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Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… At the beginning of february 1993 it became apparent that most role-players … for a new constitutional order. It was in effect a peace treaty that sought to…
PlaceSomalia
… most Country on mainland Africa, situated at the tip of the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator … Hassan’s forces. Consequently, Hassan…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… during this period ensured that obstacles in the way of substantive negotiation were removed. The Groote Schuur … plummeted and hundreds emigrated. There was…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of problems, a whole succession of … became unavoidable and,…
Mission Stations - T-Z
… ourselves face to face with a gentleman about thirty years of age, with a long light beard. He looked at us at first … the following: "Thaba Bossiou…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
… pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of View." This document was drawn up…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. … From Cradock to Pietersburg, from…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… for the farm labourer who today ploughs the bitter furrow of misery. One pound a day for the builder of mansions who lives in a shack. . . . A minimum wage…
PlaceChad
… country in Africa [i] . Chad is estimated to be one of the areas for where the human species originated [ii] . … has a long and complicated history. It was a…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… pages the reader will find what has been termed " Bill of Rights " and " The Atlantic Charter from the African’s Point of View ". This document was drawn up…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC … its charge and…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… SCENE We are living today. Sons and Daughters of the Soil, fighters in the cause of African freedom, in an era that is pregnant with untold … for the German…
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885 Signed by the representatives of the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium,…
ANC Today Volume 10 No.1, 15 - 21 January 2010
… 1912, the ANC has dedicated itself to the historic mission of uniting our people in the struggle for the liberation of the oppressed black majority in…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… Minister described and analysed the political dispensation of the day in an exemplary fashion. It was his first public appearance following the announcement…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
BiographyCharles Robberts (Blackie) Swart
… 1894 in Morgenzon, Winburg district. He was the son of Hermanus Bernardus Swart and Aletta Catharina Swart (nee … held in the concentration camp at Winburg…
BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - … evaporated. This reflected itself partly in a rise of strike action, from the low…
Vella Pillay
… This is a short autobiography of Vella Pillay written for his 80th birthday party held on … House, Highgate, London. Vella Pillay was born on the 8th of…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyGraça Simbine Machel
… October 1945, in Gaza, Mozambique , the last in a family of six children. Her father, a Methodist minister who had … 1975, she married Samora Machel , the…
BiographyTito Mboweni
… high school, Tito Mboweni attended the University of the North in Transvaal between 1979 and 1980, where he was registered for a Bachelor of Commerce degree…
BiographyShaka Zulu
… was a great Zulu king and conqueror. He lived in an area of south-east Africa between the Drakensberg and the Indian … in a Zulu kingdom which survived not…