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Silent Cries from a Beloved Country by Ken Johnson, 20 August 2009
… home of a man who worked for yet another failed government program. In the color picture next to it, from 2006, the tiny …
Call for Papers: Teaching Palestine: Pedagogical Praxis and the Indivisibility of Justice
… Scholar, Arab and Muslim Ethnicities and Diasporas Studies Program (AMED) at San Francisco State University, …
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
BiographyRenfrew Leslie Christie
At the age of 17, Renfrew Leslie Christie found himself in the South African Army. He was on guard at Lenz ammunition dump (east of Johannesburg), when he saw…
BiographyFred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… Development Studies (States and Governance stream, honours program) and minoring in History with focus on the areas of …
ArticleNational Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR)
National Initiative for Reconciliation (NIR) is a network of Christian individuals, congregations and organisations working for justice, reconciliation and…
EventState of emergency declared in 27 townships
… F.W. de Klerk said on a televised telephone call-in program on 25 August 1990, that "we dare not allow radicals …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… up to the ANC's acceptance of the ANC Youth League’s Program of Action in 1949. He was one of the key figures in …
BiographyRichard Owen Dudley
Richard Owen Dudley was born in Cape Town and grew up in the house bought in 1852 by his great-grandfather in Palmboom Road, Newlands. The large house was…
BiographyFranco Frescura
Franco Frescura was born in Trieste, Italy, on 28 September 1946. Both his parents originally came from Fiume, today known as Rijeka, in present-day Croatia…
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper offers a reflection on the macro-economic policy debates…
BiographySally Gross
Born on August 22, 1953 in Wynberg, Cape Town, Sally Gross is one of the most challenging and important figures in our country’s history. Gross was born…
BiographyDavid Bruce
David Bruce received a call-up notice from the South African Defence Force (SADF) in July 1987. His choices were two years in the army, exile, or six years in…
BiographyStephanie Urdang
Stephanie Urdang was born in Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape), to a family staunchly opposed to apartheid. Her father, a lawyer, worked in the…
BiographyBaldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane
Dr Baldwin ‘Ben’ Sipho Ngubane was born on 22 October 1941 at the Inchanga Roman Catholic Mission in Camperdown, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN). He…
BiographyJohn Maxwell Coetzee
J. M. Coetzee was born to German and English parents in Cape Town on 9 February 1940. Coetzee spent his childhood in there, as well as in Worcester, a…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
… Charter in their national Conferences as their official program. That historic document declared that "South Africa …
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… member of the Tuebingen/South Africa language and culture program in January 2009. In 2011 Bianca also spent a …
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… ('master race') was used to justify their eugenics program aimed at weeding 'undesirable' genes from the …
ArticleThe Early History of Rugby in South Africa
… the exclusive policies of apartheid into the Springbok program. In 1950 the National Party passed the Group Areas … International Rugby Board (IRB) and New…
ArticleDespite the 1994 political victory against apartheid, its economic legacy persists by Haydn Cornish-Jenkins
… in 1993 they adopted the Reconstruction and Development Program (RDP) which envisioned an important role for the … 1996 by the Growth, Employment and…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Peace and Stability, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… to the Moral Regeneration Campaign 21. There should be a program of mobilization and integration of structures such as …
BiographyAshlatha Rambally
Ashlatha Moodley (nèe Rambally) was born in Pietermaritzburg, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) in 1946 and grew up in the small town of Colenso. After completing her…
PlaceTunisia
… and labour remittances. In the mid-1980s a comprehensive program was introduced to remove and loosen restrictions to … under the framework of the Euro…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… came tantalizingly close to a reality this week, with a program taking place on Thursday, April 27 — Freedom Day — at … will capture this concert in audio…
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… centre only existed between 1952 and 1975. Thereafter the program shifted to the Jubilee Centre in Eloff Street. …
PlaceBacksberg Wine Estate & Cellars
… Graduating from working as a dockhand on the reclamation program around what today is the Waterfront, he started as a …
PlaceRwanda
… return began the implementation of a Structural Adjustment Program to help the economy [clix] . The program had two main goals, which were to de-subsidise…
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
… Upon his return, renewed energy was put into the music program and partnerships such as the Rainbat project, with …