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Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Before the rise of Nazism, the ministers of the Dutch Reformed churches did not interfere with the trade unions, but from 1934 is the three Dutch Reformed…
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… 2013 Booklet for the Department of Basic Education on the 1913 Women’s Anti-pass Campaign. Sept 2013 September 2013 …
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
[Note: The questions of the members of the Working Group are briefly indicated in italics. The members were: Ibrahima Boye, Procureur-general, Senegal,…
PlaceHamburg Village
Hamburg is a small Town, with about 1000 inhabitants, in the Eastern Cape Province. It is located on the coast between the East London and the Town of Port…
ArchiveJohnny Clegg: South Africa’s universal man of uncommon passion by David Coplan, 25 July 2019
Universal Man: Jonathan Clegg “Sikeyi” (1953-2019). “Sikeyi” is a Zulu dance praise name: “The peg through a yoke that secures oxen in position, from Afrikaans…
PlaceStikland Cemetery
In a 1947, a letter to the Cape Town Clerk and the secretary of the Board of Trustees to the Cape Peninsula Cemeteries requested the establishment of a new…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
Text of the letter from Lt General Berning Ntlemeza, National Head of Directorate for Priority Crime Investigation, to Minister of Finance Pravin Gordhan, 19…
PlaceSierra Leone
Sierra Leone is found in West Africa, fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean, and flanked by Liberia and Guinea.Gola-Tiwai Complex-Gola-Tiwai Complex - Sierra Leone…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
64. Congress addresses the Union Parliament, 1946
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M. D. Barmania, one of the secretaries of the…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
ANC National Chairperson, ANC Provincial Chairperson and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family…
III - Black Consciousness
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why did they pursue him…
Chapter eight - Conclusion
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson Gomas died on the morning of Wednesday 25 April 1979 two weeks…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
Serving the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee had been discussing what…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education Department…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
The accepted view of black, and especially African, politics after the Rivonia Trial, held by historians and other scholars of South African resistance, is…
Stuart Commission Report
1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION Per its…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
CHAIRPERSON: Mrs Sobukwe, are you Zodwa? MRS SOBUKWE: I am Zondeni. CHAIRPERSON: Zondeni Veronica. We welcome you Mrs Sobukwe in this hearing and we will ask…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the 23rd Africa Regional Conference of the Food and Agricultre Organisation: Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, 4 March 2004
The Director-General of FAO, Dr Jacques Diouf, The Independent Chair of Council, Mr Aziz Mekour, Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Members of the…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
21 years ago, leading anti-apartheid activist Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in prison. His…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThis project has been beset throughout by many difficulties,…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
Wilbur Smith, that great chronicler of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his finest in his 1972 novel, The Sunbird. In it, he narrates the…
Regarding the white male gaze in South African photography by Daniel Gallan, 14 Jun 2017
How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, white and male? As someone who ticks all three boxes, this is a…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 3 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The start of a bad time The treason trial was the start of a very bad time. At…