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Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 … South Africa's Radical Tradition a…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… Prehistory to the year 2000, unpublished papers with SA History Online. …
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… you now could well be the turning point in our country's history. It would unite the overwhelming majority of our …
Document 29 - Resolution on the need for the resumption of multi-party negotiations
… peacefully and to demonstrate covers. Given South Africa's history of repression, and particularly repression against …
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… whose potential has largely been untapped because of our history of colonialism and apartheid - we can help each other … as a whole. Honourable members; In…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… significance. It changed the course of South African history. This paper is going to argue that the fruits of the … significance. It changed the course of…
PlacePlettenberg Bay, Garden Route
… place to stay. Plettenberg Bay has a relatively long history for a South African town, having been regularly … 15th and 16th centuries. Signs of their…
ArchiveCelebrating 200 years of the South African Astronomical Observatory by Karel van der Vyver (Daily Maverick), 16 October 2020
… the observatory ahead of the celebrations. A short history On 20 October 1820, word reached the Cape from … which will cover “current and future science, the…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… Ndebele teachers were prohibited from teaching the history of their people and that Northern Ndebele leaders had been incarcerated on flimsy pretexts. As…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa women – … make a change is what brought these…
ArticleThe Cape Malay
… traditions that have played a major role in shaping the history and diversity of Cape Town. Origins The exploration … The language and musical style of this…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… it is now possible to take a more sympathetic view of its history, and its early history in particular. In many ways the Society became a …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… led a Progressive Federal Party delegation to Lusaka. The history of the PFP, in its various incarnations and … Harare to meet with the ANC. Nusas, which…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… witnessed a momentous chain of events in its political history. The Durban Strikes were a turning point in the … South Africa, has witnessed three major…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… It searches for peace and hope. It is beckoned by history to take sides. The photographers in this book have. … films and oral histories in an effort to…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 58 … Against multi-racialism we have this…
The Atlantic slave trade
… try to watch the movie 'Amistad' in class. Picture source: history.sandiego.edu There was a great deal of resistance to …
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… as a prolonged period of political quiescence in the history of the struggle against apartheid until the outbreak …
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa
… been carried out by black South Africans. Overview The history of refugees and asylum seekers in South Africa dates …
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… authority from the governed. As a result, for most of its history, the ANC’s political practices have leaned heavily on … the Soweto uprising. The uprising…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… individual, in anyone who is a human being. In fact, the history of mankind is the history of man struggling and striving for freedom. Indeed, … vision is a…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 24 … In fact we doubt whether the A.N.C. has…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
… this question, to take a moment to reflect on the history of our engagement, going back many centuries. For … giraffe. We, ourselves, have arrived at this…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
… Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal … Archive." Jwa.Org. [5] "Ruth Heloise First…
Need for New Level of International Action against Apartheid. Statement at the special session of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, Stockholm by O. R. Tambo, June 18, 1968
… more of your time by making reference to an event in our history which has become central to our struggle. Chief … and the South African racist regime,…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
… am seeking mainly to describe a current in the ideological history of modern capitalism, and am not taking a position … own time. This exhortation depended…
The melody of freedom
… sketch a number of them. Those taking an interest in the history of South African music will soon observe that, from … Thus it was that, at certain stages in…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… its 1949 conference. It marks a turning point in both the history of the ANC and of black politics as a whole. This … “surface disturbances, crests of foam…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… harshest prisons. The city of Barberton is known to history as one of soot and soil. Located in what was then the … [2] “Barberton,” South African History…