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Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
PlaceSecunda
Built in the 1970s/80's for Sasol's second and third CTL plants, its name means: "second" in Latin, referring to its status as the second refinery after…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in rivalry with the British Empire, especially in Asia, and sought to…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source Introduction Like communism in Russia, American capitalism…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
0n this occasion the Prime Minister directed a special word to the youth of the Republic and pointed to the great responsibility that rested on it. Adv…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1654-1899
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1654-1899 1654 Slaves from India and South East Asia are introduced to the Cape. 1820 A number of Indians arrive in…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy being…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
Chairperson and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Professor S Jayakumar, Members of the Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Distinguished Guests, Ladies…
71.The Group Areas Act
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai When the Group Areas Act was passed in 1950, all…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
The new constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
They will answer to God - Ahmed Timol’s brother, News24 in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
Anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol’s younger brother Mohammed on Monday said he believed that the surviving security police, who detained his brother in 1971,…
Statement by Albert Luthuli on the "Sabotage Act", 6 June 1962
The new assault on civil liberties and democracy generally made by the General Law Amendment Bill "the Sabotage Bill" about to become law in the Republic of…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19…
ArchiveThe Way History is taught in South Africa is ahistorical, – and that’s a problem by Natasha Robinson (theconversation.com), 7 June 2018
History may soon be a compulsory school subject until Grade 12 in South Africa. A task team established by the country’s minister of basic education made this…
PlaceRobertson Division
The Division of Robertson was originally part of the district of Tulbagh, whose drostdy was transferred to Worcester in July 1822. It was proclaimed a separate…
ArticleIndentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa by Dr Brij Maharaj
Indentured Indian labourers and their struggle for citizenship in South Africa By Brij Maharaj 15 Nov 2023 Dr Brij Maharaj is an academic…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
1960 21 March, In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding…
ArticleStaffrider magazine (1978-1993)
Introduction Staffrider was a South African literary and arts magazine published by Ravan Press in Johannesburg from 1978 to 1993. It took its name and…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in Johannesburg prior to…
Speech at the Tenth General Conference of the United National Independence Party by O. R. Tambo, Zambia, August 1988
Your Excellency, Comrade President Kenneth Kaunda, President of UNIP and of the Republic of Zambia, Honourable members of the Central Committee of UNIP, …
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that…
ArchiveEulogy at funeral of Dr Mantombazana Tshabalala-Msimang, by Jacob Zuma, 22 December 2009, The Cathedral of Sacred Heart, Pretoria
Comrade Mendi Msimang and the family and relatives, Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe, Ministers, Premiers, Deputy Ministers and MECs, Ministers from…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon of the conference of editors 6 September 1994
Mr. Chairman, Honourable Editors, Distinguished Guests, Allow me to express my heartfelt thanks for the invitation to partake in such a sumptuous meal and…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
Madame Speaker, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Deputy Speaker, Deputy Chairperson and the other Presiding Officers, Chief Justice and…
PlaceConstantia
The other picture of a Mansion, 'owned by Deputy Minister- Paul Mashatile, in Constantia. (Link in Further Reading.)The Former estate in the magisterial…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
For white South Africans the late 1960s was a time of political calm, rising living standards, prosperity and sharing in the sustained economic boom of that…
A Tale of Political Conspiracy and Incomprehensible Judicial Imaginings by Thabo Mbeki, 15 February 2016
On 12 September 2008, Justice Chris Nicholson, Judge in the then Natal Provincial Division of the High Court of South Africa, granted the order that: “It is…