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Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, … in South Africa) referred unambiguously to the socio-political circumstances…
BiographyZanemvula Kizito Mda
… at Peka High School, Lesotho, from 1965 and became a political activist. At the age of seventeen, he was sworn …
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… nations’ living in the Republic would be given equal political rights in their own ‘homelands’. This represented a …
Apartheid power in crisis
… We then examine the defiance campaign and the repressive response of the state. In the second part we extract a … 2. Background There are 2 new factors on…
EventThe Soweto Uprising leaves 174 blacks and two whites dead following 10 days of rioting
… schools and spread across the country. The unrest was a response to the introduction of Afrikaans as the medium of …
EventPretoria disputes compensation for Gaborone raid
… " Apartheid and Southern Africa: The West European response", member states of the Southern African Development …
EventChiliboy Ralepelle becomes the first black player to lead the Springboks against a World XV in England
… for Drug-Free Sport for the banned drug Zeranol. In public response to these results, he maintains that he did not take …
A collection of articles, speeches and letter pertaining to Dr James Sebe Moroka
… January 1952 (pdf) Letter from SW Motseta to Moroka (pdf) Response letter from the Prime Minister's Office to Dr James …
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… or killed by the heavily policed state, where all political activity was banned. Life under apartheid was harsh … especially because they had even less of a…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
… public for centuries, but have had a significance in the political shaping of South Africa, particularly the Cape … and prayer, but also served to grow the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… 20 November, The NRC meets to hear the government’s response on the adjournment decision. The caucus decides to … African unions are not allowed to affiliate…
PlaceJubilee Art Centre
… in Johannesburg. Have emerged in most major cities in response to demand by students who wanted an art education. …
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… a seamstress. Her aunt, Bertha Mkhize, encouraged her political involvement and inspired her early activism. [2] … were turned away from other schools due to…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… were involved in the events at Marikana, and absolved key political figures involved in the event, including Nathi … the ‘Women of Marikana’. The…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… a working group to make recommendations on a definition of political offences in the South African situation; to … on norms and mechanisms for dealing with…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1953
… time, Indians joined hands with Africans in a national political movement. Part two of the S.A.I.C. secretarial … fight against the unjust laws, which…
72. The Defiance Campaign, 1952
… time, Indians joined hands with Africans in a national political movement. Part two of the S.A.I.C. secretarial … fight against the unjust laws, which…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… Throughout the post-colonial period, the so-called political class and the intelligentsia of our Continent have … between the rules and the ruled. In many…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… of living in a council house. But their father valued political discussions, and the children were encouraged to … opinions in small groups. She credits her…
EventVuyisile Mini, Trade unionist and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK) activist is hanged
… to turn him against his colleagues in the struggle. His response was: "They asked me if I was prepared to give …
Maqubela and Dyandyi are sentenced for necklacing
… 1985. Hence they were accused of the murder of Magala. In response the Truth and Reconciliation Commission conducted …
EventPW Botha gives the “Rubicon” Speech in Durban
… against South Africa followed. Click here for ANC's response to PW Botha's Rubicon Speech …
EventKenya is granted independence
… 1947 and birth of the Mau Mau rebel movement. In 1952 in response to the Mau Mau rebellion, the government declared a …
EventPolice increase their presence in Soweto
… government was faced with a looming crisis. The government response was to rushed in a large force of policemen into …
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… famous portals. “The school also nurtured a long line of political and trade union activists such as Cissy Gool and …
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding … Non-racialism...is merely a…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Minute . 2. The final report of the Working Group on political offences dated 21 May 1990, as amended, was … as speedily as possible towards a negotiated…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… to defiance;and to opposing group areas and segregated political structures. It is a community which, in its very … into the country over the past four years…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… which initiate their own projects will receive a positive response from government. The RDP section of my office will … and to protect the institution from…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… [v] . One can only speculate that the immigrants acted in response to proclamations made by fellow countrymen, having …