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ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… 1990-94 negotiation process. I have been told that at the time senior individuals attached to the Sanlam Group of … emeritus at Stellenbosch University, and…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… began one of the great parliamentary performances of all time, as Mrs Suzman sat alone for 13 years, the sole … de Lille became executive Mayor of Cape Town …
ArticleTutu and his role in the Truth & Reconciliation Commission
… of pervasive human rights violations while at the same time working to unite and rebuild the nation. Some Black … most notably, members of the ANC - the…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… Universal Declaration of Human Rights cemented the, at the time, reasonably novel idea that people have fundamental … will make it unique because it will be…
Christianity
… was and where he could be found. The Roman ruler at the time, Pontius Pilate, didn't believe that Jesus had committed … called the Acts of the Apostles that…
Judaism
… Pesach/Passover This festival takes place at the same time as the Christian celebrations for Easter. It celebrates … Hanukkah/Lights This festival takes…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… and did not pay much attention to black townships at this time. Some activists were aware of the UDF's standpoint, and … After the success of the stayaway,…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
… and the UDF only played a coordinating role. At this time the UDF did not have the structures in place to play a … government's reforms and support for the…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… and the masses in the imperialist countries themselves challenge the policies of the rulers. Apart from inherent … to the anti-imperialists at this grave and…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… impact in the African continent. 3. In responding to this challenge of imperialism the ANC needs to strengthen itself … their local markets in those…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… AIDS conference and his comments in the recent issue of Time magazine. He will see that, among other things, what the … long will it take us to have a…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… since childhood, Emecheta began to write in her spare time. However, her husband was suspicious of her writing. … of their societies. Instead, her characters…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… Except in very rare instances, the people's armed challenge against a foe with formidable material strength … But it does not follow that this will be so for…
Document 60 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the Communist League of South Africa, 3 March 1936
… to say that at present we do not see our way to expending time and energy on the proposed negotiations for union and … circumstances which in our opinion…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… to the campaigns and people who made history. At the same time working from the inside and hardly known in his own … and activist who recorded the political…
PlaceDarling, West Coast
… but the Place itself has since grown exponentially over time, to showcase a wider variety of Historical items. It is … two Hours, moseying through it while…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Afrikaans was perceived as an embarrassment: by this time, distinctions based on race and class has become … as a special community called Afrikaner’. [81]…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… the Colony 1806 The British occupy the Cape for a second time. After a skirmish between British troops and a Cape … the leadership of their king, Mzilikatsi,…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… the white social forces on which it rests. At the same time, the Botha regime is confronted with our mass revolt. … launch to gain some tactical advances…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… for the white social forces on which it rests. At the same time, the Botha regime is confronted with our mass revolt. … launch to gain some tactical advances…
EventThe Springbok rugby team receives the State President Sports Award
… Fouche. It is significant that the award was made at the time when South Africa was barred from taking part in … manner in which the players conducted…
EventClayton Sithole, the last political activist to die in Apartheid police detention
… the release of former president Nelson Mandela . At the time of his arrest, Sithole was in a relationship with Zindzi … had fathered her son, who was less…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
… Bra Danny's Treat, Richard J, Maseko; The Unlucky Time, Roy Blumenthal; Blues For Mama Afrika, Thokozani … Matom (text by J. Masiza). Paintings and Graphics:…
EventW. E. B. Du Bois (95), writer, scholar, intellectual, Pan
… Bois published numerous important works on race. By the time of his death in 1963 he had written 17 books and edited … tension between the two as his views…
EventSally Little, South African golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top
… golfer recognized by the LPGA as one of its top-50 all-time players and teachers, was born in Cape Town on 12 … With encouragement from friends on the LPGA…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
… family could speak anything but German. They had at that time a very spacious trades Hall or, as they call them, … some weeks before Comrade Bunting and I…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… read you can’t help being curious about this”. By the time he was four the family moved to a two bedroomed cottage … I was 15 years old. A laaitie. This…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… and changes in living conditions, while at the same time there was a new sense of national identity and civic … leaving the agricultural workforce and…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… were in West Africa. These civilisations developed at a time when most of Europe was experiencing the Dark Age, after … the fertility of the soil all year…
Biography of Barry Gilder by Sofia Pullen
… The Manifesto of uMkhonto weSizwe states that: “the time comes in the life of any nation when there remain only two choices - submit or fight. That time has…