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PlaceAlgiers, Capital of Algeria
… which is a town with a population of about 19,000 people in the North West province of South Africa. It is located 70 … of the Batlharo Ba Lotlhware group of…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… Luthuli was elected President of the ANC (Natal branch) in 1951 and this speech was delivered at the Bantu Social … pleads for co-operation among all people…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… was one of the most representative gatherings ever held in South Africa. Like the launching conference of the UDF in … Charter was necessary in order to…
Statement at the 2735th meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 19 February 1987
… extended to it by the Council. We take comfort, Sir, in seeing the Council presided over by you, our dedicated … use in the furtherance of State-promoted and…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC in Polokwane, Limpopo. 4 March Ace Magashule, Free State … The Citizen 1978 Pty (Ltd) and others v McBride…
PlaceMoletzie Bird Sanctuary
… have been recorded from Zambia. They are now mostly found in two regions: North West/ Limpopo Provinces and … Cape. There are small remnant breeding…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… Eugene de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as … colleague and Askari, Brian Ngqulunga. His…
EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki’s AIDS denialism
… Declaration was a statement signed by over 5 000 people in the scientific community stating that HIV caused AIDS. The declaration was signed and published in…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Why would young Black South African men refuse low wage jobs in a time of mass joblessness? This paper takes up this …
PlacePorterville
… , the area was inhabited by San and Khoikhoi peoples. In 1652, Jan van Riebeeck established a small colony on the … 155 km north-east of Cape Town . The town…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the freedom and movement of black South Africans. External resistance to the policy…
EventZubeida Jaffer is detained, while pregnant, by the security police under Apartheid regulations
… Jaffer was detained more than once as she was also held in police custody between August-October 1980 in solitary confinement and charged with possession of…
EventThe trial of Dr Allan Boesak on charges of theft and fraud starts
… Born in 1945 in the North West Cape, Boesak developed deep interests in religion and politics from an early age. At the age of 14 … members included some…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… by Mandela... What were people's feelings, particularly black people's feelings, about this somewhat abrupt … to another? I don't know whether it was abrupt…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… recorded during this period ensured that obstacles in the way of substantive negotiation were removed. The … State President, and the tall, dignified and…
Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki: University of Witwatersrand, 29 July 2006.
… of our brand new society, we have the possibility to act in ways that would, for the foreseeable future, infuse the … and reserved jobs. The farmers took…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar … and Genova, 795). The book seems to awaken the…
The fight against passes continues
… called the Congress of Mothers. We had a conference in Port Elizabeth in solidarity with that conference, and … would send thousands of women from all over…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and … not only endured, but overcame the double burden of being…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as Prime Minister that Adv. Vorster made … have happened, for in their time there…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… The first Kroomen to be employed by the British Navy in Simon’s Town arrived on the HMS Melville in 1838. [i] … were easily identifiable by the adornment of…
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… existence. Football, like other sporting disciplines in South Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African Indian Football Association (SAIFA) …
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… about the arrest of Abraham Fischer, defence attorney in the Rivonia Trial and opponent of the apartheid regime. … charged with promoting the aims of…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… Cole, a complex man whose work is little known, especially in his own country, but who deserves recognition as a major voice in the struggle against…
EventSpanish Flu strikes South Africa
… Spanish Flu or 'Great Flu', were diagnosed on this date in Durban. This started the worst pandemic ever in South Africa. Of a total population of just over 6…
PlaceNgcobo
… On 1 November 1859, a day known in the Christian calender as All Saints Day, Chief Fubu of … Gordon of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in…
We are the soldiers of Sisulu by Thabo Mbeki 2003
… leave to his final resting place from the Orlando Stadium, in Soweto, where he lived for many decades, among the masses of black working people who supply…
XI - The Verdict
… Deputy Attorney General also made a closing submission, in which he stated that no one could be blamed for the death … perversity of the finding would cause…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.3 Nov 1981
… by Sy Moya; Have you seen Sticks? By ThamSanqa; Lone Black Woman by Morongwana; A Gift For Rajendra by Jayapraga Reddy. Features: The Story of a Black Blind…
EventChurch Council meets PW Botha over unrest
… of unrest, forced removals and the emergency regulations in the country. The decision to meet the President came after … believed that it was a religious…