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ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
It was...a way in which we could give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that MK is their highly trained,…
Chronology
… Dr. Y.M. Dadoo) begin passive resistance campaign (1946-1948) June 23 , Second National Anti-Pass August 12-15 , … by trial of communist for sedition,…
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula 1867-1948. Protea Book House, Pretoria, 2008.↵ … Matter of a Horse: The Life of ‘Nongoloza’ Mathebula…
EventGeorge Msimang, artist, is born
… Artist George Msimang was born on 26 October 1948 in Durban. Msimang's interest in art began at school … Anon, George Msimang (1948 -2004 from African Art…
EventANC stalwart, Albertina Sisulu dies in Johannesburg
… where Albertina Sisulu was the only women present. In 1948 she joined the ANC Women’s League and in the 1950s she …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… Bantu Women`s League in 1931 to the ANC Women`s League in 1948. We also recall the Federation of South African Women … United Nations Universal Declaration…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… Bantu Women`s League in 1931 to the ANC Women`s League in 1948. We also recall the Federation of South African Women … United Nations Universal Declaration…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… People (NAACP), and Progressive Citizens of America. 1948 24 January, R.A. Pillay and R. Mahabeer, chairman of the … Natal-Transvaal border. They were…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… On 28 June 1948, Soviet forces had cut off all land access to the … [Accessed: 17 June 2014]|June 28, " On this Day: June 28, 1948 " , from timesonline …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… with ease. The trams were to remain in service up until 1948, when increased private automobile use and a shift in …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… 11, Colonialism, Capitalism and Conflict) and then, from 1948, to apartheid. At the same time, the transition was also …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the SA-Mali Project Fundraising Dinning, St. Georges Hotel, City of Tshwane, 27 September 2005
Distinguished guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for your presence here today to support an important project - the South Africa-Mali Project…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
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…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
When I got arrested it was through Winnie. I got arrested in Winnie’s car, and when I got to the island I talked to him about Winnie, very strongly, to say…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… leaders in the then Union of South Africa. In 1948, the National Party under the leadership of DF Malan …
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… The ascendancy to power of the Apartheid government in 1948 under the National Party (NP) took land dispossession …
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
Programme Director, Honourable Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Chairperson of Council and Members of Council, Vice-Chancellor and Principal…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
… and the Apartheid state When the Nationalist Party won the 1948 election Afrikaners acceded to state power, and they … from the assumption of power by the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… event as a proud accomplishment of the apartheid regime (1948-94) (Goodhew, xv-xvi). The South African government … 70). This initiative took place in full…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of the accession to power of the Nationalist government in 1948 right up to the dying days of the eighties, a period of …
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC Annual Conference…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
Constructing Heritage and Heritage ResourcesHeritage – our past, and where we come from – means different things to different people. Some people relate to the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
EventWorld Health Day
… 1945. The WHO's Constitution came into effect on 7 April 1948, and therefore this date has been celebrated as World …
EventNamibia gains Independence
… request was turned down by UN, however, things changed in 1948 when the National Party came into power. The NP defied …
EventAlan Paton is born
… the Beloved Country, which was published in February of 1948, during a time in which he studied penal institutions in …
EventKing George VI is born
… 1947, as South Africa was preparing for the elections in 1948, King George and his family visited South Africa and …