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ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… that roamed the streets, looking to pick up pass offenders or illegal street corner gamblers. When a van drove past, all …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… were banned. All were either executive members of BPC or were involved with the organisation in various ways. Biko, …
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
… between the factory’s liaison committee and the union or face dismissal. When the workers rejected the factory …
ArticlePrehistory of the Pretoria area
… ago. The period from 1820 to 1832, known as the Mfecane or Difeqane, was characterized by great strife among the …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2012
… for her as she hopes to pursue a career in public history or community services. Project: A biography of Dr. Abu Baker …
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… of the post offices, sitting on benches marked for whites, or violating other apartheid regulations. Slowly the campaign …
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… their grievances and disabilities which were evaded or ignored by the government. Hence, the South African …
Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… African can be employed, how much he can earn, where his or her children can attend school, where he should live, die … you to know that whatever you call it…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… the figures. We have been told of the numbers who died or committed suicide while in detention. These numbers are a … which SWAPO? Was it a lie that they had…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
… for themselves, their relatives and friends by illegal or immoral means. In this situation, the simplicity of … do not know of any serious contemporary…
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
… Millions are ravaged by diseases, which can be cured or managed, but nevertheless envelope helpless millions, … hide a reality of lives without hope. Unable…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… of our opponents have begun to realise that, sooner or later, they will have to reckon with the ANC which, in the … no secret clauses. Only those who have…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… father had fought with colonial forces in the Matabele (or Ndebele) rebellion in Southern Rhodesia and stayed on … the Luthuli family's return to South…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki - State of the Nation Address, 25 June 1999 (After National Elections)
… for every woman, man and child, without regard to race, or colour or disability. It must be sustained by a growing economy … and to celebrate such failure…
Concluding Remarks
… is given that protest art is a phenomenon of the Eighties, or that Soweto 1976 heralded the first wave of overt … that prior to 1976 socio-political art was…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
… had to organise secretly for fear of being victimised or dismissed. Union meetings mostly occurred outside the … with mixed success. untenable ”” unable to…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
… had to organise secretly for fear of being victimised or dismissed. Union meetings mostly occurred outside the … with mixed success. untenable — unable to be…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… African state than either political activity by the UDF or political violence mounted by ordinary black township … a national focus. Its underlying message…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… to dangerous levels of air pollution from using coal, wood or charcoal for cooking and heating. Progress towards … maternity leave who paid into the UIF for…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… firmly on the side of reaction and white supremacy rule - or it can seek to influence existing policy in a radically … interests in their countries give to…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… good reason) and offered me jobs as a gardener, a welder or a brick layer! Of course, I was offered to get a Danish qualification and then possibly in four…
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… once have drawn the wrath of the state was now tolerated or ignored, especially since prosecution of prominent figures … about losing their cultural identity…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… Party. The lack of a good (indeed, any political biography or even a long on him is an unfortunate hiatus in our … selection of candidates as in other…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
… it also granted black unions a degree of freedom to organize legally for the first time. During this period three … along with their members, who were either…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Africans in the same way that any White liberal, churchman or Joint Council pleads. Tabata describes the AAC as an … Black males only. People who are deemed…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… culture. NP members were sometimes known as ‘Nationalists’ or ‘Nats’. The feature includes a history of the National … but it was not independent and could…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… than 76,000 Cubans had served in Africa in some capacity or other. Perhaps Cuba’s most sustained support was for the … Africans were trying to install Jonas…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Military Veterans Medals Parade Waterkloof Airforce Base, 27 October 2012
… and memorialise our military veterans not as a favour or gesture. It is a constitutional and legal obligation to … of any nation when there remain only two…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… in peace and harmony, regardless of differences of colour or creed. Their steadfast pursuit of these objectives, on the … himself "in favour of a South…
The Storming: Insurrections Ensemble by Dilip Menon, Centre for Indian Studies in Africa, University of Witwatersrand, June 2017
… of its own legitimacy. Whether as premonition, pedagogy or parable, the storm is a potent image for an aesthetics of … master language whether connected to…