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EventSA pledges support for a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia
… for the United States of America's (USA) efforts to bring about a negotiated settlement in Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe). …
EventPresident F.W. de Klerk announces withdrawal of Internal Stability Units (ISU)
… Officer had liaised with the South African Police (SAP) about the matter. The SAP approved the withdrawal of the ISU … 17 January 2011]|e-tools, (1993), …
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… and quiet diplomacy in the hope that this could bring about reform of the Apartheid system. References: South …
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church decides that Afrikaans may be used alongside Dutch during services
… twelve million people. Click here to read more about the Dutch Reformed Church and Apartheid. …
EventSA artist Ernest Methuen Mancoba is born
… as much literature as possible on European Art and also about African Art exhibited in museums abroad. From these …
EventSA colonies meet to consider and adopt the South Africa Act, which leads to the Union of South Africa
… as drafted by the National Convention. Click here to read about the formation of the Union of South Africa. Source: On …
EventBambatha Rebellion
… working away from home. Click here for a special feature about Bambatha Rebellion …
EventBritish establish first ‘refugee’ camps during the South African War
… on the farms so he initiated the "scorched earth" policy. About 30 000 Boer farmhouses and more than 40 towns were …
EventThe decisive Battle of Bembesi (Bembasi) is fought in the First Matabele War (Ndebele), Zimbabwe
… had lost. Visit our Matabele Wars feature, to read more about the Matabele Wars and the early history of the Ndebele …
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… his land reform policies, Mugabe's supporters then went about forcefully occupying the land. The issue of land in …
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and leave the more …
18. Narayanan searches for his wife and child
… from my employers, and they have said they know nothing about her. I implore your honour to set at rest the anxiety …
Congress of the People - I was there
… liberation dawned. The Congress of the People was brought about through the efforts of Joint Congress Committees which … The complaint everywhere was first…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… we find ourselves in a position where we know so little about the activities and achievements of these individuals … range from the interviewee either not…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… programmatic framework, the strength and the will to bring about fundamental change. To achieve this requires that we … will have taken place on April 27th…
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… group of mock fighters armed with sticks clash in front of about seven khaki-clad and red-blanketed abakhwetha. 1 It started at about 6 a.m. We all came out…
Pamphlet by Professor Z. K. Matthews, published in November 1946
… to a kind of hole-in-the-comer business for information about which the public has to depend upon the scanty reports … it was merely a consolidating measure…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… these bodies, but with their practice; we will not worry about what they said, but only about what they did. What they still say they are going to do … did…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… twentieth century, above all on the years lying between about 1950 and 1980, and think about us writers of African history, of the history of the … fears and…
ArchiveRecollections of the Resurrection of Women’s Day, 40 Years Ago by Julie Wells
… for me to visit her – which I did! I knew a fair amount about the apartheid policies before I came, as I did quite a … got Started Over the years, I have…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… is the first Bram Fischer Lecture I have chosen to talk about the man rather than the law. The last time that I saw Bram Fischer was on Robben Island about…
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
… during this Session. * Help us build a broad consensus about the fundamentals of a new, realistic and democratic … and Kaunda. These leaders expressed their…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
… during this Session. Help us build a broad consensus about the fundamentals of a new, realistic and democratic … and Kaunda. These leaders expressed their…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… all interested in what I had done already and only talked about the coloured people, impressing on me that the Medical … Society in March 1951. It took me a…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one and a half million. This … increased the land which Africans could…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… were left severely wounded or dead. On Wednesday 30 August about 600 students from five secondary schools decided to … orders. This statement by Mr. Fresi…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
… It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part … His focus had changed. He had become…
David Goldblatt: Intersections by Matt Damsker
… John Gossage or Marcus Doyle--who make potent statements about modernity and human presence mainly by photographing … Matt Damsker is an author and critic,…
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
… will constitute a proof that the world body is serious about its opposition to apartheid and colonialism, because it … we will end this den of inequities in…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… nearly 9 years later they are equally valid: We in SA know about racial oppression We fought it and defeated it because … nominally left to the Palestinians…