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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… Compatriots, As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard … organised youth and student movement reaching into…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… Compatriots, As the New Year begins, and on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of your vanguard … organised youth and student movement reaching into all…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) … have been found in Kenya and neighbouring countries. The Khoisan were the first modern people…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and musician’s first two … in London, he recounts being interviewed by a “man…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have … to make at least some concessions; the extent of the strikes was such that it was not…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa Chief M.G. Buthelezi is the Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative…
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
… 1859 After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is…
Statement by Mrs. Gertrude Shope at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… On behalf of the Women`s Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire … 16 June uprisings, has been strengthened by the workers`…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… grieves me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ … sense, this one word brings out much…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 5 - The Politics of Socialism
… From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner The principle of our … are used by other people; its workers need to use roads, schools, and…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… The CPSA had a difficult balancing act in broadening its … and solidarity. 48 Although many whites drifted away from the Party after its executive opened up…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known by the name … Women’s Resistance…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
… real information showing that I could indeed handle the post of Special Adviser in the Ministry of Water Affairs and Forestry. It is a technical … to return…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold … Witwatersrand: During the late…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Preface
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign — A Resume of…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
… Mrs. Gertrude Shope On behalf of the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire … 16 June uprisings, has been…
Covert operations
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point … We saw the mass occupation of…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others … sports boycott made a great contribution to liberation. The Indian community can be…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… subject in school although I did observe how watered down the history we were taught was, this led me to do reading … what was prescribed. During my first…
The Detention Weapon
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of … in detention. Women detainees have…
ArticleUniversity of Witwatersrand Student Protests 2015 Timeline
… The student movement Rhodes Must Fall (#RhodesMustFall, #RMF) … media attention in March of 2015, after Chumani Maxwele of the movement defiled a Rhodes…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and … [1975] makes an attempt at outlining and tracing…
Address of President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the opening of the second session of the Democratic Parliament Cape Town, 17 February 1995
… Honourable President and Deputy President of the Senate, Honourable Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson…
Archive1995 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 17 February 1995
… Honourable President and Deputy President of the Senate, Honourable Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly, Chairperson and Deputy Chairperson…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… pp. 41 – 49. If the breadwinner was imprisoned I would organise help as much as I could, and all the time I knew it was the right thing to do, just as using…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… Comrades and compatriots, Today, January 8, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. Through the … of parliament,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… groups using modern techniques. - Joe Slovo 1 Introduction The uprisings in Soweto and elsewhere in June 1976 created … and different revolutionary potential…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian Government to send its citizens to work in their cane fields. After protracted…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… Important and significant events preceded this address of the Prime Minister. There was the accusation from the Herstigte Nasionale Party concerning … him…