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EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… Following the outbreak of pandemonium in South Africa and the use of violence by security forces in dealing with the issues in … of the International Labour…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… But he appears to have found a new recruit in the ranks of the African National Congress. A correspondent who was … and self-reliance. Even in the political…
BiographyDieter 'Felix' Gerhardt
… Naval Academy in Saldanha Bay in 1956, winning the Sword of Honour. In 1962 he attended a Royal Navy mine school in … continue his career in the South…
BiographyNarriman Gadija Bazier Samuels
… G" throughout Mitchells Plain , grew up during the height of apartheid in South Africa. While her exact birthdate and … in available sources, she was 60…
BiographyLetlapa Mphahlele
… Limpopo) to Radikubu and Nkone. He grew up in the village of Manaleng in Northern Transvaal. He attended Rosenkrantz … and his cousin Moses started a student…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
… however, this changed once he was introduced to a number of African writers who ignited his passion for literature. … It was at this time that Chakela…
EventJohn Harris and the Johannesburg station bomb
… evening rush hours. The explosion resulted in the death of one person and severe injuries to more than twenty others, … Ms Vogel was severely injured with…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … been groaning in pain when the three SADF found…
EventAnother death in police custody
… bruising and swollen face upon identifying the victim's body. The police claimed that he died during interrogation. … A Crime Against Humanity: analysing the…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … a fee of one pound is required from each person not being able…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
… and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their decision was final, and there was no appeal … a fee of one pound is required from…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… The University of the Witwatersrand is the 1st picture in the Banner! With … Excellence , and with Political and Civic Activism . Being surrounded by Mines…
EventInternational Labour Organisation (ILO) suspends South Africa
… The governing body of the International Labour Organisation (ILO) voted in favour of suspending South Africa from participation in its Annual … Southern…
Comments and Observations on Proposals for a United Nations Security Council Resolution on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, 1963
… General (1) The Security Council is at present seized of the question of apartheid, following its resolution of … in South Africa. (3) The Security…
ArchiveSave Your Son: Dont Vote
… A2 red on white silkscreen; graphic crossed guns and dead body; text: UDF sticker on top; Text: Save your son; …
EventThe Kenya-Uganda railway is completed
… ambitious infrastructure at its inception with the cost of the project causing most of the controversy. The railway was built by the British East … in 1901…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … same pen into the hair of the person whose…
ArchiveFrank Talk
… first published in March 1984, as the official publication of the Natal Region of AZAPO, the Azanian Peoples Organisation, was later … by an Editorial…
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… On 31 May, Constable S.H. Mandlazi was attacked by a crowd of people armed with spades at the Ackerville cemetery while he was attending the funeral of a…
Chapter 12
… Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards … National Ant-Pass Campaign The idea of starting a special body for an…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were being tailed by the police. They hold 25 civilians hostage…
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… Zimbambe district, about 60km from Harare. He was the son of Gabriel Matibili, a migrant worker from Nyasaland (Malawi) … the same time, Robert’s oldest…
EventPLAN launches armed struggle against South Africa
… On 26 August 1966, the People’s Liberation Army of Namibia (PLAN), the armed wing of SWAPO, fought in a battle against South African occupying … A Chief who…
ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… The cornerstone of the Group Areas Act of 1950 was to prevent interracial contact ‘as far as … defined as ‘White’, ‘Native’ or ‘Coloured’, the latter being…
ArchiveI want you to share your bread with the hungry, open your homes to the homeless poor, remove the yoke of injustice, let the oppressed go free
… Bible quote from Isaiah: 58. Artwork of person with a brown loaf and a basket of bread. Catholic Fund for Overseas Development (CAFOD) … open your homes to…
Summary Minutes of a Meeting held at the US Embassy in Cairo on 24 June 1988 between the South African and US delegations to the Cairo talks
… Minutes of a meeting held between South African and US delegates to … reconciliation in Southern Africa and the withdrawal of Cuban troops from Angola in…
From Manenberg to Soweto: Race and Coloured Identity in the Black Consciousness Poetry of James Matthews by Mohamed Adhikari (African Studies, 62, 2, December 2003)
… and Coloured Identity in the Black Consciousness Poetry of James Matthews by Mohamed Adhikari (African Studies, 62, …
Class Consciousness, Non-racialism and Political Pragmatism: A Political Biography of Henry Selby Msimang, 1886 - 1982 by Sibongiseni Mthokozisi Mkhize, January 2015, Johannesburg, South Africa
… and Political Pragmatism: A Political Biography of Henry Selby Msimang, 1886 - 1982 … and Political Pragmatism: A Political Biography of Henry Selby Msimang,…
Critism and Censorship in the South African “Alternative” Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) - by Mario Pissarra
… Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) - by Mario Pissarra …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, Harare, 5 March 1988
… Tambo at the Symposium on the survival and development of children in the frontline states and Southern Africa, …