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Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa
… Draft Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa …
The Theory of passive resistance or non-violent campaigning
… The Theory of passive resistance or non-violent campaigning …
Political activists who were executed by the Apartheid regime
… Political activists who were executed by the Apartheid regime …
Why did the Great Depression cause a crisis for capitalism?
… Why did the Great Depression cause a crisis for capitalism? …
ArchiveExploration of Africa: The Emerging Nations - Nigeria 1880 to the Present: The Struggle, the Tragedy, the Promise by Daniel E. Harmon
… Exploration of Africa: The Emerging Nations - Nigeria 1880 to the Present: The Struggle, the Tragedy, the Promise by Daniel E. Harmon …
Anglo-Boer War 2: The major mines on the Reef cease to operate, including the Simmer & Jack, the Wolhuter, the Geldenhuys D
… Cloete: The Anglo-Boer War: a chronology … Anglo-Boer War 2: The major mines on the Reef cease to operate, including the Simmer & Jack, the Wolhuter, the…
The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e
… The British Queen Mother starts the hydroelectric turbines of the Kariba Dam on the Zambezi. She applauds the "young and e …
EventThe last quagga in the world dies in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands
… The last quagga in the world died in a zoo in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. The quagga had once roamed the pastures of the Karoo and the … [Accessed on 16 July…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… old and over, men and women, black and white, will go to the polls to elect a new government to replace the white … time. I say “most” because up to 1936,…
Statement, on Behalf of the Southern African Liberation Movements, at the Closing Session of the Seventh Summit Meeting of the Preferential Trade Area for Eastern and Southern African States, Arusha by O. R. Tambo, 1 - 2 December 1988
… Your Excellency, President Ali Hassan Mwinyi, President of the United Republic of Tanzania, Vice-Chairman of Chama Cha … Excellency, Honourable Ide Oumarou,…
EventGerman torpedoes sink the SS Mendoza close to Durban
… Torpedoes deployed by the U-178 a German submarine sank the SS Mendoza a ship bound … that patrolled the waters of the Indian Ocean around the Cape and the…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress … and network in key rural areas in the Eastern and Western Cape, Natal and me Transvaal. This…
The role of the Party and its role in the National Liberation Movement
… Discussion document which outlines the historical role of the Communist Party and discusses the democratic revolution, the character of the ANC, the … The…
The role of the Party and its role in the National Liberation Movement
… Discussion document which outlines the historical role of the Communist Party and discusses the democratic revolution, the character of the ANC, the … The…
EventThe Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act commences
… The Separate Representation of Voters Amendment Act No 30 of 1956 came into effect, amending the 1951 Separate Representation of Voters Act No 46 of 1951 ……
Present Stage of the Struggle against Apartheid in South Africa. Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Stockholm, 1 June 1968
… Twenty years ago last month, a minority of the white minority in South Africa, steeped in the doctrines Hitler sought to impose by force on mankind, … They…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter The Freedom Charter, a programme which … the nationalisation…
The United Democratic Front and the crisis in South Africa in the 1980s
… Summary of research proposal by Ineke van Kessel of the Department of Political and Historical Studies, African … Studies Centre in Leiden. This research…
43. Resolutions adopted at a mass meeting of the Natal Indian Patriotic Congress, 1909
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Natal Indian Patriotic Union was comprised…
Address at the National Council Of Provinces, 12 November 2002
… Chairperson, Honourable Premiers, Honourable Members of the National Council of Provinces: Thank you very much for … of programmes. It seems obvious that…
BiographyMaggie Resha
… Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape. She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise … Member of…
BiographyMagdaline ‘Maggie’ Resha
… Magdaline Resha was born on the 5th of May 1923 in Matatiele, Eastern Cape . She was the second daughter of Mr. Oziel Tsekiso and Lidia Mamodise … (1991) …
BiographyAbram Ramothibi Onkgopotse Tiro
… Tiro spent time with his uncle where he assisted him with the running of the bakery business. He started his schooling in 1951 at the … his support. On 2…
EventThe Directors of the Dutch East India Company propose Hout Bay to Jan van Riebeeck as a possible area to settle some Dutch families
… Hout Bay is a sheltered cove along South Africa's Cape Peninsula. Before European settlement, the area was populated by Khoisan hunter-gathers who lived ……
Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers' Party of … CAPE TOWN. …
Memorandum of the Central Executive on the Future Organisation of the Black Sash
… Memorandum of the Central Executive on the Future Organisation of the Black Sash on 10 June 1958, discussing: Written Policy, … Memorandum of the Central…
BiographyAllan Kirkland Soga
… Allan Kirkland Soga was among the founding members of the African National Congress (ANC) … His mother was a Scot, and he was educated in the Cape and in…
BiographyProfessor Emeritus Phillip Tobias
… High School in 1939 where he matriculating in 1942. At the age of 15 even before he finished his schooling, he … his sister, Val, who was 21, died of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 71th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1983
… Today, January 8th, we mark the 71st anniversary of our organisation, the African National Congress. We are beginning a new … enemy throughout the country,…
BiographyPeter McKenzie Brown
… in Durban on 24 December 1924 to a wealthy family. While the Peter was seven, his father was killed during a polo … keen polo player, later clandestinely…