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Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… say an attachment letter will be delivered by the sheriff of the court to Luthuli House tomorrow, an action that is set … instructed that during August 2013,…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… In the modern-day world the view people are given of Africa is often a narrow one. In this piece we present 50 … instrumental in the early days of the…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
… Worchester: Diana Ferrus Publishers.|African National Congress, (1980). The Role of Women in the Struggle against apartheid, 15 July. … [Accessed 29 October…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… After studying for his doctoral degree at the University of Leyden in Germany, Diederichs returned to South Africa and was appointed professor of Political…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… Walter Sisulu celebrates his 90th birthday. One of the godfathers of the fight for equality in South Africa, … in Bloemfontein to form the South African…
EventAZAPO is re-launched in Roodepoort
… in Roodepoort for the second time. After the outbreak of the Student Uprising in 1976, the government responded by detaining several members of the South…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… occasionally trying to play a piano. Project: A biography of Michael Guthrie Scott Elizabeth Hudler Elizabeth Hudler … create, communicate, receive and…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter
… Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on 26 June 1955 We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to …
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… gained Independence from Britain under the presidency of Kwame Nkrumah the All African People Conference was held … the European powers. In April 1958,…
EventAmy Biehl’s murderers receive amnesty from TRC
… The four murderers of Amy Biehl, American Fullbright exchange student, are … Christopher Manqina had been convicted for the murder of Amy Biehl in the Cape…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Worker 31 January 1929 The Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December … speech in…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba’s mutilated body is found
… (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal Freedom … of being a…
EventNavanethem (Navi) Pillay is born
… 1941 in Clairwood, Durban . She went to the University of Natal where she graduated with BA in 1963 and with an LLB … career by doing her articles in Durban…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
… been increased from one to two years, followed by a series of annual "citizen force" camps that could be as lengthy as three months. Legislation had also…
EventAttempts of sabotage are made in Secunda
… Two strategic acts of sabotage, supposedly by the Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK ), … successfully hit their target. Though the African National Congress (ANC)…
EventFather Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, is injured by a letter-bomb
… where he joined a religious community, The Society of the Sacred Mission. This organisation transferred him to … felt it was his duty to speak out against…
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… mass meeting was called in Lenasia, an Indian suburb south of Johannesburg. The purpose of the meeting was to mobilse the Indian community to boycott … it…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary … representation for Coloureds and…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… This open membership was significant as an example of co-operation between workers of various races. Trade … holidays." Kajee came into this dispute as an…
EventCourt approves same-sex couple's right to marry
… In October 2002, Marie Fourie and her partner of twelve years, Cecelia Bonthuys had been refused the right to marry on the basis of the common law…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini (literally, “What does the world … once independence came…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS: … A.W. Oliphant; Report on Culture and…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Muziwakhe Lembede Abraham, Peter. Tell Freedom: Memories of Africa. London: Faber and Faber, 1954. Basner, Miriam. Am … Craig. "Pixley Seme '06: Father of…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' … at the first meeting of the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), the…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to Newsweek, 01 August 1980
… urban guerrilla-warfare programme by the African National Congress? TAMBO : I`m afraid so. That is not merely a decision by the ANC. It is dictated by the…
EventANC's economic plans
… African National Congress (ANC) Deputy President Nelson Mandela stated that … his party was prepared to abandon its long-held policy of nationalisation if…
EventWinnie Mandela's Soweto home reported burnt down
… The Sowetan reported that the Soweto home of Winnie Mandela, wife of an imprisoned leader of the African National Congress (ANC), Nelson Mandela, was burned…
EventPAC leader, David Sibeko shot dead in Dar-es-Salaam
… Former Pan African Congress (PAC) director of Foreign Affairs and representative to the United Nations, … faction in the PAC in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania. At…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work … leaders. Despite its close links to the…