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Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We called each other … mutual trust, respect, liking and close…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Act No 101: Abolished the Senate, which was replaced with a multiracial President’s Council, consisting of sixty white, … nominated members. The council was…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… 1976 30/11/1981 Wynberg UCT graduate who had worked as a correspondent for the South African News Agency. The … incidents included threatening phone calls…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… impasse. From exile, it was able to re-register as a significant actor in South African politics, primarily by … internal political base, which was not only…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they … Nine days later, the South African…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Noticias, 05 August 1983, Maputo
… the car bomb explosion in Pretoria there has been talk of a change of strategy by the ANC. Has there really been any … that the headquarters of the South…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… on 29 March 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of preparation for both sides, revealing nothing of … the Rivonia Trial he was already an…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… the suffering experienced in passive resistance inspired a change of heart in the rulers. The African National … any concepts and methods of struggle that…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Bengal and the Malabar coast. These Easterners, who had a long tradition of Islam behind them, were responsible for … and spread of Islam at the Cape of Good…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… by the apartheid government who would pass legislation as a way of suppressing resistance. At the height of apartheid, … threat of being arrested, detained,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… Their remarkable recovery from defeat has been a decisive fact in twentieth-century South African history, … defeat to undisputed (certain) mastery of South…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… of petitioning and placed great emphasis on being part of a British Empire. The war experiences forced Gandhi to … had moved in 1876. The opportunity that…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… were severely restricted by the Statutes of India: a set of laws particularly aimed at restricting the religious … Muslims of the Batavian Empire of which…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… and narratives of the past, history may be claimed as a source of power. The significance of the ‘Cattle Killing … intends to undertake, because it is…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… the suffering experienced in passive resistance inspired a change of heart in the rulers. The African National … any concepts and methods of struggle that…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so if they make … the African National Congress, its foe…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison … "People seem to be alarmed at the fact that there may be…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… century, Hachten and Giffard say: ‘The Afrikaner press was a creation of Afrikaner political aspirations, established by … power base. Unlike virtually all…
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… when the School Board Bill was proposed in 1905 he played a leading part in explaining it to the Coloured people, … education, and that they have an intense…
ArchiveAn Analysis of the Imprisonment and Detainment Treatment of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela by Monica McCausland
… in October 1958 when she was arrested while attending a protest in Johannesburg against the apartheid government’s … was by far the longest and most grueling…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… have much opposition from many of the Moslems, who as a section, will not understand what progress is. Their policy … the broad Muslim community, while the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… government began implementing apartheid by passing a series of racist laws, notably the Population Registration … resistance. This culminated in the Congress…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… the rise of apartheid. Although South Africa was already a very segregated country, apartheid laws introduced after … populations of South Africa from the…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
… Mandela walked out of the gates of Victor Verster Prison, a moment in our history that signalled perhaps more vividly … our nation, we are joined by the…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… Sunny, for speaking with us today. I’m going to touch a little bit on your early life, when you were born in South … what, south-west of Durban; area called…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus … this festival lasted from some time…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… safety nets for vulnerable people in society. There was a long discussion on the need to provide some form of safety … policy framework. This discussion was…
ANC National Disciplinary Committee, 29 February 2012, Luthuli House, Johannesburg
… its decisions have been made on the evidence before it and a complete Record of the proceedings is available to support … could be construed to influence the…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… hope, and with hope came new expectations. Even after a decade of freedom, some of these have not been met. The end … 1993, South Africa shifted towards the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Cultural Activities
… INkundlu ya Bantu, August (Second Fortnight, 1946). A GOOD and representative crowd attended the reception to celebrate the academic achievement of Mr. A. M…