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ArchiveNon-European Unity Movement 3rd Unity Conference
Non-European Unity Movement (Unite for Freedom), 3rd Unity Conference held in the Banqueting Hall, Cape Town on 4th and 5th January 1945. Including in this…
ArchiveLet us speak : International Childrens Day
Title in red on white background. Notice of celebrations on 31st May 1986 at Bellville Training College. Cartoon drawings of two children and a caterpillar in…
ArchiveDeclaration of Unity and the Ten Point Programme
Statement approved by the Continuation Committee of the Preliminary Unity Conference of Delegates from the AAC and the National Anti-C.A.D., December 17, 1943…
EventButhelezi condemns Zululand consolidation plans
Dr. Mangosutho Buthelezi, Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly in 1972 and later leader of Inkatha, rejected the South African…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 waves of 'insubordination', 'defiance' and 'riots'…
Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The main…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest, is that when…
ArchiveDraft transcripts Twilight of legality
From the declaration of a national state of Emergency on June 12 1986 onwards, the UDF found itself in a period of twilight legality. This culminated with the…
National Womens Day
A2 larger black on white silkscreen poster; graphic of women marching; text: Strijdom, You have tampered with the women, You have struck a rock, You have…
ArchiveRepeat performance: peoples pageant
White poster with black lettering. Coloured artwork of a communist soldier. Notice of a pageant at City Hall, (Grand Hall), in 1941, regarding the story of…
ArchiveInternational Literacy Day September 8th
Green background with thin black border. Black block on left hand side with poem in white lettering by Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956). Black and white image of…
ArchiveAzikhwelwa: Parents co-operate with us!
Circular, issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council, calling for a boycott and stayaway by parents and workers from the 13-15 September 1976 in…
Chapter 12
… National Congress, one in October and another in December, 1946. At these he had deliberately withheld the invitation …
Liberation
"We the marginalised people of South Africa, who are landless and land hungry, declare our need for all the world to know. We are the people who have borne the…
ArchiveSpeech made by Mrs Winnie Mandela to mark the
Immediately following the "childrens revolt" in Soweto in June 1976 and the massacre and repression with which the apartheid regime encountered it, Mrs Winnie…
ArchiveFor the people by the people
Advertisement for Volkswagen cars. Light grey background. South African flag made up of cars lined up in the colours of the flag. Olympic logo in bottom left…
ArchiveThe truth about the townships
Red poster with black lettering. Black and white artwork of an army tank and a township with a small church. Notice of a Meeting on Sunday, 11th May 1986, at…
ArchiveRelease Mandela Campaign
Yellow poster. 1986 Calendar. Dates of interest on left hand side. RMC Logo. Photograph of Mandela with words 'I must return' over his eyes. Text from The…
ArchiveFund-raising: a revolutionary perspective
Working Paper by Godfrey Motsepe prepared for the African Ntional Congress National Fund Raising Workshop held in March 1986 at the Solomon Mahlangu Freedom…
ArchiveApartheid: a crisis of the Christian conscience
This address by Denis Hurley covers the South African political situation around the path of Christian ethics, love, and morals to lead us to the goal of…
EventList of detainees is released
The government, for the first time, released the official list of all detained under the Preventive Detention clause of the Internal Security Act (ISA) since…
ArchiveConstitution of the National Union of South African Students
Appendix A: Constitution of the National Union of South African Students of the Minutes of the 53rd Congress of the National Union of South African Students,…
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…
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
CITATION FOR SALEEM BADAT (Honorary graduand, Rhodes University, 10 April 2015) By Professor Paul Maylam Eight years ago, in 2007, Dr Saleem Badat stood on…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
South Africa's issues of governance, a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National Assembly. Speaker…
ArchiveFrontline states: ANC together: in struggle
White poster with black lettering, and black border. Green outline of South Africa, with black and white artwork of men with rifles marching across it. Image…
Archive1,000 pounds smash fascism fund
White poster with black lettering and artwork. Six point communist programme for the home front. Year 1941 pencilled in. Artwork of a raised fist. Issued by…
EventSugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title
Sugarboy Malinga wins the WBC title. Tulane Sugarboy Malinga, South African super middleweight, won the World Boxing Council (WBC) title for the second time in…