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… are helpful, kind and fun to be around. Today we’ll read about all kinds of friends, and talk about what being a friend means to you. More here . Monday ……
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… in the schools and so on, but you couldn’t really talk about serious mobilization. I know from my own experience at … book here [The Last White Parliament]…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… (counter-revolutionary) forces and did not think much about internal threats, which can be considered as … so forth. The overwhelming majority of them are…
84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982
… it is the results, as you have suggested, that will bring about the changing of hearts and changing of attitudes to … at a political solution in this country…
Jail
… five years. I started at Kroonstad, and I stayed there for about two years. That's where I met those people who had been … there in the jail. It was as if…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… but Ray Alexander later said that it had been attended by about 40 women. Other than Alexander, a Mrs Pillay, a Miss … in the official tally of 2 848 – in…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… 1654 Frederick Verburgh brought the slave woman Eva, aged about 30, and her son Jan Bruyn, aged about 3, back with him from his first expedition to … Island …
ArticleSouth African Students Movement (SASM)
… organised the 16 June demonstration, questions have arisen about the role of Black Consciousness in the student revolt. … at all. They hardly knew how we…
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of a number of workers. The workers were divided and about one-third refused to strike. The strikers, with the … of hundreds of other workers, picketed the…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… we should just start with a few personal details. Tell us about where and when you were born? SG: Okay, I was born in … Harbour and escort Nellie. Nellie…
ArticleEOAN Group
… ballet to be performed on stage at the time and was about gang life in District Six. The opera had Johaar Mosaval …
South African Labour history
… violent changes in their lives. These changes were brought about by separation from their rural homesteads, being …
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
… second term. 2009 Third democratic elections that brought about Jacob Zuma’s Presidency. …
ArticleAccount of events: Rand Rebellion 1922
… out in January 1922 and he took up their cause. He wrote about the strike and subsequent revolt and aimed to raise …
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… sheep, appear in several archaeological deposits dating to about 2000 years ago. Their widespread distribution at the …
June 17
… joined the original protesters. Not everyone had heard about Hector Petersen and the others who were killed yet, but …
ArticleKingdoms of southern Africa: Great Zimbabwe
… with Thulamela and Mapungubwe there are different theories about the reasons for this event. Some researchers think the …
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… subsequent challenge to capitalism The West was nervous about the new developments in the Soviet Union, the largest …
ArticleThe Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… 1977, Biko had an illustrious political career spanning about 14 years. He came into the political limelight in 1963, …
PlaceLions Head, Mt.
… Apostles Mountain Range , in Cape town. The best thing about the Lion’s Head hike is obviously the view over Cape … can be a bit step at times, there is…
EventDisbanding of Communist Party is announced
… on 17 July of that year. In 1950 the Communist Party had about 2 000 members, of which about three-fourths were Africans. After the disbanding of …
EventMoroccan explorer, Ibn Battuta is born
… to rely on his memory. Experts have disputed his accounts about some of the places he claimed to have visited and … of his trips. He is also thought to have…
ArchiveOpening Address at the Omar Badsha Photographic exhibition by Jakes Gerwel, September 2001
… in the series challenge us to think anew and in fresh ways about "identities" in South Africa and about what "heritage" means in our circumstances; what we ……
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… was the dissatisfaction among traditional leaders about the potential loss or weakening of their powers. … charges in 2011. Although little information is…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on something … a crucial role in informing the…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… Gordon, who accepted with an equally engaging expression about the lips. What is the use of being Prime Minister of … by the South African Society of Artists…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… identity was the Mandebele Cradle Association, founded in about 1957. They were followed in 1965 by the Ndebele Ethnic … well integrated into the North Sotho…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the story of a people on the move, filled with enthusiasm about the 'Afrikaner cause'- putting their imprint on the … it seemed as if the Afrikaners were…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… which they submitted to the Town Council complaining about the harshness of the laws passed to control them. While … Coloured people. In response, APO…
How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017
… and radio personality Redi Tlhabi, contains allegations about how state institutions and resources were used against … police guarding her “constantly fed…