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According to W. Steenkamp in his book SA’s Border War 1966-1989, the final death toll at this date was as follows: 715 SA secur
Memorandum to the Minister of Bantu Administration and Development and Bantu Education by Soweto Black Community Leaders, written by M. T. Moerane,June 29, 1976 (abridged)
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the 48th General Assembly of the World Medical Association (WMA) 25 October 1996
Introduction (Chairperson...) Minister Zuma Dr Moulin, President of the WMA Ladies and Gentlemen It gives me great pleasure to address this important…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela greeting Professor David Woods on his inauguration as principal and vice-chancellor of Rhodes University Grahamstown, 30 August 1996
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 75th anniversary of the South African Communist Party Cape Town, 28 July 1996
Chairperson; General-Secretary of the SACP, Charles Nquakula; General-Secretary of COSATU, Sam Shilowa; Leaders of the Alliance; Comrades and Friends I…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
Speech originally delivered in Afrikaans Mister Chancellor; Mister Vice-Chancellor; Members of the University; Honoured Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, …
”Resolution against the Natives Land Act, 1913 and the Report of the Natives Land Commission”, by the South African Native National Congress, October 2, 1916
Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor
Resolution against the Natives Land Act 1913 and the Report of the Natives Land Commission, by the South African Native National Congress, 2 October, 1916
The Enemy Hidden Under the Same Colour by the Central Committee of the SACP on the activities of the ‘Gang of 8’, 1976, South Africa
Statement issued by the Praesidium of the South African Council of Churches on Security Branch raid on Diakonia House on November 26th, 1976
Statement issued by the South African Council of Churches (SACC) regarding Security Forces raid on their offices in Diakonia House. Included is also a…
Mr Justice P.J. van der Walt acquits Moses Mayekiso and his four co-accused of all charges. They were arrested on 28 June 1986
Sir David Baird, British general in command of the force sent to occupy the Cape of Good Hope in 1806 and later acting governor
Paper on apartheid presented on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on apartheid, held at Brasilia, Brazil, 23rd August - 5th September 1966
Paper on apartheid presented by R M Resha on behalf of the African National Congress of South Africa to the United Nations Human Rights Seminar on Apartheid,…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
Peter Henry Abrahams Deras (Peter Abrahams) was born in Vrededorp, Johannesburg’s largest Coloured and Asian slum, on 19 March 1919. Abrahams is a 'Coloured'…
BiographyMorgan Gonaseelan Naidoo
Morgan Gonaseelan Naidoo was born in 1936 in Durban. He spent most of his young life at the FOSA TB Settlement, just north of the city. His father died when…
BiographyParamount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo
Paramount Chief Sabata Dalindyebo was born on 25 November 1928. His father died suddenly some five months earlier before marrying his official Great Wife. He…
BiographyJoseph Masobila Mdluli
Joseph Mdluli was born in 1925 in lngwavuma, Northern Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), the only son in the family. He grew up looking after his father's cattle and…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
Jonathan ‘Johnny’ Clegg was born in Bacup, near Rochdale in England on 7 June 1953. His father was from England but his mother was from Southern Rhodesia (now…
BiographyBobby Hendricks
Hendricks was born in Caledon on 7 February 1936. He started his music career as a member of the Kay Simmers Orkes (Afrikaans for orchestra or band). Later, he…
BiographySir Winston Spencer Churchill
Winston Spencer Churchill was born in Blenheim Palace, Oxford, in 1874. He came to South Africa as a correspondent to the Morning Post during the South African…
BiographyPaul Landau
Professor Landau took part in the "One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today" conference organised by South African…
BiographyCharlene Smith
A mother, rape survivor, journalist/writer who became well-known, at the age of 17 when she reported on the 1976 Soweto uprising the dead bodies and the…
Peter Papela Nthite
Born 1929, the son of a labourer, he grew up in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. From St Cyprian's in Sophiatown he went to Adams College but left school at 16 to…
BiographyJames Gavin Younge
James Gavin (Forest) Younge was born in Bulawayo, Zimbabwe. From 1965 to 1968 he studied at the Witwatersrand Technical College gaining a national Art Teachers…
BiographyTrineke Weijdema
In 1961 Weijdema, together with Sietse Bosgra and others, formed the Angola Comite (AC) in the Netherlands to support the freedom struggle in Angola. The whole…
BiographyProfessor Raymond Suttner
Raymond Suttner is Emeritus Professor at the University of South Africa as well as Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand in Johannesburg…
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
Contents Early settlement patterns of exclusion Towards racial segregation Segregated city Conclusion Once the fort and the early settlement were…
Pretoria the Segregated city
… agents, T Le Fleur and CM De Vries. On 26th September 1906, the farm was transferred to De Vries with 440 plots …
BiographyDimitri Tsafendas
Dimitri Tsafendas was the parliamentary messenger who assassinated Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on 06 September 1966 by stabbing him four times with a…