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BiographyOmar Badsha
… Dan Magaziner titled Available Light: Omar Badsha and the Struggle for Change was published in the USA and South Africa. … played an active role in the South…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… Mme Sophie Williams De Bruyn and all veterans of our struggle for liberation, Comrades and friends Fellow … remains of our stalwarts and icons of the…
PlaceZambia
On 24 October, 1964 Northern Rhodesia (now known as Zambia) gained independence from Britain with Kenneth Kaunda as the country’s first president, and…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… both a victim of Apartheid and as a political voice in the struggle for liberation , his evocation of the contemporary …
ArticleBiography of Lindiwe Mabuza by Kayla Johansen
… She garnered international support for the liberation struggle, working for economic sanctions and cultural … into politics. She claims that she was ‘born…
EventSouth Africa Declares Gender-Based Violence a National Disaster
… the crisis, marking a watershed moment in South Africa's struggle against gender-based violence. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1910-1919
This period was characterized by events leading up to the formation of the African National Congress in 1912 as well as the organization’s early years. Events…
EventFirst Egyptian woman to file for divorce under new law
In 2000, a 32 year old Egyptian housewife became the first woman to file for a divorce without having to prove physical or psychological abuse. Under Egypt’s…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… mobilization. UNITA preceded the initiation of its armed struggle against colonial rule with an attack on a Portuguese …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… Mbeki set out the ANC and MK’s policy on the armed struggle, and impressed the delegates with his honesty and … delegates accepting the ‘historical reality’…
BiographyPatric Tariq Mellet
… was determined in his challenge. After a long determined struggle over 20 months of hell he won the tug-o-war match … an understanding of the ANC, socialism…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… states that had supported the South African liberation struggle, including Zambia , Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Ethiopia … Schuur Minute. The ANC also agrees to…
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
BiographyRick Turner
… on to regain the will to fight apartheid and to lead the struggle. He displayed a genuine understanding of the BC … These left whites perplexed as to their…
EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
On 13 September 1995, Beverley Palesa Ditsie made a statement at the Beijing Women’s Conference about the importance of including lesbian rights in discussions…
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… awareness of difference; she recalled also a kind of class struggle waged between her parents – her arty, upper-class …
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… sites in honour or his memory and contribution to the struggle for freedom and democracy. The official inauguration …
ArchiveBiography of Ellen Kuzwayo by Laura Wilson, 3 May 2018
… to witness her fight against apartheid through, as her struggle to uplift the children under her care and push them … as well as other prominent figures in…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa appears before protesters against gender- based violence in South Africa
… shouted, “ Enough is enough ” and sang one of the struggle songs ‘ Senzeni na?(What we have done)’. As he began …
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… Mphahlele gave orders to APLA operatives that the armed struggle was over. To earn a living, he sold food at the …
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… . (Aldershot: Avebury, 1994). | History of women’s struggle in South Africa”, South African History Online . 20 … . | ;Liberation struggle in South Africa”…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
… 1939-1965. (Aldershot: Avebury, 1994).|“History of women’s struggle in South Africa”, South African History Online. 20 … .|“Liberation struggle in South…
PlaceGuinea
Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa. The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained independence in…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein , describes Florence Matomela as ‘a … against the apartheid government was ‘an unrelenting…
ArticleWorld War I
… the Witwatersrand, History Workshop, 1984.|Maylam, P. ‘The Struggle for Space in Twentieth Century Durban’, pp 3-10. In …
Why is sexual violence so endemic in South Africa and why has it been so hard to combat? by Jessica Clarke
… “if you see yourself [Zuma] as a father figure in the struggle, what message does”¦the strategy adopted by your …
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… Press), p.145 &151|ANC, (1980), ‘The Role of Women in the Struggle Against Apartheid’ , from African National …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… of History, with interest on the South African liberation struggle and the history of black anthropology scholarship in …
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
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ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the French,…