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PlaceCrossroads Township
… began when workers were forcibly removed from Brown’s Farm and sent to Crossroads. On their arrival they found only a bush and had to erect shacks for…
PlaceLibya
… Libya, a mostly desert and oil-rich country with an ancient history, has more … 42-year rule of the mercurial Colonel Muammar Gaddafi - and the chaos that…
PlaceDurbanville
… two all on its own. There are so many farms to choose from and each one has many great things to offer its … have very unique pairings (such as chocolate and…
Chapter 9
… New Methods of Struggle Having defined its tasks and formulated its programme, having turned from the role of … expression to their needs. Seven years of…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… with him". He provided access to leaders in the mines and again assisted when Ramaphosa asked him to identify a … Union of Mineworkers (NUM). The candidate…
Black Student Politics
… recognised that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating the conditions for the transition…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… Biko was arrested for the last time on 18 August 1977 and Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. On 14 September, the Rand … Biko, honorary president of the Black…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about that life within … to disclose information about…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
… elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a monumental task in combating communism in South…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
… Johannesburg City Hall, December 5 2012 Arthur Chaskalson and I met in 1952. We were students in the Law Faculty. … He was a brilliant student, a keen…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
… her first involvement in the freedom struggle. The long and difficult struggle in South Africa has produced many leaders who have displayed great courage and…
Preface
… of research in relation to decisions regarding intention and tone. In examining a sketchily documented and - as I argue - little understood period of South…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… would like to briefly sketch the path we have travelled, and to dwell in some detail on where the process is at now, what the main obstacles are and share…
PlaceGreatmore Studios
… registered as an NPO in 2007. It is an artist residency and centre with studios and exhibition space in Woodstock , and is one of the few active non…
PlaceSoweto Theatre
… space. Prior to 2012, theatre companies were mobile and performances would be held in community halls. [i] The … Soweto Theatre with the intent of being a…
PlaceCurries Fountain Sports Development Centre
… stadium in the struggle days, particularly in the 1960’s and 1970’s, influenced the interaction of Black people within a socio-political and cultural…
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
… 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official and legal investigation done into the events that had … to get to the truth of what had caused the…
PlaceThree Anchor Bay
… Bay. Its name was first recorded in Dutch records of 1661, and probably refers to a defensive chain which stretched across the Bay and was probably secured…
Beyond the Apartheid University?
… as focus of papers, but feel free to innovate: 1. Research and the production of knowledge for a post- Apartheid South Africa? Who is producing what and for…
PlaceLoftus Versveld Stadium, Hatfield
… on 21 September 1979. Home to the Sundowns Football Club and the Blue Bulls rugby team, Loftus Versfeld received a welcomed revamp and renovation in…
PlaceGod’s Window
… Window, with magnificent views, canyons, rock formations and waterfalls, God's Window is truly an area of breathtaking … The majestic cliffs plunge over 700…
EventSt James Church massacre
… inside the church at the time. Using automatic weapons and two grenades, the APLA cadres killed eleven worshippers and injured 58. Four of the dead were…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, policemen Eric Goosen, Jacques Hechter and Deon Gouws revealed that May…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden … from a small town in Indiana in the United States, and…
Stay-away!
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1950 there was a big protest against … which was so the government could…
PlaceHazyview
… A Village that is inundated with History and very quicky being modernized but will always keep it's … is central to the Kruger Lowveld Region of Mpumalanga…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… the Provinces. The Prime Minister, the police in Durban and the Chief Magistrate and police at Volksrust have been informed of this step. … 1948, with the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… among which are the issues of the liberation of Namibia and South Africa. The positions adopted by the Summit on South Africa and on southern Africa…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… among which are the issues of the liberation of Namibia and South Africa. The positions adopted by the Summit on South Africa and on southern Africa…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… As the only White amongst those convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment in the Rivonia Trial, … he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades…