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ArchiveSWAPO Solidarity Freedom Justice
A2 poster litho blue red green black on white; SWAPO flag; text: 19th April 1985 25th Anniversary SWAPO Solidary Freedom Justice South West African People's…
PlaceMowbray Town Hall, Main Road, Mowbray
This impressive structure with prominent Flemish-Renaissance features, was designed by architect JC Tully, of Tully & Waters, and was erected in 1900. It was…
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…
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering
Anglo-Boer War 2: The Battle of Bothaville or Doornkraal is fought with Gen. De Wet surrendering, after heavy losses on both sides. SA National Museum of…
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…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… that all of us inhabit a global village. 95 years ago, in 1906, Pixley ka Isaka Seme, the great African, patriot and …
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…
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…
ArchiveSWAPO Calendar 1985
SWA Calendar celebrating 25 years of struggle. 1960 -1985. Red, white and blue border at top. Black and white photographs in centre of struggle for Namibia's…
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…
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…
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…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
Ottilie Abrahams was undoubtedly one of the most remarkable personalities of contemporary Namibia. She led through example as a political leader,grassroots…
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…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian Opinionreflected on the way in which 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…
ArchiveSWAPO of Namibia 25 years of struggle
White, black and red poster. 25 years of struggle 1960 - 1985. Artwork of map of Namibia. Artwork of olympic runner. Artwork of a soldier. Notice of a…
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…
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,…
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
PlaceRepublic of Congo
The Republic of Congo, also known as Middle Congo, Congo-Brazzaville, and Congo (but not to be confused with the Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew For months past, "the Bantu press" has been working very…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town is burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school…
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…