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EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… punishment, as provided for under the Criminal Procedure Act, was in conflict with the country's 1994 constitution. … The ruling did not apply, however, to…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… Girls’ College. She then went on to receive a Master of Arts degree from Natal University, which is now the University of KwaZulu-Natal. After earning her…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS: … Department; Ari Sitas: The Publication…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, … cabinet minister Verwoerd met with members of the…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Introduction South Africa has entered its Second Decade of Freedom with the strengthening of democracy and … and the mobilisation of the majority of South…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… Public Protector Thuli Madonsela released a report, State of Capture, after an investigation into influence over organs of the state. The report was only…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his last crumb with a passing stranger. The hospitality of the Afrikaners is famous and they will readily extend it … (Rooineks). I have often found a warm…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Two members of the banned liberation movements, Harry Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng … of the ANC in 1960…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd Anglo Boer War’ (or just shortened to ‘The Boer War’) is one…
Statement on Human Rights Year by Oliver Tambo, 01 June 1968
… For the oppressed people of South Africa the commemoration of the twentieth year of the adoption of the Universal … pass laws and the Departure from the…
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… dominated the organisation. By the 1970s the majority of it members supported PW Botha’s Total Strategy , calling … to become a hugely powerful business…
EventHip Hop Pantsula, the South African rapper is born
… Hip Hop Pantsula first broke onto the music scene as part of the high school friends group Verbal Assassins, who … Sesotho, Setswana and isiZulu.[6] He won…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… never forget what I saw on 9 August 1956 ”” thousands of women standing in silence for a full thirty minutes, arms raised high in the clenched fist of the…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… pretended to be a labourer and investigated the conditions of farm workers in Bethal. He wrote the story 'Bethal Today' … Snyman, on whose farm he had worked…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the Struggle against apartheid, 15 July. … African Publishing Group.|Berger, I., (1992)…
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
… Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household slaves. Without the…
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… power can challenge those who have it, but only if they act together. The lesson was taught by the Durban strikes of 1973; they began a process which shifted…
ArticleResponse to the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising by organisations in exile
… June 16 marks the commemoration of National Youth Day in South Africa. This is the day the country reflects on the massacre of school children during the…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… Democratic Movement merged. Under the combined leadership of Zach de Beer , Denis Worrall and Wynand Malan, the DP won 36 seats in Parliament in the general…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… occasionally trying to play a piano. Project: A biography of Michael Guthrie Scott Elizabeth Hudler Elizabeth Hudler … create, communicate, receive and…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis … and the red meat boycott amongst others…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source … the industrial revolution beginning in England at the end of…
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… this place is. They say they actually feel the vibration of the rich history that fills these walls. I have given 19 years of my life to set up a museum that…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… been increased from one to two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African Council of Churches, first Black Archbishop of the Anglican Church in … his…
Artist. Activist. Historian. This man is preserving the past to protect the future (beautifulnews.co.za)
… Art is an act of resistance. It asserts our agency. Omar Badsha has … identified not only as an artist, but an activist for most of his life. Born in 1945,…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
… The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… British victory in the South African War , the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the British … For instance, the passing of the Suppression of…
EventUnesco lists Robben Island as a World Heritage Site
… on Robben Island as they protested to Dutch rule of their countries. When the British took control of South Africa, a leper colony was started on the island…