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1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in favour of the 'new constitution' (1,300,000). These whites … the masses. For the 'new constitution' does…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… criterion for the building of a popular political alliance in the legal and semi-legal spheres. There would, however, be … increase government control over…
ArchiveNew Deal? South Africa 1983
… Democratic Front was launched at the Rockland Civic Centre in Cape Town. It was a broad coalition of anti apartheid … support for a New Constitution that…
EventFake tickets lead to stampede in Johannesburg
… fans pressed themselves against a gate, during the Carling Black Label Cup match between Kaizer Chiefs and Orlando Pirates at FNB stadium in Soweto ,…
EventANC's Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe rally support against Urban Bantu Councils Act
… Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe went from house to house in Orlando, Soweto near Johannesburg rallying support amongst … The Bantu Urban Councils Act, Act No 79…
Chapter X - Trial by detention
… In Pretoria things had changed at court. Our van drove … dirty blankets, considered good enough for any arrested black man. At 8 p.m. they, like us, went…
Chapter 2
… African Convention should be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order … hardships and sufferings led to the…
EventSouth Africa mourns the passing of Beyers Naudé, apartheid struggle stalwart and Afrikaner cleric
… on Tuesday morning 7 September 2004 at a retirement home in Johannesburg . He was 89 years old and his wife, Ilse, who … leader and close friend Desmond Tutu…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
… Ever since then your Congress has been able to forge ahead in its determined effort to realise our noble aspirations in our lifetime, namely, To unite and…
ArticlePoqo
… Its aim was to overthrow the South African government in order to replace it with a socialist African state. The word 'poqo' means 'pure' or 'alone' in Xhosa…
Letter to Farzanah
… book of photographs, Letter to Farzanah was published in 1979 in commemoration of the United Nations declared International … seven newspaper articles,…
EventAnglo American announces switching of main listing to London
… Anglo American Corporation, founded in 1917 by Sir Ernest Oppenheimer to exploit the gold fields … Exchange (JSE) to the London Stock Exchange. This move was…
Who Shot My Dad? by Jann Turner
… I began searching for my father's killer in 1989. I was living in New York City at the time. I read in the paper that an … about him. Dolinschek asks 'what…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the … decline of the reserve economies. Full…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… with the Aryans at the top and with Jews, Gypsies and black people at the bottom. These 'inferior' people were seen … meant something completely different…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… Dube – to signify how firmly our present is embedded in our past. We are here to affirm the unbreakable thread … from raising above a certain level of…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
… eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia, an unrelenting freedom fighter … tribalism and the fostering of…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
… eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia, an unrelenting freedom fighter … tribalism and the fostering of…
EventUnited Democratic Front call to Police
… with the UDF executive after the incident, which resulted in a coffin being dropped. The police denied that they were … National Congress flags displayed,…
EventLaw and Order Minister, Adriaan Vlok implicates De Klerk at TRC
… Minister, Adriaan Vlok testifies under oath that while in office, the former president of South Africa, Mr F. W. de … knew of illegal operations by the…
EventDeath of Maria Koopmans-De Wet
… Marie Koopmans-De Wet followed in her father’s footsteps as she established herself in the social and cultural life of Cape Town. In 1864, she … in Strand…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… National Congress. Though the CP leaders played a role in the 1950-51 general strike calls, it was also leaders of … NP victory, angered and radicalised…
EventThe government launches 'Operation Iron Fist' in townships
… At the height of township violence in Transvaal, President F.W. de Klerk and Nelson Mandela held … under emergency rule. Though a call was made by a few…
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first … was she made it her priority to tell the people that the black…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… and some were downright spiteful. It seemed to stick in the throat of many people to have to acknowledge that he … as the basis for everything, there is job…
ArchiveSt James Church Massacre
… A terrorist attack on St. James Church in Cape Town, South Africa left 11 people dead and 58 … congregation turn and then the doors were kicked open. A black…
EventGold Coast (Ghana) gains independence
… of independent kingdoms, including Gonja and Dagomba in the north, Ashanti in the interior, and the Fanti states along the coast. The … green representing…
EventDesmond Tutu is appointed TRC chairperson
… Nobel laureate Archbishop Mpilo Desmond Tutu, the first Black archbishop of Cape Town rose to fame in the 1980’s. After the1976 Soweto Uprising, Tutu…
EventIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union is founded under Clements Kadalie
… by Clements Kadalie, a young Nyassalander who spoke no Black South African language but used English to spread the message of worker unity. Formed in the…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… furnaces, the later one - now vandalised - possibly still in use in the early 1800s. But by mid century there was a rudimentary Boer republic in place, the…