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ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… AND CIVIL SOCIETY ABOUT A MONUMENT AND SOME KIND OF OFFICIAL RECOGNITION OF THE ARRIVAL DAY OF INDENTURED LABOURERS SINCE THE 1990S. … in the preamble to the…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… Introduction Analysis of the Freedom Charter as adopted at Morogoro, 1969 The … of such laws as the notorious Suppression of Communism Act; the Native…
PlaceGroutville
… Groutville is situated approximately ten kilometers south of KwaDukuza and about 69 kilometers north of Durban. The name Groutville was acquired from its…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic … associated with guerilla and sabotage activities of the…
PlaceNieu-Bethesda
… other Karoo Villages. It was started by a determined group of people who lived in the area and who wanted a Church … – these days it takes just over half an…
PlaceStone Chapel, Tokai, near the Porter Reformatory School
… predominantly neo-Gothic manner. It forms an integral part of the Porter Reformatory, established there in 1880. It was … 1985. Although fortifications were…
PlaceAkkedisberg Mountain Pass
… coastal pass on the R 326 links the small Farming Town of Riviersonderend with the quaint coastal hamlet of Stanford and the coastal road to Hermanus. The…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Zimbabwe Television (ZTV), 05 August 1983, Harare
… into police stations guarding its borders, the President of the ANC, Comrade Oliver Tambo, has said. He said it was an act of bullying which showed that…
PlaceSt James, Cape Town
… The Seaside Resort of St. James was located on False Bay , some 26 km South of Cape Town , the Suburb derived its name from the Church of … Hotel . In Cape…
PlaceEldorado Park, a Township of Johannesburg/Soweto
… The District located in the Province of Gauteng , near Johannesburg . Since 1973 there has been extensive expansion of the Area, due to demand of more…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… Mandela and MK The late 1950s saw the first hints of an armed struggle occurring in certain parts of South Africa. Various types of armed resistance spread…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Fischer was deeply concerned, and which are also concerns of the Legal Resources Centre. But as this is the first Bram … by the Major from hugging him…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
… surprised when they read the news item headlined "Death of a Noted African Lawyer." They were surprised because they … of the fight for the boycott of all…
EventThe SA government grants 'Independent' status to Venda
… Following South Africa's policies of racial segregation and the promulgation of the Promotion Bantu Self-Government Act,46 of 1959, the South African…
EventWalter Sisulu's appeal is dismissed
… The Transvaal section of the Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the African … Walter Sisulu against a six years sentence of imprisonment. Sisulu was…
Chapter 5
… The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary … the indubitable fact remains that the formation of the All African Convention…
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … All were later enacted. The general objective of all but one…
ArticleThe Khoisan
… population grew, and spread throughout the Western half of South Africa. They were the first pastoralists in southern … and called themselves Khoikhoi (or…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
PlaceWitwatersrand, Johannesburg (Gauteng)
… Witwatersrand, ridge of gold-bearing rock mostly in Gauteng Province , South Africa. Its name means “Ridge of White Waters, in Afrikaans .” The highland,…
EventThe People's Progressive Party (PPP) is banned
… People Progressive Party (PPP) under the leadership of the former African National Congress (ANC) member Rocky … coup attempt by the PPP. Mangope announced…
EventSwaziland welcomes SA's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu
… welcomed South Africa's offer to hand over parts of KaNgwane and KwaZulu to Swaziland, since, it claims the territory is historically and culturally part of…
ArchivePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who … uses the…
Chapter X - Final word
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph Right up to the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the … speak again. I waited that last month,…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who … than anybody else. Continue to unite in action…
PlaceAl-Azhar Mosque, Cape Town
… in minarets, it makes up for with position, for the Mosque of Cape Town lies right in the heart of one of the City's former 'grey areas' of the Apartheid era…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
… new leaders were trying to build". These were the words of A.B. Xuma who in 1943 moved a resolution that the ANC … Natal politicians. It is a truism that…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner … were carrying shotguns and pistols. The attack was an act to express their…
PlaceBlaauwberg Nature Reserve, Melkbosstrand
… Cape Town is unique due to its high concentration of local flora and fauna species. The Blaauwberg Nature Reserve protects and conserves, one of the City’s-…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… formed the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC). The histories of these two organisations are inextricably linked. This … (September) marks 50 years since Poqo, the…