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ArchiveA critical look at the role of the Muslim Judicial Council in the struggle for liberation in South Africa from 1960 to 1994
… An extended research paper presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for B.A.(Honours) Degree in History at the University of Cape Town. The aim of…
PlaceHoly Cross Mission & Hospital, Eastern Cape
… The Hospital provides services to the Flagstaff area, part of Lusikisiki and Bizana with a Population of about 18,000. Holy Cross Hospital is a Provincial …
Covert operations
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has … do 3 things: •…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the … the ANC in Polokwane, Limpopo. 4 March…
ArchiveFighting out of darkness or moving gradually towards the light? presidential Address to the Black Sash National Conference held at Grahamstown, 1990
… held at Grahamstown on 2 March 1990, discussing: Release of Mandela, FW De Klerk and reform, end of Apartheid, ANC, Bill of Rights, Constitution. … Fighting…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … synthesis.” [41] An example of Makhanda in…
ArchiveTelegram from J van Dalsen, Director-General, Foreign Affairs and Information, South Africa, to His Excellency, Col Sergio Vieira, Minister of Agriculture, Mozambique
… Telegram from the Department of Foreign Affairs and Information, South Africa, to the Minister of Agriculture, Mozambique, reporting that in light of…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… since the Second World War came to an end with the defeat of Nazi Germany and her allies. In this period many of the wounds inflicted during that holocaust…
EventGen. J.B.M. Hertzog is forced to resign as premier after his motion of neutrality in World War II is defeated in parliament
… Forces in World War Two was a contentious one on behalf of the South African government. This is because within the … premier, after which General Smuts…
EventNigeria cuts its diplomatic missions
… economic decline. The cut came after the military regime of Buhari, which took power from a civilian government, introduced emergency economic reforms. By…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 21 September, Volume 9 and Volume 10
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Sophie Topsie Tema and Sam Nzima, to the Commission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in…
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a … to Bloemhof, a nearby town, following the Great…
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BiographyMatsie Angelina Motshekga [Angie Motshekga]
… Boarding School. Motshekga later studied at the University of the North, now known as the University of Limpopo, where she obtained a Bachelor of Arts degree…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 2: Sources of the Cape Khoekhoe and Kora records Vocabularies, Language Data and Texts by Menán du Plessis
… ia a chapter from the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis … Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 2:…
Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month after her son was killed in an accident.
… Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley West, a month … Maria Visser (68), mother of SA singer Worsie Visser, dies in Barkley…
EventLocal elections receive go
… An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, … by the Constitutional Court, necessitating the holding of elections before December, 1995…
ArchiveThe Role of the Black Sash (Port Elizabeth Branch) in the Walmer Removals and Pebco Detentions: Paper Presented at National Conference 1980
… The Role of the Black Sash (Port Elizabeth Branch) in the Walmer … The Role of the Black Sash (Port Elizabeth Branch) in the Walmer …
Article1973 Durban Strikes Conference , 26-28 January 2023 - Celebrating 50 Years
… January 8, 2023, will mark the 50th anniversary of the 1973 Durban Strikes and the emergence of a new wave of independent non-racial trade unions. This was…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that I got to work with him. It was on a special edition of Transformation focusing on the ‘ varieties of capitalism ’ … emerged after some decades of…
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… South Africa History Online has embarked, with the support of the NIHSS, on researching the role of the arts under … the archive as well as personal stories,…
EventInternational Labour Organisation excludes South Africa from its two-day meeting
… In a two-day meeting to discuss emergency measures against South Africa and the problems its membership poses, the governing body of the International Labour…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… We are currently in Moscow as a delegation of the African National Congress which is here to hold … our region to achieve these objectives. We would like to…
EventThe government launches ‘Operation Iron Fist’ in townships
… At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held a series of meetings to discuss means of quelling the unrest…
ArchiveAfrica South Vol.5 No.1 Oct-Dec 1960
… CONTENTS The Heart of Darkness. Cartoon, Papas. The Pondoland Massacre, Dennis Kiley. Cartoon, Gask. South Africa’s Emergency, Alan Rake. Pretoria Central…
ArticleDevelopments leading to the New Dispensation
… By the late 1970s, and especially as a result of the June 1976 uprising , the Apartheid government was … people took up residence in formerly White areas,…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the … direct and indirect involvement of the NP government, the state…
ArchiveClass and Ethnicity: The Politics and Ideologies of the Greek Community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924 by Evangelos Anastasios Mantzaris
… Class and Ethnicity: The Politics and Ideologies of the Greek Community in South Africa, circa 1890-1924 by …
Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) shipping network in Asia by Robert Parthesius
… Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The Development of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) Shipping Network in … Dutch Ships in Tropical Waters: The development…
ArchiveTheoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.68 1986: literature in South Africa today, Special issue
… Theoria: a journal of studies in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences No.68 …
The South African Teacher Who Turned Her Home into a Sanctuary of Color and Light By Alexxa Gotthardt, 13 June 2018, Artsy
… In the remote South African town of Nieu-Bethesda, a mystical garden rises from a dusty, mostly deserted road. There, a jubilant procession of human-scale…