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State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… the midst of despair, she celebrated hope. Confronted with death, she asserted the beauty of life. In the dark days when … she wrote that: "The child is not…
The diary of Maria Tholo - August 11 - 15 by Carol Hermer
… who remained. The last to come was Reverend N. who fetched his two kids at about 4 o'clock. He was very excited. He … go into class even when the principal…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… of Newclare. Consequently a fight ensued resulting in the death of two Africans. President General and a number of … riot occurred in Newclare which also…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… commitment to non-violence was deeply moral and feared his opposition. However, Luthuli was ultimately persuaded. … that the chief was not one hundred…
Industrial and Commercial Workers Union
… the Port Elizabeth Native Labour Union incorporated his union as a branch of the ICWU and soon they had a …
ArticleKora
… of’). This leader detached himself from this group with his followers and became the first great chief of the Korana. … Jan Kupido, Klaas Lukas and Pofadder…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
… the link between race, intelligence and brain size. His findings did not resonate with Morton’s findings. In … and races. For example, an English Biologist,…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… fitted, and whether he will have a chance in life to use his knowledge ”¦ What is the use of teaching the Bantu child … punish students. The parent was…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
… Smuts made it possible for General Hertzog to secure his two-thirds majority. Yet, despite opposition, reaction … minutes, written and published by Jabavu,…
EventSmallpox Epidemic Strikes at the Cape
… that the colonisers were actively visiting this evil and death upon them. So the Khoi fled the Peninsula with all …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Seven Memorial was built to commemorate the life and death of those activists. Click here to read more on …
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… people to win freedom is irrepressible. James Mange and his eleven colleagues were charged with high treason (not … "terrorism", as usual) so that it could…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… people to win freedom is irrepressible. James Mange and his eleven colleagues were charged with high treason (not … "terrorism", as usual) so that it could…
Dance For All (DFA)
… College in Gugulethu . Boyd was following the steps of his previous ballet teacher and director of Cape Town City … passing in 1991, Boyd created the David…
Mandela: Message to India
… Delhi, June 11, 1994), Nelson Mandela sent a message in his capacity as the President of South Africa and another in his capacity as the President of the…
ArticleThe Causes of World War I
… assassination of the Austria-Hungarian Crown Prince and his wife was the immediate cause of the outbreak of … Balkans. On 28 June 1914, Crown Prince Franz…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… who were subjected to humiliations by the white rulers. In his account of that struggle, Satyagraha in South Africa , he … a definitive history of the…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… not always clearly articulated notions of motherhood. In his study of the making of the British working class, E, P. … the negative images mentioned above…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… but it provided Francois with a base from which to mount his bid to found a South African Academy affiliated to the RA … this were unsatisfactory, and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… Congress (ANC) national Executive Committee (NEC) after his differences with the ANC Youth League. 26 March, The … of R.V Selope Thema breaks away in a…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… called Langlaagte to visit a friend, George Walker. On his way, Harrison found an outcrop of rock and after crushing … due to P.L. Bezuidenhout, refusing to…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… to join Ndlambe, the regent of the Western Xhosas, in his war against the Gunukwebe clans who had penetrated into … followed Ndlambe's invasion, and after he…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement of Azania (BCMA)
… organisations that would help the movement grow. One of his achievements was to forge links with the Palestinian … 1974 Tiro was killed when a parcel bomb…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… combatants of Umkhonto we Sizwe, defied all dangers and death itself, to achieve these successes. The heroines and … that each and everyone of our people…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… and Khans, among others. In 1957 Mr Bila Singh and his family moved to Lenasia Ext One after they were granted … with 10 siblings, reports that he was paid a…
Say It out Loud - Address to Returned Soldiers of the Cape Corps, 1919
… that night are now dead having solved the great mystery of death. Perhaps it is due largely to my early association with … superiors and inferiors. The…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… session Frederick Moor took an unyielding stance that his government did not favour the uniform application of a … The plight of the two Sotho tribes took up…
Defining Black Consciousness
… by the Black man of the need to rally together with his brothers around the cause of their oppression - the …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… General of the All African Convention (AAC) expresses his view in an article published in The Crisis. He argues … of the separate voters' roll signalled the…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… a South African radical who did three years in prison for his political activity,observed in an essay last year that … our own revolutionary violence.” The…