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African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Treaty or no Treaty, the control was in the hands of the military and at this stage…
Chapter 14
New efforts at disruption The farcical elections were over. Most of the old M.R.C.s had been returned to the dummy council, but were more than ever in a state…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 6) A Spiral of Trials In the arrests, indictments and trials that occurred from…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by abolitionists like Granville Scott and William Wilberforce,[i] for the…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Social Transformation, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
Report on Commissions 1. The two commissions received an input on major issues for discussion. The input took for granted that the discussion document that…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with Albert John Lutuli, winner of the 1960 Nobel…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 NIC presses for Round Table Conference …
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
On this occasion the Prime Minister dealt with the policy of separate development in a particularly effective way. Adv. Vorster also referred to a few of the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
"Globalisation and related matters" Acting Director-General of the Institute of International Relations, Mr Nguyen Quang Chien Your Excellencies, Ministers…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 81st Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January, 1993
Fellow South Africans, Comrades and Compatriots, Today, January 8th, marks the 81st anniversary of the African National Congress. We observe this important…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, "Presidential Address to the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu The franchisement was first granted to the Native of Cape Colony in 1854, without,…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu The beginning of the year 1926 sees South Africa standing at the cross-roads of race…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education After 1994 politicians, historians, educators and…
Chapter IX - Return to my faith
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Forty years is a very long time to be away from the faith into which you were born and baptised, the faith in…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 27. "HITLER`S NEW CONVERT," Inkululeko, 9 September 1944. Hitler is rapidly losing all…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study in May 2003. Some sources say…
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…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
The reaction of the outside world to the development of apartheid was widespread, and by the 1980s posed a sustained challenge to the South African regime,…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VI - The Wesleyans take a hand
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke THE BRITISH next aimed their attack at Hintsa, paramount chief of the Gcaleka, who…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement, he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
- Soweto and All That, June 1976 - October 1978 Fifteen years after our commitment to armed struggle, we could mount no organised retaliation by armed groups…
Chapter 10 - The Character, Role and Significance of SANSCO
It is now possible to interpret the character, role and significance of SANSCO. For this purpose, I draw on the previous chapters which discussed SANSCO's…
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
JT Gumede - Lloyd George, 1 December 1919 .INTRODUCTIONAn important thrust of this chapter concerns the struggles within Black politics over methods used to…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Report on Passive Resistance, 13 June 1946-13 May 1947 …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 4 - Participatory Democracy
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner A Christian society is one in which we prefer people to things, a society based on freely expressed…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
Mr. Ngubane has written most voluminously in several issues of the Indian Opinion making scathing and unjustified remarks about the African National Congress…