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Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… of unlimited powers granted to the state under repeated States of Emergency. Cape Town was one of the many cities … rebuilding after the heavy repression of…
PlaceBothasig, Cape Town
The Cape Town Suburb of Bothasig is known for the wonderful Christmas lights displays that residents have been putting up for the last few Years. Decorated…
PlaceSlave Church Museum
The South African Missionary Meeting House/ Sendinggestig Museum (short for the Slave Church Museum) was built between 1802 and 1804. It was founded by the…
EventUDF activist Toto Dweba's mutilated body is found
According to Coleman (ed.) in A Crime Against Humanity, the mutilated body of Toto Roy Dweba, member of the United Democratic Front (UDF) and of the Natal…
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
… of Cameroon, who spoke on behalf of the 49 African Member States, I wish to appeal to the members of the Council to …
The coup that set Ghana and Africa 50 years back by Charles Quist-Adade (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
… of the Central Intelligence Agency (C.I.A) of United States of America. [1] His detractors quickly dismissed his …
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… protest movements such as #BlackLivesMatter in the United States in confronting racism’s sometimes “whitewashed” …
Input by Secretary General Gwede Mantashe on ANC Policies and the NDP at Wits University, 25 July 2013
… of government and in specific sectors of society. The NDP states that it "aims to eliminate poverty and reduce …
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… became Bantustans and then homelands and 'self-governing states'. Whatever they were called, the social reality of …
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 19 September 2003
… us while we negotiated. The preamble of our Constitution states this very clearly, and I quote: We, the people of …
Bishop Tutu’s 1999 interview on NewsHour
… because Israel is important for the world, for the United States, but I am saying South Africa is equally important, …
PlaceBotswana
… . It was also one of the poorest and least-developed states in the World. Botswana is formally a multiparty …
ArticleThe Jacob Zuma Presidency - 2009 to 2017 (March)
Jacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma ascended to the South African presidency on 9 May 2009 on a wave of popular euphoria fuelled by voters and fellow party politicians…
Gertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… traveling to other African countries, the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada and other countries around …
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… man who contracted the virus while in California, United States. Later that year, 250 random blood samples were taken …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The Report of Native Churches Commission is published and states that: “‘the activities of Congress vary inversely with …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… Communists in the World’ list published by the United States Congress. 5-6 March, The South African Congress of …
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… South Africa’s land. Section 1, sub section ‘a’ of the Act states, “a native shall not enter into any agreement or …
The French Revolution
… has especially influenced European countries, the United States of America, Canada and Australia to run …
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… cultural significance” across the Southern African states, now signifying an “association with liberalism” …
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
… call for a more immediate starting point when constructing states “whose genealogies do not reach back directly into the … Town: Blue Weaver, 2007. Print…
ArticlePoqo in the Western Cape and Transkei in the early 1960s
The formation of the Pan Africanist Congress’ (PAC) Africanist Task Force (ATF) preceded the formation of party’s military wing Poqo in February 1960. After…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… SAIC would send similar delegations to Britain, the United States and to the United Nations Organisation (UNO) 3 When it … to any form of discrimination…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… Arab League; the Council on African Affairs in the United States, headed by Paul Robeson; the Peoples` Progressive … September 12, 1952, the delegations of…
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
In an interview with the New Nation, Felix Ndimene alleged that the Selous Scouts of Pietersburg and Five Reconnaissance Regiment (5RR), part of the SA Special…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 108th Anniversary of the African National Congress by Cyril Ramaphosa, 8 January 2020
… by the provocative military actions of the United States in Iraq that resulted in the death of Iranian General …
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… in South Africa, Australia, New Zealand and the United States. In 1979, while working as a reporter on the Sunday …
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
Professor Ben Turok, now 92 years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok is the sole surviving…
PlacePinelands
Pinelands is just 10 km from the city centre. It originally was an unsuccessful attempt at a pine tree plantation called: 'Uitvlugt'. Rows of pine trees were…