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ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… constituted. Joins the African National Congress . 1945 Chief Luthuli is elected to the Executive Committee of …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… movements that spread around the Witwatersrand in 1944 and 1945 and the African Mineworkers strike of 1946 were still …
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
… the case was taken to the Supreme Court and on 15 August 1945 the NIC was ordered to hold elections before 30 September 1945. 30 Finally elections were…
Chapter 10
… was acutely conscious of this necessity. That is why, in 1945, it decided to bring out from time to time a newsletter, … Act, with all its segregatory…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
… people. Dimes urged its members to attend the NIC AGM in 1945 through its Monthly Bulletin. August, Dr Goonam and 12 … Moonsamy joins the Communist Party of…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
Programme Director, Esteemed Members of the Luthuli Museum Council, Comrades, ladies and gentlemen: First of all, I thank the Council of the Luthuli…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
Beyers Naudé former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
Teachers and learners should note that there are many links on this site which deal with the depth and breadth of the Black Consciousness Movement in South…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
Contents Discovering Seme - Tim Couzens The Early Years - Richard Rive The Mount Hermon School File Product of Moody School How Congress Began - …
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… of France (Voices From the Continent, 35). From then until 1945, the French maintained a somewhat peaceful but forceful … Resistance had been brewing for…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… similar to the one held in Bloemfontein in August, 1945, should be called immediately and the best methods of …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
… minor stomach complaint, and for the removal of tonsils in 1945. I've never been to Groote Schuur Hospital at all and …
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… of African Nationalism," llanga Use Natal, 24 February 1945. (a) The Philosophical Basis: This can be stated by … 16. A. M. LEMBEDE, "Know Thyself," Bantu…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… of the African National Congress Youth League in 1945, Youth politics took place without a national body to …
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… period. The Second World War began in 1939 and ended in 1945 destroying European economies for the second time. Once …
68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… leadership of the Natal Indian took over in October 1945. The Indian people of Natal had decided to give the new …
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison diary that he kept…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education The first ten years of South Africa’s democracy…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 93th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2005
Umtata, 8 January 2005 Compatriots and comrades, On the occasion of the 93rd anniversary of the African National Congress, January 8th 2005, we extend…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… Makabeni as President and Dan Tloome as Vice-president. By 1945 CNETU claimed 119 member unions nationally with a … CNETU won real wage increases for workers…
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… W.E.B. Du Bois, and Ras Makonnen, he helped organize the 1945 Manchester pan-Africanist Congress. As director of …
Africans’Claims in South Africa,
PREFACE In the following pages the reader will find what has been termed "Bill of Rights" and "The Atlantic Charter from the African's Point of View." This…