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EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… Mbeki asserted the view that HIV was not the sole cause of AIDS and this viewpoint affected the South African … Mbeki espoused the view that AIDS was linked…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… Bandawe mission station in Nyasaland, now Malawi . After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future leadership we must seek. In the normal course of … the Zuma rape trial (with the only…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Glossary
… expected to obey all authority and rules, even though some of these rules and regulations may be unfair and cause the loss of personal freedom. Clergy…
O. R. Tambo Interview with Mayibuye on the Current Situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in General 1984
… Question: At the end of August, the regime conducted its "elections" to the … to do. They are not really going ahead. They are simply being controlled by…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye on the current situation in South Africa and Southern Africa in general, 01 March 1984
… Question : At the end of August, the regime conducted its "elections" to the … to do. They are not really going ahead. They are simply being controlled by…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Many welcomed the coup, celebrating in the streets of Bujumbura, but it’s far from clear who (if anyone) … to run for a third term in office, in apparent…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… and “Rivonia” trials, to mention the most prominent of these, were among the most destructive assaults on the … could be taken against anyone for activities…
The First Slaves at the Cape
… in her hold. These slaves constituted the first shipment of slaves to arrive at the Cape, yet although the Amersfoort was the first ship to bring a whole…
Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, December 1964
… December 23rd, Mr. Z.B. Molete, Publicity Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress, is reported to have said that there are talks being held between the ANC…
PlaceAlfred Nzo District Municipality, Kwa-Zulu Natal/Eastern Cape
… District in the Alfred Nzo Municipality, of which Harding is the principal Town. Encircled by Mount … and Bizana. It was named after Prince Alfred , son of…
PlaceObservatory
… Observatory was a residential suburb of Cape Town , and derived its name from the Royal … quirky restaurants, easy-going bars, live music and lots of hippies…
19. Lawrence asks for exemption from discriminatory laws
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … imposed disabilities upon Indians as a group, regardless of…
PlaceBurkina Faso
… Faso, previously known as Upper Volta, was once part of French West Africa since 1896 until 1960. The first people … Tenkodogo, and Yatenga. These kingdoms…
ArticleSecond Anglo-Boer War - 1899 - 1902
… It was an event that in many ways shaped the history of 20th Century South Africa. The end of the war marked the end of the long process of British … the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… 2 000 and 1 700 years ago This topic focuses on the life of the first farmers of southern Africa and the ways we can find out about them. … an early age and…
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The … text below include; the conflicting political ideologies of imperialism and…
EventTRC gathers evidence against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela
… against Winnie Madikizela-Mandela, estranged ex-wife of former president, Nelson Mandela. Despite the fact that … she continued to gain wide support within…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… Germany's occupation of Namibia was accomplished through military conquest of the numerous groups in the region, with the Khoikhoi being among the last to be…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Radio Freedom, 01 April 1981
… Buthelezi was making about his nephew who is allegedly being held by the ANC.] It is a lot of noise but I do not know if it is damaging to the African ……
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa - Timeline
… 2009 February 2009, the University of Limpopo in Limpopo Province experienced student protests … Student Financial Aid schemes (NSFAS) support, quality of…
ArticlePublic Protest in Democratic South Africa
… laws or land distribution has become integral part of the society, particularly from 2004 as generally … country’s democracy was 10 years old. The second…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep … by the Mining Commissioner and the District Surgeon. This body did not…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… and London at Lenin's request and was made a member of the party's central committee in 1912. With Lenin's … in 1917, Stalin rose to become the first General…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… is an attempt to work out what seems to me to be some of the implications of the concept "Black Power". It covers a … underlying it and the behavior patterns…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… and 1978; and nominated an Amnesty International "Prisoner of Conscience" during this period. He was denied a passport … 1986 when he was issued with a…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… 1 November 1958 in Esperanza, a village on the south coast of Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal – KZN), on the eastern seaboard of South Africa. The second of four…
George Bizos: Interview with Rupert Taylor and Aubrey Lekwane, 16 February 1998, Legal Resources Centre, Johannesburg
… I see you’ve got Steve’s book there (Taylor has a copy of Ellman’s book In a Time of Trouble). Taylor: Yeah, and … the role of various NGO’s; LRC (Legal…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… knows about apartheid. They know that it was a system of racial discrimination that segregated the people of South … gap with his older siblings, his closest…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the … Although this was one motivation for the establishment of the Organisation of…