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Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… under the leadership of the ANC and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). After the successes of 6 April the …
EventCurnick Ndlovu, Trade Unionist, is arrested.
… in exposing agents sent by the government to disrupt anti-apartheid activities in the trade union movement and …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… South Africa agreed to cease its support of RENAMO, an anti-government guerrilla organisation in Mozambique. …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… On 28 October 1971, the death of anti-apartheid activist, Ahmed Timol, was officially …
EventPAC leader Robert Sobukwe is released
… leader, Robert Sobukwe, was arrested after the Sharpeville anti-pass campaign of 1960 and harshly sentenced to three …
EventHarms releases his report
… to shed light on who is responsible for the death of anti-apartheid activists David Webster and Anton Lubowski in …
EventKhotso House is bombed
… House, based in Johannesburg, was bombed for harbouring anti-apartheid groups a year after a blast at Congress of …
EventHome Affairs Minister Mapisa
… about false South African passports discovered during anti-terror operations. The meetings, expected to continue …
EventFour ANC members killed in an ambush near Piet Retief, eastern Transvaal
… in across the Swaziland border into South Africa. The four anti –Apartheid activists believed they were about to come …
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… she was a nurse and one of the most important leaders of anti-Apartheid resistance in South Africa. It was with Walter …
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… African Government passed the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act. South African Indians used … in 'Tobruk' narrowly saved him from…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… Molen. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 August 1984. At the beginning of the 19th …
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… gallery. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 1 November 1940. This Historic House and …
PlaceLookout, Uitenhage
… nearby. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 21 August 1953. James Somers Kirkwood, an …
PlaceDutch Reformed Church Hall, Uitenhage
… a hall. It was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 21 October 1966. …
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… the government set up a Commission of Inquiry into Labour Legislation in 1977. This became known as the Wiehahn …
Education for Service
… the South African Government, to draft the texts of all legislation required to give effect to the agreements reached …
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… centres of South Africa. And yet the events centred on an anti-pass campaign and drew in the entire African township … United Party pegging act. Indians in…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… The vast majority of Cape slaves came from Madagascar, the Indian subcontinent and South-East Asia. The earliest slaves … and household slaves came from…
PlaceStatue of President Paul Kruger, Pretoria
… has previously been convicted of hate speech for singing anti-White songs including ;'Shoot the Boer'. Kruger was … to replace him, however, is also…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
… are blatant right-wingers - Nazi-opportunists who are anti-Botha for their own aims. And in no way are they anti-Botha for the upliftment of the African…
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… river in Africa and the largest flowing into the Indian Ocean from Africa. For about 500km / 310mi it serves … ends its journey through Mozambique and out…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… rich past. Gleaming skyscrapers contrast with Indian bazaars and African medicine shops, and the streets … Baard, or ‘Mabaard’, to those who knew her well,…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… We have to recognise that in so far as it is genuinely anti-imperialism and anti-colonialism, African Nationalism is a progressive … into racialism i.e. is…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… of protests in the years of the intensifying apartheid legislation of the 1950s. We did not stop the laws from being … other members and be with comrades…
ArchiveHamba kahle Jennifer Davis 1933-2019
… of majority rule in South Africa and leader in the anti-apartheid movement in the United States, died on October … activists from 49 cities who had been at…
Archive1995 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 17 February 1995
… but have participated actively in improving such draft legislation, with the aim of ensuring that our laws are … for whatever reason, are bent to engage in…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… whose contempt for white South Africans in general and Indian South Africans in particular, is acute. "Whiteness" we … July 2017 rally in KwaZulu-Natal,…
Notes from Books
… married or kept as concubines Asian women, including Indian women. Hendrick Brouwer, Governor-General, wrote to … are good households here where the men…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… moment be considered as directed against the Europeans (an anti-European front). It is an anti-Segregation front and, therefore, all those European … only…