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ArchiveTerrorist car bombs : Public awareness chart 6
… Four coloured blocks. Block one shows car being blown up. Block two shows bus being blown up. Block three shows underside of car where bombs may be placed…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… shall have seen a letter I send to the Communist League of America Opposition. Quite a lot has happened in the communist party of South Africa, private…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in South Africa sixteen years before the official start of apartheid. In 1960 she was exiled from South Africa. She … South Africa on 4 March 1932. She was…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … demands. January13, Gokhale wrote to…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both … that 132 members…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, … Smuts. At the same time certain anti-Indian…
EventYouth has been burnt to death in Mahwelereng Township
… Mr Ronnie Molifi was stabbed and burnt to death by a group of youth in the Mahwelereng Township in Limpopo province. He was accused of being a man who was…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP) … the same time an assertion of our…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of the Liliesleaf farm -house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter … making ready to receive our returning…
NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION RESPONDS TO REPORT IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 3 March 2001 The followng letter has been sent to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in London in response to an article published in that newspaper today 3 March 2001.
… March 2001 The followng letter has been sent to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in London in response to an article …
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and … in schools offers compelling reasons for the teaching of these disciplines to be…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY … had broken down. Where all the other people in your cell being arrested when you were…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… On 3 March 1999, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela , announced to the National … a reasonable economic policy. The health system…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in … became known as Swede Wessels when…
ArticleThe House in session
… houses sat for the first time on 1984. While the House of Assembly, the White parliament, went about its business as … MPs, the other two houses embarked on…
PlaceAlkmaar, a Town Near Nelspruit
… in South Africa is a perfect location for Game-viewing being on the Crocodile River and so near the Kruger National Park. There is also the benefit of being…
ArticleSilverton Siege
… near Mamelodi. En route, ‘the Trio’ realised they were being tailed by the police. In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch of Volkskas Bank in…
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, Rev. William Barnett issued a statement … deaths in detention and the imprisonment and…
EventBBC reports demonstrations at a game ranch in SA
… BBC News reported that hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen baby elephants from…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… recognise South African citizens who embody principles of Integrity, Passion, Patriotism and Humility. 2018 marks the centenary of the first democratically…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long … European slaver traders arrived…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to prevent the isolation of our various day-to-day individual and…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… Question : Mr. Tambo, you have just completed a tour of some African countries; what was the aim of this tour and … the struggle of an important contribution…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent accounts of the event suggest that the SSRC was motivated and guided by underground networks of the African…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … constitutional dispensation, which envisaged the creation of…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views was towards a more more Africanist approach. … means to suppress the liberation struggle…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the … Mandela. It is, however, unlikely that most would think of the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto weSizwe ("Spear of the…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… to impose a working structure on a proposed new series of images which would take the photographer right across the … Goldblatt bought a Global Positioning…