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ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… offensives planned for that year. General Haig, commander of the British forces in France described the situation as … 35 000 Black South Africans had…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… synonymous. Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category of ‘ethnomathematics’, as if mathematics…
“India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again … people of South Africa…
Statement of the Chairperson of SADC and the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 28th Ordinary SADC Summit of Heads of State and Government, Sandton Convention Centre, South Africa, 16th August 2008.
… Statement of the Chairperson of SADC and the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 28th Ordinary SADC …
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
… any political mobilisation. Soweto, the epicentre of the June 1976 uprising, was singled out for special attention. This feature examines the impact of the…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… After the ascendancy of Cyril Ramaphosa to the presidency of the African National Congress (ANC) last month, it is … barriers that prevent South Africa’s…
EventBlacks in South Africa protest against segregation
… On the 300 anniversary of the arrival of Jan van Riebeeck in Table Bay, the … The six laws were; Pass Laws, Population Registration Act, Suppression of…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE BRITISH … Of course, the point is not whether Hintsa did or did not act in…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the occasion of the eighth anniversary of the Triumph of the Sandinista Revolution, 01 July 1987, Managua
… Comrade Daniel Ortega, President of the Republic of Nicaragua and Coordinator of the Executive Commission of the National Directorate of … Statement by…
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… Essop Pahad, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Premier of the Eastern Cape province, Nosimo Balindlela, Your Worship, Executive Mayor of the Buffalo City…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… Professor Gert Johannes "Jakes" Gerwel, who died of complications following heart surgery on Wednesday, was a … visionary, successful attempts to transform…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New … he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… Distinguished guests; Ladies and gentlemen; People of Uganda, It is a great honour to join you in celebrating the Independence Day of the Republic of Uganda…
Baroness Castle of Blackburn opened an exhibition on the history of the Anti-Apartheid Movement at the opening session of the Symposium
… way by being asked to open this exhibition; awhole stream of people have done far more than I have been able to do for … post for a few years because in 1964…
BiographyProfessor Brij Maharaj
… High School and then went on to study at the University of Durban Westville (UDW) and Natal University, now known as the University of KwaZulu-Natal (UKZN)…
Luke Mazwembe
… Mr Luke Mazwembe, aged 32 , a member of the Western Province Workers Advice Bureau and of the South African Student Association,was detained under section 22…
Carol Moses
… was born on 7 April 1968 in Oudtshoorn, Western Cape, one of seven siblings. She grew up on a farm outside Oudtshoorn. … Moses was a struggle activist who…
BiographyS .G. Sekano Ntoane
… on 14 April 1904 in Hebron, Pretoria . He was the second of the six children of Levy Ntoane, a minister of the Berlin Lutheran Church near Pretoria, and his…
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
… (ANC) and mKhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the ANC. After receiving his basic military training in … in rural guerrilla warfare. He was selected…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R Mandela, at the presentation of the Freedom of Miami Beach Medallion of Honour Johannesburg, 29 September, 1992
… a unique privilege to receive the Miami Beach Medallion of Honour. The fact that people, communities and their … our triumphs and our tears, into their…
Statement by Oliver Tambo, on behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the closing session of the seventh summit meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African states, 02 December 1988, Arusha
… Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha Mapinduzi and Current … racists seek…
EventHundreds of thousands of people killed as tsunamis devastate large swathes of South and Southeast Asia, coming as far as South Africa
… On the morning of 26 December 2004, a magnitude 9.3 earthquake struck off the Northwest coast of the Indonesian island of Sumatra. The earthquake deformed…
EventThe UN Group of Experts on Apartheid proposes establishment of a National Convention to set a new course for the future of South Africa
… The United Nations Group of Experts on Apartheid presented its report to the Secretary-General of the United Nations (UN). The group suggested the creation…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
… The Leadership of Cosatu, the ANC, and SANCO, Comrades and friends This … the year when we celebrate sixty years since the adoption of the Freedom Charter,…
Comparison between racial policies of Nazi Germany before 1938 and apartheid laws in South Africa
… The ideas of Social Darwinism also affected South Africa. Because of South Africa's long colonial and apartheid history, the … African, coloured, Indian -…
Message of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members.
… Message of symphathy and solidarity to the families of comrades that were murdered and the organisations of which they were active members. … Message of…
BiographyJotello Festiri Soga
… Dr Jotello Festiri Soga, the first South African of any race to obtain a degree in veterinary medicine, was … into a distinguished Xhosa family. He was the…
Report of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year 1956 to 1957
… Report of the Information and Propaganda Sub-committee of the General Executive of the Black Sash for the year May 1956 to April 1957, … Report of the…
Earnest appeal by the President of the Non-European Unity Movement to the Leaders of the Non-European people of South Africa
… Appeal by the President of the Non-European Unity Movement to the leaders of the Non-European people of South Africa, referring to previous appeal to form…
Letter from R F Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to the Honourable Alexander M Haig Jr, Secretary of State, United States of America
… Letter from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Information, to US Secretary of State, Alexander M Haig, regarding relations between South … Letter…