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ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
This topic follows on from the previous one. Having looked at a period when it was not clear that Europe would dominate the world, this topic now explores how…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the Wilhelmstrohebahnhof bestrewn with Documenta banners. There is a welcome desk for Documenta…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
War photographers are either sleazy and glamorous, or noble and glamorous. At least this is what you will think if you believe the various literary or big…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
Names: Kole, Ernest Levi Tsoloane and Cole, Ernest Born: 21 March 1940, Eersterust, Gauteng (then Transvaal), South Africa Died: 11 February 1990, New York,…
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
It was early in the October 1977 morning that they came. Ironically, they came on the morning of the Hindu festival of lights called Diwali, celebrating…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Support from Persons and Organisations Mahatma Gandhi …
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner My childhood My father, Herman Maswabi, was a well-educated man. He came from…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "VOICES OF RESISTANCE” INTERVIEWEE SUNNY SINGH INTERVIEWER C DE VOS DATE 28…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
Building A National Democratic Society Chapter I: Introduction South Africa has entered its Second Decade of Freedom with the strengthening of democracy…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
Based on a speech at the University of Connecticut under the Auspices of UNESCO Chair and Institute of Comparative Human Rights The tenth anniversary of the…
Address of the TMF Patron, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occassion of his Installation as Chancellor of the University of South Africa: UNISA Campus, Tshwane, 27 February 2017
Programme Director, Honourable Blade Nzimande, Minister of Higher Education, Chairperson of Council and Members of Council, Vice-Chancellor and Principal…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade Director and members of the Directorate, Comrade National…
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…
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 28 - Brian Bunting, "Problems of the Multi…
Extract from a speech at the conclusion of the Republic Festival on 31 May 1971 at Goodwood, Cape
0n this occasion the Prime Minister directed a special word to the youth of the Republic and pointed to the great responsibility that rested on it. Adv…
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…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the armed struggle was considered by Mandela…
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The State of Emergency was over. Lilian and I came out of gaol together on the morning of 31 August and climbed…
Chapter 10
Chief obstacles in the way In the last few chapters we have described the highest level of political development reached by the people, as expressed by the All…
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…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
On December 3, 2018, Goodwill Zwelithini kaBhekuzulu celebrates 47 years since his coronation as Isilo (King) of the Zulus of South Africa. Zwelithini …
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
IntroductionThe resistance against the government’s constitutional restructuring was one of the most important campaigns waged by South Africa’s liberation…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
The condemned MK activist arrived at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison immediately…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
The University of Pretoria (UP) opened in 1908 as a new department of the Transvaal University College (T.U.C). In 1930 the University College was upgraded…
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…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
Comrade President, Comrades, members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades leaders of the South African Communist Party, COSATU and the…