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ArticlePass laws in South Africa 1800-1994
… the Women’s Anti-Pass Conference in Johannesburg. In 1945 the Urban Areas Consolidation Act was passed, further …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… of Non-European Unity Movement," Bantu World, 11 August 1945 (also in Ilanga lase Natal,11 August 1945). A great hullabaloo is being made by advocates of the…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
A Report of the CASA Conference and Festival We want the world to know We have come a long way now We are not like spotless white shirts We are khaki…
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
1. Conference opened at 10:10 a.m. on the 15th December 1949. In the absence of the Senior Chaplain the Speaker, Cr. R. V. Selope Thema, called upon Rev. J. A…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in rivalry with the British Empire, especially in Asia, and sought to…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
Firstly, thank you again for your time and consideration in corresponding with us. Please briefly introduce your schooling and political background: I…
ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
The yearly Human Rights Day public holiday in South Africa in late March commemorates the Sharpeville Massacre, when police opened fire on a crowd of unarmed…
Twentieth Anniversary of the United Nations Sanctions Resolution: Statement by Oliver Tambo at the plenary meeting of the United Nations General Assembly, 05 November 1982, New York
… them as authentic representatives of the spirit of 1945 which gave birth to this Organisation. For our part, we …
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
… shock for me after Akola. I stayed in Sevagram until 1945 when the school term began. This was a very enlightening … where it could be now. The holidays were…
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… overthrew the French and the Japanese occupiers in August 1945 was the Communist Party under the leadership of … an end to foreign rule over North Vietnam in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… in "African Youth League," Inkundla ya Bantu (28 February 1945, p.2). The League advocated scrapping the land laws and … the petition that was submitted to…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
The adoption of the final Constitution concluded some of the most successful negotiations in recent constitutional and political history. The most striking and…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has presented the people with only one choice…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… in Schauder Township. In addition, between 1940 and 1945, the School Board establishes the Pendla, Kama, Molefe … in the Moi Yean Association’s building in…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had received its initial spark…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the apartheid government who…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… Descartes to the Present Day," M.A. Thesis, 1945. University of South Africa. In 1943 Lembede registered … of South Africa. His fifty-two page thesis,…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
At the beginning of february 1993 it became apparent that most role-players had realized the urgent need for the resumption of multi-party negotiation. However…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… until that second conflagration on the continent ended in 1945. War memorials in Europe’s remotest villages, as well as … is greater than at any other time…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… 58 Chapter II African Nationalism and the Indian Diaspora, 1945-1949 Introduction 62 Post-War Changes in the ANC and … Crisis,” Inkundla ya Bantu , second…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
Codesa's first plenary session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of substantive negotiation towards democracy. By now,…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… the war. Pandit Nehru, soon after release from prison in 1945, exhorted the Indians in South Africa to cooperate with … for control of the NIC and TIC…
The Legal Veneer
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The apartheid government always had an obsession with…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 10 Feb…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… cited in Tom Lodge, Black Politics in South Africa Since 1945 (Johannesburg: Ravan Press, 1983), p.234. Mac Maharaj, …