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The Anti - Pass Campaign
The ‘special branch’
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner We had to work very hard to "Be successful with our campaigns and our organizing…
The start of mass campaigns
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1948, the same year that I joined the ANC and the trade union the…
Don’t eat potatoes!
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner I have already spoken about the boys on the potato farms at Bethel, how they…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner Factory work After my children were born I started working again, but now I…
The ANC and the Women’s League
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner One day when I got up to go to work it was very cold, and it was raining outside…
’Asinamali’
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner In 1957 a message came through from SACTU that we must organize this campaign…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Abbreviations by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner AFCWU”” African Food and Canning Workers' Union ANC”” African National Congress…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - What is industrialisation? by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaDuring the course of the last century, industrialisation has affected the lives of everybody living in…
The Gold Rush
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaThis feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people…
Lawrence Stephen Lowry
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaLife in Southern Africa changed greatly because of the discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886). As with…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaBetween 1921 and 1936, the number of Africans in the cities increased from about half a million to over one…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaAn industrial revolution was affecting the lives of everybody living in Southern Africa. By the 1920s, one or…
Glossary
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaUp to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaA change so unexpected and a development never known before were due to the discovery in 1886 of the greatest…
The old photographs
ArchiveConclusion
Chapter 7
The Clarion Call-A Call to Unity "From the people comes the call to the Convention, a call for a lead. The Executive Committee of the All African Convention at…
Chapter 13
Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the…
Chapter 1
Chapter 8
December Conference- 1943 When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th and 17th December, 1943, the pivotal point round…
Chapter 11
African National Congress Now it is not so difficult to recognise the first two obstacles to progress because the link between them and the government is…
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 2
Forunners We have already said that the All African Convention should be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In…
Chapter 12
Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change their tune again. The…
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…