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ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… at UWC included Peter Jones who went to work with Steve Biko on community related issues and hold positions in the …
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… (BCM), which dominated political resistance until Steve Biko , who was a leading figure, died in detention and the … opposes this month's national all-race…
EventHerman Charles Bosman guilty of murder
… a collection of short stories published in 1947, won him recognition as a master of the short story. He was the first …
EventArchbishop Desmond Tutu is awarded the Nobel Peace Prize
… award pressured President P. W. Botha 's regime by its recognition of a visionary in the South African liberation …
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… was a crucial advance for women, as it represented the recognition of reproductive rights by South Africa's first …
EventHansi Pauline Pollak, welfare worker and social activist, is born
… doctorate in social science by the University of Natal in recognition of her community welfare work. Pollak died in …
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… then present management with these and endeavour to gain recognition for the union from management so that the union … the unions before they finally managed…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… in September, 1969, 21 South Africans, including Winnie Mandela were arrested under the Suppression of Communism Act … George Mbindi, five of those accused…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… by awarding the Nobel Peace Prize to Albert Luthuli in recognition of his outstanding contribution to the … In 1964, King Jnr. received the Nobel Peace Prize…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… traditional courts. At the same time, the Act aimed at the recognition and application of customary law in order to …
ArticleYouth Politics in South Africa in the 1970s
… The formation of COSAS attracted the attention and recognition of other national liberation movements and trade …
PlaceVictor Verster Prison
… chiefly because this was the last place in which Nelson Mandela was incarcerated and it was through these gates, that Mandela walked to freedom in 1990 …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
… Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – doyen of South Africa’s liberation struggle and the … did not bask in the glory of her revered husband Nelson Mandela. She was…
ArchiveMandelas rainbow year
… The Star, in conjunction with Telkom, regarding Nelson Mandela. Telkom issues a special R10 phone card to honour Nelson Mandela. Photographs of Mandela with…
Notes on the Life of Ernest Cole 1940–1990 by Gunilla Knape
… known, especially in his own country, but who deserves recognition as a major voice in the struggle against …
EventAnna Neethling Pohl, South African actress and author, is born
… die takhare in 1923. Her work in literature was earned her recognition as she was awarded the Langenhoven Prize in 1926 …
ArchiveOxford: 1990s: the move to democracy
… Brown, black, red and white poster. Photograph of De Klerk, Mandela and Mbeki, past, present and future presidents, with hands held high at Mandela's…
EventZelda la Grange was born on this day
… of the first Democratic Presidency. In 1999 President Mandela hand-picked her from his personal staff to remain in … his services beyond his retirement. She…
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… a half centuries prior to the birth of Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela , Jan Van Riebeeck and his expedition of Dutch … later the Xhosa people (a Bantu-speaking…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… worker. Conditions in the area didn't improve, and Nelson Mandela, speaking at the Conference of the Pan-African … Letsie's house was referred to as Shell…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… the NP leader responsible for the first contact with Mandela, publicly renounced the talks as 'unacceptable'. Even … to discover each other as humans. More,…
EventF.W. de Klerk, former state president of South Africa, is born in Johannesburg.
… 1989. The same year, he met with political prisoner Nelson Mandela. Soon after, the ban on all political parties was lifted and Mandela was released from…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… Nchabaleng, an activist who had been involved with Nelson Mandela in the 1950s. But in the Apel/Nkwana area, 32 people … the very chiefs who had been reviled…
Document 67 - Letter from the African Metal Trades Union, Johannesburg, to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 21 February 1937
… trades have contemptuously rejected our demands for the recognition of our Union and the amelioration of our …
EventDr. Hendrik Verwoerd announces his plan to grant Transkei independence
… and called upon all governments to deny any form of recognition to the Transkei and other Bantustans . …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… spheres rapidly increased, leading to its official recognition in 1925. Afrikaans is currently one of South …
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… rector by the students of Glasgow University, Scotland, in recognition of his 'dignity and restraint' in 'a potentially … following the imposition of life…
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
… On the diplomatic front, we ask them to fight for the recognition of the liberation movements by the United Nations … been taken and we suggest that this be…
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
… River. At a Village near the Town, Mvezo, President Nelson Mandela was born into the Madiba Clan of the Them-bu Royal … Family. The greatest attraction of…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… in his book The Unity of India (London, 1941). Nelson Mandela read it when he was a student at the University of … which had arisen in the Indian national…