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EventFormer Minister of Public Works, Thoko Didiza, is born
… Didiza was born in Durban in 1965. Didiza became Minister of Agriculture and Land Affairs in 1999 and in 2006 she became Minister of Public works under…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
… to the SAIC resolution to resist the "Ghetto" Act and rallied solidly behind the Joint Passive Resistance … over 100 000 workers, the "passive resistance" of…
ArchiveThe declaration of the state of emergency
… Statement issued in response to the declaration of the state of emergency … The declaration of the state of emergency …
ArchiveMinutes of the Meeting of Black Organisations
… The meeting was called because of the impending dangers posed by the fragmentation of South Africa by the apartheid government. … Minutes of the Meeting of…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of those who have visited Castle Good Hope in Cape Town at … fifty years. Young and old may recall…
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
… us closer to our cherished goal - the total liberation of our country. The bells that rang in the New Year were, for … on the part of our miners. The Rural…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The … demand for an educational system that was…
BiographyNelson Rolihlahla Mandela
… colonial authorities stripped him of his chieftainship, land, and cattle without any consultation with the Paramount … era, this had evolved into something…
ArticleA History of Official Government HIV/AIDS Policy in South Africa
… The HIV/AIDS Crisis Emerges: Reponses of the Apartheid Government In 1982, the first case of AIDS in South Africa was reported in a homosexual man who … were…
Message from the Minister of Arts, Culture, Science and Technology
… In 2002 the South African Society of Artists, the oldest surviving organisation of its kind in our country, marks its centenary. It is … that the Society was…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… “The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or … Benneyworth (Sol Plaatje University) located a typed copy of Nelson…
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… ramkie, a guitar with three or four strings, based on that of Malabar slaves. They used it to blend Khoi and Western … by the Khoi in their own music making…
Activity: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… For the student Discussion Questions Who was the founder of the Mali Empire? Which city was considered a centre of learning during the Mali Empire? What is a…
In Conclusion: The Decline and Fall of the Tricameral Parliament
… to the direction the country was taking. The beginning of a sustained and violent uprising in the townships of the Vaal Triangle in September 1984 – at…
BiographyHemant Kumar Waghmarae
… Maroothi Waghmarae and Indumati Bane Waghmarae. He is one of seven children. He attended the St. Paul’s Catholic school … of AZAPO was arrested under Section…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… Under the guidance of Harriette Colenso the Natal Native Congress (hereinafter NNC) was officially inaugurated … system of government and laws, and, most…
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa: Mapungubwe, Thulamela and Great Zimbabwe
… in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Kingdom : an area controlled by a particular person … particular thing or idea is important…
Reciprocal Bases of National Culture and the Fight for Freedom by Frantz Fanon, 1959
… to disrupt in spectacular fashion the cultural life of a conquered people. This cultural obliteration is made … biological structure. Vis-à-vis this state of…
53. The significance of the settlement for the colonial-born India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Regulations have been framed under the Indians Relief Act, but…
Address to the Joint Session of the Houses of Congress of the United states of America
… Address to the Joint Session of the Houses of Congress of the United states of America …
ArchiveList of Members of the Satyagraha Movement
… The chapter was taken from the book Pioneers of the Satyagraha, Indian South Africans Defy Racist Laws, … List of Members of the Satyagraha Movement …
ArchiveNotes of meeting of ANC Constitutional group
… Handwritten notes taken by Jack Simons at a meeting of the African National Congress Constitutional Group to … Notes of meeting of ANC Constitutional group …
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
… 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of February 22,…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… I can assure you that here we feel the deepest interest in Native questions, and recognise the serious disabilities and … great pleasure to find myself once…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… The Leadership of Cosatu, the ANC, and SANCO, Comrades and friends This … These laws include the following: 1. The Labour Relations Act 2. The Basic…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 84th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1996
… us, enjoining us, this year, to mark the 84th anniversary of the organisation of the people, the African National … insisted on our own right to determine…
EventGeneral J.C. Smuts (80), former prime minister of SA, dies
… and 1939-1948, General J.C. Smuts passed away at the age of 80 on his Doorkloof farm in Irene, near Pretoria. His … near the farm. As prime minister he…
Black South African Poets of the 1970’s and their Publications
… This Way I Salute You September 2007 Oswald Mtshali Sounds of A Cowhide Drum, Renoster Press 1971 Fireflames 1980 … with Serote by Duncan Brown …
ArticleBloemfontein Timeline 1824-2010
… is appointed. 10 June, The first newspaper, The Friend of the Sovereignty and the Bloemfontein Gazette are printed. … is put into place. 1912 8 January, The…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… women workers at that time were Afrikaners fresh from the land. (Black women had not yet left the land in large … the removal of land through conquest and…