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… Report of the Social Scientists Seminar held in Moscow from 17 - 22 March 1987 …

… Letter from Steve Biko to Colin Collins, regarding arrangements for …

… 3 students from Johannesburg are the first to climb ‘Devil’s Tooth’ in …

… Birthed in the patience of pain: an exercpt from The Depth of Memories: (a poem) …

… at the Alexandra Health Centre: Initial findings from a recent evaluation …

… Sash march in protest against South Africa`s withdrawal from the Commonwealth, March 1961 …

… Petition to King George V, from the South African Native National Congress, July 20 1914 …

… Excerpts from an address of the central committee to the Communist …

… to receive not one Honorary Doctorate but two, and not from one prestigious institution of learning but two! I will … skills in abundance. Our country has drawn great benefit from the hundreds of young South Africans studied in your … Address on Accepting an Honarary Doctorate from the Russian Academy of Sciences Moscow, 30 April 1999 …

… domain) Image source On 27 October 1808, about 340 slaves from the Swartland and Koeberg hinterland of Cape Town rose … Salt River, the slaves were met by troops sent out from the strongly-guarded Castle and were swiftly overcome. … food. But usually slaves then ran away, seeking to escape from the colony into the interior. But by the end of the …

… Urban Bantu Council Chamber, Jabulani, on Thursday 29 July 1976 at 2.30pm …

… Urban Bantu Council Chamber, Jabulani, on Wednesday 26 May 1976 at 2.30pm …

… Bantu Council Chamber, Jabulani, on Thursday 29 April 1976 at 2.30pm …

… Bantu Council Chamber, Jabulani, on Thursday 29 January 1976 at 2.30pm …

… of three children. My earliest memory is of our kitchen. From the minaret of the mosque the people who called the … first in every standard except one, she learnt Arabic from a young age, her first teacher being a Turk by the name … of the Fish Hoek Welfare Association dated 6 December 1976, thanking her for all her good work over the years. A …

… Girjabaksh, came to South Africa as an indentured labourer from Bihar, India. His mother, Gumte Singh, was born in … on for about three or four years. Only due to pressure from the prisoners — hunger strikes, protests, etc. — did … into exile in Mozambique.  He left on Christmas morning, 1976, with the assistance of an ANC underground operative who …

… the hotbeds of the violently suppressed Soweto uprising in 1976. While still a teenager, he began his career as a street … in 1987 he was appointed at the New Nation newspaper.  From 1988 to 1998 he worked as a documentary photographer and … Bonn, Germany. 1995: "Transitions: Contemporary Art from South Africa" F-Stop Gallery, Bath, U.K. 1995: "The …

… Letter from S.E Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to the … Media Training Workshop regarding their current account as from the records of standard bank they unfortunately had an … Letter from S.E. Corrie Assistant Manager of the Standard bank to …

… During Apartheid, South Africa was expelled from many international sporting bodies. On 23 March, 1970, South Africa was banned from the Davis Cup - the largest international tennis event. … United Nations, India and Boycott of Apartheid Sport , from  African National Congress , [online], Available at  …

… which he had the opportunity to meet Congress leaders from all over South Africa. He returned to Pietermaritzburg … established his own legal practice in Pinetown, Natal. In 1976, before the Soweto uprisings , Gumede participated in … Committee, an umbrella body embracing representatives from many areas around Durban and Pinetown. In addition, …

… Goldblatt spent six months photographing in Soweto and from 1976 – 1977 he travelled  on a bicycle photographing mainly … Cartier-Bresson Award. He received honorary doctorates from the University of Cape Town and the University of the … Accessed 29 November 2010] David Goldblatt: Photographs From South Africa [online] Available at: moma.org [Accessed …

… of their birth. Earlier, Monty's grandparents were brought from India to work the huge sugar cane plantations owned by … landowners. There were promises of a better life from that obtaining in a poverty-stricken India dominated by … as the new President, and the new executive, drawn from all walks of life - workers and trade unionists, …

… From:  South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of … Cape Town. With regard to a possible transfer of the paper from Cape Town to Johannesburg, I sent you a couple of weeks …

… (popularly known as ‘Thongo’) who had just returned from the war. The two met at the Lutheran church they both … struggle, aiding the African National Congress (ANC) from her home (which would later be known as’ kwaMagogo’, … by John Nkadimeng when he arrived in Eswatini in 1976, replaced ‘Come Again’. The house became the predominant …

… we are to be at the mercy of the Communist Party, take it from me, the Congress hasn't got another year to live. The … whose children do not eat until the mother comes back from the white man's kitchen carrying scraps of food left at … is to get into all Congress branches to disrupt Congress from within …

… he spends six years studying with financial assistance from bursaries and additional funding provided by George … in Monrovia, Liberia which would be held in January 1976. 1978 27 February, Robert Sobukwe passed away on from … in a funeral attended by amongst others Bishop Desmond Tutu and Chief Mangosuthu Buthelezi. An angry mob of PAC …

… Recommendations from the pupils of the Cape Town Bantu schools with regard to … From the African Scholars of Cape Town: Once we return to our …

… Police as a constable. He left his home in November 1976 when he joined the African National Congress (ANC) to …

… A personal message from the US Under Secretary of State to the South African … R. F. Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information from Under Secretary of State Lawrence S. Eagleburger …