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Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
The COSATU Executive Committee met on Friday, 24 May 1996 in its second ordinary meeting of the year. Below are some of the decisions taken by the Executive…
Document 27 - Record of Understanding
Presented to the Portfolio Committee: Justice Annexures available on the COSATU website at www.cosatu.org.za 1. Executive Summary of Recommendations The…
Document 20 - Advance to national democracy: guidelines on strategy and tactics of the ANC
Declaration The conference took place against the background of the Government's adoption of GEAR, its impact on social spending and failure to create jobs,…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
The vital and central task of the African National Congress today is the intensification of the armed struggle for the overthrow of the white fascist regime…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
This bibliography includes all books, articles and primary material referred to in the text and footnotes, as well as a few additional works which were…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
Preface In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African’s Point of View". This…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC Annual Conference…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION In May 1906 smoking habits amongst the ladies…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the…
Chapter III - The world outside
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and…
ArticleSouth African Film
Feature Films are the long format, fictional (non-factual) films you see in cinemas. They are called long format because they are longer than most other forms…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris South African social scientists have severely neglected the…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
(Extracts from an exclusive article published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the South African problem will call for radical…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President on 10 May 1994. All over the world the ANC closed the offices of its Representatives and new Ambassadors replaced…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
Comrades, the ANC has held many national conferences in its history. One of these was the 1949 Conference, which was held here in Bloemfontein. That …
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
Vice-Minister of Education, Madame Wei Yu, President of the University, Professor Wang Dazhong, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all, let…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu Introductory. The aboriginal black people of South Africa have not remained unaffected…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaA change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
LEGISLATURE, GOVERNANCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS 1. PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY Participatory democracy can be enhanced by addressing the following issues: …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson Mandela and the last…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Tributes to Lembede After His Death
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 41. WALTER NHLAPO,"He Sang and Soared Away," Barlow's Weekly, 16 August 1947 Walter…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of…
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
PREFACE In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of View." This…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 03 Jun 2009 …
Archive1990 - President De Klerk: State of the Nation Address, 2 February 1990
Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. The general election on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
FW de Klerk’s speech to Parliament, 2 February 1990
Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
April 6: People's Protest Day The African National Congress has served notice on the Government that the Non-European people can no longer go on tolerating …