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Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… Needle by Richard Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest, is that when … human family? The Eye of the Needle…
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change in South Africa. The real problem that … is bad for our country. Grave…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
… and 24 years thereafter I felt it was time to write about my life in South Africa in struggle, in prison, in … stop me talking. I felt that it is ‘big headed…
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… will continue to act in their various ways to help bring about genuine change in South Africa. The real problem that … is bad for our country. Grave…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… to what the struggle against train apartheid was all about, what its difficulties were from the very beginning and … for which TARC exists. This is what…
Recorded message by Albert Luthuli to meeting in London in support of South African Leaders arrested on charge of Treason, 1 February 1957
… spoke of the "unprecedented human suffering being brought about by apartheid" and said: "But yet we are not despondent. …
Interview with Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe
… in Kimberley and banned from attending meetings, speaks about Communism, alliances, the defiance campaign and other …
EventUS ambassador Andrew Young visits SA
… Young maintained that economic pressure could bring about radical changes in South Africa. …
EventThe lengthy trial of Gandar and Pogrund ends
… They had been accused of publishing untrue information about prisons. The press won a moral victory, but the trial …
EventBeverly Mashinini wins a bronze medal
… games in Athens in 2004. These games brought together about 4000 athletes from 143 countries. Mashinini competed in …
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… humour for the death-cells. It was an awful place, with about 150 hangings a year. That’s two or three hangings every … They were men who faced death with…
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
… the Conference there had been much public/media discussion about the possible outcome and meaning of this election, … wrote; “Remember when people said all…
Grade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… campaign on Monday the 21st. According to his "Testimony about the Launch of the Campaign," Sobukwe declared: The … leadership that non-violent action was…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… himself, expressed a "profound cultural ambivalence" about their identity, which straddled traditionalist and … where one football field and one tennis court…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… dressers, and gangsters, occasionally doing stories about protest marches or contemptible police behavior. [21] … a one hundred and fifty-two page collection…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… own conceptions of what they feel the conflict was about in South Africa, and who they think the major … we start with that: what do you think the conflict…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… A Personal Account (Tafelberg), in which he writes about his early battle with HIV-Aids, the benefits he … 1990 I managed to start speaking with my closest…
Chapter 21. Civil War in the Factories - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… than in helping South African children. Ultimately, only about one hundred British children arrived, although clothing … Africa. Work stopped and I was…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 months and then freed on the grounds that she was … of the continuation of our struggle if…
Press Conference Introducing Alexandre Moumbaris, Stephen Lee and Timothy Jenkin who escaped from prison in South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 2 January 1980, Lusaka
… 1973 to 12 years` imprisonment. His wife was in prison for about 4 months and then freed on the grounds that she was … of the continuation of our struggle if…
PlaceFranschhoek Motor Museum
… to preserve the ageing machinery. Every Hall has about 20 vehicles, separated with divisions that allow for … There is a very informative pedestal with…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… David and the prisons on the project. “All of our work is about telling the story,” she says. “We are honoured to have … build bridges.” The governor of HMP…
EventEarthquake shakes up Tulbagh
… At about 10:04pm on 29 September 1969, the Boland farming towns … of before then. Because of a general lack of knowledge about earthquakes at the time,…
PlaceGeneral Smuts House Museum, Doornkloof
… of Pretoria, is a unique museum that reveals much about the life and the spirit of this great statesman. … avenues of plane trees, poplars and old oaks;…
PlaceBethelsdorp, Algoa Bay -Eastern Cape
… of the colonial authorities. Established for a group of about 600 indigenous Khoikhoi people by Johannes Theodorus … It was described by travelers as a…
The Final Prize by Norman Levy book review by Chris Saunders, 1 June 2014
… trial, with Bram Fischer and others. He writes at length about his three years imprisonment, and why, being banned on … some readers may think his…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… injured. A movie titled 'Catch a fire' was made recently about these events, and in particular, about the life of freedom fighter Patrick Chamusso. Patrick, …
EventTutu is outraged by De Klerk’s denial of responsibility for apartheid’s atrocities
… rights abuses. Tutu said he himself had told De Klerk about allegations of security force involvement in the … we believed in this policy but it is a policy…
PlaceRosemount
… Woodbrook Farm was established at about the same time as East London, and was located … been overtaken by suburban residential development, and in about 1909…
Oudtshoorn, Western Cape
… of George, and was proclaimed a separate division in about 1858. The local economy was based primarily upon … 'Betsie'. Visitors can feed the ostriches as…