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Emancipation Day: remembering the tragic history of the transatlantic slave trade

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The island of Gorée off the coast of Senegal housed the largest slave-trading post on the African west coast. Today the buildings serve as a reminder of human exploitation and as a sanctuary for reconciliation and forgiveness. The statue depicts the symbolic breaking of the chains of slavery. (Photo source: Wikipedia & Unesco)

On 1 December 1834 slavery was officially abolished in the British Empire. Because the Cape Colony (today the Western Cape Province) formed part of the British Empire this decision also applied to all Cape slaves and their mostly white slave owners.

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KGWEDI YA BASADI 2020 – Seo basadi ba batho ba batsho ba neng ba se kopa ka 1913: ho tjhakela boipelaetso ba ho ba kgahlanong le dipasa Bloemfontein

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O mong wa mokotaba wa nalane ya Afrika Borwa ya boitseko,kganyetso le boipelaetso boitsekong ba basadi bakeng sa tekatekano ya bong, seriti sa basadi, tlhompho le ditokelo tsa botho tsa motheo. Ntwa ena e lwannwe ke basadi ba batho ba batsho le ba mmala ho feta mongwahakgolo le, ka bomadimabe, ntwa ha e so hlolwe.

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What black women demanded in 1913: re-visiting the anti-pass protests in Bloemfontein

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One of the key themes of South Africa’s long history of struggle, resistance and protest is women’s struggle for gender equality, female dignity, respect and basic human rights. This struggle has been fought by South Africa’s black and coloured women for more than a century and, sadly, the battle is not yet won. The appalling statistics of the prevalence of gender-based domestic violence against women and girls in South Africa is of national concern.

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Andrew Mlangeni: farewell to a gentleman struggle veteran

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Andrew Mokete Mlangeni (95), the last surviving co-defendant convicted with Nelson Mandela, Walter Sisulu, Denis Goldberg and four others at the Rivonia Trial of 1963-1964, has died on 21 July 2020. His death came shortly after the death of Goldberg, who passed away on 29 April 2020. Mlangeni’s death signals the end of an era for South Africa’s liberation struggle since he was so closely associated with Mandela’s generation.

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Photographer Sam Nzima’s house turned into a museum

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Image: Deputy President David Mabuza delivering the eulogy at the special provincial official funeral of Mr Masana Sam Nzima, Lillydale, Mpumalanga Province

No other South African photographer is more closely associated with the Soweto uprisings of June 1976 than Masana Sam Nzima. Sam, who passed away in 2018, became world- famous for the powerful and moving image he took of the dead body of Hector Pieterson being carried by another learner. The house in the small village of Lillydale in Bushbuck Ridge, Limpopo Province, where Sam grew up and had lived at the time of his death, was recently turned into a museum.

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