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Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… Mr. President; Esteemed Members of the United States Congress; Your Excellencies, Ambassadors and Members of the … and into these hallowed chambers of the…
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… Miriam began her working life helping her mother clean houses. In the 1950s, she lived in Sophiatown when it was a … on to perform for heads of state, and…
BiographyTeboho MacDonald “Tsietsi” Mashinini
… American slavery, the Human Rights Movements in the USA and about the evil of apartheid. Mashinini was the … numbers of youth joining the ranks of the…
BiographyNithianandan ‘Elvis' Ganese Govender
… students) and had been recruited into the African National Congress’s (ANC) underground structures. He knew that his … University in New Jersey, United…
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… forms of civil society protest emerged from the 1960s to 1990? Background and focus The Second World War had been … South African Women ( FSAW or FEDSAW)…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… and Deputy President of the African National Congress (ANC), Walter Sisulu . Early Life In September 1918 … to keep out the aroma of delicious food coming…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
… France, named 'Nelson Mandela Square' Awards 1990s 1990 March, Granted freedom of the City of Harare, Zimbabwe. … 1 July, Awarded the Chris Hani Award at the…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… 1984-1990:- The people armed Introduction Numerous factors … of anti-apartheid groupings since the mass meetings of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. The…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… House of Bondage , is first published by The Gregg Press (USA). The book, House Bondage , by Ernest Cole , is later … for exile on the instructions of the…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… of anti-apartheid groupings since the mass meetings of the Congress Alliance in the 1950s. The initial aim of the UDF … patrolling the townships, and attacks…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… South Africa’s liberation movements. The African National Congress , (ANC) South African Communist Party (SACP), the … back to Botswana and asked by Walter…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… them”. As possible starting points, he mentions De Klerk’s 1990 speech in Parliament, the first plenary of CODESA in … an unresolved issue between the…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… they were not accepted as members of the African National Congress (ANC) when it was formed in 1912. This acceptance … emotional security within the pre…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… the struggle was. He could have remained in Britain or USA, relatively free of racial discrimination compared to … United Democratic Front; and in 1994 the…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… period, located exclusively in the past (ie. roughly 1960s-1990), hides and depoliticises historical processes of … Africa and Zimbabwe in particular…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… Badsha attended a meeting of the TIC (Transvaal Indian Congress) held at the Johannesburg City Hall. An announcement … passport to travel to New York, United…
ArticleLife Timeline of Jacob Zuma
… KwaZulu-Natal. 1958 Zuma joins the African National Congress (ANC) and through its youth structure the ANC Youth … and Chief of the Intelligence Department…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… In 1885 Bismarck from Germany called together the Congress of Berlin to solve disputes and Africa’s political, … they were trying to mobilise support of Jews…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… and electricity generated from coal. Initially, mining houses would generate their own electricity and coal mining … ISCOR impressed foreigners (especially…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… and some later established another political party, the Congress of the People (COPE). Kgalema Motlanthe became state … by the UN for its achievement in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… of, Inkatha, AZAPO, the Labour Party, the Natal Indian Congress and the South African Council of Churches (SACC). … Living Resources. 1980 22 May, In a joint…
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
… leading to the opening of serious negotiations from 1990 and the formal ending of white minority apartheid rule … soldiers dead, thousands placed in…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… He recalls the month-long bombardment of Massawa in 1990: “I saw so many people killed. The child may be here and … bombs that killed so many people at a…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
… European women the right to elect and to be elected to the Houses of Parliament. The Riotous Assemblies (Amendment) Act … Regarding Public Amenities Appeal…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… be aliens, and as such, will only be able to occupy the houses bequeathed to them by their fathers, in the urban … of Southern Africa is endorsed. 1971 The…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… identity in the 80s - Sandile Dikeni I was there at the Congress of the People The Revolutionary Alliance Consolidate … people share in the country's wealth…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… It was here that I joined my first trade union, the SA Congress of Trades Unions affiliated Jewellers and Goldsmiths … long refugee queues every month. The…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… men who were to become the leaders of the African National Congress. In the Cape their members became the leaders of the … I discuss this in a paper…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… Kentridge, and both were acquitted. She emigrated to the USA in 1983 and became a reporter on the Democrat and … after Nelson Mandela was released from…