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ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… became South Africa largest trade union federation at the time. The first group, the Joint Committee of African Trade … mainly from the Rand, also affiliated…
Early civilisations from around the world: Mesopotamia, China, Indus River Valley, the Mesoamerican empires
… beginning to observe that the rivers flooded at the same time as the appearance of particular patterns of stars in the … Image source The Sumerians were once…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… May Andrews leaves for Russia to take up duties as a full-time officer on the Comintern Committee. As a result, Bunting … be elected to The Party’s central…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… past in armoured vehicles, which were not common at the time, and the press followed, but we were twice stopped and … do not believe a threatening situation…
ArticleBecoming human in southern Africa
… all over the world about 10 000 year ago and for the first time animals and plants were domesticated. It also changed … rainfall area that is good for…
ArticleHitler’s racial state in Germany
… take their lead from watching your attitude and mood. Take time for yourself, too, and try to deal with your own … Anti-Semitism in Nazi Germany At the time…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… for more open discussion of people's power. By this time popular committees and people's courts had sprung in … over the Easter weekend. Here it was…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… on 24 February, COSATU and affiliates decided that the time had come to work together with even more groups with … lay in the municipal elections in October…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… Kathrada who was later elected as Chairman of TIYC. Over time other members of the Indian community joined, such as … It seems there were few female…
ArticleDefinition of Natural and Cultural heritage sites
… important exchange of human values over a long period of time. This exchange must be seen in architecture or …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… for anti-apartheid resistance, and for its capacity to challenge the apartheid project. The BCM emerged with the …
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… Elias Matsoaledi and now met Andrew Mlangeni for the first time. These two comrades had not been at Liliesleaf farm and … apartheid. They agreed that Joel…
ArticleAfrikaner Jewry in South Africa
… meant that the Jewish population of South Africa at the time constituted 3,7 percent of the overall white population … European and American newspaper…
ArticleThe African Students Association (ASA)
… of the banned African National Congress (ANC). At the time of its formation, Durban was the centre of Black student … demise of the organisation Events in…
The armed struggle and state repression of the 1960s
… MK. Mandela managed to slip through their hands for a long time, earning him the name 'the Black Pimpernel'. However in … Walter Sisulu, Govan Mbeki and…
A New Date For the Founding of the South African Society of Artists, and it’s Second Annual Exhibition of 1898
… done by eminent artists who had visited the country from time to time had attracted considerable attention." Another source of …
ArticleShipwrecks in South Africa
… Historic shipwrecks are time capsules of their time, they are often untouched for decades, sometimes … they are discovered. Everything onboard gets frozen in…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
… Sisulu is placed under a banning order for the fifth time since 1963. 1 July, Helen Joseph, who had been under … eliminate ANC bases and it supports…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… to regard her as an expert because I believe that a time will be coming when the world, and particularly … to the question of what preparations we are making…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… difficulty would be kept in employment, for a period of time and re-skilled. Discussion on the practical detail is … let us join our hands to find solutions…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime, which, facing myriad … avert what can become the greatest African…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… developments, in a very real sense the 1940s was a time of regeneration for African politics. It was a watershed … servility toward whites in authority. The…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
… go unnoticed, such that the President of the ANC at the time Inkosi Albert Luthuli remarked about OR, "The quality of … country is: "Are we united as South…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… further augmentation of water supplies, while at the same time, encouraging all our citizens to appreciate water as a … to expand the tourism sector. Let us…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… does not just condemn racism. It constitutes a challenge to all accepted values, an invitation to continuous … been changing in many ways, great and small,…
Mission Stations - G-H
… a sight which surprised me exceedingly, and for the first time brought in a lively manner to my mind the idea of my … observable in every part of the…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… WWII. Reflecting back he stated “[I] had more than enough time on my hands in any event…” to put together notes … were propaganda publications. They were…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… ruled out as these were already overcrowded. At the same time, Malan appointed the Sauer Committee, which argued that … avoid arrest. The Nationalist…
ArticleWorkshop ‘71
… with South African social issues prevalent during the time. The first production of workshop ‘71 took much of its …
ArticleCurries Fountain events timeline
… As suggested above it appears that Curries was at one time used for motor racing. 1940 Chief Scout Sir Baden Powell …