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Professor Zakes Mda review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
… it will be an indispensable text for the students of history and politics and generally for those who want to …
ArchiveInterview with Julius Nyerere
… countries which had not yet achieved independence from colonial rule. These notes on a conversation with Nyerere at …
EventXhosa Chief Sandile is killed
… Sandile, joined by Kreli of the Galekas, waged war against Colonial forces, which included loyal Fingos, at the Battle …
EventGeneral Idi Amin overthrows Ugandan President Milton Obote
… meeting in Singapore. Amin was a soldier in the British colonial army and became one of its first Ugandan … Boddy-Evans A. “This day in African History: 25…
EventThe governor of the Cape, Sir Alfred Milner, opens the Graaff-Reinet-Middelburg railway line
… Sir Alfred Milner was a British statesman and colonial Administrator. Milner came to South Africa in May … ANGLO-BOER WAR (1899-1902) , from South African…
EventAhmadou Kourouma, Ivorian novelist dies in France
… he returned to his home country. Unhappy with his post- colonial new reality, Kourouma expressed his grievances …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… M. Mabhida, “African Communists Speak: Documents from the History of the South African Communist Party 1915-1980” … 2013), p.744. [4] Lodge, Tom. Red Road to…
ArticleThe Politics Behind Water
… and Smallholding Irrigation Schemes in South Africa: A History and New Institutional Challenges, University of … and Smallholding Irrigation Schemes in South…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… one another. Resistance Deepens and Expands: The Role of Women and the UDF Frances Baard speaking at the launch of the … community, civic, student, youth,…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture delivered by President Jacob Zuma, 26 April 2013, Queenstown
… given to the struggle for liberation not as an accident of history or coincidence but because of the material conditions … of power which make these two…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… that we have wasted a year. This year will go down in history as the beginning of the end of the oppressive … when in Croesus people went in Strike? Were not…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of president Rafsanjani of Iran Pretoria, 12 September 1996
… people of Iran: "Thank you." Today we meet as free men and women. With the bitter history behind us, we must now tackle the daunting task of …
An interview with Dorothy Molefi: Hector was ‘always smiling’
… go to his place, so I went there. When I got there I saw women sitting in the house and... there was a newspaper on … because today at the schools they teach…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… your tribute to the gallantry and heroism of those men and women who for the last two years elected to suffer rather … I also take it that it Is your tribute…
ArchiveBiography of Dambisa Moyo by Alex Kamau
… from different tribes and from different parts of rural colonial Africa, they did not share the same language … trade market relationships the U.S has…
PlaceLeliefontein
… IN FURTHER READING. The Village is steeped in Wartime History: During the South African War - (also known as the … Scottish "riel", which describes a…
PlaceMpofu Nature Reserve
… perspective into this very important time in local history. The reserve was established in 1985, on land that … since been converted into guest lodges with a…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… the Stalinist conception of a 2 stage-revolution in the colonial countries, ie that first there should be a period of … with the local middle and capitalist…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of his acceptance of an honorary doctorate of the University of Stellenbosch Stellenbosch, 25 October 1996
… left its unmistakable imprint on our country's troubled history - a history whose scars still show. Tonight you are receiving me … through negotiation, then…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… and none of the participating countries had granted their women citizens the right to vote at the national level – the … issues of poverty and social equity…
PlaceThembuland
… definition of the area has also changed over time. Before colonial conquest, it was divided into Tembuland Proper, … River, in what was later the district of…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… to distinguish analytically between them. In South African history a number of groups with varying cultures have come … capitalism; secondly the need for…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… The history of modern times is the history of nationalism. Nationalism has been tested in the … and industrial colour bars, young African men and women are…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… host a man who has made such a significant impact on world history. Since the first stirrings of democracy in South … Trust in Johannesburg, South Africa, to…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… that the imbalances and inequities bequeathed to us by the history of Africa and South Africa, are beyond our capacity … of the Congressional Black Caucus,…
Challenges to capitalism; Russian Revolution and the establishment of the Communist state
… This information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated …
Bitter Battles to Come - Message to the Meeting of the Council of the Afro-Asian Peoples' Solidarity Organisation by O. R. Tambo, Tripoli, January 1971
… great young independent nations growing on the ruins of colonial domination - and all those who participated in the … of the anti-imperialist forces at a…
We Shall Win - Statement at the Meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid to launch the International Anti-Apartheid year by O. R. Tambo, New York, 21 March 1978
… these forces found fertile ground, enriched by a long history of colonial and white minority domination, and made specially … today refuse to recognise this…
PlaceNewcastle
… the pending annexation of the Transvaal by the British the colonial authorities decided to establish a fort at … https://newcastle.gov.za/about-newcastle…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… with little bargaining power. (For example, in 1926 white women were starting on two-rand a week, which was the same wage as black men in the industry were…