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A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
One of the most striking buildings in Port Elizabeth is the famous Campanile. In the article below, Tennyson Smith Bodill reveals the history behind the…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… are on record. Vigilante action, especially in Natal, has been particularly prominent. The major federation, …
Apartheid - a Threat to Africa's Survival - Address under the Auspices of the Nigerian National Committee on Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, 18 March 1971
South Africa's Strategy of Creating Client States The strategic objective of the South African racists with regard to the African continent is both short-term…
XII - Unanswered Questions
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects assumed…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… 77 Thami Zulu, the Swaziland-based commander of MK’s Natal machinery, 78 and one of his deputies in MK’s Natal machinery, known as Ralph, together with Sue…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… appropriately renamed Makhanda; It is 125 years since the Natal Indian Congress was formed; It is 80 years since the …
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… Professor O. P. F. Horwood resigned from the University of Natal as rector and vice-chancellor on 30 September 1969, …
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
… abuses, trekked beyond the borders of the Cape and founded Natal, the Orange Free State and the Transvaal. Time does not …
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
Starting with major scientific breakthroughs during the 1930’s, countries have developed weapons that are based on nuclear energy. The use of nuclear weapons…
Post-detention weapons
… 1960s Professor Barend van Niekerk of the University of Natal calculated that 47% of all executions in the world take …
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… was his request of the HMS Geyser to stop en route from Natal to Cape Town at the Kei River. [151] There, the ship …
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… life. He worked as a cleaner in Camperdown in KwaZulu-Natal and in Shakaskraal on the north coast as a labourer …
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… of government such as the four provincial councils of Natal, Cape, Orange Free State and Transvaal which are headed … by the peasants in Pondoland,…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… by the peasants in Pondoland, Sekhukhuniland and Natal in the late fifties pointed also to the new spirit of …
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… as follows; Eastern Cape, Free State, Gauteng, Kwa-Zulu Natal, Limpopo, Mpumalanga, Northern Cape, North West, …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 94th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2006
… Sobantu Branch, Greater Pietermaritzburg Region, KwaZulu Natal. The runner-up in this category is the Ben Tshipi …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… Councils, the Regional Service Councils and the so-called Natal Indaba are nothing but manoeuvres. All white patriots …
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… orchestrating the murder of eleven people at Trust Feed in Natal. It was suggested at the time that Kriel had tabled the …
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human…
Address by President, Nelson R. Mandela, at the funeral of Martin Chris Hani FNB Stadium, Soweto, 19 April 1993
Comrade Chairpersons, To the family, Our daughter-in-law, Limpho, and grandchildren Neo, Nomakwezi and Lindiwe, Gilbert and Mary Hani, parents of Chris,…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
… white competitors celebrated inside. In October 1962, the Natal Supreme Court ruled that it was not illegal for persons …
New tactics in the revolt
… sealed off in order to stamp out rebellions. The women of Natal had battled with police. And in the Transkei there had …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
… of South Africa's position than the one I read in the Natal Daily News of 25 September. This was a report from Ken …
Archive2005 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2005
… in police and prison custody with emphasis on KwaZulu-Natal, Western Cape and Gauteng Provinces; complete, by April …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… 27 Mabhinki Branch, Lower South Coast Region, Kwa-Zulu Natal. The ZK Mathews Award, conferred on the best performing …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 90th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2002
… are the Richmond councillors of the Province of KwaZulu-Natal. The National Executive Committee warmly congratulates …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Second Joint Sitting of the Third Democratic Parliament Cape Town: February 11 2005
… in police and prison custody with emphasis on KwaZulu/Natal, Western Cape and Gauteng Provinces; complete, by April …