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Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… were arranged, but were not always very successful. Issues surrounding coordination continued to be discussed and … on People's Education. Protest remained…
Voters may act if ANC fails to uproot patronage by Steven Friedman (BDlive), 10 August 2016
… EITHER city voters will get the ANC leadership they want by 2019, or … at least for a while, if the ANC is to be the party of the urban marketplace or of the…
BiographyMhlabunzima Maphumulo
… In 1986, as tensions rose in the region because of various apartheid measures and conflict affected most of the region, … One Vote’: The Revival of…
BiographyMakholeka Matthews Meyiwa
… Gwala , and became active in the trade union and anti-apartheid movement during the 1950s. After the formation of … Meyiwa played a prominent role in the…
BiographyOupa Ronald Madondo
… killed by a bomb attached to his body and detonated by the apartheid secret security operatives. It was further …
BiographyDavid Moiloa
… was defined so widely as to include anyone who opposed apartheid rule. On 27 February 1958, Moiloa was served with … the book, Forgotten People - Political…
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… were becoming increasingly radical and openly hostile to apartheid and white supremacist rule in general. SASO took … also began protesting in support of…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Economic Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of ownership and production, the spatial legacies of our apartheid past and the tendencies of the economy towards … and reversing the geography of apartheid…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… purpose and it was from these reserves that the mines and urban employers were to draw migrant labour. In addition to … serve as pools of migrant labour for…
PlaceMarket Square, Port Elizabeth
… much about this old coastal town. It is home to the City Hall, which is colonial in style and dates back to the … incredible. The Square is probably the most…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… born on 4 July 1952, in the fourth year of South Africa’s apartheid state. By this time, policies, such as the Group … Coloured, and Indian South Africans to…
Address by His Excellency President Jacob Zuma on the celebration of Freedom Day, 27 April 2011, Union Buildings, Pretoria
… United Nations. We recall the pain caused by the legion of apartheid legislation that stripped away the dignity of … Act No. 26 of 1970, black people were…
Work and education
… © Omar Badsha The biggest challenge the first post-apartheid government was faced with, was the transforming of … the task of eliminating the duplication…
ArticleNelspruit an Overview
… to the area. After 1994, the town burgeoned into a city and a crucial point in the Maputo corridor - a route … which was until then a hostile neighbour…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… part of Lamontville Youth Organisation which attended to issues facing the community. When Cothoza was in standard 9 …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Mbhazima Shilowa, Your Worship, Executive Mayor of the City of Johannesburg, Amos Masondo, MEC for Housing, Nomvula … In time, this place became a wasteland…
ArticleWhat has been the impact of the democratic transformation on the position of women within South African society? by Lucy Doyle
… Through the efforts of a dominant women’s movement in apartheid, the democratic transition in South Africa has … available land was designated for 4 million…
ArticlePolokwane/Pietersburg Timeline 1835-1995
… reform 23 April, The town of Pietersburg/Polokwane earned city status 1994 Nelson Mandela becomes the first … elected president of SA 1995 25 February,The…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… of his court trial, under the Emergency Regulations, Dadoo issues a statement calling on the Indian community to support … defy licensing laws and set up…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… of racist and unfair conditions in Hendrik Verwoerd ’s Apartheid South Africa; pass laws, police raids, low wages, … and the banning of political…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… Council conference held at Wilgespruit in 1981, the issues of non-racialism and socialism dominated the … the 73 Strikes who brought to the workers?…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… agents operating in Switzerland and liaising with Anti-Apartheid organizations. The International University … supporters to use the official community…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and issues to be confronted. This chapter describes some of the … a loaded term in South Africa. While it is a…
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… the best in human values. He lived through the rigours of apartheid, the transition to democracy, and in more recent … Apartheid state established Bantu…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… welcome to those who have come directly from home to the city of Lusaka; a city that will surely be remembered in the … that that South Africa has eluded us…
EventResolute Treurnicht rejects waiving language policy
… and Afrikaans in schooling. At a meeting of the Soweto Urban Council, Councillor Leonard Mosala stated that … result in another Sharpeville shooting incident…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… struggle waged by Black and Colored musicians against the apartheid regime, from the early 1950s until the 1990s, … in detail. Not only was Ibrahim living in…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, … victory of the National Party(NP), with…
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… The ascendancy of the apartheid government in 1948 signalled a descent into … or trade union activities. The party’s position on other issues such as land…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1950-1959
… the forging of a broad-based non-racial alliance against apartheid and white minority rule. Confronted by opposition … an injury to 108. The strike also…