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ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… not have my passport. I had insisted that it should be a South African passport. After all said and done I was and am … How one tortures oneself when re…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… Kies Introduction Benjamin Magson Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the … such as the role of intellectuals, the…
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
… feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we walk from … pile of purchases. Then, some years…
BiographyJoão Albasini
… Shangaan people. Through the links he had established in South Africa, the Portuguese government in 1858 appointed him …
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… of Birth: Areas of Woodstock and District six, Cape Town, South Africa Gender: Male In Summary: Activist and ANC … community with a predominantly Coloured…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… Gumede was a respected leader in Black protest politics in South Africa. Gumede lived through an age when the African … a most remarkable and critical period…
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… Our family history in South Africa starts back at the beginning of the last century … to France where there was a shortage of wine after the 2nd World War…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… tackled was that of the status of the Indian community in South Africa. The Appeasers had been prepared to accept a … Up till the time of the Passive…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 12
… For one thing he appealed to them as a man of the world and as a man of affairs. He knew more about the Indian problem in South Africa than any other man in…
Death of a lion of the law, Arthur Chaskalson by Rebecca Davis, 3 December 2012
… who have played so significant and honourable a role in South Africa’s legal sphere. The loss of his incisive mind … that no one else at the Bar could tell…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… Mine. The origins of Wits University lie in the ' South African School of Mines '. This was first established … the Central Block. During the period between…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… the first frontier. In 1659 there was an outbreak of war on this frontier with the Dutch settlers led by another … first the growing English lower middle…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… and so we behold today in the drama of the life of the South African Bantu a slow but sure metamorphosis from a … your absence." The attitude of Christian…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… more space to crime and conviction, and does not tell the world that there are brilliant Africans straining mind and … at Fort Hare in 1937 and a B.Econ. at…
BiographyFrances Rix Ames
… pathology (which was a lie). In April 1980, the then South African Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) exonerated … Association suggested that unless the…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… area extending from the present day Northern Province in South Africa into neighbouring Namibia) in search of the area’s … other sons had all, at one time or…
PlaceWakkerstroom
… "Nestled in the rolling hills and tranquil Valleys of South Africa’s Mpumalanga Province, Wakkerstroom is a hidden gem … old-fashioned atmosphere,…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… the 1940s were ones of profound change in the structure of South African capitalÂism. Although the primary industries … 343 in 1932-33 to 8 614 in 1938 - 39…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A … state, and in pursuance of this objective it:…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… 1993 the Negotiation Planning Conference convened at the World Trade Centre. The conference adopted a resolution … especially the ANC, was severely tested…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… planning council of the African National Congress and the South African Indian Congress resolved to embark upon a mass … state, and in pursuance of this…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… in the name of the millions of the struggling people of South Africa. All of us who live during these times cannot … with regard both to our own continent…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… into the sea. Close down the death factories. End this war now! We also come together today to renew the ties that … of us engaged in the struggle for…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… time, as the democratically elected President of the South African people, is a great honour and I thank you … common interests and our shared aspirations…
PlaceWitbank, Mpumalanga
… area in which more than 20 collieries operate. During the South African War (1899–1902) , the young soldier-journalist Winston … ESKOM vision to "provide the…
Elias Monare
Elias Monare, from ‘Dube Street 1935, Wattville Natives Town, Benoni’ in the Transvaal [now Gauteng], was banished on 25 April 1955 at the age of 31 to ‘Glen…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … are execrated not only in this country but throughout the world. At the same time, though…
PlaceMendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
… In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unknown. In South Africa she is famous; as a symbol of a racist past and … had no experience of the sea… In…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… Secretary for Foreign Affairs has kept us informed about world trends. Against odds, the Publicity and Information … we have supported and encouraged the…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… things began to fall out. It was exciting being back in South Africa even though I knew Pretoria only as the city of … over and again is Osnabruck where the…