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The role of the Party and its role in the National Liberation Movement
Discussion document which outlines the historical role of the Communist Party and discusses the democratic revolution, the character of the…
Circular on the London office
The External Affairs Office of the Black Peoples Convention was set up by a resolution to handle foreign public relations and programmes…
Meeting: Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa
Announcement of a meeting in London on Revolutionary perspectives in Southern Africa on 7th July 1978. Speaker to be I B Tabata.
The banning of eighteen Black Consciousness organisations
A circular condemning the government's banning of Black Conciousness organisations in the aftermath of the Soweto riots
Soweto Students Representative Council: It was said that our country is democratic
A circular issued by the Soweto Students Representative Council rejecting the formation of Community Councils
Students and People Soweto
A circular containing a list of demands compiled by the Soweto Students Representative Council
Soweto Students Representative Council: We shall share sufference and joyous moments
The circular, issued by the SSRC, calls for a one year commemoration for all students who died in the political unrest in Soweto on 16th…
Soweto Students Representative Council: Pledge solidarity with students
Circular issued by the SSRC calling for increased solidarity with Black students in South Africa in the struggle for freedom
Soweto Students Representative Council: Boycott on rent increase
Circular calling for solidarity of students with parents over a rent increase
Role of riot police in the burnings and killings, Nyanga, Cape Town, Christmas 1976
Circular from the Christian Institute of Southern Africa containing personal eye-witness accounts of the role of riot police in provoking…
December 16, 1976: Parents day of pledging s
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students Representative Council, calling for a commemoration on 16 December 1976, of those killed in police…
Azikhwelwa: Monday 1st - 5th November, l976
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students Representative Council, calling for further worker and consumer boycott
Azikhwelwa, to all Form 3 Students
Circular, issued by Soweto Students Representative Council, in English and Sotho, asks students to return to school to write their…
Soweto Student Representative Council: Black people let us unite
Circular calling for unity amongst the Black people in their struggle for national liberation
To town, to Eloff, to that exclusive White paradise
Circular urging the people of Johannesburg and surrounding areas to demonstrate against government oppression
Azikwelwa E Thembisa
Circular urges parents to unite with students in stayaways planned to oppose state oppression
Vukani zizwe
Handwritten circular in Xhosa, with English translation, distributed in the Port Elizabeth area calling for a strike.
Azikhwelwa: Parents co-operate with us!
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council, calling for a boycott and stayaway by parents and workers from the 13-15…
To all residents of Soweto, hostels, Reef and Pretoria, we say: remember you are all Blacks
The circular issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council, in English, Zulu and a translation into Afrikaans, is an appeal to all…
From the African Scholars of Cape Town: Once we return to our desks - the cause is lost!
Recommendations from the pupils of the Cape Town Bantu schools with regard to improving the Bantu education system
The Black students message to their beloved
This circular, written by the Soweto Students Representative Council, condemns the Black education system and the conditions of migrant…
Now Cape Town...Now Langa too is burning
The circular informs University of Cape Town students of a mass meeting to be held in response to the political turmoil that had begun to…
We the SSRC condemn..., handwritten statement
This handwritten statement of condemnation contains eight points including that of the detentions of BPA members and the violent actions of…
Statement of demand
A statement of demands by students attending the Thomas Mofolo Secondary School that includes a rejection of Afrikaans as a medium of…
Teachers and students unite
The circular issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council urges the community to stand in solidarity with teachers who have…
Who is next?
A call to all: now is the time to take an active role in the struggle for human dignity
The call is made by students of the Cape Peninsular to join the fight for human dignity against the unjust apartheid system.
A call for a National Convention for the Republic of South Africa
Circular which discusses the reasons for the call for a National Convention for the Republic of South Africa, the deteriorating situation…
A call for Unity
A call for Unity by the Unity Movement of South Africa. Calls for all South African liberation movements to present a united front against…
Black Renaissance Convention, St.Peters Conference Centre, Hammanskraal, 13th-16th December 1974
The document contains a declaration of the Convention's opposition to the apartheid policy and resolutions for future plans to reconvene…
SASO: Executive and Staff
The circular contains a list of names of the Executive members and staff of SASO for the years 1974 and 1975
Mayibuye...mayibuye...mayibuye
This is a circular about black people being murdered for refusing to carry passes and for fighting for human rights.
Can we ask the question and find out the answer why our Brother Onkopotse Tiro was murdered in Botswana
The circular urges Blacks students to take note of the murder of Black leaders by the apartheid government. It is a call for a united…
Final Schlebusch report on NUSAS
General circular from the president of the National Union of South African Students, speculating on the final report of the Schlebusch…
Communique 1/73
This communique informs members of the Black Peoples Convention of resolutions passed at their 1st Annual Congress held at Hammanskraal on…
Black Peoples Convention
A flyer published in Zulu by the Black Peoples Convention urging unity and solidarity of its members. The flyer is accompanied by a…
An open letter to members of the UMSA who hav
Open letter from Wycliffe Tsotsi to members of the Unity Movement, regarding Scrape Ntshona's suspension from the movement and accusations…
Brothers and sisters of Chatsworth
The flyer is aimed at the residents of Chatsworth, an Indian residential suburb in Durban and discusses the bus boycott by the Chatsworth…
Letter from Paul Pretorius, President, NUSAS, to Overseas National Unions and others
General circular letter giving information about the attack by the South African Police on a group of students who were protesting on the…
Circular from N Pityana to all SRCs and SASO
Circular letter written to Student Representative Council's in support of the resolution by Black students to boycott Black Universities if…
Circular from the SASO National Executive Committee to all SRCs and other Black organisations
Circular to all SRC's, local committees and other Black Organisations calling on Black students to work together for liberation, following…
Letter from Jen Curtis, Secretary-General, NUSWEL, to Wages and Economics Commission Chairmen
Confidential circular letter from Jen Curtis of the National Union of Students Welfare and Social Activities Department about the aims and…
Circular from N. Pityana to all SRCs and loc
A circular stating the facts surrounding the controversy between the South African Students' Organisation (SASO) and the Natal Indian…
Letter from Barry Streek, Secretary General, NUSAS, to NUSED Executive and others
General circular letter from Barry Streek, NUSAS, with an outline of the history of university apartheid in South Africa and the Acts and…
Unity Movement members charged under the Terrorism Act
Statement by the Unity Movement on the political trials of members of the movement who had been arrested and charged.
Political trials begin
Statement by the Unity Movement on political trials of members of the Unity Movement that had been arrested.
Letter from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
General circular letter from the President of the National Union of Students, Neville Curtis, quoting from a letter from C.D.T. Sibisi…
Circular from Oliver Schreiner, Deputy Vice-President, NUSAS, to University Principals and others
General circular from the Deputy Vice-President of the National Union of South African Students. The circular discusses the structure of…
A brief history of student action in South Africa, plus a brief history of English/ Afrikaans /non-white student relations
Brief history of student action in South Africa from 1916 to 1971 and brief history of relationships between English, Afrikaans and Black…
The Black Man in South Africa
Notice of a public lecture to be given by I B Tabata at the University of California, San Diego, entitled The Black Man in South Africa.