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Chapter 12
Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change…
Chapter 14
New efforts at disruption The farcical elections were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, but were more…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
Lengthy negotiations took place between the union and the employers' association before the agreement expired in the middle of August 1932,…
Chapter 1 - The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is…
Chapter 1: Introduction
Before embarking on an investigation of vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, it is important to give an account of what the…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and usher in a new process of…
Chapter 10
Chief obstacles in the way In the last few chapters we have described the highest level of political development reached by the people, as…
Burg, J. (1976) ‘Thow ideology out’, The World, 26 May, p. 5.
Ceremonial Oration of the Grand Patron of the National Orders, President Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2002
Ceremonial Oration of the Grand Patron of the National Orders, President Thabo Mbeki, (abridged), 2 December 2003
Bono on Desmond Tutu, Steve Jobs and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize (vidoeo)
Bono on Desmond Tutu, Steve Jobs and 2011 Nobel Peace Prize from popbonobuzzbaby on Vimeo. Bono in Capetown South Africa 10-7-2011 on his…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 On 10 December 1996, the signatures on the country's new and final…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
As I have indicated the appropriate framework for the analysis of SASO and SANSCO is not a given and by no means obvious. Hence, it is…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend beyond the workplace per se. Although workers sell their labour…
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Anti-Afrikaans pupils go on strike in soweto’, The World,18 May.
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Seventh school join strike’, The World
Bokala, W. (1976) ‘Strik school in dreadlock’, The World, 20 May.
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City…
Black Student Politics
It is generally recognised that mass popular struggles during the 1970s and 1980s played a pivotal role in eroding apartheid and creating…
Being banned
“I'd rather run in front of a car than be an informer”
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
William Morris, one of England's foremost Socialists, poet and artist 1834-96, also had two daughters, but only one of them-May -took a…
Biographical Introduction
The fact that the artists in this exhibition represent a largely 'neglected tradition' was nowhere more clearly demonstrated than in the…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Nobel Peace Laureate Message of Support for July 25 Rally (video)
Nobel Peace Prize Recipient Archbishop Desmond Tutu voices his support for the Global Day of Action in solidarity for the People of Iran on…
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Forgiveness, no date (video)
Nobel Peace Prize Winner Desmond Tutu explains how love and forgiveness kept post-apartheid South Africa from tumbling into anarchy.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Helping Children, no date (video)
Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Helping Children Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Helping Children by UNICEF Archbishop Desmond Tutu on Helping…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
"Azikhwelwa on Monday." Flyer by Soweto Students' Representative Council calling for a stay-away from September 13, 1976 The people of…
APPENDIX 3 - ACRONYMS USED
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events…
Back to union
“African men stood up and told the employers that we want those Coloured women back”
Banned SACTU leaders
Altman, Phyllis - SACTU, Assistant Secretary President Baard, Frances- Food and Canning Workers Union (FCWU) Balfour, Mabel - African…
Amulets & Dreams by Omar Badsha and Guy Tillim
This book covers civil strife and its effects on the society in 6 African countries namely Angola, Mozabique, Burundi, Sierra Leone,…
After Apartheid – Culture in the New South Africa Vol. 2
One of the many issues confronting post – apartheid South Africa is that the cultural expression of its citizens was severely limited by…
Allan Boesak at UDF West Coast Launch, August 1983 (Video)
Dr. Allan Boesak at West Coast Launch event of the United Democratic Front, August, 1983. Spoken in Afrikaans. Historic footage courtesy…
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
The Congress of South African Trade Unions COSATU has taken a firm stand that the federation will not be drawing up a list of its own…
APPENDIX 2 - INTERVIEW WITH DEREK BAUER
An investigation into vigilantes and political violence in Kwazulu-Natal, 1985-1994
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths…
After Apartheid - Social Identities in the New South Africa Vol. 1
Many South Africans are struggling to come to terms with the new conditions in their country, in a world increasingly finding its way…
Address to the Biennial Meeting of the Association for The Development of Education in Africa (Adea), Johannesburg, 6 December 1999
Education Ministers from African Countries Representatives of Donor Organisations Distinguished Delegates Ladies and Gentlemen: I am…
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
Madame Speaker, Deputy Speaker, Honourable Deputy President, Honourable Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Honourable Members, Fellow…
African farmers in Southern Africa
The first farmers For a period of time that is almost impossible to imagine, all the inhabitants of Southern Africa were Stone Age hunter…
Address by the reverend John Langalibalele Dube after his election as president of the South African Native National Congress
Address by the reverend John Langalibalele Dube after his election as president of the South African Native National Congress: report in…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987
As we meet here today, an important conference is taking place in Addis Ababa. This is the Extraordinary Summit Meeting of OAU Heads of…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
Honourable Speaker, President of the Senate, Honourable Prime Minister Arthur Napolean Robinson and members of the Cabinet, Honourable…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
January 8th Statement Comrade President, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, a most eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
Compatriots, Forty eight hours ago P.W. Botha announced a state of emergency affecting the Eastern Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal…