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Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
… Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history of our struggle for national liberation. The days we … in East Timor, still suffered under…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… period in South African economic, political and social history began. At the parliamentary level the National Party … basis of the "Thesis on the…
PlacePrince Albert
… in South Africa! (This Pass starts just outside Town.) HISTORY Founded in 1762, Prince Albert's History is deeply rooted in South African Heritage . The Town…
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… existence spanning over three decades. We are making history, reshaping the destiny of our country because many, … gathered here in this hall, black and…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… as a whole. As individuals we have been called upon by history to represent the collective aspirations of a people … National Congress and its allies, we…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their national aspirations. Yet it is impossible … the life of the country. The Afrikaners…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… countries. The leaders of the freedom movements in many colonial countries acknowledge the inspiration of Gandhiji. … event in the struggle and added a new…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… Gerwel's academic work positioned him as "the first post-colonial theorist in Afrikaans". "He was thinking critically …
Chapter 7 - CONCLUSION
… The Party, like its communist counterparts in some post-colonial African countries, is faced with the difficulty of …
Address to Beijing University Beijing, 6 May 1999
… were subordinated to the interests of more powerful colonial forces. Today a new Asia is emerging. Africa is …
ArticleReactions to Silverton Siege 1980
… whatsoever’. The TRC has allowed many people tied to the history of the Silverton Siege to take first steps towards …
ArticleBlack South African literature
… Avenue (1959) and William 'Bloke' Modisane's Blame Me on History (1963). Abrahams drew for his inspiration in his …
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… GUIDE: Southern Africa hunter gatherers learnt from oral history/storytelling and archaeological research. 1. Have …
The appointment of Judges
… http://www.constitutionalcourt.org.za/site /thecourt/history.htm#judges s …
In summary: Factors resulting in the crisis
… in the defeat of apartheid in Namibia in 1989. Although history is meant to be 100% factual, historians often differ …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… has been largely ignored in the literature on the history of the liberation struggle. …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
… in the project, and to my old comrade Omar Badsha at SA History Online, whose offer to assist with the electronic … Studies, as follows: From Maingard, …
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… its strength from a fascination with people as shapers of history. Her ability to relate to people from different … of Cape Town in South Africa in 1951,…
PlaceMamelodi
… reckless statements, give ourselves time to study the very history of Mamelodi, the origins of the many families that … lack of knowledge and understanding…
PlaceOutcrop of Main Reef Group of Conglomerates, Johannesburg
… One of the most curious realities of South Africa’s mining history is that the precise details relating to the discovery … is one of the most intriguing…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the 34th independence celebrations of the Republic of Uganda Kampala, 9 October 1996
… It is one of the hallmarks of our continent's history that the celebration of our achievements should also … the limits of her capacity. Precisely because of…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… attempted to marry the insights gained from the new social history and the structural Marxism of the 1970s by looking at … are reactionary, for they try to…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… as a response to their negative portrayal in Cape colonial and European historiography at the time. I outline … remained the standard source material on…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… is easy to answer: Very obviously, it did not. The whole history of relations between foreigners and natives in South … of the Company by the sword and the…
PlaceGranger Bay
Granger Bay was named after a Captain Robert Granger, a merchant and owner of five ships. In 1647 a ship named the Haarlem ran aground at what was later named…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… also came from state departments like the health and postal services, stimulating a change in attitude to the … uprising sections of corporate capital and…
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… the worst public violence and destruction in the history of our democracy, causing over 300 deaths. Last year, … our experience of the last few years –…
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… Women's Day is the story of ordinary women as makers of history; it is rooted in the centuries-old struggle of women … by thousands of South African women…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… until today; it remains a blank hole in our cultural history. The paper begins with a brief overview of how … align communist theories of art-making with…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… They had brought it down from an earlier page of their history. The Constitution of the Boer Republic of the … living off the "non-people". We have…