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Minutes of the Third General Students Council, South African Students Movement
Minutes of the Third General Students Council of the South African Students Movement, held at St Ansgars Conference Centre, Roodepoort, 28 to 30 May 1976…
ArchiveMinutes of the Third General Students Council, South African Students Movement
Minutes of the Third General Students Council of the South African Students Movement, held at St Ansgars Conference Centre, Roodepoort, 28 to 30 May 1976…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner My childhood My father, Herman Maswabi, was a well-educated man. He came from…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
Nelson's responses to the Brandfort sojourn are recorded in extracts from the letters that follow: I have thought of you since I heard of the heavy snowfall…
PlaceLuthuli House, Johannesburg
Luthuli House is a 12-floor Building at 54 Sauer Street, Johannesburg. The ANC headquarters are officially located on the 7th floor, while the 6th floor houses…
ArchiveResistance posters of the 1980s
Black, white and red poster. Notice of an exhibition of posters at Roodepoort Museum, from 26th March to 31st May 1997, at Civic Centre, Christiaan de Wet…
ArchiveYou can only get AIDS : If you have sex with someone with the AIDS virus...
Offset litho; green, red and yellow; You can only get AIDS : If you have sex with someone with the AIDS virus : If blood with AIDS virus gets in you blood-Like…
ArchiveUnderneath every womans curve lies a muscl
Yellow, purple, red and white poster. See red women's workshop poster. List of parts of the body which could be used in self-defence. Artwork of a woman…
ArchiveZero tolerance
Black and white calendar with title in red letters. Photograph of a black woman holding a straw mat. Government poster with words - Office on the status of…
ArchiveNelson Mandela: The struggle is my life: A pictorial exposition
Black and white poster showing three photographs by Eli Weinberg. One a portrait of Nelson Mandela. One a portrait of Mandela boxing and one of Mandela with…
ArticleThe Arniston
The Arniston was built on the River Thames, England in 1794. It was a three-decked and three-masted British East Indiaman vessel and was first used as a…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
An open letter from Desmond Tutu to Aung San Su Kyi, 7 September 2017
My dear Aung San Su Kyi I am now elderly, decrepit and formally retired, but breaking my vow to remain silent on public affairs out of profound sadness about…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.10 No.4 1992
Contents and Contributors Contents, Comment: Andries Walter Oliphant. Stories: Propaganda By Monuments, Ivan Vladislavic; Amin, Jiggs; In Happiness and In…
PlaceSouth African Library, Cape Town
The National Library of South Africa, as we know it today, was formed on 1 November 1999 as a result of the amalgamation of the two former National libraries:…
Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
The landscape of Black political activity in the 1960s was a very different one from that of the previous decade. The apartheid government had shattered the…
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
In January 1995 an advertising campaign was launched to elicit public views on what should be in the Constitution. On 19 September the first consolidated draft…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: The siege of Okiep, in Namaqualand, starts
In the final stages of the South African War (Anglo Boer), the British had whittled down the Boer resistance to such an extent that the only resistance they…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant 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…
ArchiveReflections on life in a rearview mirror by Jo Ractliffe, 27 Jun 2011
David Goldblatt celebrated his 80th birthday in November last year. He tells fellow photographer Jo Ractliffe about his journey. I’d like to start with your…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
Kathy Munro Wednesday, July 26, 2017 - On Saturday 22nd July, a Johannesburg Heritage Foundation Blue Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the…
47. The assault on Gandhi
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Satyagraharequired that the word of the…
Introduction - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The story of the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa epitomizes the history of South Africa itself during the last thirty years, the period of its…
ArchiveSixteen blocks of brick walls with cell windows
Black and white poster. Comprises sixteen identical blocks of artwork of brick walls with cell windows with a man's head peering over the window ledge. The…
ArchiveWorld Press Photo Exhibition 84
Notice of photo exhibition at Shell Gallery, 9 Riebeek Street, Cape Town on 26th April 1984. Black and white photo of small boy carrying large gun, with white…
ArchiveYou can prevent AIDS
Multicoloured cartoon of a man and woman in bed with skeleton in between with word AIDS on it. Balloon, from mouth of worman, with words "We cannot run away…
PlaceGA Riches Printer Building, 423 Smith Street, Durban
The building, designed in a classical-revivalist style, is an important component of Smith Street, one of the most historically significant roads in the Durban…
EventAfrican National Congress guerilla is shot and killed in Orange Free State.
African National Congress guerilla was shot and killed by police in a township called Ficksburg in Orange Free State on 2nd June 1986.The South African Police…
ArchivePACT Dance Company: 2nd Season 1994
Artwork of the back of a naked black man with his hands behind his head, and four white hands around his body. Notice of a dance programme at State Theatre,…