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ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
… 22 June 1946 — The Government of India requested that the question of …
BiographyPaul Landau
Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today" conference organised by South African…
BiographyPitness (Stalwart) H. Simelane
Pitness Simelane was born in 1910. He was a leader of the African National Congress in Natal in the 1950s. As a teacher in the 1930s he helped establish high…
Ida Fiyo Mntwana
Ida was born in 1903 and worked as a dressmaker. She was the first president of the African National Congress Women’s League and a leader of many mass women’s…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… to the NIC leadership in 1945 and he led the NIC in the 1946 Indian Passive Resistance Campaign (see SAIC history) in …
BiographyCassim Mahomed Lakhi
Cassim Mahomed Lakhi was the youngest son of Mahomed Lakhi and his wife, Hawa Bibi, who were both born in India. They arrived in South Africa in 1894 and…
BiographyMary Thipe
Mary Thipe was born in 1917* in Ramhlakoane, a village in the Matatiele district, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) near the Eastern Cape border. Later, as a young…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
Magwaza Alfred Maphalala was born on 6 April 1948 in Bergville, Ladysmith in Natal. He was an only son. Maphalala completed his schooling and matriculated in…
EventAfrikaans author Mikro is born
Christoffel Hermanus Kahn (Mikro), Afrikaans author, was born at Van Reenensplaas in Williston district, Cape Colony. KÁƒÂƒÂ¼hn attended school at Robertson…
BiographyInkosi Sigananda Shezi
In 1906 he joined Chief Bambatha (also Bambata) and other chiefs in the rebellion against the imposition of the Poll Tax by the colonial government. During the…
PlaceRustenburg
… East in April 1944 and Rustenburg West in November 1946. The Gereformeerde Church established a new …
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
- The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. - Mac Maharaj1 Introduction From about July 1985, the ANC faced a…
The mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1987
The mid 1986 Crossroads/KTC Squatter Camp Demolitions in Wider Context: Paper Presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 14 March 1987 discussing…
BiographyDr Abdullah Abdurahman
Dr Abdullah Abdurahman, who was born in Wellington (Cape Town ) on 18 December 1872 and graduated as a medical doctor from the University of Glasgow in 1893.He…
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
We have gathered here today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We have…
Statement at the Swedish People's Parliament Against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 21 February 1986
Mr. Chairman, Mr. Prime Minister, Comrade leaders of SWAPO of Namibia, Foreign guests, Your Excellencies, Distinguished delegates to this historic Swedish…
The Cambridge History of Africa Volume 8 from c. 1940 to c. 1975 edited by Michael Crowder
From Survival to defiance: Indian Hawkers in Johannesburg 1940-1980 edited by Coco Cachalia
The State versus Nelson Mandela and others: address in mitigation, 12th June 1964
Hanson argues mitigation for the accused, Nelson Mandela and others, on the last day of the Rivonia Treason Trial, in the Supreme Court of South Africa, before…