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Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed into the police van for the…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… photographer ponders how it is possible to be decent and normal in a world that is mad, even evil. For him, at … the everyday, insidious manifestations of…
PlaceStanger, now officially known as KwaDukuza
… Stanger was founded in 1872 and was named after the first Surveyor-General of the then … Stanger. KwaDukuza which incorporates the Town of Stanger and…
SASO Newsletter, 1970 - 1976
… black students increasingly began to feel the frustration and disillusionment similar to that which had led to the Fort … of Natal Medical School (UNMS)…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bridge, Johannesburg
… which spans the railway tracks which separate the Newtown and Braamfontein neighbourhoods in the Johannesburg City Centre took 18 months to build and was…
The Khoikhoi carry out a series of raids on the free burghers’ herds
… faced a stronger demand for their cattle. Trade disputes and charges of theft caused great tension between colonists and the Khoikhoi who feared that the…
PlaceBeachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
… Mangrove swamps have been rated amongst the rarest and most scientifically interesting eco-systems that occur in … Mangroves are of significant botanical,…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
… in southern Africa, felt it should receive a similar title and used its contacts within the British Labour Party to push … coincide with my appointment as…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Adderley Street, Cape Town.
… Jan van Riebeeck brought the Reformed religion to the Cape and the practice of this religion played an important part in … was converted into a church by…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… The name Volksrust in Afrikaans means; 'the nation rests' and is attributed to Dorie de Jager, Dirkie Uys' sister. The … products are maize, wool, sorghum,…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… Jupiter cleans the shoes, Hercules rubs down the horses, and Juno lights the fire. Yet [this] is it not done through … as those in Scripture are applied with…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… "The tree of our bitterness has come full leaf: and the fall of our century will carry the foliage away: we watered the root with our white blood and yellow…
Postscript
… by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that has made all the difference. Robert Frost, "The…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and thirty "high traitors" pleaded not guilty to the charge of treason, two and a half years after they…
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… in: (a) the crisis in a number of branches of industry and a sharpening of the general agrarian crisis; (b) the … the bourgeois ruling classes on the native…
National Arts Festival 2017
… an important event on the South African cultural calendar, and the biggest annual celebration of the arts on the African … 130km from Port Elizabeth. The…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Frelimo Central Committee on the death of Samora Machel, 22 October 1986
… the independent Africa. It is a tragedy that has shocked and stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the…
Albert Luthuli`s message to New Age on 25th anniversary of Progressive Press, 22 March 1962
… Congratulations to New Age and its predecessors. Twenty-five years of uninterrupted … of any country. It is even more so in the case of New Age and its…
Message to Frelimo Central Committee on the Death of Samora Machel by O. R. Tambo, 22 October 1986
… the independent Africa. It is a tragedy that has shocked and stunned progressive mankind. It is a staggering blow to African people and especially to the…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… Polokwane means:'place of safety' and is quite appropriate as it protects the Cape Vulture! … mostly found in two regions: North West/ Limpopo Provinces and…
EventMK hero cadre Solomon Kalushi (Khala) Mahlangu is executed
… African National Congress (ANC) members to smuggle weapons and literature into the country. Mahlangu had joined the ANC in September 1976, and left the…
EventThemba Sono is expelled from SASO
… SASO. The address sharply conflicted with the very radical and non-pragmatic position of "no-contact" with 'White liberals' and separate development…
EventIngrid Jonker, SA poet, commits suicide.
… internationally, with her poems being studied, translated and published in many languages including English, German, French, Dutch, Polish, Hindi and Zulu…
EventPAC’s leader, Potlako Leballo confirms that Poqo is the organisation’s military wing
… confirmed in Maseru, Basutoland (now Lesotho), that Poqo and the PAC are one and the same organisation. Leballo went further to say that … revolutionary…
XIII - The Courts
… a monopoly of the right to sanction the use of force, and they speak in the name of the sovereign, usually on … to define . . . The actual effects of the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the South African Chamber of Business Banquet Johannesburg, 30 August 1994
… Chairperson, Ladies and Gentlemen It is a pleasure to find myself tonight in the … assume that your affairs are beginning to prosper, and I am delighted that…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… One of South Africa’s oldest Towns and Naval base is Simon's Town which is sometimes spelled: 'Simonstown'. Simon’s Town is a very picturesque and Historical…
Search for a United Front against racism
… Mr. Naidoo if that this conviction has grown deeper and deeper during the time he had spent in jail. The people … but is a deliberate move to limit the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Search for a United Front against racism
… Mr. Naidoo if that this conviction has grown deeper and deeper during the time he had spent in jail. The people … but is a deliberate move to limit the…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 15 September 1970 during the Prime Minister’s Vote
… Republic's policy in respect of the Black states in Africa and the arms sales to the Republic. In a particularly effective manner, clearly and unambiguously…