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State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… their proposals on nuclear. These include the United States of America, South Korea, Russia, France and China. All … continent are among the significant…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
… was used against them. In an ironic twist during the 1960 States of Emergency , most of the Congress Alliance leaders … when the heads of government of the…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… after about ten years and went to live in the United States, where one winter he slipped on an icy sidewalk, … more appalling was the way in which Britain…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… obstacles in the way of a conference of Southern African states have now been removed sufficiently. Hostile postures … South Africa's contacts and relations…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… any man who dares call himself a man" above all, as he states in the final words of his speech from the dock at … he addressed the Joint Houses of Congress…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… obstacles in the way of a conference of Southern African states have now been removed sufficiently. Hostile postures … South Africa’s contacts and relations…
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… their proposals on nuclear. These include the United States of America, South Korea, Russia, France and China. All … continent are among the significant…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, Cape Town, June 7, 2006.
… Members are aware, among other things, the Constitution states that: the President must promote the unity of the … as well as intolerance or overactivity of…
PlaceOviston Nature Reserve, Eastern Cape
The Oviston Nature Reserve lies is on the, Southern side of the Gariep Dam. The Reserve has an Area of 16 000 Hectares. This Dam, which is the largest Dam in…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter who had abandoned their first…
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
A Prehistoric Rock Shelter, above the uThongathi River has been declared a World Heritage site. “Sibudu Cave has been identified as having the qualities so…
The Battle of Square Hill
… documentary Forgotten Soldiers, Prof Richard van der Ross states that mixed race men who took part in World War One did …
PlacePhiphidi Falls, Limpopo Province
… proclaimed an independent Bantustan — one of 10 “homeland” states where the country’s black ethnic groups (in this case, …
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
Jock Strachan – who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by deliberately…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the political needs and…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… in Germany and was also well received in the United States where in the '20s and '30s the practice of lynching … John M. Coetzee, in his seminal analysis of…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… ignorance about South Africa (Viljoen 2006). In the United States, he met again with Langston Hughes and became … of Texas and venture on a lecture tour…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… discrimination in South Africa and call on the United States government to support African freedom. Later in the … his delegation in publicising their cause…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… fraud. In handing down his sentence, Judge Hilary Squires, states that there was a corrupt relationship between Schabir … This comes after the National…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… signify suppression and racism. For example, Jansen states that ‘Afrikaans is not merely the language of [W]hite …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… In his reply to the telegram, the Union Governor General states that the conference must acknowledge repatriation as … In his reply to the telegram, the…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… the first fundamental principle of the Olympic Charter states: "No discrimination is allowed against any country or … President of FIFA, and Mr. James…
PlaceNewcastle
Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu Natal and shares its name with a further 27 sister Newcastle's…
PlaceLanseria International Airport, Roodepoort
Commercial and private planes can easily be spotted on the runway a few meters away from their open air viewing deck. It all began when In 1974 the dream…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
My Background When I look back at those activities of 1980, I think of it as the time when I got introduced to the realm of political activism. I had first…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
… the Communists practice. It is not even what the African states practice. But that is the pressure being exerted when …