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Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
Dear Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the armed struggle was…
DOCUMENT 37. “Black Power--Students Forced to Leave Meeting.” Article in Dome (University of Natal), March 27, 1969
ADOPTED AT THE FOUNDATION CONFERENCE OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN CONGRESS OF TRADE UNIONS, ON 5 MARCH 1955, AND INCLUDED AS A PREAMBLE TO ITS…
Document 30 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on violence
Document 34 - Memorandum of agreement for reconciliation and peace between the IFP/KwaZulu government and the ANC and the South African government/NP
A tribute to the late African National Congress (ANC) President Oliver Reginald Tambo during the unveiling of two memorials to him in the…
Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
COSATU is in a no-win situation: We are damned if we do and we are damned if we don't! In preparing for this article, I was reminded of a…
Document 32 - The Negotiating Council: resolution on violence
Click to read Critism and Censorship in the South African "Alternative" Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro…
Document 31 - The Negotiating Forum: resolution on the transition process
In 1922, following the strikes and bloodshed in Johannesburg in the early months of that year, of which much history has been written, and…
Document 33 - Accord on Afrikaner self-determination
The book celebrates the historic conference of South African resistance culture which took place in Amsterdam in 1987
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
The COSATU Executive Committee met on Friday, 24 May 1996 in its second ordinary meeting of the year. Below are some of the decisions taken…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA, RECALLED By E.S Reddy The "Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws" - launched jointly by the African…
Document 25 - Response by Nelson Mandela to De Klerk’s 2 July 1992 memorandum
COSATU has noted the African National Congress NEC's decisions on the Basic Conditions of Employment as reflected in the statement dated 14…
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
1. Introductory Notes These submissions to the Constitutional Assembly come at the end of the process of public participation in drawing…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
COSATU is deeply disturbed by the manner in which the Department of Finance is approaching the 1998 budget. Both in discussion in…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
COSATU SPECIAL EXCO PRESS STATEMENT ON THE CONSTITUTIONAL PROCESS. The COSATU Executive Committee met in a special session today. (04.05.96…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
COSATU PRESS CONFERENCE 25 OCT. 1995 COSATU Central Executive Committee held a strategy workshop on the 23 - 24 Oct. 1995 to deal with…
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
Presented to the Portfolio Committee: Justice Annexures available on the COSATU website at www.cosatu.org.za 1. Executive Summary of…
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
1. Bill of Rights A. Right to Strike The right to strike should specifically include the right to defend and promote social and economic…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
Today's opening address of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober…
Document 17 - The Groote Schuur Minute
10 years ago, you sent into oblivion so much energy, so much youth, so much enthusiasm, and so much love of our country. To impose your…
Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
Today marked the beginning of a process of mobilisation against privatisation in support of labour's demands as presented to the government…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
On December 2 this year, thousands of workers will gather in Durban, the birth place of COSATU, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the…
Document 2 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton
COSATU PRESS STATEMENT RE: MINISTER OF LABOUR GREEN PAPER ON POLICY PROPOSALS FOR A NEW EMPLOYMENT STANDARDS STATUTE COSATU welcomes the…
Document 22 - CODESA I - Declaration of Intent
1. INTRODUCTION As a preliminary response to today's budget, COSATU acknowledges that it has both positive and negative elements. We…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
Declaration The conference took place against the background of the Government's adoption of GEAR, its impact on social spending and…
Document 19 - The D. F. Malan Accord
Introduction The new and competitive presence of Indians in the country created panic among white South Africans. Afrikaners and British…
Devout domesticity?
Table of contents Acknowledgements Dedication Abstract Introduction 1.Class, Consciousness and Organization in the Political…
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
Viva COSATU, Viva! Viva SACP, Viva! Viva ANC, Viva! Viva the Alliance, Viva! Comrades, it falls to me to say a few words to bring this…
Document 14 - Resolution by the Conference for a Democratic Future on negotiations and the Constituent Assembly
Document 16 - F. W. de Klerk’s speech at the opening of Parliament
Draft Discussion Document COSATU Congress `99 continued labour market transformation and programmes to see to the implementation of new…
Document 15 - ‘A document to create a climate of understanding’; Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
"Communique" by SASO, July 1969 For the first time after 1959, Non-White student leaders met at Stutterheim in July 1968. A need for…
Detention Without Trial
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
Critism and Censorship in the South African “Alternative” Press with particular reference to the cartoons of Bauer and Zapiro (1985 - 1990) - by Mario Pissarra
Dali Tambo’s speech (video)
Defiance campaign in South Africa, recalled by E.S. Reddy
Rev. Frank Chikane gives keynote address at United Democratic Front launch event in Mitchells Plain (near Cape Town), South Africa on 20…
Desmond Tutu - Extracts from the letter to Prime Minister John Vorster dated May 6th 1976
Click to read Class and Colour in South Africa 1850-1950
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but…
Culture in Another South Africa
DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES
"I'm sorry, but I don't want to be an emperor. That's not business. I don't want to rule or conquer anyone. I should like to help everyone…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the…
Credentials for ‘Russia’
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
5.1. INTRODUCTION Madressa education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
At the beginning of february 1993 it became apparent that most role-players had realized the urgent need for the resumption of multi-party…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
In this chapter my concerns are with SANSCO's mobilisation of students and its collective actions, and especially the form and content of…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
The deadlock was not about principle, but about political power: the power to determine the final constitutional dispensation. It also…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, April 1930. INTRODUCTION In 1930 Gumede…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its…
Chapter 8
December Conference- 1943 When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th and 17th December, 1943, the…