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EventAnti apartheid activist Dr. Richard Turner is assassinated
… January 1978 when he was shot through a window of his home in Durban and died in the arms of his 13-year old daughter, Jann. After a … assassinated by the…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… for Human Rights was born on 23 September 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University of Natal where she graduated with BA in 1963 and with an LLB…
Bibliographical Data
… In the preparation of the introductory essays in this volume, heavy reliance has been placed on the … material of the South African Institute of Race…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… service to humanity of a man who left an indelible mark in our lives and our history, Chief Albert John Mvumbi … the congress movement. He made himself…
ADDRESS AT A DINNER HOSTED BY THE FEDERATION OF INDIAN CHAMBERS OF COMMERCE (FICCI), CONFEDERATION OF INDIAN INDUSTRIES (CII), AND JOINT BUSINESS COUNCILS (JBC) Delhi, 26 January 1995
… stood, over so many decades, with the Government of India in opposition to the injustices of apartheid. By choosing to … last to address the needs of the…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
… Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Stephen Bantu Biko was born in King William's Town, in the Cape Province of South Africa, in 1946. After matriculating he went…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… Minister's Koffiefontein speech is very well-known and in a certain sense also an interesting speech. Adv. Vorster … this opportunity to reply to numerous…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… In 1942, shortly before Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi launched the Quit India Movement, I was present in Sevagram as a six-and-a-half-year-old child. My…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
… Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades Today, the 8th January, your … the African National Congress, is 72 years old. In keeping…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
… The history of broadcasting in South Africa can be traced back to 1923, when the first wireless broadcast was made in Johannesburg. By April 1927, an hour of…
PlaceOld Locomotive “Emil Kessler”, Johannesburg
… tonnes and was manufactured by Emil Kessler of Esslingen in Germany. It was brought from the coast by ox-wagons and was unloaded piece by piece in the open…
EventInauguration ceremony of the South African College School (SACS) takes place
… Kerk, giving impetus to the formation of the first school in Cape Town. The idea of establishing SACS was born in 1791 when the Dutch Commissioner-General,…
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… of 100 acres of land and was purchased by Gandhiji in 1904. It was on this Settlement that Gandhi started his … and truth. Gandhi started his first…
PlaceCathcart District, Eastern Cape
… The District of Cathcart was created in January 1877, and it was raised to a fiscal divisional on … livestock normally had to be moved to alternative grazing…
PlaceConstantia
… of a Mansion, 'owned by Deputy Minister- Paul Mashatile , in Constantia. (Link in Further Reading .) The Former estate in the magisterial district of Wynberg…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… a problem since the first contact between white and black in the East of the Gape Province in the last quarter of eighteenth century. War after war took ……
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have shown in The Eye of the Needle that a participatory socialist democracy is not impossible, in the sense that …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
… to the financial and other economic developments in our country. As a person at my age should know, a 75th … on the happy and sad moments of life;moments…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African National … a man really has only…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the President General of the African National … a man really has only…
EventGideon Nieuwoudt dies
… Location: back to this day in history search archive Gideon Nieuwoudt a former … apartheid-era security police colonel, who was involved in the murder of…
EventLord Alfred Milner, British Colonial Secretary, and architect of the Union of South Africa dies
… Lord Alfred Milner, a career diplomat in the British Foreign Office in the late 19th century and early 20th century died in Canterbury, England. Milner came…
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
… to compel such client States actively to participate in campaigns aimed at our destruction and the destruction of the faith of our oppressed and…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… and economic progress by the people of the whole world. We in South Africa are part of the zone in which national liberation is the chief content of the ……
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… by the second Round Table Conference, held at Cape Town in January and February 1932. The South African Indian Congress decided to participate in an enquiry…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… People Between 1886 and 1914 people continued to arrive in a steady stream. From 1914, the population of newcomers to … many of the settlers on the Rand had…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… by the realities of powerlessness. Under Apartheid in South Africa, Black workers and their families suffer … degree unknown by their White working-class…
Die Eerste Vryswartes Van Stellenbosch - 1679-1720 by Prof. J.L. Hattingh, University of the Western Cape, Bellville, 1981
… BLACKS OF STELLENBOSCH - 1679-1720 3. Louis of Bengal In 1684 Louis of Bengal (another colourful character amongst the free blacks) also went in search…