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Document 99 - Edwin T. Mofutsanyana, “All-African Convention: Masses Must Support It”, South African Worker, 9 January 1937
… a united front against the slave morality and mentality of these Bills, determined to voice their disapproval and to … All-African Convention met with the…
Slavery in South Africa
… known in India that there was a considerable importation of slaves from Asia to South Africa by the Dutch East India Company and its employees. Some of the…
PlaceGoodman Gallery
… instrumental to the development and professionalisation of how commercial galleries are structured within South … Africa and the continent, as well as the…
PlaceThe Durban Centre for Photography
… , at the same time it was also the first public auction of photographic prints ever held in South Africa. This was to … , Rafs Mayet , Moses Khubisa, Jeeva…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… South Africa battles water scarcity as it is one of the thirty driest regions in the world. On average the … it difficult to access natural resources. [2]…
PlaceKhayelitsha Township
… Khayelitsha Township lies some 19km east of Wynberg and 25 km of south-east of Cape Town in the Western Cape . The name is … than voluntarily. In 1984, the…
Interview with Lulu Dube by Sbongiseni Dladla, Ohlange, JL Dube House, 21 March 2011
… to be honoured to have my name used for the name of the street. SD: Gogo this has taken two years to be done? … because this is such a big street here at…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner … pistols. The attack was an act to express their rejection of the…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… August, in partnership with UCT Film and Media department, of local films on gender issues. One of the directors was on … 2011 to write the history of the…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… in its own way, you know. I grew up in an environment of poverty. I was staying with my mother's people. They were … TK• And was the Party keen for people to…
Mandela and his three wives - Evelyn, Winnie and Graca by Sapa-AFP, 6 December 2013
… to carve out a living in the big city. She was the cousin of African National Congress (ANC) stalwart Walter Sisulu and met Mandela in Sisulu's home in…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s…
ArchiveHighlights on successes and experienced challenges during the 25 years of freedom and democracy.
… successes and experienced challenges within the 25 years of Freedom and Democracy. As I write this letter my heart is filled with joy, because of the…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a … forums. In 1977, Cubans began…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… Richard Turner inspired students who used the integration of Christian ethics and Marxist theory to demonstrate how the … from the nadir of the repression…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… Mozambican fighter for FRELIMO who like thousands of women fought for independence for her country until she … 1968 she was nominated a delegate to the…
PlaceKroonstad
… It's name being symbolic of royalty (“Kroon” is Dutch for crown), Kroonstad has very … the Boers to a huge victory over the Zulus at the Battle of Blood…
ArticleMiriam Makeba: Activist on Two Fronts by Connor Kirkpatrick
… in South Africa sixteen years before the official start of apartheid. In 1960 she was exiled from South Africa. She … South Africa on 4 March 1932. She was…
Input by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Farewell service for former President Nelson Mandela, Waterkloof Airforce Base, 14 December 2013
… The directors of the programme, fortunately for me you did not say how much … in honour of this great leader. Today the African National Congress and the…
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
… Johannesburg, which was run by the Community of the Resurrection, a monastic order then headed in South … university, Phahle volunteered to teach Mathematics…
ArchiveSouth Africa wants to make history compulsory at school. But can it? by Linda Chisholm (the Conversation.com), 1 June 2018
… South Africa’s minister of Basic Education Minister Angie Motshekga has released a … a ministerial task team that recommends a major overhaul of the history…
When Mandela's Predecessor toured the US to Expose Segregation back home by Matthew Blackman (www.ozy.com), 29 May 2018
… A short, well-dressed 44-year-old man of the southern African Barolong tribe stood at the American … It stated the bearer was a British national and a…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was shaped by many forces, both in the general context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ … of a once-powerful and militant giant…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… The accepted view of black, and especially African, politics after the Rivonia … of ANC symbols and organisations supportive of the Congress movement, and in…
82. The President’s Council
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Council was appointed in September 1980 with the task of…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… to the Groote Schuur Minute . 2. The final report of the Working Group on political offences dated 21 May 1990, … by both parties. The guidelines to be…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… offensives planned for that year. General Haig, commander of the British forces in France described the situation as … 35 000 Black South Africans had…
ArchiveFrom eNcome over Bloedrivier to eNcome and Beyond by Ben Khumalo-Seegelken
… 16 December 1838 circulated among the earlier inhabitants of that region on the one hand and the trekker– and settler-communities on the other. Generations…
ArticleRuth Robb and her involvement with Black Sash
… This article was written by Jarvis Pruitt and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … went by her middle name, Noel, and died…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… The shards of South Africa’s fragmented history share a common thread … is a struggle for equality and visibility. Over the course of the country’s fight for…