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Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1948
… at Prayer Meeting, New Delhi, 28 January 1948 You know in South Africa our people are fighting for their rights ... … imposed on their movements. Many have…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… The prison was rebuilt and we politicals were held in another prison known as Beverley Hills, gallows’ humour … executions, on many evenings they sang our…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… also to express our heartfelt wishes for success in your work for the total liberation of Africa and the … unity. Your Excellency, recent events…
Address to the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 28 October 1999
… Council of Provinces since the new government was formed in June. I would therefore like to take this opportunity, … Premiers, to whom we extend our best…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
… protests at the University of Fort Hare that have resulted in the academic programme being abruptly halted. The … and university infrastructure development…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being made to reorganize the educational facilities in the Transvaal . These had…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… the objectives of the negotiation, each party had a stake in the process itself. But this was not enough, for it was … representing some ninety-two…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
… the most difficult decisions the NEC has ever had to take in the history of the ANC. We fully understand that the … recall him was not taken lightly, but it…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… decided to once again convey to BOTH groups our opinion in a comradely manner. We all place great significance on the … Empire to its very foundations;…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
… try to find the answers to certain questions about people in the past. To do this they look for evidence of the people they are interested in. This means…
PlaceMali
… Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the … functioning as the main trading and…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… pan-African world. Adwa has important lessons for Africans in their resistance against new forms of oppression. … the colonial ruler, the role of Ethiopia or…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
… South African people, to thank our brothers and sisters in this country with whom we engaged in a common titanic struggle to defeat the apartheid crime…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… December 1962 brought a sinister rider to this Act in Government Notice No. 2130. Its provisions had a … some of which I had never heard. What they all had…
EventPeter Lindenberg, South Africa’s powerboat champion
… Lindeberg won the European Barefoot Water-Skiing title in 1977.[i] Peter won his first South African powerboat racing title, as well as set a world record in…
For Richard Turner by Peter Sacks
… on the back page of my last essay ("Political Education in The Republic") "Good ideas, but style too literary. Use of … You'd smile again to see me seven…
Upcoming events at the Book Lounge
… He will be here to talk about his memoir. Allister will be in conversation with John Maytham . Please note this event … the restoration of the beautiful…
PlaceMelrose House, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… George Heys, a young man from Durban, made his fortune in the diamond rush in Kimberley by establishing a successful coach … British architect WT Vale to…
EventThe Paramount Chief of the Zulus, Prince Goodwill Zwelithini, is officially removed as a member of the Zulu Legislative Assembly
… Monarch following the death of his father, King Cyprian in 1968 and brief regency that lasted until 1971 when he … Buthelezi , Chief Minister of Kwa-Zulu…
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… The central African region in which the Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo) … when European powers competed for territory and resources in Africa…
PlacePhillipton
… (prior 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…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… In 1922, following the strikes and bloodshed in Johannesburg in the early months of that year, of which much history has …
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… It was quite exciting. Just as we arrived three men walked in, each one holding a sheet of paper. Someone whispered that … secretary. There was a bit of a…
EventEgyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasser dies of a heart attack
… In September 1970 Egyptian President, Gamal Abdel Nasserdied of a heart attack. Nasser had been in power in Egypt since 24 November 1954. He was succeeded by…
EventUnrest breaks out at Naledi High School as Security police confront learners
… local branch of the South Africa Students Movement (SASM). In retaliation students stoned the police and burned their car. The first sign of Black unrest in…
EventDr Joosub Ebrahim is born
… Meritorious Service Class 1: Gold from the state president in 1992, for his contribution as businessman, philanthropist and humanitarian, was born in…
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Xhosa Chief Sandile, born in the Ciskei in 1820, was killed in Denge Forest in a skirmish with the Fingos under Captain …
EventMoses Kottler, A leading South African sculptor of his time, is born
… Moses Kottler was born in Joniskis, Lithuania. Sources differ as to the date of his … it as 11 June 1892, others as 1896. Kottler studied art in Jerusalem…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… first daily newspaper, The Cape Times, was published in Cape Town as an English language morning newspaper with … It sold for the cheap price of a penny and…
EventSudanese-born basketball player and political activist, Manute Bol is born
… Manute Bol was born in Turalei, Sudan on 16 October 1965. He came from a family … metres tall. Bol himself was 2.31 m tall. Like most boys in his community,…