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Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
1974 February Botswana Abraham Onkgopotse Tiro SASO Parcel bomb. - Zambia John Dube ANC Parcel bomb. 1978 8 January Durban Dr. Rick Turner Banned…
ArticleSlave Resistance
Slavery was introduced to the Cape Colony by the VOC in its desire to boost the agriculture and food supply while retaining control in the new settlement. As…
Insurrections: The Storming
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… those seeking secular advantage in terms of employment, land, homes or material goods, with outcasts, refugees and …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of those who have visited Castle Good Hope in Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… visits with one another on all levels. Our aircraft may land in certain African states, and have in fact done so. Our …
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… when you go to Point Prison, at the back there was a huge land there, you know? They used to grow there, you see and …
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW or FSAW) was launched on 17 April 1954 in Johannesburg as the first attempt to establish a broad-based women’s…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
Introduction: Background to the Strike The formation of the Union of South Africa in 1910 was a development that had vastly different consequences for the…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… in 1961 for resisting official policies and Bantustan land allocation; in 1976 Mashile was still in banishment and … Addicted to alcohol, allowed…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… the favoured strategy since the imposition of the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act (Ghetto Act) in …
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… accepted this suffering for the sake of her people and her land. There are others. Especially there are families who …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 91th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2003
… pay special attention to the challenges of black access to land and its use for productipurposes. We must ensure that we …
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… following him around. He escaped to another part of the land but they followed him there. And he knew that it was not …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for Drum Magazine, South…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… of mismanagement and security force penetration. The land mine campaign to destabilise the border areas had …
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 16 - 1 January 1977 by Carol Hermer
… Fortunately, Isaac is athletic and the man couldn't land a punch on him. He did get one bad kick on his calf. The …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
1980 25 January, Three MK cadres, on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
ANC-2nd Submission to TRC - APPENDIX FOUR Please note: Information in this list was drawn from press reports and the Annual Surveys of the SAIRR. These…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
The first white inhabitantsBetween 1820 and 1826, Afrikaner trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… tenancies in houses or flats. They could also purchase land on which to erect their own dwellings. An important …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After he became embroiled in general student dissatisfaction with boarding…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
June 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the…
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
1870s-1880s Discovery of a reliable water source. "To the present generation Currie's Fountain is but a name which marks the recreation grounds below Botanic…