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May Day
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the … version of…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
… (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party and other labour movements in the … version of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly … was a segregated education system…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
… To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after … decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent history…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when police opened fire on a crowd of unarmed…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
… On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march … Department regulation that Afrikaans be…
ArchiveDraft for discussion: Christmas against the emergency
… Pamphlet regarding Christmas against the emergency. Over 40 000 people were detained and some … forces and thousands of students were locked out of schools…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that … who never went to…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, … The comrades have stopped the children entering the schools even if there are no…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, … January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in the 1980s and 1990s,…
ArticleSita’s story
… my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days around us were plantations of … 100 acres of land was called Phoenix…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, … is in turmoil. We've got the Soweto riots here. The schools are on strike. The air…
Court Verdict Docket, 11 February 1978
… education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the religion. Its … a drawback. However, there are…
Chapter five: A Historical Overview of Madressa Education
… education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the religion. Its … a drawback. However, there are…
An historical overview of madressa education - Chapter 5 by A. Akhalwaya, I. Waja, A.H. Gabru, A.K. Dockrat, S. Pandor and E. Garda
… education does not exist in isolation but is part of the practice of the religion and grew and spread with the religion. Its … a drawback. However, there are…
Document 11 - Second letter from Nelson Mandela to Hendrik Verwoerd
… TO MY LETTER of 20 April 1961, to which you do not have the courtesy to reply or acknowledge receipt. In the letter referred to above I informed you of the ……
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… The Wits School of Arts (WSOA) is ranked as one of the top interdisciplinary school of arts in South Africa … according to World Universities Ranking…
PlaceZimbabwe
… The earliest settlement of the area now known as Zimbabwe … disastrous effects. They also had serious protests and strikes by particularly public sector…
ArticleSouth African Coloured Peoples Organisation (SACPO)
… Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive … by Colonial and successive governments since shortly after…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… Fischer, Brams grandfather, who was State Secretary of the Free State Republic and the only Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in 1907, … lecturing to…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… The Azania Liberation Support Committee (ALSC) was formed in … of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC launched Azania Worker and Azania…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While … named their son Zwelidumile, or “a…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… Esteemed Heads of State and Political Parties of the Frontline States, Distinguished heads of delegation of … Ambassadors and High Commissioners, Fellow…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
… 1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made funds available for the government to house the poor. “The resultant estates were required to be racially …
ArchiveBackground to the 20th anniversary of Republic Day, 31st May 1981
… Pamphlet issued by the Commission for Justice and Reconciliation about the background to the 20th anniversary of the Republic Day on 31st May 1981. ……
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… by non-vernacular-speaking friends. While noting this, the spelling on this site has not adhered to Chief Luthuli's … choice is in order to facilitate…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, … Langa High is the meeting place for the students of other schools, not only those…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
… This article was written by Bennett Gwynn and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Overcoming Adversity from All…
ArchiveMarikana: The blame game - A special report by Niren Tolsi and Paul Botes
… Introduction On August 16 2012 the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners … beyond this following the gains of the 2012 and 2014 strikes, do…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, … the stayaway, but no. Now the youths are after the primary schools. Last Thursday…