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BiographyJeremiah Rakoko Mabe
… During the 1950s, the regent, Jeremiah Rakoko Mabe, and his councilors and a large section of the community opposed …
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… The International. 1922 2 June Sidney Bunting and his wife, Rebecca, travel to Moscow, Russia, to attend the … imposition of lodgers’ permits forcing men to…
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… During the Apartheid regime, Eugene de Kock was a colonel in the South … De Kock's testimonies were heard here, revealing not only his own involvement in ANC…
The French Revolution
… houses and a lot of money, so that they did not have to work. They also did not have to pay taxes. These two Estates … King Louis': The first “Louis” was…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
… The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South … Plaajte said, to make the African “a…
PlacePhilip Irrigation Tunnel and Missionary Station, Hankey
… Three years after his arrival at the Cape, Superintendent of the London … Society, Dr John Philip, paid a visit to the Eastern Cape. His aim was to purchase…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and May Day – Some Key Moments
… on 1 May annually, is a celebration of workers and their work. It has a long history , being a day of commemoration … of racist and unfair conditions in…
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
… police and their military cannot subdue 12 million people. Apartheid received its greatest condemnation on 21 March last … asked by our organisations to go…
EventAllan Boesak resigns from the church
… Kerk (Dutch Reformed Church) and leading anti apartheid orator, has being officially relieved of his duties as Reverend of the Bellville congregation. In a ……
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… Ba. But by far the most vivid recollections I have are of his two final years, which were often spent in Delhi, partly … in the Zulu war, and felt happy with…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Cross-roads of Native Policy
… was a servant and a tool for carrying out the schemes of his master. There were dangerous extremes on both sides; on … abandoned their tribal conditions and…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… demonstrates remarkable continuity in her unrelenting anti-apartheid pursuits, advocating for the same repressed … mentioned as a subordinate assistant to…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… that they constitute the majority - are still subjected to apartheid rule. I emphasize the words are still, because I do … There is really no possibility of…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… that they constitute the majority - are still subjected to apartheid rule. I emphasize the words are still, because I do … There is really no possibility of…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… millions of rands as a result of the people not going to work. Thus they thought of immediately breaking the … us your children as he has done already…
ArticleA timeline of Zuma-Gupta issues from Nenegate to the firing of Pravin Gordhan
… Thabo Mbeki is ousted as president of the ANC after his attempt to secure a third term as ANC president fails. He … his personal interests.” Calling on South…
A new class struggle
… intended as "indirect taxation"65 just as the Black paid his annual "hut-tax." (The Act did not apply to Indians … of the White population"67 and, . . . "by…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
… Mokoape, the Late Strini Moodley and I were moved to his B-Section single-cell block from the C-Section isolation … that was given to black African prisoners…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both within … apartheid regime. Whatever the change in the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 77th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1989
… Whatever its capacity for repression and death, the apartheid regime continued to suffer reverses both within … apartheid regime. Whatever the change in the…
Defining the term 'Bantu'
… 19th century. Wihelm Bleek first used the word 'Bantu' in his 1862 publication Comparative Grammar of South African … that ‘Bantu peoples’ were primitive. [7…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… liberation from self-inflicted oppression as well as apartheid-imposed oppression. The BC movement monopolized on … Black Consciousness ideology. These plays…
Concluding Remarks
… clear by events of 1976, the issues we addressed and the work that followed" (8). I would have had no quarrel with … as diligently as possible to effect…
EventDarrell Roodt was born on this day
… was born in Johannesburg. Growing up during the height of Apartheid South Africa, he always used the art of film to condemn the racially oppressive regime…
EventJustin Alexander (Alex) La Guma, SA novelist, short story writer and political activist, is born in Cape Town
… was born in District Six, Cape Town on 20 February 1925. His father, Jimmy La Guma was of Cuban descent, which made … as Coloured. La Guma’s father was…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… growth of manufacturing which today employs such a large work force How South African capital was developed with … and employ a number of workers to do the…
ArchiveNUM, FEDTRAW, rural, parliament and miscellaneous
… Different articles on NUM, as Anglo American Corporation yesterday appeal to the National Union …
EventFamine anniversary in Ethiopia
… Following major American television's first airing of the famine crisis in …
EventSuspect in US embassies bomb blasts denies charges
… a prime suspect in the bombing of two United States of American embassies in Nairobi, Kenya, and Dar es Salaam, …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… Africa, legal and semi-legal political activity against apartheid among black people at large re-emerged following … 30 Membership of the RC promised Slovo…