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ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… In the months after I started my incessant round of speaking engagements in 1985 I found that there was a … after the stay-at-home in 1961. There we…
PlaceValkenburg Hospital, Observatory
… originally designed in a Cape Dutch style and is one of the oldest Farmhouses surviving along the Liesbeek River . … early 19th Century. It subsequently…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… cells on 16 November 1977. Another document gives the date of his death as 7 November 1977. Because of these discrepancies the correct date could not be ……
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
… not very pleased with me for being away so long. For both of us we were faced with shaping our new life together. We … began at the end of 1984 and since the…
EventSouth Sudan votes in Referendum on Independence
… Referendum required a 50+1 result to secede or remain part of Sudan and quorum of 50% of registered voters in the region. After three days, … tallied. On 9…
EventESCOM announces its decision to order two nuclear power reactors from France
… due to political pressure due to the Apartheid policies of the South African State. The Apartheid government claimed that they were … as well as generating…
EventWinnie Mandela receives a 6 months’ sentence
… restricted to a Black township at Brandfort, Orange Free State, was sentenced to six months' imprisonment (suspended … Southern African Political History: a…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
… The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members … their inherent fear of racial intermixing, The Apartheid State…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the march in a great crusade against … from a backward, poverty-stricken country into…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… "The danger begins only when they make a virtue of necessity and want to freeze into a complete theoretical … there was no precedent of such an entity - a…
A new class struggle
… the Colonists. According to CG Henning, the following list of twenty anti-Indian attitudes compiled by him, contains … prophesy certainly materialised with…
EventA Nigerian Boeing 727 airliner carrying 143 people crashes some twenty-five miles from Lagos, killing all on board
… near Ejirin, killing all 143 passengers (some reports state 142/141). The plane departed from Port Harcourt … on impact. A later investigation revealed the…
ArchiveViolence Now: Haphazard or Orchestrated?: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1991
… Black Sash National Conference on 2 March 1991 discussing state repression, Apartheid, homelands, tribalism, detention …
EventSA President Nelson Mandela to step down
… the president can only serve for two terms as the head of state. Mandela felt one term was enough as he had already … scenes endorsement by Nelson Mandela…
EventThe South African government is to grant self-government to KaNgwane
… it had finally abandoned its land deal with Swaziland, of which KaNgwane was to have been part. South Africa and … to South African jurisdiction, was null…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and … of slave descendants were classified as ‘coloured’ by the state…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban University of Technology, 26th-28th January 2023 In this paper we revisit the work of Karl Polanyi and our attempt…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… SCENE We are living today. Sons and Daughters of the Soil, fighters in the cause of African freedom, in an … fact that the countries - which pursue a policy…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… August 2020) Image Source Source A See footnote for origin of the source [2] Define the term “Mfecane” in the context of the start of the nineteenth century…
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… and denounced the policy, which permitted the exploitation of the Coloured races of South Africa. I said that " the … said "there is also a revival of…
EventAdriaan Vlok is born
… Former South African minister of law and order, Adriaan Johannes Vlok, was born in … Cape Province. He started his career in the department of justice at the…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
… Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 Chapter 10 Problems of imprisonment Chapter 11 The escape Chapter 12 Hangings Chapter 13 A negotiated release Chapter…
EventAfrikaner nationalists rebel against a Union Jack in new South African flag
… to have a Union Jack (the British flag) in the centre of the national flag. The controversy followed the introduction of a bill to provide a national flag…
EventFourteen are killed in Phola Park violence
… her husbands death, following a night attack by residents of nearby Zulu hostel. She grieved for 10 minuites then fled … Freedom Party support bases. In…
EventHarms releases his report
… its report on its investigations in the activities of South African Defence Force Army and South African Police … headed the commission. Ironically enough,…
EventWorld Aids Day
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 … that, unlike other pandemics like malaria, the spread of…
EventNon military national service for objectors
… A Defence Amendment Bill provides for an alternative form of national service for conscientious objectors who oppose … to objectors motivated by political…
EventFirst aeroplane flight in Kimberley breaks the non-stop flight record
… John Weston, a civil engineer, began the construction of his own aeroplane in 1907 at Brandfort, in the Free State. This was the first South African built…
PlaceVrede
… Vrede, 'the town of peace', lies between the North-Eastern Free State and the Mpumalanga border of Volksrust . It was named in 1863 after a dispute between ……
New Age
… In 1954, Govan Mbeki joined the editorial board of New Age, together with Ruth First, Brian and Sonya Bunting … articles and columns in New Age reflected the…