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The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My proposed paper looks into connections between radical politics in…
Umbrella Contemporary Dance Festival
In 1988 Vita Promotions, in conjunction with two individuals, both journalists, (Adrienne Sichel and Marilyn Jenkins) with a passionate interest in…
ArchiveMoral decay and social reconstruction: Richard Turner and radical reform by Eddie Webster
This Richard Turner Memorial Lecture was delivered at the University of Natal, Durban on 25 March 1993. The lecture formed part of a long term project on the…
ArchiveEducation as an instrument for liberation.
This Address to a fund-raising banquet for the South African Students Organization in Durban, June 1973, discusses the traditional role of education, looks at…
ArchiveThe Crime is apartheid, the penalty is isolation: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference in Johannesburg
The Crime is apartheid, the penalty is isolation: Paper presented at the National Black Sash National Conference in Johannesburg on 22 October 1963,…
ArchiveBlack Peoples Convention: rejection of foreign investment
The Black Peoples Convention National Congress held in December 1973 resolved to reject the involvement of foreign investors and this letter sent from BPC to…
PlaceColinton, 68 Ridge Road, Durban
The dwelling was built in 1898 by architect William Street-Wilson, as a residence for Sir David Hunter, General Manager of the Natal Government Railways from…
PlaceDu Toit's Kloof Pass and the Huguenot Tunnel
The Pass was constructed between 1984 and 1988. Leading up to the Huguenot Tunnel from its South side, is an awe-inspiringly beautiful, high-altitude viaduct…
PlacePaarl
(prior to 1910)The division of Paarl was originally part of the district of Stellenbosch, and was proclaimed a separate division in 1839. Like Stellenbosch its…
ArchiveWomen fight for freedom
Black and white poster with slash of green and yellow. ANC logo 1912-1987 : 75 years. Quote from Dora Tamana. Photograph of women running across the road with…
ArchiveNon-Violence News, Fourth Quarter 1994: The South African Fellowship of Reconciliation.
The newsletter is about South African Fellowship of Reconciliation (SAFOR) conference held at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre on 14th and 15th December 1963, the…
ArchiveNaude wins appeal
The Director of the Christian Institute of South Africa, Rev Dr C F Beyers Naude, was charged and convicted in 1973 for refusing to testify before a…
ArchiveOne, so many
Black and white poster, with pink strip across top left hand corner. Notice of a dance performance at the Market Theatre on the 9th to the 14th May 1983. Six…
ArchiveGrassroots 83 : No to PC - forward to a unit
Calendar for 1983. Black and white photographs of President Botha and other leaders and of South African scenes. Red and white images of people protesting in…
ArchiveGuatemala in Central America
Multicoloured poster. Artwork of an aeroplane on a red background and black and white artwork of hands holding a machine gun. Airmail letters and stamps at the…
PlaceVictorian dwelling, 5 Upper Union Street, Gardens
The House was originally designed as a single-storey structure and was extended in 1912 when a second storey was added. It formes a significant part of the…
PlaceBlenheim House, 4 Baird Street, Uitenhage
This imposing dwelling with its notable Cape Dutch features was erected in 1815 as a single storey structure. A second storey with a well-decorated fretted…
EventQueen Mary dies
Queen Mary, the wife of George V and mother of Edward VIII and George VI, died after a long illness on 24 March 1953. She was 86 and outlived two of her…
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Brothers/Sisters
Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention to Brothers/Sisters written as a reminder to Black South Africans to commemorate…
A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference While much scholarship considers the 1976 Soweto uprising as the…
PlaceThe Langman Hospital, Part of the 'The Ramblers Club' in Bloemfontein
Ramblers Club is one of the most Historic Buildings in Bloemfontein. As the oldest Sports Club and former Military Hospital in the Free State. The main…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure and membership,…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
EventRay Simons dies
Rachel Alexander (Ray) Simons, legendary communist and trade unionist born in Latvia in 1914, died in Cape Town at the age of 91. Simons was instrumental in…
ArchiveList of organisations which support and are affiliates of the Regional UDF
List of all the organisations which supports the United Democratic Front who are also the affiliates of the regional United Democratic Front from different…
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban
Minutes of the Black Sash National Conference held at Durban on 15 to 18 October 1973, discussing: Malnutrition Survey, magazine, finances, regional reports,…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the…
PlaceIrene Concentration Camp and Gravesite
Opened on 2 November 1900, the Irene Concentration Camp was built with the intention that it would be one of the camps that would house Boer woman and children…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
The Reverend Michael Scott was born on 30 July 1907 at Lowfield Heath Sussex, the youngest of three brothers. In 1911 his father, an Anglican priest, was…
ArticleElizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole Morgan
Elizabeth Davenport: A teacher and member of the Black Sash by Cole MorganAbstractElizabeth Davenport has been an integral part of the Black Sash movement from…