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ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… Mitchell, who has died aged 83, was an active opponent of Ian Smith in the 1960s and 70s, and later used her … campaigner in the 60s, regularly writing…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… inter alia to the UNO and South West Africa; the rumours of an impending split in the National Party, the necessity … eleven months I have very often had the…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the Western … said that the creation of a new…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
… me and I cannot really account for it. There was a period of about two years between leaving convent school and going … to my childhood prayers. When it…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… POM When we were talking to one of the people yesterday in one of the townships, we talked to … it but the ANC comes with a counter-view of a one-party…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… views, how would you answer this, particularly the charge of being a communist-controlled organisation? TAMBO: It is … Charter says and broadly the…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… political party in the country, with the banning in 1960 of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. Frustrated at the ruthless police state repression,…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had … Those Black…
PlacePhillipton
… to 1910) Philipton was established in 1829 as a station of the London Missionary Society, and was named in honour of Dr John Philip, who was Superintendent…
PlaceRustenburg House, together with its Summer House, Main Road, Rondebosch.
… free Burghers, Governor Jan van Riebeeck reserved a piece of this Land to be used as an Orchard by the Company. In February of that year the first bricks…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… prepares to assemble for its new session, the people of South Africa face the grim prospect of more fascist attacks from the Strijdom police state on their…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … and unemployed "poor whites" posed a danger to the state…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … forcibly retired or suspended. This…
"Form united front now": Interview with Albert Luthuli, 5 May 1962
… to forming a broad united front so as to rouse the whole of South Africa against "the fascist measure." Response "I am pleased to state that already my…
PlaceMorocco
… Mountainous country of western North Africa, Morocco borders Algeria to the east … to extensive migration and has long been the location, of urban…
EventPeter Mokaba is born
… He was born under the cruel injustices and violence of the Apartheid system. His parents, Albert and Priscilla, … Hwiti High School in Mankweng, he became a…
EventWorld Aids Day is internationally observed for the first time
… Following the January 1988 meeting of Health Ministers in London, a decision was taken that 1 … that, unlike other pandemics such as malaria, the spread of…
PlaceCape Floral Areas, Western Province
… the property is located at the South-Western extremity of South Africa. It measures nearly 90,000 square kilometers ! It is one of the world’s great centres…
Chapter 14 - Epilogue: lessons from the negotiating table
… The new constitution is a celebration of the creativity of the South African people, for few, if … on the virtues of federalism as opposed to a unitary state…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected by the general … this matter has rendered the Natives,…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of … Squatters. In 1988…
PlacePreller-Rondawels, Pelindaba
… Welgegund was awarded to Swart Martiens Pretorius a nephew of President M.W Pretorius, founder of Pretoria, at the end of the 19th century by the … her…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… people had first begun living there informally at the end of their indentured labour contracts. A small number of them had earned enough money to buy land…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… You wrote on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in The Republic") "Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of images evades the final point…
PlacePretoria Correctional Service Museum
… in Tshwane, built by Alexander Anderson at the corner of Pretorius and Paul Kruger streets, has an appealing … for all intents and purposes, and was…
Op-Ed: The Zuma rape trial and its bearing on the post-Zuma era by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick) ,17 August 2016
… The lessons of the Zuma rape trial have a bearing on the type of future … could not appeal. That was the prerogative of the state, which did not do so. His…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Bibliography
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education African National Congress. Address to the Nation … Macmillan, 2000. Daniel, J. A. Habib…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during … would only be granted ‘privileges’… we…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive features of White rule in Natal, in … strove to encourage the Africans to “attain…
Black consciousness and the land question by Pandelani Nefolovhodwe, 17 March 2015, South Africa
… Introduction A Sowetan article of the 6th September 2013, states that 14% of audited land in South Africa is in the hands of the state, and 79 % is in the…