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09/08/2020
National Women’s Day: It All Started with a March | #ImStaying An old African proverb reads: “If you educate a man, you educate an individual. But if you educate a woman, you educate a nation.” Today, exactly 25 years ago in 1995, National Women’s Day was celebrated for the very first time in South Africa. While the nation, as a collective, celebrates thi...
22/07/2020
Rivonia trial veteran Andrew Mlangeni dies The anti-struggle veteran was the last remaining defendant of the historic 1963-1964 trial
12/06/2020
30/04/2020
Anti-apartheid veteran Denis Goldberg dies - The Mail & Guardian Convicted along with Nelson Mandela and eight others, the Rivonia Trialist spent his golden years active in the ANC although he called out its faults
08/04/2020
Coronavirus: 100 days that changed the world It started with a warning. It turned into a pandemic that has transformed life as we know it
01/04/2020
: Dear UFS students, your second edition of : Get Connected, Get Started is here! This edition is packed with information, resources, and skills that will help you make the most of this transitional time.
Link: https://www.ufs.ac.za/docs/default-source/all-documents/get-connected-get-started---final1826f8e65b146fc79f4fff0600aa9400.pdf?sfvrsn=b4329721_0
More information about the campaign: www.ufs.ac.za/learnon
22/03/2020
‘Write It Down’: Historian Suggests Keeping a Record of Life During Pandemic Tico Braun offers many suggestions to create a record of what’s happening – for the sake of history and to be part of a different kind of community.
11/02/2020
30 years ago today Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela was released from prison.
We remember this incredible moment.
https://www.sahistory.org.za/content/nelson-mandela-released-prison-11-february-1990
27/01/2020
This day in history | 27 January 1914
Women Draw up a Petition against Pass Laws
https://www.sahistory.org.za/dated-event/women-draw-petition-against-pass-laws