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Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
Numsa, Vavi walloped Dissidents in Cosatu backing expelled metalworkers union Numsa and the ousted general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi believed that, had they…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
ArticleThe South African War 1899-1902
On 9 October 1899 the SAR issued an ultimatum to Britain and two days later, on 11 October the war was officially declared between Britain and the Boers. The…
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close Document 4 'Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering': report in the South African Worker 31 January 1929 The Seventh…
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
Please join us for the opening of Tales of History Retold.For this exhibition, eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
1990 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African…
EventThe General Assembly of the League of Nations meets in Geneva for the first time
… years before the outbreak of World War II. On 26 June 1945, delegates from fifty countries met in San Francisco … was one of the original founding members of…
Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the Communist League of America’, 26 April 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 40 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to the…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… on the role of the ANC during World War II from 1939-1945. Vasta led the discussion. His last. We asked questions. …
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… 10 of the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act of 1945, as substituted by Section 27 of Act 54 of 1952, places …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
An example of a reference entry in APA style, highlighting key elements (Author, Date, Title, Source, URL). Mastering such referencing formats is essential for…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
… of multi-polarity on the rise. The economic model of 1945 no longer works even for the developed world. We are …
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… elected as the Reich Minister of Propoganda from 1933 - 1945. To control every part of every German's life, the Nazi … even a barely mature Jew boy”¦" - Der…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… between 1938 and 1943: from 143 069 in 1938 to 248 785 in 1945. With the increasing collapse of subsistence production … and the scope for trade union…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… carry out another bus boycott which lasts for seven weeks. 1945 The Port Elizabeth branch of the ANC organises protest …
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African National Congress …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… in protest against the new War Measure, and in May 1945 2000 delegates gathered at the Johannesburg Trades Hall. …
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November 1945. South Africa was one of the original 51 founding … members of the UN from its inception on 24…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… 13,897 40,442 1945 .. 128,071 245,535 … 1942 1943 1945 European…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… by Muziwakhe Anton Lembede , its first president. 1945 The fifth Pan-African Congress is held in Manchester, …
PlaceHugh Eksteen Photographic Museum, Polokwane-Limpopo
… what the Area of Polokwane looked like between 1892 and 1945 as well as provide an insight into the architecture, … known as Pietersburg) looked like between…
Document 92 “Communist Party of South Africa Plenum Held from 5th to 8th April 1936”, Umsebenzi, and 16 May 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 92 "Communist Party of South Africa Plenum…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The origins and development of Trotskyism 171 Document…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
Transition to Armed Struggle The brief respite from the Treason Trial which ended on 29 March 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of…
ArchiveNon-European Unity Movement: Minutes of the Fourth Unity Conference
… in the City Hall in Kimberley on 19th and 20th December 1945. …
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
Before presenting the history and impact of resistance photography we must consider the historical moment in which resistance photography in South Africa came…
ArchiveNon-European Unity Movement 3rd Unity Conference
… in the Banqueting Hall, Cape Town on 4th and 5th January 1945. Including in this document are two addresses, the first …
ArchiveUrban Bantu Councils Act, Act No 79 of 1961
… and to amend the Natives (Urban Areas) Consolidation Act, 1945 …
ArchiveCelebrating and commemorating twenty-years of the Harare declaration by Kgolane Alfred Rudolph PHALA
Introduction This year, 2009, the people of South Africa celebrate the 20th Anniversary of the Harare Declaration, a significant document adopted by an OAU…