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ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… [11] In the 1920s, electricity “shifted to the national arena” to support industrial growth, particularly in … Commission (ESCOM). ESCOM would supply…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… of the most important radical groups following the Labour Party split in 1914, namely the Cape Town based Industrial … which in 1920 adopted the name of…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African National Congress (ANC). Though one should be wary of … white privilege, asserts the desire of African…
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, was a multi-racial moderate party that came into existence to fulfill the independence … Convention. Although led by a White,…
EventHelen Suzman is born
… She entered politics when she represented the United Party (UP) in Parliament in 1953. Six years later she founded the Progressive Party (PP) and became its…
EventChris Hani, the SACP secretary-general, is assassinated
… day twenty five years ago, the South African Communist Party (SACP) secretary-general, Chris Thembisile Hani also … linked to co-conspirator Clive Derby…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… leaders, should endeavour to divest themselves of that party-political prejudice which warps the intellect, and when … came from quite an unexpected source,…
PlaceBurundi
… The largest of these parties was the Union for National Progress (UPRONA), and it was led by Prince Louis … Biha [xliv] . UPRONA was founded in 1958 [xlv] …
BiographyJacob “Dancing Shoes” Morake
… 10 rounds. When he was offered another crack at Mitchell's national title on the undercard of a bout between Brian …
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
… had been drawn by Sunny Singh into a unit of the African National Congress (ANC) underground. Singh had just been … Congress of Trade Unions, uMkhonto…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… Africa from exile in Swaziland. A member of the African National Congress’s (ANC) armed wing uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), …
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
… and so the one thing that brought the Centre for more national, international attention was our workshops, of which … group that - to the extent that you…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
‘Where Do Whites Fit in?’: The portrayal of Black Consciousness and its effects on white liberals in Burger’s Daughter by Rebecca Trout
… students who broke away from the pre-dominantly white National Union of South African Students (NUSAS), is thought … specifically the intensifying opposition…
PlaceZimbabwe
… 1953. The various African political movements for national liberation were divided on the question of a … Workers Union (RICU ) and the Southern Rhodesian…
Reply by President Jacob Zuma to the debate of the Presidency budget vote, 13 May 2010
… and our vision for the future. The Constitution is the national vision statement. We therefore cannot accept … that we do not have a vision. The Manifesto of…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… two major perspectives, a political science and a post-national version, together forming a coherent view of the … (Miraftab, 2011). A further critique of…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… and rendering help to deportees. December 27, Indian National Congress at Allahabad passed resolution expressing … he could preside at the forthcoming…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… but they were not accepted as members of the African National Congress (ANC) when it was formed in 1912. This … her presence felt by openly opposing the…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… of Apartheid Key to understanding this period is the National Party winning the white election in 1948 and the process of … Education period come into being,…
ArticleThe Land Act, Traditional Authorities and the Native Affairs Department (NAD) 1913-1953
… of, and association with, the South African Native National Congress (SANNC), renamed the African National Congress (ANC) in 1923. In the first 30 years of…
Poqo political trials and the execution of its operatives in the 1960s
… thereafter the apartheid government banned the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan Africanist Congress … were charged effectively contained…
Event11 die when the South African Defence Force (SADF) opens fire on negotiators in Sebokeng
… covert underground organisations to functioning as open party political structures. This transformation was the focus … in Sebokeng on 22 July 1990, when the…
EventSuppression of Communism Act 44 of 1950 severely limits what the media could report
… organisations. It is under this law that the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). was banned in 1950. On 20 June … met in Cape Town (15 votes to 2 votes…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… and other political formations, Fellow South Africans, The national flags have been flying at half-mast in our country … people of Soweto and our country in…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… a comprehensive statement. It was not possible for the National Action Committee to circulate the draft carefully. … on a fight for civil rights and not an…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… voters to cast their ballots with the ANC and not the National Party. She did so at the behest of Mandela and now the … seen as "uncaring" by some…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… labour federation, Cosatu, and the South African Communist Party over privatisation would, in the end, delay the … had planned to call on Mbeki to appoint…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… 6 or those who place their confidence in the new Liberal Party are making entirely false analogies with countries … challenged and threatened by the growth…
Undelivered statement by Albert Luthuli at the time of his Trial for burning his pass, 05 July 1960
… recognised political parties in the country, the Liberal Party and the Progressive Party, and by many hundreds of … to comply with the law. If this is not…