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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…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister … scene." From Desmond Tutu's speech …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 The State of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to … also began to call for an end to apartheid. In…
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…
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… homes in the neighbourhood. Shareifa Davids, a member of the Heritage Day campaign, was forced to leave her home at … in 1968 and continued for twelve…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… The reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol on Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of his death in October 1971 - John Vorster…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at … her eyes cast off in…
XII - Unanswered Questions
… by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects … roaring with laughter at his quips about…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … the 1994 elections, the Black Sash…
PlaceRissik Street Post Office, Johannesburg
… The correct name of Johannesburg's Old Post Office clock is the "Coronation … next apply to the prevailing authority for the demolition of the Old Post…
EventHelen Nontando Jabavu, author and periodical editor in London, is born in Middeldrift, SA
… in the Eastern Cape into a literary family. From the age of thirteen, she was schooled in England, and continued to live there for many years. She went on to…
Mission Stations - N-S
… available NDALENI , Natal: WMS 1848 NDARALAS , district of Kokstad, Cape: SPG 1900 NDLANKOMO , Transkei, Cape: No … Cape: WMS 1840. The mission was destroyed…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… rightly remarked that Miss Hertzog was the "mother" of this Church. This lady, after the death of her parents, decided to honor their memory in an … manners,…
PlaceZambia
… came four years after the famous speech “The winds of change” by British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan. The Country’s taste of independence emerged ten…
Message by Albert Luthuli, 1 May 1955
… "Prepare for congress of the people" On June 25 and 26, only five weeks from now, … in Kliptown, near Johannesburg, people from all corners of South Africa…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… to a flourishing industrial economy with the development of many new secondary industries in its aftermath. By this … (1991:71) quotes 1940 statistics…
EventSoweto Town council asks SADF troops to stay
… necklacing incidents in Soweto, Johannesburg with people being brutally killed. The Soweto Civic Association demanded … to remain in the Soweto Township as…
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… for decades. Growing up with politics, the daughter of Eli and Violet Weinberg, politics always surrounded Sheila … painting slogans and other activities…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal) drowned when the banks of the Umgeni (uMngeni) River burst after heavy rains. The … would have been much higher if it were…
Dance For All (DFA)
… development programme that functioned under the umbrella of CAPAB Ballet in Cape Town , now known as the Cape Town … College in Gugulethu . Boyd was…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… as active as I was and we enjoyed working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial … in the daily rush of making a living,…
ArchiveMeeting between Minister F W de Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks accompanied by the Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Mr Venancia Da Silva Moura: H F Verwoerd Building, 27 April 19
… Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks …
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
… the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was later…
PlaceDistrict Six Museum
… in 1989, and in 1994, the District Six Museum came into being. This museum was established to commemorate and … the Museum has also become a space for…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into … Naturally we had little faith in his success. But he being a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were … saying that they had evidence of forged…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … with nearly 16 percent of the total white population being…
INDIAN SOUTH AFRICANS - A brief history
… that had been brought to the Cape in the second half of the seventeenth century, it was only after the 1860s that … Africa had a relatively large Indian…
15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important … and economic. During the Cold War, South Africa was of strategic importance in the…