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Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishuh.
… Rebels overrun the Somalian capital of Mogadishuh. …
SA signs multilateral Sugar Agreement of 1958.
… Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political events from independence to mid-1997 , … SA signs multilateral Sugar Agreement of 1958. …
Final evacuation of Sophiatown by Black residents.
… Final evacuation of Sophiatown by Black residents. …
ArchiveStatement of a joint meeting of the National Executive Council and the RC of the ANC (SA) held in Luanda on 27th December 1978 to 1st January 1979
… Statement of the African National Congress National Executive Committee … a visit to Vietnam to discuss the revolutionary experience of the Vietnam people…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… Art in the state of siege The Sharpeville Massacre was one of the most … Sharpeville Massacre 1960. Two grief-stricken young women being taken home after the…
ArchiveReturning to the scene of the crime by Inside Time (Inside Time), 31 May 2017
… convictions who would be prepared to return to the scene of their crimes and be photographed. But the plan was not … acclaimed Goldblatt, famed particularly…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… Gallery (17 August - 6 September). An unprecedented number of works (for an exhibition in South Africa) referred … prevailing in the country at the time, and…
EventThe Alabama, American raider of the Southern States during the American Civil War, arrives in Saldana Bay for provisions
… Civil War arrived in Saldana Bay, on the west coast of South Africa, to resupply. During the course of the American Civil War, the Southern States realised…
Address at the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 12 October 2000
… Chairperson of the NCOP; Honourable Premiers; Honourable Members of the House; Distinguished Guests; Ladies and Gentlemen, … Council, in the select and…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… and was brought to the Cape. To fix a date for the arrival of slaves at the Cape is a variable since we know that slaves … made their way to the Cape prior…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black … colonialist police shot dead on 16 June 1976 was Hector Pieterson. According…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… Drew Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932 THE MILITANT … Dear Comrade:- We sincerely welcome the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA conducted a nation wide … those words that seemed to describe best…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education The first ten years of South Africa’s democracy … effect to the poorest of the poor. While…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… Lenin Soon after his death, Lenin's body was embalmed and placed in Moscow's Red Square. His … to develop a personality cult, gave exaggerated accounts of…
BiographyDavid Patrick Russell
… an early age. He did his first degree at the University of Cape Town, and then studied for a Masters Degree at Oxford … University. He trained for the…
BiographyIshmael Mkhabela
… (BCM). After the BCM was banned, he served as a member of the Soweto Action Committee which was organized to deal with the increasing detention of anti…
BiographyPiet Mokoena
… State [now Free State Province], was a strong supporter of Paulus Howell Mopeli,also a banished person, and was alleged to have undermined the authority of…
BiographyAbraham Mogale
… when he was dismissed for misconduct involving the copying of confidential documents from the files of the Native Commissioner (NC) of Zeerust [North West ……
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Much of the research for this contribution has … strategy was the demand that a…
South African Labour history
… different ways to tell every story, and the same is true of history. For instance the story of the gold mining … brought about by separation from their rural…
Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of Africa, Flyer announcing Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923
… Document 10 - Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union of Africa, Flyer announcing Third Annual Conference, 17 January 1923 Industrial & Commercial Workers'…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… South Africa ‘illegally`. Although a regular reader of the Manchester Guardian and the New Statesman at the time, I have no recollection of either his arrest…
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Johannesburg District Committee and the Central Committee of the Communist Party of South Africa (later SACP). In 1943, he helped A. B. Xuma … in September…
Address by his excellency, President Jacob Zuma at the 50th Anniversary of the Mpondo Revolt of 1960, 07 June 2010, Ingquza Hill, Lusikisiki, Eastern Cape
… Hon Minister Sicelo Shiceka; Hon Premier Kiviet; Members of the Provincial Executive present; Mayors of OR Tambo and Ingquza Hill Municipalities; Hon…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 4: Co-operation and conflict on the frontiers of the Cape Colony in the early 19th century
… and the expanding frontier A frontier marks the edge of a known area, but a frontier is not a formal border. A … away from Cape Town, eastwards and…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the Senate and Deputy President, Deputy Presidents, Chief Justice, distinguished members of the National…
Document 141 “Apartheid Spells Disaster”, Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party’s National Conference, Johannesburg,6 to 8 January 1950,2y Freedom, New Series 15 December, 1949
… Drew Document 141 "Apartheid Spells Disaster", Report of the Central Committee of the Communist Party to the Party's National Conference, … the Cape District…
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 … in South Africa, and…
Chief Albert Luthuli and the ‘gospel of service’ by Raymond Suttner (Daily Maverick), 12 March 2014, South Africa
… say that Africans are accepting fast enough the gospel of service and sacrifice for the general and larger good … without relevance to society. I had to do…