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ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in … [1] The vow was taken in a situation of extreme emergency. The…
Documents, and articles relating to the Sharpeville Massacre 1960
… you that I deeply appreciate your decision in terms of which eight fellow-prisoners were freed on 15 October … How does one work for reconciliation and peace…
ArchiveNUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane Geremane. presidente oa NUM le oa com ba hlalosa tsa leeto la bona (article written in Sotho language)
… National Union of Mineworkers … NUM le Chamber of Mines li ne li nkile leeto mmoho ho ea ithuta ho hong mane …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 2000-2014
… National Aids Council (SANAC) to review its two years of work against HIV/AIDS being under the leadership of Deputy … the US threats to invade Iraq. 26…
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
… with the government, and the Colony granted freedom of the press, that the newspaper became free from government …
BiographyBheki Cele
… months old his mother passed away, leaving him in the care of his father. His father, a senior “Induna” (Chief) at the … Bheki was in high school [2] . He…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… over the negotiation process. During the two days of discussion the mechanism and technicalities of transition … control of the security forces, the…
EventApartheid leader P. W. Botha Resigns
… to resign the National Party presidency while remaining State President. His resignation shocks his colleagues and … process in the party that culminates in…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… Front was not the ANC's, whatever the prescience of the 1978-1979 strategic review, the ANC wasted no time in … commitment to democracy, to non-racialism and…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … came not in the form of civil…
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
… the cultural movement that had its dynamism emerging out of the labour movement dissipated and collapsed. It starts from the RDP Play produced by some of the…
ArticleANC Origins and Background
… National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912 as a result of many grievances. This included black dissatisfaction with the South Africa Act of 1910 that…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… OUR LAND AND JOBS NOW! PEOPLES’ MANIFESTO AND A PLAN OF ACTION FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF … optimally use government ownership and…
EventNP demands apology from TRC
… from chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the resignation of vice-chairman Dr. Alex Boraine who had also publicly criticised Former State President F. W. De…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… for Ruth First, after she was assassinated on the streets of Maputo by South African agents, Ronald Segal, another … of business, and from the corporate…
EventJacobus Johannes (Jim) Fouché is born in Wepener in the OFS.
… 1989, Jacobus Johannes Fouche was born in the Orange Free State (OFS) of South Africa. Fouche was elected as the second Sstate … Fouche was initially a…
EventSouth Africa will subscribe to the UDHR
… SA's newly inaugurated state president, Nelson Mandela, announced in his first State of the Nation Address to Parliament that South Africa will … O’Malley, …
Chapter III - The world outside
… in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive legislation. Sadistic … feature, obviating any need for the declaration of a…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
… communist society in which there is a collective ownership of the means of production [1] . The goal of communism is to … reforms in Russia such as the…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons reached its height with the outbreak of … related to nuclear weapons. A superpower is…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other Zulu wars and forced migrations from the … break-up of the Ndwandwe kingdom and…
PlaceKwaMashu
… The development of KwaMashu Township, in the KwaZulu-Natal province and located some 19km north of Durban , resulted from the mass resettlement of the slum …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… the question about the role played by the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA/SACP) in shaping SA’s culture of liberation. This issue has been under…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… Land and labour are two very important elements of the economic development of a society, and the way they … controlled by the British, and the Transvaal and…
ArticleSouth Africa Cabinet Members 2014
… military Veterans Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula Kebby Maphatsoe State security David Mahlobo Ellen Molekane Police Nkosinathi …
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we … of an illegal organisation and conspiring…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… 22 June 1946 — The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be … 1952 — The UN creates a task…
EventWinkie Direko is born
… Isabella Winkie Direko, former teacher, winner of the Bloemfonteiner of the Year Award in 1993 and Premier of the Free State since 17 June 1999, was born in…
EventSouth African Prime Minister, John Vorster resigns
… by announcing his resignation from office, at the request of his colleagues, on the grounds of ill health. … Surprisingly, he was available to fill the…