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… General circular letter from the President of the National Union of Students, Neville Curtis, quoting from a letter from C.D.T. Sibisi informing him that the University of Natal Black Section Student Representative Council had …

… Kerr, educationist, church leader and the first principal of the South African Native College (later the University of Fort Hare), was born in Kilmarnock, Scotland. The Presbyterian Church of Southern Africa started the Dr Alexander Kerr Bursary Fund … Sonderling, N.E. (ed.)  New Dictionary of South African Biography, v. 2 . …

… Gold and black poster. Notice of a conference at Camden Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd … April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the Anti-Apartheid Movement in London. List of speakers. Conference on the role of the black community in …

… Albert Nzula, teacher, journalist and leader of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA), died of pneumonia in Moscow, USSR. He left SA in 1931 to study in … From Protest to challenge: A documentary History of African Politics in South Africa: 1882-1964, Vol.4 …

… Soderlund in 1984 A colour poster, advertising the release of this Swedish documentary, which tells the story of the ANC‘s Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College (SOMAFCO), … Tanzanian Government. A documentary seen through the eyes of one of its students'. …

… Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the economic crisis, the South … development, the people's response, the political crisis of the ruling party and the ruling class, the realignment of …

… NUSAS press bulletin on the 1967 National Day of Affirmation of Academic and Human Freedom in South Africa. Contains … had accepted the invitation from the National Union of South African Students to deliver the annual lecture at …

… “I am khanga - I wrap myself around the curvaceous bodies of women all over Africa. I am the perfect nightdress on … African nights - I exist for the comfort and convenience of a woman - But no no no make no mistake - I am not here to … her identity, to go into self-imposed exile with the hope of starting a new life. Advocate Charin De Beer remembers …

… men by race and condemns the majority to a position of permanent inferiority. In that letter, I said: "I regard … all men everywhere who have sacrificed for the Brotherhood of Man." Now I write again because, as each day passes, life … difficult. Our every action meets the fierce repression of the South African Government. Our people, living under …

… the Tugela River, about 23km from Weenen and on the edge of Msinga which was a District, established in the former Homeland of; KwaZulu. It is situated on Land that is rough, arid and … former white Farms acquired in the mid-1960's for purposes of relocating people evicted from elsewhere. From the late …

… heavily supported by soldiers from the People's Republic of China, received large amounts of weapons, and were supported by squads of aircraft supplied by the Soviet Union, piloted by Soviet …

… grant independence to the four regions that it was made up of – namely the Ivory Coast, Niger, Dahomey (now the Republic of Benin) and Volta (now Burkina Faso). The French Fifth … and the Nigerien National Assembly agreed on the 28th of July 1960 that Prime Minister Hamani Diori would govern …

… district. It was loop-holed during the Anglo-Zulu War of 1879.  It bore witness to both the South African Wars and … into Durban’s biggest history museum. It boasts two floors of exhibition space depicting aspects of the region’s early history. Visit the Old Court House …

… The Rugby Museum has one of the largest private collections of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the …

… Building when, for a time it was used to House Prisoners-of-War, during the Anglo-Boer War . Single-storied red brick … This is where Winston Churchill escaped, at the age of 25. The school was the forerunner of both: ' Pretoria Boys High Schoo l and Clapham High …

… was filled to capacity with spectators. At the beginning of the match some people in the stadium chanted Movement of Democratic Change (MDC) slogans and flashed MDC signs. Towards the end of the match some spectators started to throw cans and mostly …

… United Nations Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold of Sweden. He stated that although the TRC could not verify the authenticity of such a plot, he decided to release the documents to inform … landing in Zambia, killing them instantly. At the time of his death he was trying to negotiate peace between the …

… Enshrined in the South African Bill of rights, is the right to free access to information. In this spirit, the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa granted Midi Television, a free-to-air … which was to be ETV, began broadcasting in October of this year. This effectively created competition for the …

… wins Zambian elections and will become the first president of an independent republic on 24 October 1964. The victory of Kaunda in the elections signaled an important phase in the … Zambia as its Western Front among others. The presence of the ANC and ZAPU in Zambia resulted in cooperation between …

… the Netherlands. The quagga had once roamed the pastures of the Karoo and the southern Free State. It differed in … from other zebra in that it was striped on the front half of its body only. The upper part of its body was a creamy, light brown, while its belly and …

… On the 25th of May 2017 the Economic Freedom Fighters Student Command … Ndlozi. This event will take place at the University of Cape Town's New Lecture Theatre Building. The lecture seeks to speak into the conversation of liberation movements in Africa post supposed Independence, …

… This book examines-and plays with the boundaries of-the disconcerting, discomfiting meanings that have grown … It argues that coloured identities are a valid part of black and African experiences, while refusing to erase their complexity and specificity. The bondedness of identities is acknowledged, yet the authors stress the …

… One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by the policies of the previous regime. In building a new, democratic nation, …

… where you’ll experience the colours and hustle and bustle of Africa. This area has a mix of ‘muti’ shops, spazas, a mosque, a Hindu temple and the … diverse and the Mariamman Temple is one such example of this. The temple is famous for its unusual and exotic …

… African Defence Force soldiers, travelling in a convoy of more than ten armoured vehicles, surrounded the … the strike the next week to support students' boycott of classes and demands. They agreed to introduce an … began their boycott to protest against the presence of the military in townships and schools in the wake of the …

… President Lucas Mangope, the leader of the apartheid homeland Bophuthatswana, retreated from the capital, Mmabatho, in the face of a popular uprising after he had tried to boycott … for free political activity in Bophuthatswana, a member of the anti-election Freedom Alliance. His stance caused …

… from chairman Archbishop Desmond Tutu and the resignation of vice-chairman Dr. Alex Boraine who had also publicly … Council document that government ordered the elimination of state opponents. De Klerk, in his earlier applications to … claims that the pre-1994 governments ordered the murder of anti-apartheid activists. Because the State Security …

… Former apartheid era Minister of Law and Order, Adriaan Vlok, applied to the Truth and … Commission (TRC) for amnesty for his role in the bombing of a trade union headquarters in Johannesburg in 1987. He … era. His appearance before the commission stunned many of his former colleagues. In his testimony to the TRC, Vlok …

… medium and painted exclusively in it. He joined the group of artists known as Artists Under the Sun. The group … at Joubert Park in the Johannesburg inner city. One of his biggest exhibitions was of a collection of his paintings spanning a period of 25 …

… Adebayor is a Togolese footballer. He was born to parents of Yoruba descent in the city of Lomé. After a talent scout spotted him playing, he was … cup in Germany. The same year, he took part The Africa Cup of Nations. In 2010, Adebayor briefly retired from …