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BiographyGeneral Jan Christiaan Smuts
… Representative Council, the African National Congress (ANC), the Transvaal Indian Council and other organisations, …
EventWomen protest against passes in the Free State
… against the carrying of passes by women took place in Bloemfontein, Orange Free State (now Free State), where there … Waaihoek Location under the control of…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 … camps. Photographical Collection…
BiographyRaymond Hoffenberg
… Tambo, then president of the African National Congress (ANC) Mission in exile. Professor Hoffenberg married Margaret …
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… upheaval in the country, as the African National Congress (ANC) launched its military wing – Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) – in …
PlaceCR Swart Building
… The name change of the old CR Swart building in Bloemfontein to honour former Cuban president Fidel Castro … told News24. The Fidel Castro building is the…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against … upon which the younger generÂations could build. When…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
… in the 1950s [Online]. Available at: wiserweb.wits.ac.za/ [accessed 02 July 2010] …
ArchiveInterview with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri
… Oral interview, conducted in Bloemfontein, with Ivy Matsepe-Casaburri, on her experiences …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… Republiek or Transvaal Republic. In 1854, the Contract of Bloemfontein was signed and the Boers founded the Republic of … Anglo-Boer War). On 13 March 1900…
EventSandra Reynolds, a South African tennis champion is born
… Sandra Reynolds was born on 4 March 1934 in Bloemfontein, Free State.[i] Reynolds was nicknamed the … final.[viii] She married Lowell Eldred Grant Price in…
PlaceBrandfort, Free State
… State Province of South Africa, about 60 km North East of Bloemfontein. It commemorates the Boer women and children … both the aeroplane and Gnome engine now…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… in December 2017 by Makhosi Khoza after she left the ANC, but Khoza resigned from the party four months later. It is now helmed by apartheid-era unionist and…
EventHistory of December 16
… 1935, the All-African Convention (AAC) was held in Bloemfontein to protest against the racial policies of Prime … weSizwe (MK) and launch of the armed…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… Geraldine Fraser-Moleketi goes into exile, she joins ANC in Zimbabwe and works in political structures under the … Two of the hostages die; several are…
PlaceJubileum Building
… On President Brand Street Bloemfontein, is the Jubileum building. It was built in the … https://freestatetourism.org/bloemfontein-attractions/ …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… – 2020 2011 8 January 2011 African National Congress (ANC) President Jacob Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive…
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
… Germany;from the National and Democratic parties to the ANC and SACP;from the Mass Democratic Movement to Inkatha, … an objective that is relevant within a…
EventOlive Shisana is born
Prominent South African academic, Dr Olive Shisana was born in the town of Pietersburg, South Africa, on the 27th of November 1950. [1] She holds a BA degree…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) … officials in the ruling African National…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… oppression and of outlawing the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan-Africanist Congress (PAC) also prompted the … movement (in which the African…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… youth joining the ranks of the African National Congress (ANC) and its military wing, Umkhonto We Sizwe (MK), …
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… inspired the founding of the African National Congress (ANC – formerly known as the South African Native National …
BiographyImam Abdullah Haron
… Muslim representatives, which was attended by the PAC and ANC. Before reaching London, he stopped over in Holland where …
PlaceOnverwacht
… the Thaba Nchu section of Bophuthatswana, about 50km from Bloemfontein. The place was composed of about seven barren … Ethnic Control’ , [online], Available…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… campaign between the African National Congress (ANC), and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) known as … Port Elizabeth leaders, such as Ray Mhlaba ,…
ArticleForced Removals in South Africa
… Collections. Source: www.digitalcollections.lib.uct.ac.za The Group Areas Act stated that its purpose was to … strikes and anti-pass campaigns were launched…
EventWinnie Mandela’s jail sentence is suspended by the Appeal Court
… The Appeal Court in Bloemfontein set aside Winnie Madikizela Mandela's sentence …
“White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational categories in the retail and distributive trade in the late 1960s and 1970s by Bridget Kenny
… Kenny Sociology, Wits University [email protected] Using extensive archive and interview material, this …