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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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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, …
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…
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…
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…
A Working Life, Cruel Beyond Belief by Alfred Temba Qabula
… was born on December 12, 1942 in Flagstaff, Transkei. His father. a migrant worker, ‘coughed out’ the harshness of his life onto his children. He died after…
EventDe Kock is convicted of six killings
… de Kock (dubbed 'Prime Evil') of six murders of Black anti-apartheid activists during his service as commander of a police unit, C10 based at … former…
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…
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…
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…
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…
EventKader Asmal, political activist and future Member of Parliament, is born
… (1994-1999); is born in Stanger, Natal (now Kwa-Dukuza). His resistance against apartheid began in 1952 when he organized a school boycott in his area. This…
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…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
… struggle for liberation both because of the longevity of his service in the ranks of the ANC and for his outstanding … as never before to use their organised…
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… in of such dark ages that man has never experienced in his past and primitive history. The devastation which can … - a new name for the much discredited…
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… village of Mvezo, Transkei, the Allies, strengthened by American reinforcements, launched a counterattack against …
EventCoup attempt on S Doe’s government in Liberia
… the Americo-African elites who were descendents of freed American slaves. They came to Liberia in 1847 and held power …