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2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… the centrality of finance capital in the structure of the South African economy, and its capacity to hinder economic … quest for equality, promotion of…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… set up joint action group supporting Indians in South Africa against racism. October 15, Prepares to leave for … 19, Gandhi accuses Transvaal Government of…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… done? What have we done? Our only sin is being black Let Africa come back.' You know African people. Everything is … no, the crocodile won't wait. So he…
“What I Owe To Mahatma Gandhi”: An Article, September 16, 1948
… 16, 1948 21 I was eight years old when Gandhiji left South Africa. I could not understand then the intricacies of … had perfected during his career as a…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
… apartheid would not have happened. And that unfortunately South African history is yet to acknowledge. Taylor: Why? … that the examination of what non…
PlaceRugby Museum, V & A Waterfront, Cape Town
… of rugby memorabilia and is one of its kind in the world, a must-see for rugby fans, the Springbok Experience … the whole family. The experience tells the…
EventThe company, IBM, re-forms in South Africa
… When U.S. lawmakers approved economic sanctions against South Africa over President Reagan's veto, several high profile … in name only. IBM calmly announced…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
… he controlled but which finally washed him up alone in a world he did not understand. In his last years he was under … existence of white people was but a…
ArchiveRemembering to think critically: Rick Turner 40 years on by Anthony Egan, 8 January 2018
… was shot with a 9mm bullet identical to those used by the South African police, and the fact that then Minister of … Kruger had once called Turner ‘the most…
Document 22 - Letter from Douglas Wolton to E. R. Roux, 8 May 1928
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … but was not able to reply earlier as the question of the World Congress was not…
EventF.W. de Klerk announces the release of Nelson Mandela and unbans political parties
… Congress (ANC), Pan Africanist Congress (PAC), the South African Communist Party (SACP) and other liberation … was the result of the following factors…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… days. The Durban strikes constituted a defining moment in South African history. It shattered the industrial peace that … since the banning of the ANC, PAC…
Address delivered by the Deputy President, Jacob Zuma, at the National Union of Mineworkers National Congress, 24 May 2006
… 21st Anniversary since the formation of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), that giant trade union … of Emergency. Comrades the struggle for…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… the blessings of reconciliation among all the people of South Africa! Khotso e be le lena! May peace be with you! When … moved thousands through the ages to…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… whether or not they are nationalists and to renounce the South African Communist Party before there can be … South Africans no doubt are, by the spectre of a…
EventPenny Heyns, South African swimming star, is born.
… Springs, Transvaal. Her parents later moved to the Natal South Coast. She attended Doon Heights Primary and then … games to do so. The achievement also…
Affirming the history of all South Africans
… the beginning of the second term of our new democracy, we South Africans are fully aware that we have not as yet told … of the sacrifice of the millions who…
Appeal To Students by Nelson Mandela
… a National Convention, before 31 May this year, of all South Africans, to draw up a new democratic constitution. If … Finally, an appeal was made to…
”Opening Address” at Annual Conference of the South African Indian Congress, by Dr. S. M. Molema, January 25, 1952
… it is to be asked to open this 20th conference of the South African Indian Congress, and I wish to thank you for … and sorrow, Nor flatter the rank breath of…
PlaceSignal Hill
… until it became a part of the Independent Union of South Africa in 1910 . Shortly after the English took over, the two … traditions . These are the Oldest…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… history of apartheid-era judiciary. It shocked the world. By June 1977, a year after the Soweto uprising, a … a cause célèbre in the history of many gross…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu … Versus Zephania Mothopeng and 17…
EventThe Blue Bulls rugby team wins the South African Currie Cup at Loftus
… Currie Cup is the premier domestic rugby competition in South Africa, dating back to 1889. The iconic gold trophy was first … played every year and it was…
PlaceKgodumodumo Dinosaur Interpretation Centre
… The new centre will celebrate- Africa’s Ancient History , highlighting one of the World’s oldest known dinosaur embryos ever discovered. With … accessible to…
EventBrig. Ramushwana in NPKF admission
… set up two weeks previously with troops from the White-led South African Defence Force (SADF), the armed wing of the … go into the townships to quell…
EventRobert Kennedy, American politician, speaks at the University of Cape Town about the racial inequality of apartheid
… invitation of liberal student movement National Union of South African Students(NUSAS). In his speech he referred to a … inequality and prejudice in the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Banquet hosted by President Sharma of India India, 25 January 1995
… could ever have doubted India's concern for the people of South Africa. With an unfaltering belief in justice and a … were oppressed, India came to our aid…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of substantive negotiation towards … beginning to cast a depressing shadow…
EventSouth African tenor opera singer, Siphiwo Ntshebe dies
… have been one of the highlights of his career. Former South African President Nelson Mandela had selected Ntshebe to be one of the performers at the 2010…
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… projects like SAHO's and academic institutions around the world. Two of SAHO's latest publications were launched at the … Anti Apartheid Struggle" by Norman…