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Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
… the Vita Dance Umbrella in Johannesburg. The focus of the Dance Umbrella was to offer a free and open platform to any form of dance as long as it was a new…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since … European colonisation. South Africa…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
… the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to … parties registered. The 1994 elections marked…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… Tengo (D. D. T.) Jabavu, Prixley Ka Isaka Seme, President of the African National Congress (ANC), Africans from different political spectrums and from all…
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… The Silverton and Soekmekaar verdict prompted a wave of protests against the death penalty and particularly the death sentences of Johnson Lubisi, Petrus…
EventMuhammad Ali defeats Charles Liston in the World heavyweight title fight
… eye. Liston refused to continue the fight, leading to Ali being crowed the heavyweight boxing champion of the world. When Ali was 12 years old, he and a…
ArticleHerero Revolt 1904-1907
… Present day Namibia was once a part of the imperial German empire. As was common during the scramble for Africa in the latter half of the nineteenth century,…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… The Pondo people fiercely resisted the rise of the Colonisersand their attempts to reshape and … to be co-opted by the colonial rulers at the expense of…
ArticleKing Kong the Musical 1959 -1961
… 2 February 1959. The musical chronicles the rise and fall of champion boxer Ezekiel ‘King Kong’ Dhlamini. It helped create a new set of opportunities for…
ArticleThe Namibian struggle for independence – 1966 – 1990 – a historical background
… During the 1960s most of Africa’s countries had gained independence except for Namibia. Geographically, Namibia is made up of savannah, dry scrub land, as…
The girl child
… in South Africa in the altogether different experiences of boys and girls in schools. A girl's position in the school … run by children as parents have…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Following the invasion of the ZAR in January 1896 by a troop of cavalry led by Dr Leander Jameson, the Executive Committee … 1899 at a relatively high cost…
EventMass Democratic Movement (MDM) begins their Defiance Campaign
… formed in protest to the Tricameral Parliament. It was one of the most significant anti-apartheid movements, and comprised of 400 church, civic and student…
PlaceGraaff-Reinet Division
… The district of Graaff-Reinet was constituted on 26 August 1785 and its … the 1880's they bore no relationship to the original lines of delimitation. When…
EventFIFA World Cup is staged in Africa for the first time
… For the first time in the history of the Federation of International Football Association (FIFA), the World Cup … winning the World Cup for the first time…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from being a 90-day detainee under solitary confinement to an … I could “enjoy” all these facilities but…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… Youth League for placing the Freedom Charter at the centre of its programme. In many ways, the Freedom Charter was a … truths about the state of young people…
Restrictions on the media
… seventieth birthday had just been celebrated by millions of people throughout the world would have made it a logical … this too failed to stop at least some…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… The Market Square in the heart of the Port Elizabeth town centre is a historical icon that … this Christian king and patriarch. There is also a replica of…
EventThe Slagtersnek rebels are tried in the Uithenhage landdros court
… Frederik Bezuidenhout owned a farm east of the Cape Colony. After reports surfaced that he was allegedly mistreating one of his Khoikhoi laborers, he was…
The ANC launch the Luthuli Volunteer Corps in Magareng Sub Region, Warrenton, Frances Baard Region, 19 September 2013
… remains critical pillar that provides for the role of the masses within its structures and in driving its … which is underpinned by an understanding that the…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.2 1992
… Medals and Anthems, Gavin Mabie. Essays: Writing and Being, Nadine Gordimer; ‘Literacy Language’ and the ‘Language of the People’ in the Contemporary SA…
PlaceWierda Bridge, Six Mile Spruit, Pretoria
… Wierda Road, this steel girder Bridge is one the first of its kind to be Built in South Africa. It was Built in 1891 … was done with great care and skill,…
Addis Video Art Festival to Cape Town Hosted by ALMA MARTHA
… by Francois Knoetze and Daniel Gray 7PM Erf 81, Corner of Military and Leeuwenvoet Roads, Tamboerskloof, Cape Town … ALMA MARTHA is very excited to be…
EventAir France A-300B Airbus hijacked from Athens arrives at Entebbe, Uganda
… a stopover in Athens. The four hijackers were members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine and the Bader-Meinhof gang in Germany. Once … Amin…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… HAD ITS BEGINNING as a propaganda force from the plinth of Van Riebeeck Statue, Adderley Street, Cape Town, when it stood at the bottom of Dock Road in the…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… South African problem will call for radical reforms, some of them of a really revolutionary nature. The basic reform will be in … There is much inequality at…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… Liberation, 37, July 1959 In modem times the right of nations to self-determination has become a rallying call of oppressed peoples all over the world. What…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant milestone in the development of the liberation struggle. To assess…
Remember Khwezi beyond the Zuma rape trial, says Marianne Thamm (Cape Talk) , 10 October 2016
… during President Jacob Zuma’s IEC address, is evidence of this. Kuzwayo accused Zuma of rape in 2005 and was forced to conceal her identity to … to Kuzwayo…