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ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… since. In Jamaica he works for the Jamaican Broadcasting Commission and is a staff writer for the Holiday Magazine. …
Apartheid - A Crime Against Humanity: The Unfolding of Total Strategy 1948-1989
… on the desirability (or otherwise) of establishing a Truth Commission. We quote verbatim from a memorandum forming part …
The girl child
… avoid indulging in activities such as sex, drugs etc. The Commission on Gender and Equality is strongly opposed to this …
ArticleNew identities and the construction of heritage
… and our whiteness. The Chairman of the SA Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), Jody Kollapen said as recently as March, …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… the meeting in the mountain. Shortly after the massacre, a Commission of Inquiry was held. The Mpondo people demanded …
ArchiveHugh Lewin, 1939–2019, RIP by Jennifer Malec, 17 January 2019
… Committee of the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission. In 2003, he was awarded the Olive Schreiner Prize … often in the public hearings of the…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… done next. Somewhere along the way, some of us attended a NUSAS conference in Pietermaritzburg. I recall sitting on a …
EventSA's Fifa membership reinstated
… was not a 'real national association'. A 1956 Fifa commission of inquiry upheld this decision. The Commission of Inquiry accepted however, SAFA's argument…
ArticleDurban Timeline 1497-1990
… when the Sarah Bell sailed into the bay. West appointed a Commission to give African land holding legal status. … all traders to be registered. Sir Henry…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 4 - Participatory Democracy
… they are able to begin to assert some control over wages and over working conditions. But by the very nature of … they can discuss and fix certain basic…
EventBishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo
… of Cape Town, and chair of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The award …
EventA bomb blast rocks the ANC London office
… applied for amnesty before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Coetzee's accomplices were Craig Williamson, John …
The Trust Feed Massacre
… was granted amnesty from the Truth and Reconciliation Commission. … 1 May, 1992, tech.mit.edu| Truth and Reconciliation Commission, (2003). 'Amnesty Hearings…
EventSouthern Rhodesia rejects joining the Union of South Africa
… Legislative Council pushed for resolution of the issue. A Commission was established by the British government under …
PlaceRegina Mundi, Catholic Church, Soweto
… Desmond Tutu presided over the Truth and Reconciliation Commission hearings from 1995 to 1998 which were held in the …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from…
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… struggle against the efforts of employers to reduce white wages nearer to the native level. Against this slogan our …
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… to the masters granting the skilled workers increased wages. The insistence of the Labour Party upon the British …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… it was easy to conclude, the cause was inadequate wages. From the heart of the boycott movement the demand for … It could have linked together the struggle…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… of APLA victims before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) most of these attacks and murders were …
Address to Extraordinary Summit of the World Economic Forum 21 June 2003
… a Government of National Unity. "TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION COMMISSION" As a further effort to enhance our process of … decision was taken to establish a Truth…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… maintained contact with his fellow-members of the Negro Commission founded in Brussels in 1927, but also participated … the Soviet Union. GUMEDE AND THE…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… mother appeared before the Truth and Reconciliation Commission to plead for the case to be reopened. But although … who in 2008 would supply an affidavit to…
Address by Jacob Zuma marking the Commemoration of the International Day of persons with disabilities, during the State visit by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, 03 December 2010
… to the latest annual Report of the Employment Equity Commission. The report indicates that people with … to 6 000 employees according to the Employment…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… name on their lips and in their thoughts as never before. NUSAS arranged a series of meetings on different university … I remain one of the Honorary…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… Zuma announces the terms of reference for the Judicial Commission of Inquiryto investigate events that led to the … states that nobody can force him to…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… strategy that many members undertook were sit-ins in the commission courts. Well throughout the 1980s this exercise … freedom and democracy by participating…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… by the United Democratic Front (UDF). The United Nations Commission on Human Rights rejected this 'new Constitution', …
EventViolence breaks out at the University of Zululand
… about him which offended Inkatha Youth supporters. A Commission of Enquiry was set up to investigate the … Study Commission on U.S. Policy toward Southern…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… had been closed. During the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings almost ten years later, five former …