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Address by the President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Civil Society Forum of the WSSD, Johannesburg, 23 August 2002
Master of Ceremonies, Our international guests, Leaders and members of organisations of civil society, Distinguished delegates to the World Summit for…
Doing Oral History
… planned this could be overcome. Grade 4 learners might struggle to execute and record the interview. Practicing the …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… (Figure. 5) and Chris Gitsham (Figure. 6) After a titanic struggle of virtually the whole course, McArthur won the race …
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… accept that? That is sufficient to make anyone enter the struggle. Life in the reserves is survived on a very low …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
… Bagwandeen. A People on Trial - For Breaching Racism. The Struggle for Land and Housing of the Indian People of Natal. …
PlaceSomalia
… faced by the Republic in the 1960s. The Pan-Somali struggle was not ended by the formation of the Somali …
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… country was so very different from their own. Theirs was a struggle against a British government for the redemption of …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 10
… equality. The later contribution of Mr. Gandhi to the struggle for independence in India has influenced the …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 5
… days and nights his personal clerk put into the political struggle, and realised that he could never have done what he …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… empire, Note and his immediate followers recommenced their struggle with a vengeance. In December of the same year, … over thirty years ago, and despite the…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… came into being in 1910. When he became embroiled in the struggle for redress in the Transvaal during the post-war …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
New introduction to thesis 2019 by David Hemson Hemson, David (1979) Class consciousness and migrant workers: dock workers of Durban. PhD thesis, University…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… (MK) the subsequent year marked the beginnings of an armed struggle against White oppression which continued until 1994. …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… introduces the ‘red ribbon' logo, which implies a new struggle in the fight against HIV/AIDS. HIV/Aids in South …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… ‘went’. ↵ [17] Tim Keegan, Dr Philip’s Empire: One Man’s Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (Cape … 105–182. ↵ [60] Tim Keegan, Dr…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… who wanted to know about the history of our liberation struggle and about world history such as the Cold War, saw … without definite end. The sense of…
Zulu Community
Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party,…
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
Introduction General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… the year in which we lost that indomitable giant of our struggle, Oliver Tambo, and the people's hero, Chris Hani. To …
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… Dr Frene Ginwala, Invited guests, Veterans of the struggle for liberation, Members of the diplomatic corps, …
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… to single out the former presidents of the ANC who led our struggle for liberation and of creating a better life across …