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ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… Richard Turner inspired students who used the integration of Christian ethics and Marxist theory to demonstrate how the … shaped by these new ideas…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa. This … while black people experienced more and…
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
… as it related to social policy in the transition era of the 1990’s, focused on the case of health care. It offers an explanation for the displacement of the…
EventThe Missing Persons Task Team (MPTT) to Investigate Apartheid Missing Persons Cases
… (MPTT) emerged as a recommendation after the conclusion of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) in 1996 in … Report. The TRC was committed to…
EventMazizi Maqekeza, ANC member, is shot dead whilst in hospital in Maseru, Lesotho
… (ANC) in their armed struggle against the South African state. On 25 February 1988, Maqekeza, Ngona and a University of Lesotho student, Thandwefika Radebe,…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
… The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, Leadership of the … of the JSE?s total market capitalization…
EventGeneral Laws Amendment Bill is passed
… A Bill affecting state security, called the General Laws Amendment Bill, was … parties and severe criticism by the Bar and a number of judges. The Bill…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
… We are academics raised and educated in various parts of the world, and now living and working in South Africa. The … of nationalism, a divisive and…
EventThe Erasmus Commission’s report implicates Rhoodie, Mulder and van den Bergh in SA’s infamous ‘Information Scandal’
… widely regarded as the single event that heralded the end of B. J. Voster 's term as State President of South Africa. In an attempt to deflect … vowed that…
ArchiveANC National Conference, July 1991: Notes for commission on violence
… National Conference in Durban, July 1991. Examines the State strategy, unity and diversity in the ruling class, … for violence and its forms, strengths and…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation:Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa, 1979 - 1996 by Kumi Naidoo
… deals with political resistance amongst South Africans of Indian descent in the city of Durban. The variables of … city and shaped the contours of resistance…
PlaceNigeria
… claim that little is known about the earliest history of Nigeria. By 2000 B.C. most of Nigeria was thinly occupied … 1817, Usuman dan Fodio's son, Muhammad…
EventP.W. Botha resigns from the National Party
… Former leader of the National Party (NP) and head of state, P.W. Botha, … F.W. de Klerk's reform proposals. He had resigned as state president on 14 August…
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 …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1950 - 1959
… 1950 - 1959 1950 January 6-8, The Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) holds its last legal conference in … known as the Suppression of Communism Act May 5…
PlaceGrassy Park, Cape Town
… Grassy Park is one of the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town set on the Cape flats , just east of the M5 and the Princess Vlei , and closest to the suburbs … s:/…
EventThe new RSA Constitution Bill is read in parliament
… The Republic of South Africa Constitution Bill received its third reading. … Indian and Chinese representatives nominated by the State President for a five…
ArticleTswana
… the Nguni and Sotho account for the largest percentage of the total Black population. The major Sotho groups are the … 3 million in South Africa and 1…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote … as their blood-sucking national and international cronies STATE OF…
EventThe Conservative Party decides on talks with National Party and expel a member
… talks with the National Party (NP) on setting up a White state (volkstaat). The caucus expelled a Member of Parliament, Koos van der Merwe, because he did…
EventP.W. Botha appears in court
… Former State President P.W. Botha appeared in court for refusing to … Reconciliation Commission (TRC). The former South African State President appeared at a…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … equal rights and opportunities; that only a democratic state,…
11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … consideration hoping to meet with success. I beg to state that…
EventChris Heunis is appointed acting president
… Chris Heunis, Minister of Constitutional Development and Planning, was appointed Acting State President by President P.W. Botha who was recovering … from the…
Harry Hart, a South African athletics champion is born
… Harry Beltsazer Hart was born in Harrismith, Free State on 2 September 1905. [i] He attended the University of the Free State. [ii] Hart won six medals at…
EventSA Sculptor Thomas Lehupela is born in Thaba ‘Nchu
… born in Paradys Location, Thaba 'Nchu in the Orange Free State (now Free State Province). In 1984 Lehupela met Father Frans Claerhout, who introduced him to…
The National Anthem
… Words This is the official version of the national anthem, combining Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika and Die Stem / The Call of South Africa Nkosi sikelel' iAfrika…
ArticleGrade 10 - Topic 6: The South African War and Union
… investigates the ways in which the politics and culture of the Boer Republics clashed with the modernising thrust of the Uitlanders on the rapidly growing…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was shaped by many forces, both in the general context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ … the apartheid system in the 1980's meant…