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EventThe ship São José is wrecked
… the Cape coast. About 1300 ships have been wrecked on or near the South African coast since the year 1500. …
EventTsotsi wins Academy Award
… - where survival is the primary objective - Tsotsi ("thug" or "gangster") traces six days in the life of a ruthless …
EventDefence Minister disputes HIV statistics in SANDF
… group. He maintained that the percentage was about 22% or 23%. Lekota was responding to a question from Democratic …
EventCecil John Rhodes is forced to resign
… by the forces of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic). The operation was further doomed when …
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… our diversity which divides us; it is not our ethnicity, or religion or culture that divides us. Since we have achieved our … services to all. For our…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… its territory, claiming to have either destroyed SWAPO or broken its back; but at the end of the day, they find … silent and aloof when the aggressor is…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… scathingly referred to them as 'lackeys', 'collaborators' or 'quislings'. On the left was the Teachers League of South … by the red meat boycott, the bus…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO MEMBERS OF THE SWISS-SOUTH AFRICAN ASSOCIATION Zurich, 2 September 1997
… mega-projects, each costing half a billion Rands or more, that are already operating or in progress. This underlying economic strength has … It is natural…
Address on the occasion of the Launch of the Final Report of the World Commission on Dams 16 November 2000, in Cabot Hall, London Friends Honoured Guests Ladies and Gentlemen
… the struggle for political freedom. They can grow together or they can unravel each other. Threats to our governments in … of two evils: relocate some so…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 4 February 1974 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… our ordinary people. None of us would for a moment deny, or have ever tried to deny, that inflation affects us all, … Swiss growth. It is an arrangement…
ArchiveAfrican languages should be at the center of educational and cultural achievement by Abdi Latif Dahir (Quartz Africa)
… used at high-level intergovernmental meetings, panels, or in scholarly conferences as a language of research and … work was done with intellectuals not…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… For, the apartheid system defines labour as either white or black; and if black, apartheid assigns to it many of the … of our country, however, May Day is…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… but his photography doesn't stoop to rhetorical statements or images of pathos. Instead, a suggestion of spiritual … endlessly and Goldblatt focuses on its…
ArchiveHugh Masekela - what I'm thinking about ... a crisis for African culture (The Guardian)12 March 2013
… and great musicians study that, whether it's Palestrina or Bach or Fela [Kuti]. But if you're into the dark glasses and … wearing the same outfits, and they…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… doek on her head. She rests. She dreams. Maybe she prays. Or weeps. But the manner in which Badsha has caught this … even when the photographs were taken in…
PlaceDriekopseiland: Rock engravings
… meaning that the images are not easily interpretable or recognizable shapes. Archaeologists have found it … that the motifs at the site are a form of…
Chapter 26. Further Attacks-Passport Case - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… At the same time, we informed the employers that, whether or not the agreement was gazetted, its provisions must be … to curtail the freedom of people who…
PlaceUmlazi
… History of Umlazi The history of Umlazi (or Mlazi) dates back to 1845 when British settlers forcibly … " (Zulu for the sour acid produced from fermented milk…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… the expression of those contradictions. When it collapsed, or became weak, we would be released - unless some stupidity … we were alone in our single cells…
Notes from Books
… settlement in the 17th century. Dutch soldiers married or kept as concubines Asian women, including Indian women. … came from so many different parts that…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… a democratic society in South Africa a realizable vision? Or is it merely a mirage?" I say, it is a realizable vision. … of the mud." If there be human…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… the White workers with threats of "Black Republic" or "non-European rule". More than this. We do not envisage a … in the heart first of every non-European,…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… the sake of organisation. People can be organised for good or evil. This on the face of it may seem a childish … to ask himself the question: What purpose…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… a democratic society in South Africa a realizable vision? Or is it merely a mirage?" I say, it is a realizable vision. … of the mud." If there be human…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… This may account for the fact that he was never suspended or expelled from the Party hierarchy despite "bitter fights". … people against exploitation and…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… take. In the event of Swart making an attack upon me or any other official, and opinions were divided. Some … the factories showed not the slightest sign of…
The defiance campaign by M. P. Naicker
… all people of South Africa, irrespective of race, colour or creed, have the inalienable and fundamental right to … people are conducting is not directed…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… struggle for freedom, "sparing nothing of their strength or courage . . ." Mary Moodley, a prominent founding member … her way through life. She knew no…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 18 May 1983, Volume 72 and Volume 73
… in whih finance is obtained, for what purpose the money or assets are being used and other matters which the …
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 16 May 1983, Volume 68 and Volume 69
… in whih finance is obtained, for what purpose the money or assets are being used and other matters which the …