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ArchiveRelations with Other Groups Committee report
… African Students, Durban, 29 Nov-3 Dec 1983. Included in report is the information that the National Union is part of the United Democratic Front. Relations…
EventDraft laws are gazetted
… The draft laws were gazetted, providing some benefits for Black people. These include greatly increased mobility and security of tenure for Blacks qualified…
EventCalvin Thusago is stabbed to death
… from Sharpeville where they had filmed the desecration of Black graves by right-wing extremists. His colleague, Dudley … back. Members of the ANC Youth…
EventThe Rand Revolt Ends
… by White mineworkers to a perceived injustice that Black miners were taking jobs that ought to have been … put thousands out of work and caused a devastating…
PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
… favoured by specific cultural groups. And a township tour in Cape Town can offer you deeper insight into a person from … ' ; Gugulethu and Langa '. Langa is…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… 1924 5 December, Robert Mangaliso Sobukhwe is born in Graaff-Reinet a town in the Cape Province. 1940 Sobukwe enrols at Healdtown … declared that South…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
David Goldblatt: Intersections; Asbestos; Particulars by Sue Williamson, 1 - 25 October 2003
… exact intersection of every latitude and longitude line in South Africa, and standing on that point, let his eye roam … new for Goldblatt, who for years…
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…