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ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1990s
… reported that Defence Minister, Magnus A. Malan, knew as early as 1987 of a secret "hit squad" made up of police … to consider lifting the state of emergency…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… stature in South Africa had never been higher. Early in 1985 the government permitted Lord Bethell, a … during several visits to the county in late 1985 and…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… stature in South Africa had never been higher. Early in 1985 the government permitted Lord Bethell, a … during several visits to the county in late 1985 and…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… after me in the year 1942, Comrade Chris Hani at a very early age showed great promise as a bright young person, with … and dedication marked him out as an…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… over the previous 20 years. He told me how he used to go early in the morning to the Greyville Race Track to see the … records at Addington Hospital so as to…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… of popular anti-apartheid struggle rose considerably in early 1984. This resulted mainly from poor conditions in … the crisis. Sporadic disturbances and…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… had been prepared in advance for the cadre’s entry. In the early years, many MK fighters had to fend for themselves and … country by this group in order to…
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
… to promise a more fundamental shift. This came when, in early 1985, the SACP and Sactu bluntly instructed the UDF … tried to resuscitate Sactu publicly…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… on the southeastern edge of the Indian Ocean.3 In the early decades of European presence, the still formidable … Natal, particularly Durban, during the late…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… influenced by the African National Congress (ANC) from an early age. She was a child when the ANC called the boycott … The ANC was officially banned in April…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… as had happened in Britain in the nineteenth and early the early twentieth century. But, as Gann pointed out, the … in Africa and Asia. A debate over…
Chapter V - South Africa belongs to all who live in it
… President of the Congress of Democrats, was one of the early victims, soon followed by several of our executive … afternoon and drive 400 miles to Durban,…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… Federation of South African Women came into being in the early 1950s, at the same time as the effect of the notorious … union circles she is a legend. Many…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… hidden from him. Jonathan Kozol in his book "Death at an early age”, an account of his experiences teaching in a … in South Africa is partly a function of…
PlaceBiedow Valley, Western Province
… stunning! The best Spring flower displays are usually in early to late August. Not September as many people think! The …
PlaceSibudu Cave, North Coast near Ballito (can be spelt Sibhudu)
… directed by Nicholas Conrad, a Professor and chair of the early History Department at the University of Tubing-en in …
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
… of the South African population and the economy.” Quite early on the RDP document says: “Within the framework for … debts, whose origin we discover in Genoa…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… we must change: it was a process. Firstly, it led in the early ‘80s to a split in the National Party. The right wing … only because of communism. We wanted…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
… grew up to be fully aware of gender politics from her early childhood. In the Igbo culture, the male gender is … of a Yellow Sun details the events that took…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
… In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state … though the police luckily did not ask me about the early part of the movie because I…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
… address the challenges of poverty and inequality. Early today, South Africa's economic growth figures were … of goods and services have grown considerably…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
… among the three represented here. He presents an early series that describes the sort of all-white suburb in …
The tragedy of history: When caricature displaces the truth by Thabo Mbeki, 11 January 2016
… to the allegation about Mbeki’s so-called paranoia. Early during my first five years as President of the …
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
… met from the Island, and his influence and effect on that early 1970s generation of Johannesburg white radicals was …
PlacePageview
… a White Suburb, and all that came to an end. In the early 1970s the bulldozers started moving in, but unlike …
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… by tradition. We honour a former activist who through his early political engagement not only endured pain but also …
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… of our society means. Those who prophesised doom and an early end to reconciliation have been proved wrong. The …
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… of the clandestine SACP’s leadership in the late 1950s and early 1960s. He told the Cape Town based Russian researcher …
The South African Congress of Trade Unions
… their hours were so ridiculous. They used to get up very early in the morning and they used to get off very late at …
PlaceNyanga Township
… 1976, in solidarity with the students of Soweto . In the early 1980s, Nyanga township became notorious for its faction …