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Letter from R. T. R. Molefe to London comrades, 21 February 1938
Documents, Video and interviews relating to United Democratic Front
ArchiveA call to soldiers
Green strip at top of poster with title in white letters. Call to defy apartheid call-ups. Black and white photo of soliders marching. Issued by the AC PWV…
BiographyPeter Rudolf Gisela Horn
Peter Rudolf Gisela Horn was born 7 December 1934 in Teplice, Czechoslovakia (currently in Czech Republic). At the end of World War II he had to flee his home…
BiographyBoy Mvemve
Boy Adolphus Mvemve died a very violent death in exile in Zambia in 1974. He was 43 years of age at the time, operating under the nom de guerre John Dube (or…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
Joseph Stalin was born in Gori, Georgia, on 21 December 1879. His father was a shoemaker and his mother a domestic servant. He was expelled from school for…
A Message to Every Voter from the African National Congress, April 1958
This message was published early in April 1958, before the general elections. Sir or Madam, You may be surprised to receive this message from the African…
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
16. Advice to a son about coming to Natal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Madline Alexander Pillai wrote on 22 January…
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
EventLord Milner leaves England to return to SA
Lord Alfred Milner, the British High Commissioner who played a prominent role in causing the South African War returned to South Africa to become British…
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
Sybrandis Abbema (Sibrand), who visited the Cape in 1660 as V.O.C. commissioner and instructed Simon van der Stel to do all he
In the homeland of Ciskei, a mutiny by police and defence forces led to the resignation of Brigadier Oupa Gqozo. The TEC immedi
South Africa is informed by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) that it may not re-apply to join the world sporting body.
The African National Congress Women’s League (ANCL) states crime has gone far enough, and the government has to pull up its soc
The ships the ‘Walvis’ and the ‘Oliphant’, which were loaded too heavy to sail from the Netherlands with Jan van Riebeeck’s oth
ArchiveRefusal to be relocated from Klipfontein to Glenmore
Affidavit signed by Wanent Alfred Nazo refusing to be relocated from Klipfontein to Glenmore
ArchiveNo! to the Labour Bill: No! to restrictions
Offset litho; black, red and yellow; No! to the Labour Bill : No! to restrictions : Organise! Resist! : Johannesburg May 14-15 1988
"Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party's National Conference, Johannesburg, 6 to 8 January 1950,29
ArchiveGrassroots 83 : No to PC - forward to a unit
Calendar for 1983. Black and white photographs of President Botha and other leaders and of South African scenes. Red and white images of people protesting in…
EventCaribbean countries refuse to send troops to Haiti
Angered by the manner in which Haiti's President Jean-Bertrand Aristide was allegedly forced to flee his country, the fifteen-nation Caribbean Community said…
ArchiveTUC visits SA as guests of TUCSA
ArchiveThe World Bank likes capital subsidies too
ArchiveGuidance for the People at the Top
Too many children were sending me mad!
ArchiveExpanding the industrial base is top priority
TRC episode on the PEBCO Three 2 (Video)
TRC episode on the PEBCO Three 1 (Video)
ArchiveSharpeville - March 21, 1960 by Petrus Tom
In 1960 before that terrible day of March 21 some workers resigned from work because they were preparing for that day.