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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…
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…
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…
Biography 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…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… both a victim of Apartheid and as a political voice in the struggle for liberation , his evocation of the contemporary …
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’…
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…
Jonas Malheiro Savimbi
… mobilization. UNITA preceded the initiation of its armed struggle against colonial rule with an attack on a Portuguese …
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… sites in honour or his memory and contribution to the struggle for freedom and democracy. The official inauguration …
BiographyNadine Gordimer
… awareness of difference; she recalled also a kind of class struggle waged between her parents – her arty, upper-class …
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…
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…
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…
PlaceGuinea
Guinea is the traditional name of coastal Western Africa. The historical colonies of French Guinea, Spanish Guinea and Portuguese Guinea gained independence in…
ArticleWorld War I
… the Witwatersrand, History Workshop, 1984.|Maylam, P. ‘The Struggle for Space in Twentieth Century Durban’, pp 3-10. In …
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 …
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 …
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
This chapter comes from the book
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… Mphahlele gave orders to APLA operatives that the armed struggle was over. To earn a living, he sold food at the …
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,…
EventAugustine Makalakalane, former SA National soccer team player is born
Augustine Makalakalane is a former soccer player who later became a coach. He spent most of his soccer career playing midfield for Cosmos, though he also had…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
During September 2019 protests against Gender Based Violence (GBV) peaked after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… the government. Significantly, the ANC suspended the armed struggle. Despite problems in the transition, South Africa … organisation could consider the…