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Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Although I had been active in the labour movement since the days of my youth, my election … into unions. Small organisations sprang up, on sporadic strikes…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… ‘After being a man of the world, I have discovered there is no Zulu, Xhosa, Mosotho … (Wellingtonites) to embark on a boycott of European schools and…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
… There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… 1940 Mandela was elected to the Student Representative Council (SRC) at Fort Hare. After … low SRC poll, he followed his conscience and resigned. The head of…
Post-detention weapons
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in … in poor health, particularly…
Eye of the Needle - Notes by Richard Turner
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner 1 It will be noted … fact that the government responded to widespread illegal strikes (which…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner South Africa, everyone agrees, … some great industrial conflicts-such as the 1913 and 1922 strikes,…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… 11 September, Gerrit Viljoen is born in Cape Town. 1920 The Native Affairs Act The ANC supports the militant strike by African mineworkers … (SAIC) calls for…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… Interview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa, a leader in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated ……
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… TODAY marks the 35th anniversary of the murder of black consciousness leader, Bantu Stephen Biko. … the foundation’s programmes have embraced more than…
EventSchool boycott in Port Elizabeth ends
… This followed after negotiations took place between the local parents' committee and the Port Elizabeth Students Council (PESCO), a new student's body formed…
EventMbhazima Shilowa, former premier of Gauteng, is born
… Mbhazima Samuel (Sam) Shilowa, was born in Olifantshoek in the Transvaal (now Limpopo Province.) After High School, … Shilowa moved to Johannesburg, where…
EventSimon Petros Matseke, prominent in African social and political life, dies in Pretoria
… Peter Matseke was born in 1878 in Pretoria. When the Anglo-Boer War broke out, he was drafted as driver for … work as a court interpreter. Matseke became…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… The delegation of the African National Congress, and I … fought many freedom battles, involving civil disobedience, strikes, protest marches, boycotts and…
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
… One of the most striking buildings in Port Elizabeth is the famous Campanile. In the article below, Tennyson Smith … set going at 12 noon on 28 April 1925…
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
… and Lesotho in 1980 and after, did not cease to work with the African National Congress (ANC) to end apartheid and write as well as encourage others to write…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… Taylor and Adam Habib Habib: We generally start off with the question of trying to get people’s own conceptions of … which later on became very important, a…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
… The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its … such as petitions and deputations. In December 1949, with the support of the…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … Councils (SRCs) and for an end to the occupation of schools by security…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… at Taylor Street Secondary School. 1935 Govan Mbeki joins the African National Congress (ANC) 1938 Govan Mbeki receives a telegram about a job offer from the…
Document 119 - Non-European United Front of South Africa, Minutes of Conference held in City Hall, Cape Town, 8 to 10 April 1939
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Conference was formally opened in the City Hall, on Saturday, 8th. April, 193S at 3.30 p.m. … League) in…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground ANC during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle reveal the … age. She was a…
Address given by Ronald First, brother of Ruth First and brother in law of Joe Slovo, on the occasion of the tribute paid to Ruth and Joe by the African National Congress, in the holding of a Torchlight ceremony on the 21st of October 2012, at the Johanne
… ceremony is of particular importance as it takes place in the 100th year since the ANC was founded AMANDLA AMANDLA The First and Slovo … the ANC leaders, in…
In the enduring spirit of President O.R. Tambo: Good luck to all matriculants, 22 October 2012
… aspirations of posterity while it represents a gateway to the dignity of getting further training and education; attaining prosperity and the ability for…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… "South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report, on behalf of the Secretariat, to the Plenary Session of the Central … up to 1973 when in the first four months…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert John Lutuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
… Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into exile in the … was held at an Indian night-club in Fietas …
ArticleUnited Democratic Front timeline 1983-1990
… 1983 On 23 January, Allan Boesak makes a call for the formation of a ‘united front’ at an anti-SAIC Committee … sports and other bodies to unite and…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… Drew Document 76 Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? ( 1934) The Communist Party … will be introduced. The doors of the…