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EventIFP proposes a truce with ANC
The Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) proposed a truce with the African National Congress (ANC) as an effort to distil violent clashes between members of the two…
PlaceTaj Hotel, Cape Town
The venue combines two buildings—the Temple Chambers, also known as the Board of Executors, built in 1890, and the South African Reserve Bank building, on St…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
… Inkatha lacked the support of the youth and radical South Africans, who disliked Inkatha’s participation in the …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
Webinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) Convenor: Janet Cherry Has the South African development trajectory over the past…
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… dedicated a large part of his life to the ‘upliftment’ of Africans in Johannesburg) Walter Sisulu Square in the heart … had been surrendered to the…
PlaceThe SAS Somerset Museum
… Africa and reached Durban , Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) in 1947. The ship was renamed the SAS Somerset in 1955 to …
EventSouth Africa's first democratic elections
Following a series of tense negotiations and years of liberation struggle, the first democratic election was held in South Africa on the 27th April, 1994. This…
EventSir John Robinson forms Natal's first ministry as Prime Minister
… attended the Colonial Conference of 1887 and the South Africans customs conference in 1888. In 1889 he was knighted …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
From Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee International Studies Group,…
PlaceKilnerton Training Institution
… of medical services to the oppressed majority of South Africans during the apartheid era. She was the first African …
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. If Namibia is Africa for beginners, then Windhoek is very much its capital in more than…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
On 17 September 1995, the Roman Catholic’s Pope John Paul II celebrated a papal mass in South Africa as he began his six day tour of Africa. His visit to the…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being taught in Afrikaans and were subsequently gunned down, detained, and exiled, led the…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
On 25 June 1993, hundreds of armed white separatists together with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference South Africa has a long and rich scholarly tradition on the labour…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract: To this day, the only book-length study of the mass…
PlaceMushroom Farm in Hillcrest, KZN
The Mushroom Farm offers a delightful array of eateries, play areas, local retailers and a nursery. "The Mushroom Farm is one of Hillcrest's hidden gems,…
PlaceBotlierskop, Private Game Reserve
Set on the foothills of the magnificent Outeniqua Mountains near Mossel Bay and George in a Malaria Free area in South Africa's Garden Route, Botlierskop…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
On 11 February 1962, two actors, Athol Fugard, 29, from Port Elizabeth, author of the two - man play "The Blood knot" and his co-actor Zakes Mokae, 27, from…
PlaceAnglo Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein
… many decades to come. More than a Century later South Africans can look back at this event as a shared tragedy that …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… it out as having 'acted as the conscience of white South Africans, even during the darkest days...of our struggle. 4 … see only a small proportion of non…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… A month later, in the 1980 ANC New Year address to South Africans, the ANC executive tried to steer a way out of its … on education for blacks and grossly…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 76th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1988
… to build--of a South Africa that will belong to all South Africans regardless of race or colour. The meeting held in … workers on the farms have begun to…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… class of 56 dedicated trade unionists, seventeen of them Africans. However, as already shown, it was the Native Labour … they explained the reasons for the…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Under Apartheid, the government forced black South Africans out of their land into designated Bantustans, or … white-only counterpart. Like many…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… supremacy. It was clear to Boetie and other black South Africans that it was hard to fight apartheid system, its … appeared under the title Tshotsholoza,…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… Sobukwe and his mentor at Healdtown and how we, as South Africans, often still struggle to find common ground. …
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
Introduction Documents In Volume 2 Document 1 Letter from Negro Bureau to Eastern Secretariat, 1931 Document 2 Letter from J. Gumede to International…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… at the perpetrators not the victims. The numbers of South Africans who has 'stamouers' who were slaves or descendants …