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ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
Nawal el-Saadawi has been creative her entire life. As a young girl, she imagined becoming a singer or a dancer. Her dreams of becoming an artist were opposed…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, from the south east and…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott - Timeline
22 June 1946 —The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
Abstract Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has enshrined gender equality within the…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… Clare Goodlatte, a box of documents was found in the early 1980s. There is still a mystery surrounding this discovery. … had an unbroken record since 1935…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
How did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important to understand that the focus of THIS section…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaA change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest…
EventTranskei breaks all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa
Transkei Prime Minister Chief Kaiser Matanzima announces his government's decision to break all diplomatic ties with the Republic of South Africa.This included…
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
… by the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group. Since the mid-1980s, the ANC’s declared intention had been to combine … for the ANC and, during an undisclosed…
ArticleZion Christian Church (ZCC)
The largest and fastest-growing of the African independent churches in the 1990s is the Zion Christian Church[i] . Its members, estimated to number between 2…
Durban an Overview
In 1824 Nathaniel Isaacs obtained from Shaka, King of the amaZulu, a grant of land in the area immediately surrounding the bay of Durban. Initially settlement…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
The largest North-Sotho language group in South Africa are the Bapedi group, who arrived in the northern province around the 1650s, and became powerful after…
ArticleBantu education and the racist compartmentalizing of education
In 1949 the government appointed the Eiselen Commission with the task of considering African education provision. The Commission recommended ‘resorting to…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
The Constitutional Court was established in 1994 by South Africa's first democratic constitution - the interim constitution of 1993. The Court, the key…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the frontline states and Lesotho, Lisbon, 25 March 1983
We are gathered here in Lisbon, representatives of governments, non-governmental organisations and liberation movements, because there exists a situation in…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they…
EventZimbabawean Independence Day
Zimbabwe Independence Day On this day in 1980, Southern-Rhodesia gained independence from the British, taking the name Zimbabwe. The day marked the end of…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Market id demolished to make space for a new freeway. 1980s The Ooka brothers take over the Shiraz Cinema from the …
ArchiveInterview with Marumo Moerane
Oral interview with Marumo Moerane, on his experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
… of international funders when they first set up during the 1980s. They are now working against a difficult economic …
ArchiveInterview with Herby Govinden
Oral interview with Herby Govinden, on his experiences as a student and lecturer at Fort Hare in the 1950s
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
ArchiveInterview with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
Oral interview, conducted in Bloemfontein, with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, on her experiences as a student at Fort Hare in the late 1950s
PlaceWindyridge House, 24 Newington Road, Port Elizabeth
This is one of the best examples of Victorian Architecture in Port Elizabeth, and is typical of its Town and Houses Built, during the 1880s.
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe is the highest honour awarded by the ANC to those who have made an outstanding contribution and sacrifice to the liberation struggle…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
Frederik Willem de Klerk was born in Johannesburg on 18 March 1936. de Klerk grew up in a political family. He later studied law and practiced as a lawyer in…
EventANC calls on International community to save lives
At the end of the Soekmekaar and Silverton trial in Pretoria, three young Black men, Noimbithi Johnson Lubisi 28, Petrus Tsepo Mashigo 20, and Naphtali Manani…