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Declaration by Oliver Tambo, Deputy President of the African National Congress of South Africa, and J.R.D. Chikerema, Vice-President of the Zimbabwe African People`s Union, 05 August 1967
… fighting has been and is taking place in various parts of Southern Rhodesia. From the thirteenth of this month, the area of Wankie has been the scene of the …
EventMgqwetho,the first poem of Nontisi is published
… Mgqwetho, the first poem of Nontisi (Cizama, Imbongikazi yakwaCizama) was published in … female Xhosa poet up to now and her work is only now being…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , "South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home", … in the 1930's, an entirely new generation…
Timol: Salim Essop testifies of beatings, torture following arrest, News24, in Politics Web online, 27 June 2017
… Salim Essop takes centre stage during first day of inquest sitting into Ahmed Timol’s death Johannesburg – … family. While at school his teacher praised him…
BiographyRaymond Ackerman
… Shaped our Century: The Most Influential South Africans of the Twentieth Century . Published by Human and Rousseau. … re-invented his father's industry…
BiographyDr. Walter Benson Rubusana
… 21 February 1858 at Mnandi in the Somerset East district of the then Cape Colony. His father was a senior councillor … witnessed the military defeat and…
48. Breach of the compromise
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … June to discuss the 'breach' by the Transvaal Government of …
BiographyPercy John "Jack" Hodgson
… born on 17 August 1910 in Roodepoort, was the eldest son of three children born to Jessy (nee Turner) and Percy John … until she remarried a few years later…
Statement at the 50th Session of the OAU Coordinating Committee for the Liberation Of Africa by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 13 May 1988
… Distinguished delegates to this historic session of the OAU Liberation Committee, Your Excellencies, … that remains to be answered is when - and that…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… Prime Minister Anthony; Distinguished Heads of Government; Ladies and Gentlemen; May I first thank you … opportunity - too long delayed - to meet with the…
BiographyViolet Weinberg
… was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti-Semitism led to ……
BiographyJames Edward April
… James Edward April was born on 20th of March in 1940, in Bokmakeri Athlone, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape).He is the youngest of seven…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… celebrated its 96th anniversary, marking nearly a century of proud and tireless struggle to advance the cause of … requires a longer view. Education must be…
BiographySonja Schlesin
… later immigrated to South Africa, and arrived at the Cape of Good Hope in June 1892. In 1903, M.K Gandhi , who had … campaigns, enrolled as an attorney in…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … during which, with few exceptions, very little work was being…
BiographyJames Kantor
… and Pauline ‘Polly’ (Braude) Kantor. James Kantor was one of Johannesburg’s best-known and successful lawyers who got … at best, he invariably won for his…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress
… Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion ofthe 70th Anniversary of the formation of the African…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a multi-racial school in Paarl … her mother as the sole breadwinner,…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
… she imagined becoming a singer or a dancer. Her dreams of becoming an artist were opposed by her parents, and she … the evolution of slavery she became the…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… emotion that would have most likely dominated his mind, body and his psyche, would be that which could be compared to … the tingle that comes over a fighter…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… students in the African, Coloured and Indian areas of the Western Cape embarked on a class boycott. This became … to a massive popular revolt in the province…
ArchiveTranscript of interviews of the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, Sunday Novermber 26, 1978
… Transcript of the interviews of the General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond … Transcript of interviews of the General…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer The riots broke out in Soweto … tell them, just stick to your syllabus and keep away from being…
PlaceLeeuwenhof, Official Residence of the Premier of Cape Town
… Monument in 1966. Leeuwenhof, the official residence of the Premier of the Cape Province, stands on the slope of Table Mountain. It is reached by an avenue…
EventRev. Robert Selby Taylor, Bishop of Grahamstown, is elected Archbishop of Cape Town and Metropolitan of the Province of South Africa.
… His parents later sent him to New Zealand in the hope of broadening his experience. Taylor later trained for the … work in Northern Rhodesia. He was…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… Workers! History confronts the subject peoples of South Africa with a momentous question! Either a … and unorganised, facile subjects to the imperialist…
EventThe launch of the Progressive Women’s Movement of SA
… On 8 August 2006, hundreds of women gathered in Bloemfontein to launch a new national … organisation called the Progressive Women's Movement of South Africa…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and … where new prisoners came in, he would see this happen. But being a prisoner…
ArchiveConstitution of the National Union of South African Students
… Appendix A: Constitution of the National Union of South African Students of the Minutes of the 53rd Congress of the National Union of … Constitution of the…
EventMoroccan Army of Liberation attacks Spanish enclave of Ifni
… war, the French extended great influence and by 1912, part of Morocco became a French protectorate. The northern part of Morocco, the Rif area, was ceded to…