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Township Uprising, 1984-1985
On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
The International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF) was established by Canon L John Collins of St Paul’s Cathedral in 1956. Its mission was to work towards a…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… an interview to a South African Indian delegation in April 1946, he said, “Their slogan today is no longer merely ‘Asia … forums. India imposed sanctions…
EventSolomon Kalushi Mahlangu is born
Solomon Kalushi Mahlangu, a soldier of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), who was executed by hanging in Pretoria…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… very small minority of these had more than three wives. By 1946 an official census revealed that this figure had dropped …
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political …
Oration at the Funeral of Moses Kotane by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, 26 May 1978
… My first contact with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political …
Biography of Mandla Langa by Carol Sale
Mandla Langa was born in apartheid South Africa in 1950. His family, friends, and his own life were made in and developed by this program that killed,…
EventSouth Africa approves the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission
The South African government approved the Constitution of the African Civil Aviation Commission (AFCAC) on 17 January 1996, deposited its Instrument of…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
ArchiveNUSAS Press Digest, Number 1, 1969
A compilation of press reports and comments on events at Fort Hare University College during 1968, and an historical background of the College from 1916 to…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
1861 Sefako Mapogo Makgatho is born at Ga Mphahlele, Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
Contents Nelspruit the Segregated city Homelands as Labour reserves Kanyamazane Introduction Until the demise of apartheid, Nelspruit remained a small…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… degree from Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg (1946-49), he won a scholarship in 1950 to study at Camberwell …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
An image showing the acculturation of indigenous Australian children by the British officials Image Source Essay Question To what extent did Australian…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?”. Congress Voice, issued by Emergency Committee of the A.N.C., 2, 2, May 1960
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 49 - ”The Stay-Home Call: Why did it fail?"…
EventBram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment
Bram Fischer, the former political activist was arrested in 1964 for being a member of the illegal organisation Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). He was…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In the Sahara Desert region, the people develop the use…
ArticleChanging Perceptions of Nelson Mandela
Nelson Mandela is a figure who has undergone many transformations in the eye of the South African public as well as in the global imagination. He has played…
ArchivePeoples education for peoples power!
Title in red letters at bottom of poster. Dark green and black background. 10 fighting years 1976 - 1986. Photo of youth wearing yellow T-shirt with image of…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
The following article is based on an essay from Kees van der Waal’s chapter in “Critical Essays on Afrikaans Places of Memory” The term ‘Bantu has gone…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town, South Africa, that was created by the Apartheid government, for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats and…
ArchiveBiography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane
Biography of Naphtali Mbuti Nkopane who was born on the 18th of August 1944 on a farm near Nigel in the Transvaal. In 1949 his family moved to Evaton in the…
PlaceEthiopia
Ethiopia, formerly Abyssinia, is a landlocked country in the East of Africa. It shares one of its borders with Somalia, to the East. Sudan to the West, South…