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ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… Introduction In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take … to the UN on the…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… Introduction Reflecting on her past years of imprisonment in 2012, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela stated “I … this horrifying imprisonment experience…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… ANC has held many national conferences in its history. One of these was the 1949 Conference, which was held here in … was the brainchild of the ANC Youth…
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…
31. Cape traders protest against the Hawkers’ Licences Act
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Act 35 of 1906, which dealt with hawkers'…
EventSA raises concern with the Dutch government
… its ambassador to The Hague to inform the Dutch government of its displeasure over a grant of 100,000 guilders being made to the Defence and Aid Fund for…
ArchiveAdministration Board for the Cape Midlands: Tenders: Contract 9G
… for the design and supply, delivery and installation of Mechanical and Electrical plant and equipment for sewage treatment plant at Glenmore, a town which…
ArchiveApartheid hurts: Trocaire
… Black and white photograph of a black man being manhandled by a white soldier with a gun. Title in red …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
… The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle … with ‘self-government’ and, in some cases, ‘independence’ being granted…
ArchiveCoal not dole!: an exclusive interview with a British miner
… This would mean about 1 500 to 2 000 per week is being produced, compared to a normal production of about 15 000 to 20 000 tons. … Federation of South…
Conquest: 1600s-1800s
… insisted that we had been appropriating more and more of their land which had been theirs all these centuries... … they went to Holland, and they added: 'It…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use of pottery and…
EventPeter Becker dies
… Peter Loubser Were Becker, writer of several popular historicl books on African people and their customs, died instantly after being hit by a car outside…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2016 submissions
… without Borders and travel the world. Project: Biography of Can Themba Tate Allen Tate Allen is a freshman at SMU from the suburbs of North Shore Boston. He…
ArticleArmed Struggle, the anti-apartheid struggle accelerates 1984-1990
… riots broke out in the Transvaal and spread to other parts of the country. These riots continued until 1986, when the … South Africans to make the country…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a peaceful solution to the problem of…
EventPresident Mandela warns disgruntled former Umkhonto we Sizwe combatants
… The newly elected President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela warned disgruntled former … (MK) combatants, who took leave without permission…
ArticleTrevor Andrew Manuel and Economic Freedom Fighters - High Court of South Africa - Gauteng Local Division - Johannesburg
… REPUBLIC OF SOUTH AFRICA IN THE HIGH COURT OF SOUTH AFRICA GAUTENG LOCAL DIVISION, JOHANNESBURG CASE NO: … senior adviser to Rothschild South Africa (in…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… finding resolution, but there must be a new way of representing difference that does not entail the violence … recognise that a conscious “divide and rule”…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… died from the Asia flu leaving him orphaned at the age of two. He was then taken care of by friends and family before being given to a Methodist couple who…
ArchiveFinal Schlebusch report on NUSAS
… General circular from the president of the National Union of South African Students, speculating on the final report of … the report. Because of the…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… so well-written and because he brings to it the insights of a historian and social scientist. Author of major book on the foundation of South Africa’s cheap …
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into … were active, including Dr Goolam Gool and Max Gordon—Gool being a future leader of…
EventNew Afrikaner Political Party
… Delegates at the summit of the Afrikaner Unity Movement (AUM), held in Pretoria, … Although the new party drew support from a number of leading Afrikaner…
EventRev Allan Hendrikse and 150 Supporters Swim at a Whites Only Beach in Port Elizabeth.
… his disagreement with the government publicly despite being part of P W Botha's cabinet, swimed at a "Whites-only" beach in … Defiant Mayor Opposes Whites…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in … early 1970s. He served six years on Robben Island after being found guilty…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… This prompted opposition parties to oppose this provision of the Internal Security Act. Sections 19(1) and 20 dealt with the banning of people, including…
EventThree IFP leaders resign
… leaders, Frank Mdlalose, national chairperson and premier of Kwazulu-Natal province, Ziba Jiyane, Secretary-General and … resigned from the party. All three…
EventJoyce Kgoali dies
… The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Joyce Kgoali, passed away following … was MEC for Public Works and Transport in Gauteng before…