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The situation in Katlehong
In Katlehong the organisations in existence are ERAPO and Katlehong Youth League which has not affiliated to the United Democratic Front…
The United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s
Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African Studies Centre in Leiden…
Resistance politics will never be the same again...
Article by the United Democratic Front on the seven-month state of emergency, leaders who were in detention or had gone underground to…
What is a nation
Discussion paper examining the term 'nation' and asking whether South Africa can be seen as a nation. Includes separate section on Language
Towards the reconstruction of South Africa: the constitutional dimension
Paper by Albie Sachs presented as the Third Annual Ruth First Memorial Lecture in Maputo, 27 September 1985. Considers whether the struggle…
A contribution from the Lusaka Regional Commi
The ANC Lusaka Regional Committee commenting on a memorandum by John Pule Motshabi entitled 'Comments and observations on the issues to be…
United Democratic Front and the Black Local Authorities
Article by the United Democratic Front on its continued campaign against the Black Local Authorities.
The occupation of the British Consulate in Durban, the Anderson visit and the role of the United Democratic Front in the international struggle against apartheid
Discussion paper by the United Democratic Front on its stand regarding the international struggle against apartheid, the British Consulate…
Legal analysis of Nkomati Agreement
Paper by Kader Asmal on the Nkomati Accord. Analysis of the agreement from an international legal perspective, to provide assistance to the…
Planning for peoples war discussion document
Discussion document on planning for a peoples war. Covers the armed struggle, people's revolutionary violence, uprisings in the Bantustans,…
Obituary of Yusuf Dadoo
Obituary of Yusuf Dadoo. 3 typewritten pages with handwritten corrections
The United Democratic Front: a workerist response
Article discussing the nature of UDF and the discussion making of UDF.
Strategic issues in the struggle for national liberation in South Africa
Paper examining reforms introduced by the government and whether they are adequate to initiate change in the country: provision for the…
Nothing's positive in apartheid, says Boe
Allan Boesak address at the National Launch of the United Democratic Front held in Cape Town "nothing's positive in apartheid".
Thousands flock to United Democratic Front launch
Thousands of people and about 400 organisations from all over the country came to the lauch of UDF and messages of supports from all…
Three presidents for coalition of the people
The United Democratic Front a political coalition of 400 labour, political, civic, church, women's and students' organisations opposed to…
New ball-game in South African politics
The launching of the United Democratic Front in Cape Town marked the beginning of a new ball-game in South Africa.
United Democratic Front may cause a bigger stir later on
Article discussing: affidavits on police brutality, the PFP's attempt at a bill of Rights to the forming of the United Democratic Front and…
The role of the Trade Unions in the National Liberation Struggle
An article about the National Liberation Struggle as their decision to join the United Democratic Front was made as part of their response…
The Black Conciousness Movement and social research
This article contains a discussion about the Black Consciousness philosophy and includes a discussion about Bantu education and Christian…
The SACC and the Government
Article about the meeting of delegates from the South African Council of Churches and the South African Prime Minister and his associates…
Statement of the African National Congress of South Africa on the occasion of the meeting in Lusaka on April 1st 1980 of the Heads of Independent States in Southern Africa
Statement of the African National Congress of South Africa on the occasion of the meeting in Lusaka on April 1st 1980 of the Heads of…
Paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of Diakonia on March 25, 1980
Article containing a paper delivered by Archbishop Tutu, General Secretary of the South African Council of Churches, at the annual meeting…
Consultation of SA church leaders on racism in South Africa, Hammanskraal, 11-15 February, 1980
Article containing confidential background information on a consultation of South Africa church leaders on racism in South Africa,…
The situation in Afghanistan
The Situation in Afghanistan: statement issued by the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, January 1980, discusses…
Black Conciousness: an appraisal
The article discusses whether the Black Conciousness Movement arose as a result of the influence of an ideology or as a reflection of the…
The Nederduitse Gereformeerde Sendingkerk
Article discussing the role of the Dutch Reformed Church in effecting social change and justice in South Africa.
The future society as seen by the Black Peop
Foreign African labour in South Africa
African National Congress paper on foreign African labour in South Africa. Covers control of foreign labour, recruitment of foreign labour…
Submission on the question of foreign investment in South Africa
This is the article about the submission on the question of foreign investment in South Africa submitted to Swedish Commission on November…
The new policy of the USA towards South Afri
Transkei Sham
Transkei Sham: statement published in the underground "Inkululeko-Freedom", February 1977, describes the reaction of the ANC to the…
The emergency and impact of the black consciousness movement
This is an article on Black Consciousness Movement, nature of South African society, and withdrawal of blacks from multi-racial…
Obituary of Ruth First
Obituary of Ruth First in Sechaba October 1982 pages 24 to 29
Miscellaneous problems
Problems faced by Africans due to influx control and legislation such as Pass Laws.
African family housing in urban areas
Article on regulations governing the control and supervision of an urban Bantu residential area and the many hardships that these…
The crisis over the land
Article on the government's dispossession of Black's from their land and its policy of separate development resulting in the creation of…
SASO on the attack: an introduction to the So
SASO is an organization which continually probes the various areas of Black life and existence, this set of articles looks at the…
Industrial unrest in South Africa
Paper by I B Tabata on industrial unrest and strikes by Black workers in South Africa. Provides a brief history of the rise of capitalism…
Civil rights and the university
An article on civil rights by Geoff Budlender, SRC President at the University of Cape Town, South Africa
Draft proposals for a new strategy of the ANC of South Africa April 1971
Draft proposals for a new strategy for the African National Congress in South Africa.
Some structural implications of education
Paper by Jack Simons on the implications of education in Africa. Examines the history of education in Africa and suggests the way forward.
Black Power - Students Forced to Leave Meeting - SASO and other affairs
The strategy and tactics of the revolution and the role of the various national groups and the revolutionary forces in the revolution
Annotated paper about the armed struggle, the enemy's strengths and weaknesses and the role of Coloured and Indian people.
Further statement on the Czechoslovakian crisis
Further statement on the Czechoslovakian crisis: statement by the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, July 29, 1968,…
Article in underground leaflet Freedom
Article in underground leaflet 'Freedom' issued by the South African Communist Party in November 1967 to commemorate the 50th anniversary…
The working mother
Article describing the difficulty of rearing balanced families with the working mother so much away from home
Education and family life
Description of how poverty and poor family life contribute to poor education
Child rearing and parent-child relationships
Paper dealing with family relationships in Soweto such as parent-child relationships and how social change or social conditions affect…
The African family today
The effects of migrancy on family life