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ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
… arrest, and the ensuing Rivonia Trial , Mandela was one of a group rather than the leader. One could argue that Mandela’s famous speech from the dock, … a…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… African Church of God and Saints of Christ split, with one of the groups following Enoch Mgijima as Israelites. … erected a building to be used for religious…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… responsibility that has been cast upon each and every one of us when we decided to challenge the might of the Union … greatest Empire of our times?" "It is…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most important turning points in the history of … Two grief-stricken young women being…
Launch of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… substantial. This operation was more successful than the one in Ordinance Road where a bomb did not explode properly … of three members who each had a…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… assaulting three on duty employees, fatally wounding one and torching six motor vehicles at the plant. 13 August, … the protesters. Two SAPS members are…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Africa is seen as the protest capital of the world, with one of the highest rates of public and labour protests in the … the quartzite rock that encases the…
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
… South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the seminal photographic exhibitions and books of the … photography at UCT.. The Carnegie…
The Detention Weapon
… less (down to 12) numbered 1424, or 34% of the total. If one accepts the extremely conservative estimate of 20% under … trial, will bring an end to these…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… in South Africa for at least 150 000 years. That must be one very long and big family tree! Today we still see … or anything else. The Linton Panel The…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… this respect is unique and worthy of remembrance. He was one of the few Africans who served with deeds more than with … Cradock, Somerset East, Pearston,…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid … provided that all South Africans be racially…
Protest Art
… in 1983 amalgamated many grassroot organisations under one banner. Some organisations consisted of cultural workers …
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… Mrs Thayanagie Pillay and Dr Zainab Asvat. Mosie was one of thirty - including Nelson Mandela , Helen Joseph , …
BiographyVivian Fitzsimons
… Museum until the independence of Namibia in 1990. One of the greatest pleasures of Dr Fitz was to visit the …
BiographyKrishna Rabilal
… proved that they were refugees, they were released after one night into the custody of the Refugee Committee in …
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… to see my great-grandfather, Mohamed Hajee Joosub, was one of those who is featured on the site. However, after … by millenium, by century, by decade, by…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… small town only nine years old. South Africa was certainly one of the first countries in the world to see and hear sound … variety, first showed them in…
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
… required that all South African Blacks become citizens of one of the self-governing territories. The law declared Black … no longer citizens of South Africa,…
Mission Stations - M
… length such as admitted of a division into three parts: one end for a lodging-room, the other end a room of equal size, which was divided into halves, one…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… a record for putting its resolutions into practice. A new chapter in the history of South Africa is being written. The … impression that South Africa was a…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… all of humanity to take the last step to close the chapter of colonialism which was first imposed on Africa with … Fear of death and injury continue to stalk…
Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki: University of Witwatersrand, 29 July 2006.
… To set my brother Clarence and the king In deadly hate the one against the other”¦" This open proclamation of evil … All revolutions, which, by definition,…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… see if I sat on Errol's shoulders. The door was the only one in the block to have a small peephole through which to … cement with a gleaming wax polish. We…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by … family, and more than 80% of children at…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… Pedi-Tswana influence, even allowing for the adaptations one has come to expect of a culture moving from the … the Sotho-Tswana term "tebele", meaning a…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
… as the South African Communist Party (SACP). Ruth had one sibling, her younger brother Ronald First. Ruth and … in writing and it showed with her many…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… of the victims of June 1976 opened another significant chapter in resistance politics in the country. For this … from Black opposition groups. When the…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… women in different ways than they affected men. For one thing, women were subjected not only to racial … were forced to maintain the dipping tanks without…