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ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage attacks across the country. The government…
Indian passive resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948 by E. S. Reddy
On June 13, 1996, President Nelson Mandela inaugurated a year-long observance of the 1946 Indian passive resistance in South Africa. Speaking at the University…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1932 Subsidies for Cape Muslim Primary Schools Du Plessis maintains that in 1931…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION In May 1906 smoking habits amongst the ladies…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
Annually Statistics South Africa (Statssa) publishes a very comprehensive Report on Mortality and Causes of Death in South Africa. In this context it is…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
… of South Africa, p. 10. ↵ [xxxi] UNGA Disarmament Index 2004: H-R [Online]. Available: … p://www.reachingcriticalwill.org/disarmament-fora/unga/2004/index/h…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… presence of Xuma, who does not even appear in his book’s index. See B. Pachai, The International Aspects of the South … progress. If the African woman…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
Charles van Onselen on 'Nongoloza' Mathebula. Introduction Modern South Africa's industrial achievements are often pointed to with considerable pride —…
ArticlePretoria Timeline 1800-2009
… Oggendblad is established 1977 12 September, Steve Biko dies in a Pretoria prison. 1980 25 January, three ANC …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… maintained a policy of non-racialism and while Steve Biko ’s views on whites in South Africa were not extreme, …
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
- The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. - Mac Maharaj1 Introduction From about July 1985, the ANC faced a…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
This chapter is not about the general role of the South African Police (SAP) and the South African Government in KwaZulu-Natal; it is about their alleged…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, "The Opening…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 2
On October 25 1991, ninety-two organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. The Front…
ArchiveAhmed Timol and the return of The Light by Kevin Bloom (Daily Maverick), 28 October 2016
… The recommendation in the Timol case, as in the Steve Biko case below it, was not. Image source But here was the …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… Eastern Cape, like Thabo Mbeki , Nelson Mandela and Steve Biko . Capital : Bisho Main languages : isiXhosa , Afrikaans … Eastern Cape, like Thabo Mbeki,…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century has been the failure of the ruling white minority in South Africa to discard policies which…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
"Apartheid - the Indictment" One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century has been the failure of the ruling white minority in South Africa…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
… a just minimum wage which is tied to the cost-of-living index. The time has come that we combine in action to push …
Statement on June 16 by O. R. Tambo, 1984
… a just minimum wage which is tied to the cost-of-living index. The time has come that we combine in action to push …
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…
INDIAN SLAVES IN SOUTH AFRICA: A little-known aspect of Indian-South African relations by E. S. Reddy
The visit of Nelson Mandela to India may be an appropriate occasion to recall a little known but significant aspect of relations between India and South Africa…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… liberation struggle. Question: The murder of Steve Biko and the banning of a number of moderate organisations in … regime. So the protests against the murder…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… movement crowd at No 86 Beatrice Street, be it Steve Biko, Harry Ranwedzi Nengwekhulu or Barney Pityana or, later … Residence – where medical students and…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
Mahatma Gandhi achieved greatness for the struggles that he fought on the political, economic, cultural and moral fronts. His ideas about love, truth, soul…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull in the mass…