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ArchiveChapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 11 - SACTU in the Congress Alliance Despite the isolation and consequent defeat of…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
Dawood Seedat: The Communist who insisted that there was 'no middle road to freedom’ by Goolam Vahed Department of History University of KwaZulu-Natal -…
Remarks by the President of the African National Congress Comrade JG Zuma to Worker`s Day Durban, 1 May 2015
The Leadership of Cosatu, the ANC, and SANCO, Comrades and friends This Workers Day takes place in the year when we celebrate sixty years since the adoption…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
We are currently in Moscow as a delegation of the African National Congress which is here to hold discussions with the leadership of the Communist Party of the…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
This, according to Marie-Louise Baricako, a prominent gender activist from Burundi, is what life is like at the moment for that beleaguered country’s citizens…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
From the 2nd to the 7th July 1991, 2,244 delegates representing 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress. This…
PlaceSouth Africa
Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
The National Executive Committee of the ANC met over the weekend of the 19th to 21st September 2008, to deliberate on various pertinent issues. After careful…
ArchiveThe New South African Revolution by Prithiraj Dullay, 03 April 2017
South Africa is poised on a knife edge. Anything can happen. Last week Pravin Gordhan the Minister of Finance and former head of the S African Revenue Service,…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
One leg in another leg out tight me up strongly sewn visible mending back pocket trademark silver buttons attached not woven once twice or thrice die…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
Who will listen to this feisty little woman with the grey ponytail and caftan? Greg Arde spoke to Fatima Meer, once a shining light in the fight against…
PlacePacaltsdorp
(prior to 1910)The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS). In 1818, its name was changed to…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
I AM DIRECTED by the All-In African National Action Council to address your Government in the following terms: The All-In African National Action Council was…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to Leon…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
Chairperson, Comrade Raul Castro Ruz, Your Highnesses, Your Excellencies, Heads of State and Government, Your Excellencies, Ministers and Ambassadors, …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
South African Communist Party 1934 For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
April 3, 1971. In a trend-setting protest against the Apartheid policies of the Government, players of the two South African teams walked out after just one…
30. Potchefstroom traders: we please the poorest class of customers
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The agitation by anti-Asiatic vigilante groups…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
Dear Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware…
Hundred years of resistance, E.S. Reddy, 29 January 2012
The African National Congress of South Africa, founded in January 1912, got a lot of support from Mahatma Gandhi, who had already begun his campaign of passive…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally well-known as a dissident poet and vocal critic of South Africa…
PlaceBonnievale, Langeberg Municipality-Cape Town
Bonnievale is a quiet Town in the Breede Valley of the Western Cape. Bonnievale is surrounded by the Langeberg Mountains. What makes Bonnievale so unique is…
PlaceVaal River and Dam, Gauteng, Free State, Northern Cape and Mpumalanga
Vaal Dam covers over 300 km, which makes it the Country's largest Dam, by area. It was constructed in 1938.It is one of Gauteng's major sources of drinking…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
Fellow South Africans, Comrades and compatriots, Today, January 8, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. …
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
SOUTH AFRICA NEEDS A NATIONAL HOLIDAY ON 16 NOVEMBER TO ACKNOWLEDGE ITS INDENTURED LABOUR HERITAGEBy Brij Maharajhttps://www.dailymaverick.co.za/opinionista…
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, domestic…