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ArchiveReligion and the struggle against apartheid
Paper on religion and the struggle against apartheid, prepared for an African National Congress seminar which provides a brief history of…
ArchiveSuggested tactics and strategy in the mobilisation and organisation of Africans for the Revolution
Unauthored paper on mobilising and organising Africans for a revolution. Examines the African working class, churches and the Bantustans.
ArchiveNegotiations - what room for compromise?
Response by Sam Shilowa to Joe Slovo's paper on negotiations. Argues against compromising on issues for the sake of the government.
ArchiveViews on a constitution making body
Views on a constitution making body tabled by the South African Government at a Codesa Working Group 2.
ArchiveInternal position
Unauthored paper reconsidering broad strategy and tactics within the African National Congress.
AffidavitRefusal to relocate from Klipfontein to Glenmore
Affidavit of Mevana Ncanywa refusing to relocate from Klipfontein to Glenmore
LettersBlack Renaissance Convention
ArchiveDialogue and Vorsters Outward Policy
Homeless Giving Tourists a Negative Perception - Fietas Museum by Wim Pretorius and Iavan Pijoos, (News24.com), 15 February 2016
Johannesburg – In the heart of Pageview in Johannesburg lies a small, but almost forgotten museum, rich with the city’s history. Located…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
CITATION FOR SALEEM BADAT (Honorary graduand, Rhodes University, 10 April 2015) By Professor Paul Maylam Eight years ago, in 2007, Dr…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged…
ArchiveTrafalgar High School, Cape Town, marks 100 years
Thursday sees Trafalgar High School, located at the foot of District Six, marking 100 years of existence and according to school principal,…
The People's Past: Towards Transforming the Present by Luli Callinicos (Critical Arts Vol 4 No 2), 1986
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 book review by Ruth Edgecombe
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in the ANC’s Quatro…
Obituary of Trevor Makhoba by Valerie Leigh (Natal Society Foundation), 2003
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book…
A tribute to Indres Naidoo by Glen Moss
Indres Naidoo Born: 26 August 1936 Died: 3 January 2016 Transvaal Indian Congress, Umkhonto we Size, African National Congress, South…
The Voice and Gesture in South Africa’s Revolution : A Study of Worker Gatherings and Performance-Genres in Natal by Ari Sitas, 6 - 10 February 1990, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
The Reverend Michael Scott was born on 30 July 1907 at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an…
ANC NGC – The Good, The Bad And The Ugly by Marius Strydom (News24 Voices), 12 October 2015
ABOUT two years ago, Home Affairs Minister Malusi Gigaba found himself facing an angry television audience at a recording of The Big Debate…
Cosatu march: For Who, for What? by Simelane and Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 8 October 2015
At 9:00 on Wednesday morning, only a few people in union T-shirts sat in the shade in Johannesburg's Mary Fitzgerald Square, the listed…
Going Full Circle on Khoekhoe Origins by Alan G. Morris, (The Digging Stick Vol 31, No 1), 2014, South Africa
South Africa 1981
The Gambia: 50 years of independence, 20 years of terror by Fatou Diagne (Pambazuka News), 17 March 2015
He claimed to be a different kind of soldier and promised not to hang on to power, and never to install a dictatorship. Who said that power…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
Contents Introduction PART I) PLANNING APARTHEID Dutch Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning…
David Webster’s role in the DPSC: a fearless defence of the principles of legality and due process by Glenda Webster
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
Remember when President Jacob Zuma got booed at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service? The ANC claimed those were not ANC members. Could it be…
Changing Voting Patterns? by Ebrahim Fakir and Waseem Holland
A Brief History of Factionalism and New Party Formation and Decline in South Africa by Ivor Sarakinsky and Ebrahim Fakir
Rivonia 1, National Archives
The First South African side to play in the sub-continent: Boer Prisoners of War in 1901 (Part 1 of 2) by Arunabha Sengupta (Cricket Country), 12 October 2015
The Colts from Colombo and the Boer prisoners-of-war who played a two-day match in July 1901. Back (left to right): Phillipus Ooosthuizen…
ArchiveDocument on the Van Wyk De Vries Commission of Enquiry into Universities compiled by Charles Nupen
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. There was…