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ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… The Black Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA) was the external arm of the Black … African liberation movement. Only Nigeria recognised the body as a…
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
… a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal to an arch … cabinet. A successful businessman, he became the…
BiographyJoseph Manana
… award from the Tito Zungu Trust Fund, created in the name of the late artist Tito Zungu which provides subsidies to … to study art. Manana enrolled at the…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
… Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised their … that the white race would continue to dominate all…
ArticleState of Emergency - 1985
… The year of 1985 signaled the beginning of the end of apartheid society and governance in South … comprised of over 400 organisations, with non-racialism…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
… and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in a family of eleven children. Her father was a companion of Mohandas … and was regarded by the Indian community…
ArchiveJune 16: The doors of learning and culture shall be opened
… Black and white poster. Artwork of Hector Pieterson photograph. 1985 - 30 years of the Charter. … June 16: The doors of learning and culture shall be opened …
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry … in unprotected strike were shot and killed by…
Marikana Commission of Inquiry
… In 2012 the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry … in unprotected strike were shot and killed by…
ArticleMarikana Commission of Inquiry
… In 2012, the mining sector underwent intense waves of labour unrest. On 16 August 2012, the mining industry … an unprotected strike were shot and killed by…
The oldest forms of human communication
… Some of the oldest forms of human communication include talking or making sounds, … indicate either social communication or be a warning sign. Body language…
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… "The wind of change is blowing through this continent and, whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact. We must all …
BiographyPetrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo)
… Petrus Linda Jabane (Lion of Chiawelo) was born in 1958 in Soweto, Transvaal (now … that were killed by agents of the Apartheid regime, his body was not…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… their territory. This expansion was first at the expense of the Khoikhoi and San , but later Xhosa land was taken as … White pioneers or ‘Trek Boers’ in the…
BiographyMilwa Mnyaluza “George” Pemba
… Pemba became notorious for escaping from the drudgery of schoolwork into his private world of drawing. In 1924, Pemba won a Grey Scholarship to Paterson ……
BiographyGoolam Hoosein Ismail Pahad
… Tilley in 1933 and was elected in 1934 as Hon. Secretary of the Kholvad Madressa Anjiman Islamia, the youngest person … South Africa in 1935 and was elected…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… home home library articles & documents A Distant clap of thunder: Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike A … the rhetoric of 'freedom' and …
ArticleBonani Africa Festival of photography
… On 13 November 2001 the Director General of the Department of Foreign Affairs Mr Sipho Pityana launched the "Africa to … The Festival will include the both…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
… and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann … Lurie himself, linking the idea of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge … the formation the Cape Coloured Permanent Commission (a body that would…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
… before passing away in West Berlin, Germany at the age of 39. Dyani actively fought against the apartheid regime … white intervention in order to facilitate…
Mashwabada Victor ''Castro'' Mayatula
… in the Transkei,attended Lovedale and was a member of the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) in the … preacher in the Bantu Bethlehem Christian…
BiographyKlaas Matlala
… African National Congress - ANC)] supporter and key member of the kgoro , and had opposed the Native Commissioner’s (NC) … had sent to him was that ‘when I…
ArticleSignificance of the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter
… The campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter was the climax to a decade or so of multifaceted and creative resistance to white…
University of York Student Submissions 2015
… final year English and Politics student at the University of York. From October 2015, he will read Law at Hughes Hall, University of Cambridge. An advocate…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread … often had to supplement their…
ArticleThe formation of the SANNC/ANC
… Bloemfontein is the birth place of the SANNC, which became the ANC in 1923, one of the largest organizations in later years to struggle for … well aware of…
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… Conference: THE POLITICS OF ARMED STRUGGLE IN SOUTHERN AFRICA Conference Date: 23-25 … and insiders’ narratives, these histories are not being sufficiently…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… against apartheid throughout the country. With the launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) in August 1983, this … bringing already existing youth bodies…
ArticleCommercial, Catering & Allied Workers Union of South Africa (CCAWUSA)
… CCAWUSA (The Commercial, Catering and Allied Workers Union of South Africa) in 1975, with Emma Mashinini as the … response to a clarion call by the 1985…