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Statement by Oliver Tambo at the 19th African-American Conference, 12 January 1989, Lusaka
… As President Kaunda said in his opening address, the two issues we have met to discuss are the major questions that … There is no hope for the blacks to gain…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… that motivated these bills include the removal of property rights from Africans, their subjugation to Whites (by … were killed (Lodge, 117-18). Each…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… misery. Under the guise of 'betterment' stock ownership rights and land sizes were further reduced and people were … National campaigns increasingly focused…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… of these three wars was the maintenance of territorial rights in the area between the Caledon and Orange Rivers; … JN Boshof; President of the OFS, and…
Address by Jacob Zuma marking the Commemoration of the International Day of persons with disabilities, during the State visit by President Rupiah Banda of Zambia, 03 December 2010
… towards the implementation of the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities This theme offers us an … highlight the barriers that still limit…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… In South Africa the ANC is carrying on a fight for civil rights and not an armed struggle for national liberation." In 1955, the ANC became a civil rights…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… These include the guarantee of the fundamental human rights of all South Africans, reinforced by an entrenched Bill of Rights, a multiparty system of…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… in 1986 that according to a report released by the Human Rights Commission (HRC) through the Sunday Times , it was … by the manner in which they chose sides…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… had drafted a memorandum addressing common student issues, such as a demand for free education and a demand to … for University workers. As well as…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… white working class movement. The party also addressed issues such as miners’ phthisis, workmen’s compensation and … on a strike to get the management to…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… agency for Black women. Maxeke becomes involved in many issues affecting Blacks in her time, from campaigning against … the Women's section of the Communist…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… Hlatshwayo does not deliver the document. August, civil rights lawyer Victoria Mxenge is murdered at her house in … As Ari Sitas put it, “It cast ordinary…
Circular Letter To Organisations Concerning The Arrest Of J. N. Singh Under The Immigration Act, November 9, 1946
… Dear Sir/Madam, The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill has become law. The already so weak and … democracy. It also constitutes an immediate…
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… Dear Sir/Madam, The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill has become law. The already so weak and … democracy. It also constitutes an immediate…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
… on the part of its student activists. One of the issues that concerned the Spanish scholar Maravall in his … the concept was used to argue the limits of…
Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… in the ANC’s 1943 Africans’ Claims, an African Bill of Rights that was inspired in part by the Atlantic Charter. … to the introduction of the Asiatic Land…
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
… money from communities while offering no real political representation. The uprising resulted in the deaths of …
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… land in defiance of the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, the so-called Ghetto Act, enacted by the …
Address by the President of South Africa, Mr. Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening of Civil Society Forum of the WSSD, Johannesburg, 23 August 2002
… globe to the city of Johannesburg to discuss the important issues on our common agenda, of People, the Planet and … has come back to its ancestral home to…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… and Indian population. 10 March, South Africa’s consular representation will not be withdrawn from Rhodesia and South … first leader of the Durban Committee…
PlaceZambia
… the women of the Country, more conscious about their rights and freedom. The literacy rate of women has also risen … to pay for medical help suffers a lot…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… in the field insisted that in the peace treaty the rights of the Dutch language had to be guaranteed. Dutch was … debate over survival From the early days of…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… Inc. on April 11, 1992. Maya Angelou (historian and civil rights leader) describes the impact of the Great Depression … interview – first-hand information;…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… dictatorship all the time. They have no democratic rights and are kept in subjection by physical terror. On the … generally has the objective of defending…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… did so in the tradition that judicial reticence on public issues ends when it comes to the rule of law itself. He said … over legislative and executive…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… years ago, and it remains the major fighting force for the rights of workers in South Africa. It is important that we … must therefore serve as the leading…
Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… endeavours. The description and analysis of these issues will lay the basis for the assessment of SASO in … 1968 (when SASO was formed) was mainly expressed…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… of the IUF (International Union of Foodworkers); issues relating to ITS’s and the ICFTU and WFTU • … Based on the British model, the system provided…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… become law. Instead of advancing on the road to political rights and consequently economic betterment, instead of … been driven back to a position of being…