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BiographyDawood Seedat
… Dawood Seedat (1916-1976) was the grandson of a Ladysmith, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal) trader M.E. Seedat, who had nine children, one of whom, Ahmed, moved to…
BiographyJonathan Clegg
… England for Southern Rhodesia where he lived until the age of seven, before he and his mother emigrated to South Africa … that available to his peers at the…
BiographyNise Bulelwa Malange
… she became fascinated and involved in the trade union work of her uncle Rev. Marawu. She attended school first in Elsies … ( Eastern Cape ) to escape the…
ArticleNokukhanya (Bhengu) Luthuli’s Life Timeline
… 1904, March 3 Nokukhanya born 1913 Began formal education at Ohlange Institute 1914 Death of Nokukhanya’s mother, Nozincwadi, (also known as MaNgidi) ……
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… a barrister … but I shall be able to see England, the land of philosophers and poets, the very center of … on Indian entry into Natal. The Immigration…
Telegram to Gamal Abdel Nasser, President of the United Arab Republic by Oliver Tambo, 27 May 1967
… African National Congress of South Africa expresses full support and solidarity with … threat in Middle East is being directly engineered as an act of…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… policies which are a cruel scourge on the conscience of every civilised being and an unequalled example of man`s … of their policies, confident that the big…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the … Harry Haynes, is read out voicing his objection to the ‘native policy’ which had been…
Document 31 - S.O.Y.A. National Executive Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959
… Committee, The Maritzburg Conferences and the Tasks of the Immediate Future, 31 May 1959 [...] We must proceed to … exploitative social order where man lives…
Address at the 58th session of the United Nations General Assembly 23 September 2003
… President of the General Assembly, Mr. Julian Hunte, Secretary-General … interest of the peoples of the world, must ensure that we act together to defeat the…
BiographyBishop Mmutlanyane Stanley Mogoba
… Polokwane, Limpopo. He was the last born in a family of six. His father Reuben Tshomoko Sethulane worked as a … did not work but was actively involved in the…
BiographyElizabeth Adriana (Nanna) Abrahams
… , in the Western Cape . She was born into a large family of 8 children, and attended a multi-racial school in Paarl … her mother as the sole breadwinner,…
Statement of the ANC National Disciplinary committee in the case of Mbulelo Goniwe, 14 December 2006
… to the NDC by the ANC National Working Committee. Members of the NDC present at the hearing were Cdes Kader Asmal, in … Ms Nomawele Njongo. Cde Goniwe was…
Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract)
… by Allison Drew Document 52 - International Secretariat of the International Communist League [B-L),Minutes of meeting, 23 April 1935 (Extract) South Africa…
Address at the Opening Ceremony of the 16 Days of Activism Campaign, Motherwell, 25 November 2004.
… Ladies and gentlemen: South Africans from all walks of life will remember that, at this time every year, we unite as a nation to observe the 16 Days of…
Call for the Observance of the 70th Birthday of Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo, June 1988
… The people of South Africa, particularly the youth of our country, are renowned for their fearless challenge to the full might of Pretoria's tyranny. In…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Statistical Analysis of Resisters Studying the…
ArchiveLetter from R F Botha to The Honourable Alexander H Haig Jr, Secretary of State, United States of America
… Letter from Pik Botha, Minister of Foreign Affairs, to Alexander M Haig, US Secretary of State, regarding Cuban withdrawal of troops from Angola. Incudes the…
ArchiveKwaZulu in contemporary South Africa: a case-study in the implementation of the policy of separate development
… A dissertation submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements of the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of Historical and … South Africa:…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Documenting Ordinary Scenes Of South Africa Then and Now by Michael Kimmelman (The New York Times), 24 August 2001
… have borne witness since the late 1940's to life in his native South Africa. More than 150 of his pictures are in a retrospective of the years 1948 to … the…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 9 May 1983
… Excerpt from transcript of evidence from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA Council of Churches, ……
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… at Natal University for a BA degree (now University of KwaZulu-Natal -UKZN). At the time the University would not … schools throughout Natal, and by 1960/63…
The diary of Maria Tholo - February 16 by Carol Hermer
… From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Wednesday, … week ago we heard the happy chant and mock stick fighting of an…
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… War. Consequently, the regime was trying to find ways of increasing productivity and profitability for South … increased during the 1970s, particularly after…
On the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, 24 April 2013
… joins the nation in commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the passing of Comrade Oliver Reginald Tambo, a towering giant of our struggle, a unifier and a…
EventArchbishop Tutu retires as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in SA
… in Cape Town's St George's Cathedral marked the retirement of the Most Reverend Desmond Tutu as Archbishop of Cape Town and head of the Anglican Church in…
EventKing Leopold II of Belgium hands over the administration of the Congo to the Belgian parliament
… From the beginning of colonialism in the 1880s following the 'scramble for … as Leopold II's personal fiefdom. Leopold's administration of the Congo is…
ArchiveOpening address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students
… Opening address to the 58th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, 29 November to 4…
EventGeneral C.R. de Wet was found guilty of treason for leading the Afrikaner rebellion of 1914
… and statesman, regarded by Afrikaner nationalists as one of their greatest heroes. He won renown as commander in chief of the Orange Free State forces in the…
EventThe prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa is resumed
… The prolonged hearing of the dispute over the constitutional position of South West Africa (now known as Namibia) was resumed by the International Court of…