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ArchiveMandela: time to make a clear, decisive break
… Mandela: time to make a clear, decisive break …
ArchiveCity of gold yields to the evidence
… City of gold yields to the evidence …
ArchiveEditorial: Breaking down walls to build bridges
… Editorial: Breaking down walls to build bridges …
What happened to the dreams of youth?
… What happened to the dreams of youth? …
ArchiveFacing up to price of new freedoms
… Facing up to price of new freedoms …
ArchiveNew regions: give less say to politicians
… New regions: give less say to politicians …
ArchiveNew service to public on political leaders
… New service to public on political leaders …
ArchiveMobilise and march forward to people`s power
… Mobilise and march forward to people`s power …
ArchiveEditorial comment: Living monuments to our future
… Editorial comment: Living monuments to our future …
ArchiveDestroy bantustans and march forward to freedom
… Destroy bantustans and march forward to freedom …
ArchiveEditorial comment: Death to the apartheid monster!
… Editorial comment: Death to the apartheid monster! …
ArchiveAddress to members of Umkhonto we Sizwe
… Address to members of Umkhonto we Sizwe …
ArchiveEditorial comment: Call to the white youth
… Editorial comment: Call to the white youth …
Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine.
… Egyptian President Nasser pledges to reconquer Palestine. …
BiographyPatrick Chamusso
… children. I am a grassroots person. I am here to help the poorest of the poor people. As a young man, … was not interested in joining the struggle. He…
BiographySunny Girja Singh
… (uMkhumbane), Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), in 1939 to a working-class family. His father, Girjabaksh, came to South Africa as an indentured labourer…
BiographyPravin Jamnadas Gordhan
… South Africans. For those of us who have had the privilege to work very closely with him, and really got to know him, we will have learnt that he is a man…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… Natal in 1920, and although his family was poor he managed to complete high school. He worked as a truck driver, a union … Congress (NIC) from 1945 until…
BiographyRonald (Ronnie) Kasrils
… until 1962. The Sharpeville massacre prompted Kasrils to join the African National Congress (ANC) in 1960, … in Natal until it was banned in 1962. His…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army’
… British High Commissioner for Southern Africa delivers to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army, handover offenders. Frere who was appointed in 1877…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
… South African (Anglo-Boer) War 1899-1902 that was fought to achieve it. She opposed racism in whatever form, whether … Olive was the ninth of twelve…
EventFNB cancels its R20 million anti-crime initiative designed to encourage President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority
… the intention of encouraging then President Thabo Mbeki to make crime his priority. However, after a private meeting … was a form of incitement against Mbeki…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The African Peoples Organisation and the Teachers League of South Africa
… illusions that support for the war would eventually lead to their grievances being taken seriously by the British and … the war very clear: ‘We look forward…
BiographyGertrude Hope (nee Posthumus) Cooper
… she attained her Senior Certificate in 1941 and then went to the University of Cape Town from 1942 to 1944 where she graduated with a BA degree with her main…
BiographyDennis Brutus
… day Zimbabwe) on 28 November in 1924.His parents moved to Port Elizabeth where he grew up,at the age of four he … of the South African Sports Association, an…
BiographyGeorge Sewpersadh
… vendor and his mother a housewife. His family was forced to move to Reservoir Hills as their property was taken over by the … up all these small businessmen…
BiographyDavid Hemson
… and socially. He was drafted out of high school to the South African Army. (He was one of the few men at his … between 1963 and 1964, Hemson was given the…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the British, American and French zones of Berlin, a city … This event was one of the first…
EventSouth African Airways is given permission to fly over the bulge of Africa as negotiations to end apartheid gain momentum
… of apartheid in 1948, various attempts had been made to isolate the country. One area where this was evident was … countries had denied it over-flying rights…
EventNRP leader, Vause Raw announces that his party is ready to give the President’s Council a chance
… Party (NRP), Vause Raw announced that his party was ready to give the President's Council a chance as a start on the road to a negotiated future. The history…