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ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF JOE SLOVO Johannesburg, 15 January 1995
… to see reality for what it was. He had, at the age of 16 joined the Communist Party of South Africa. To use his own …
49. The certificates are burned
… Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 16 August 1908, a crowd of Indians, as well as a few Chinese …
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became involved in a series of court actions,…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their national aspirations. Yet…
Chapter 14. Rebuilding the Union-Constitution
When I returned to South Africa in March 1933, I found the stillness of the grave in the union office. The mass of workers in the factory section had lost…
Chapter 1. The South African Trade Union Movement- Historical Background - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… at a demonstration outside the gaol of Boksburg (a town 16 miles east of Johannesburg), the incensed workers seized …
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… of being a Special Branch policeman (Matshikiza 1961a, 12). Thus, Matshikiza veils his own complex fears of being … of South African literature. David…
Apartheid power in crisis
… There were no incidents reported from Johannesburg but 12 of the journalists mentioned above were arrested in Cape … population is estimated at around 3000,…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… mission station at Clarkebury. Thanks to the Rev. Ayliff, 16,000 Fingos (according to his own figures) delivered … soldiers." In his "Notes on South African…
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 the Black people in South Africa are Mantanzima, 12 Mangope, 13 Buthelezi," Phatudi 15 and others. They … leaders of the Black people in South Africa are…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… those of north and south Indian descent (see table 1.2). 12 The darker-skinned south Indians sometimes felt … one’s earliest socialisation within any…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
… of the industrial schools white children under the age of 16 could be committed if their parents were found to have no … transferred to these schools upon…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… 1951 36 5 790 31 7,204 4(13%) 1952 54 6 496 48 5,963 12(25%) 1953 30 7 819 23 1,479 15(75%) 1954 60 21 1,096 39 … history of textile workers' struggles. The…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… there was the picture of a young Jewish girl. When about 16 years old she led an attack on a Gestapo office and killed … were relatively rich and he had a…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
… them in court. Ngubane was eventually sentenced to 12 months imprisonment but appealed the decision and was …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… of social and economic transformation. In the last 16 years we have accumulated experience in governing. We have … the communities that they serve. The ANC…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… The four bills were tabled for debate in Parliament on 16 September and were passed into law by 23 September 1993. … the Freedom Alliance, the plenary was…
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… of motor vehicles and illegal possession of firearms by 16% each, and murder and housebreaking by about 11% each. …
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… I was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the … driving the water pumps and how tired one gets. As a 16-year-old even the loudest…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… had created for the success of the Congress of the People.12 The idea of the COP had captured his imagination no less … of their hardships, their dreams and…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… that led to derisive comment from members of the League. [12] There was a certain logic to the majority’s argument, not … and ultimately war itself, he said…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
… in the press at every corner of the Union (Rogers, 16). Unfortunately the Senate bill was signed despite the …
ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
Slaves at the Cape were forced to carry passes. This made it easier for their owners and the local authorities to control their movements. The first time Pass…
Chapter VI - A strange kind of goal bird
… Helen Joseph The first anniversary of the Soweto shooting, 16 June 1977, was to be commemorated at St Mary's Cathedral … a proper job this time." On 8…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… health and welfare, increased by an average rate of 12% from 1995 to 1998, way above the average rate of …
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… that for every 9 slaves that crossed the Atlantic another 12 died. These were people Africa could not afford to lose. …
The fight against passes continues
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner All this time there was still this thing of passes for women going on, and the…
PlaceKruger National Park
… Iron Age site can be found on a prominent hillside just 12 km from the Phalaborwa gate on the tar road to Letaba rest …
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… lost on Gumede. During the fifth session on the evening of 12 February, he was called to “report on the economic and … to attend its World Congress to be…