the 22 September 1828. A memorial…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
… of apartheid, such as the proposed incorporation of some townships into the KwaZulu bantustan, we have gone further to …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… you think the events of last week, the violence in all the townships, what kind of impact do you think that will have on …
2018 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2018
… entrants, and invest in the development of businesses in townships and rural areas. Radical economic transformation …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… of apartheid, such as the proposed incorporation of some townships into the KwaZulu bantustan, we have gone further to …
Concluding Remarks
… of the decade. Gavin Younge's Art of the South African Townships (1988), devotes considerable attention to questions …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…