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EventPaarl Riots report submitted
… the 1962 Paarl Riots. The report analysed the main causes of the riots, and included information on Poqo, an armed offshoot of the Pan Africanist Congress …
EventA car bomb explodes at Ellis Park Rugby Stadium
… On 2 July 1988, Lester Dumakude, commander of an Umkhonto we Sizwe special operations unit, detonated a … guards at the stadium. Dumakude also testified that…
EventBlack Wednesday, the banning of 19 Black Consciousness Movement Organisations
… 1977, The World and Weekend World were banned. The editor of The World, Percy Qoboza, who became the editor of City … for five months under section 10 of the…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … These camps were set up to get black people off the land so that the Boers couldn’t get…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being incarcerated due to petty and severe … those sentenced in terms of the Suppression of…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman South Africa can heave a collective sigh of relief…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… The Role of London in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in … sent to Britain in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the … in power, have wiped out every trace of…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… that I got to work with him. It was on a special edition of Transformation focusing on the ‘ varieties of capitalism ’ … Movement, were reborn as black” …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa nation, was born…
EventKitchener succeeds Roberts as Commander-in-Chief
… 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeded him as Commander-in-Chief of the British forces during the second Anglo Boer War (1989-1902). He received the local rank of…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… educationist and former lecturer at the University of Fort Hare. PRINCE BISMARCK once said that one-third of … expressed himself more clearly, 'I would…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceUtrecht
… British troops occupied Utrecht during South African War of 1899 - 1902 as their headquarters. The British were wary of having to camp in high altitude area…
EventWiehahn Commission Report tabled in parliament
… On 1 May 1979, the first interim report of the Wiehahn Commission is tabled in Parliament. The … was set up by the government after the Durban strikes of…
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … O.F.S. Volksraad in May 1887. They were, like the authors of…
EventUN concerned about Fischer’s arrest
… The United Nations (UN) Committee on the Policy of Apartheid of the Government of South Africa (Special Committee Against … Fischer was arrested under the…
EventFatima Meer is banned for a second time
… Federation of South African Women (FSAW or FEDSAW) President and the … first person to be banned under the 1976 Internal Security Act, Fatima Meer, was…
PlaceMostert’s Mill, Rhodes Drive, Mowbray
… In 1657 the VOC granted land on the slopes of Table Mountain to a number of free burghers under the leadership of Steven Bothma. The …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education acolyte – an assistant or follower ad hoc – … making it widely known through official…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… Day. We greet this great gathering and the entire people of this country in the name of the working people of South … assistance is allocated to southern…
PlaceBathurst, Eastern Cape
… Bathurst in the Eastern Cape, is one of the smallest but most interesting Municipalities in South … in 1820, this peaceful little Village on the left bank of…
PlaceBeachwood Mangroves Swamp, Durban
… in the tidal environment. The Beachwood Mangroves are of significant botanical, educational and Historical value, and being located near one of the Country's…
PlaceFunda Community College
… was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on land which was donated by the Urban Foundation and IBM. The ……
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to … The first half of 1962 brought the…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for the clothing industry, which contained the award of the arbitrators, on the grounds that it had a "closed … and I decided to proceed with the appeal…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… Kommetjie was established in 1902 when a consortium of Cape Town businessmen purchased the farm Kommetjie from … J Albertyn, and developed it as a…
69. ‘Moderate Indians’ form the Natal Indian Organisation
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … movement in the Transvaal. He was opposed to the Asiatic Act…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu leaves for the USA to meet with American President Ronald Reagan
… States had not. During the Reagan administration, a policy of constructive engagement with the apartheid government was … 1984, hoping to promote an economic…
EventSteven Biko is arrested.
… Stephen Bantu Biko was the first president of South African Student Organisation (SASO), a black … meeting and detained in Port Elizabeth under the Terrorism…