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When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American … It stated the bearer was a British national and a…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known by the name … races, the British and…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that I got to work with him. It was on a special edition of Transformation focusing on the ‘ varieties of capitalism ’ approach. [i] We became good friends…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… compromise proposal it had tabled in the closing moments of CODESA II. This was followed by a National Policy … dropping its demand to give minority parties…
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A new and younger set of persons, impatient with…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
… The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the … that people who were living there had to be given…
EventEditors oppose legislation on media control
… Newspaper proprietors and editors of all the main South African newspapers, both English and … operate under state authority and administer a strict code of…
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833 was passed by the British House of Commons and by the House of Lords. Although the Bill…
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… as a lawyer after completing his studies at the University of Stellenbosch. Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB)…
EventThe Johannesburg Stock Exchange is established
… is established in Johannesburg to facilitate the explosion of trade sparked by the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand. The discovery of gold in 1886 … to…
EventBomb meant for Kangaroo Court judge, May Ledwaba kills sleeping William Ledwaba
… In evidence furnished before the Amnesty Commission of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, policemen Eric … revealed that May Ledwaba (Squish) had been…
EventIFP agrees to participate in 1994 elections
… counter demands from political parties on a wide variety of issues. The African National Congress (ANC), Inkatha … 26 to 28 April 1994. There had been a…
PlaceSomalia
… most Country on mainland Africa, situated at the tip of the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the … implemented in Somalia by strongly…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … he declared, was not interested in the 'glittering chains of…
The Legal Veneer
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The apartheid … world, were always packaged in…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… and unlawful conduct displayed by the DA since the start of this election campaign as well as the many revelations, … so-called the Cape Town Story`, bear…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … following morning they were taken to…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… I am deeply grateful to the members of the Christopher Gell Memorial Award Committee for giving … to participate so prominently in the remembrance of his…
PlaceSea Point
… years prior to European settlement, Sea Point formed part of the Gorachoqua and Goringhaiqua grazing paths, which … Sea Point was later so named in 1776 when…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… History of Cato Manor Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known…
South African and World leaders
… Africa, each with their own stories and background. All of these have produced amazing leaders who have been … to the people, history and country as it is…
EventKhulane Morule, the Motswako rapper is born
… series Rhythm City in 2010.[vii] He has been the opening act of many internationally renowned hip hop artists along the lines of Drake,[viii] Big Sean and…
The Pioneers
… The artworks presented in this section of the exhibition had their historical beginnings in the … domestic or tribal life, or the customs of South African…
EventBeyers Naudé is served with his second banning order
… into a family that was fully committed to the preservation of Afrikaner nationalism. His father was a minister of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) and was a…
EventOn 17th November 1921 Professor Richard van der Ross was born in Plumstead, Cape Town
… completed his higher education diploma at the University of Cape Town (UCT) in 1940 and became a teacher at the Karoo … in 1946. In 1952 he was appointed as…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… activist Sister Bernard Ncub e died at the age of 80. She was a practicing Roman Catholic nun and was … activism and was outspoken about the human rights…
Post-detention weapons
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen … in the following HRC documents:…
EventThami Mazwai, former journalist and anti-apartheid activist, is jailed for two years
… a former fellow student-leader charged under the Terrorism Act. At the time Mazwai was a journalist with the Sowetan. In … Party government was determined to…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… artistic and intellectual sub-cultures to meet. The aim of the society was “to perform European drama from time to … operatic art”. In doing so, the society…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… On 19 November 1970 the head of the Bureau of State Security (BOSS) General H. Van Den Bergh,, briefly … in South Africa, in particular the General Law…