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Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from … during the Sharpeville Massacre,…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
… of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White and Non-White … in the Gauteng Region, South Africa…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… considered illegal as it led to crime and absenteeism from work. Bilharzia was common in certain areas and leprosy … namely, feeding animals etc., and those…
ArticleIndigenous medicine and traditional healing
… become sick because they are having problems at home or work. This is the reason why sangomas look at the environment that people live and work in to find…
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… power bloc in 2022 not only encompassing North American and West European countries as in 1973, but also the … in Sociology, University of Cape Town, from…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
… in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater. He changed his name to Harwood after an English master told him it was … of Sir Donald. He would later draw from…
ArchiveThe Mission by Denis Goldberg - Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… from a different viewpoint because the racist dogmas of apartheid dictated that he would be incarcerated apart from his Black comrades and colleagues. That…
EventBlacks boycott municipal elections
… of Black electorates followed the repeated call of anti-apartheid forces and largely boycotted the elections, with … of pupils, although most workers on the…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… morning we are talking to Swaminathan Gounden at his home in Pastoral Road. Swami, thank you so much … another year until my brother was…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… a fitting tribute to a man whose political and cultural work was by and large against de-historicizing the many … protests against the squeeze of the…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… but navigates the world around him with a probing mind. His use of words is so beautiful and melodic, that I could … did not want to go to school he would…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE FUNERAL OF JOE SLOVO Johannesburg, 15 January 1995
… Mashel Slovo, there was no preditermined course that his life would follow. Forced to leave school at an early age … by those struggling for freedom. Though…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2017 submissions
… in completing international research and humanitarian work in Morocco and Jordan. His focus is on methods of empowering silenced voices through …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… 70 % of the workers heeded the call to stay away from work, with schools deserted as students gathered at different … the end of August 1976 through to the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Ceremony to mark the Retirement of Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson and the Assumption of Office of Chief Justice Pius Langa and Deputy Chief Justice Dikgang Moseneke: Houses of Parliament, Cape
… privileged to honour today. As we approached the day of his assumption of office, I requested the then Chief … member of the human family". Arthur Chaskalson…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… with dramatic suddenness, the chains that have bound his mind, solving problems which for ages it has been … when thousands of our people roam the streets in…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… with dramatic suddenness, the chains that have bound his mind, solving problems which for ages it has been … when thousands of our people roam the streets in…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… land for white ownership, forcing many black farmers to work as wage labourers on land they had previously owned. … wives and children. Hostel life estranges…
ArticleWomen and Children in White Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… the families of fighting burghers or those who refuse to work for the British - are discontinued in the 'Transvaal' … Alfred Milner leaves Cape Town for…
Neville Alexander interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib,25 April 1998, Cape Town
… arrest, I spent with Sached until 1986/87, then I did work mainly with Hewssa Trust, formed a lot of different … in this country had an impact in the…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the 47th Anniversary of the formation of Umkhonto We Sizwe, Honouring of Luthuli Detachment and Conferment of Isithwalandwe/Seaparankoe Award on Chris Hani, 16 December 2008, Mangaung, Bloemfontein
… Comrade Chris fought for peace and reconciliation. In his address to a rally just four days before his death, he … Africa, and international mobilisation to…
EventSouth African pop queen, Brenda Fassie, is born
… Langa, a township near Cape Town. She was named after the American country singer Brenda Lee. The daughter of a …
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
… long period of colonialism and White minority domination (apartheid). Apartheid 'officially' began in South Africa in 1948, but … Struggle and to build an…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the anti-racist day meeting of the Greater London Council, 21 March 1984, London
… and that its elimination is the responsibility of us all. Apartheid, the most vicious and institutionalised form of … investments in South Africa. Yet their…
Address to the Anti-Racist Day Meeting of the Greater London Council by O. R. Tambo, London, 21 March 1984
… and that its elimination is the responsibility of us all. Apartheid, the most vicious and institutionalised form of … investments in South Africa. Yet their…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
… of Cape Town , South Africa, that was created by the Apartheid government, for low-income Coloured families in the … in 1955 and 1957. During 1961 and 1962…
EventHendrik Verwoerd becomes Prime Minister
… after the death of J.G. Strijdom. An ardent advocate of Apartheid, Verwoerd firmly believed that races should be kept … should develop along its own lines…
Message by Albert Luthuli on the eve of Multi-Racial Conference, 1 November 1957
… than strained and estranged human relations. No team-work can be built on master and servant relations as obtains … of segregation, especially its more…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… collapsed periodically in the heavy winter rains. The work was conducted by employing the local garrison and … Bay and attack the Castle overland from the…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… been recognised that Gumede’s historic visit to Russia, his active participation in the Tenth Anniversary … only on a negligible scale; but “if we add the…