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The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter Two For many the 1940's have been…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson In the more liberal climate of Cape Town Johnny Gomas seemed…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been focussed on those…
To Change the World ! Is Reason Enough ?, London, August, 1995
Ron Press, This is Ron Press' story of his part in the struggle against apartheid. Forced into exile in the early 'sixties, Ron Press contributed to the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
9 July, The Executive of the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young Committee. Albert…
Constitution of the African National Congress (South Africa), January 1958
1. NAME: The name of the organisation shall be the African National Congress hereinafter referred to as the "Congress". 2. AIMS AND OBJECTS: The aims and…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Sunday, August 29 Things are hotting up again. We haven't seen much happening here…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge of social…
PlaceKenya
Kenya is a country in East Africa with a population of 44 million people and the largest economy of the region. The early inhabitants were mostly migrants from…
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency, Dr Boutrous Boutrous Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, …
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
Esmé was as active as I was and we enjoyed working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919 1 We are meeting for the first time for a…
Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of nonviolence. And [then] this idea of the armed struggle was considered by Mandela…
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can…
The Detention Weapon
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers and students of repression around…
Archive2002 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 8 February 2002
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, TO THE JOINT SITTING OF THE HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT, Cape Town, 8 February 2002 …
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cheryl WalkerQuestion: Do you favour votes for all women, irrespective of colourAnswer: As…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement, he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
Introduction Lückhoff High School was established in 1935, as the first secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm workers, chafing under poor wages and working…
The diary of Maria Tholo - December 2 - 15 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Sunday, December 5 Things have exploded in Nyanga. Isaac arrived here early this…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
No equality under the Union Jack, 1900-1910 Gumede’s hopes that the British victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
ArticleSita’s story
My Childhood at Phoenix Settlement I was born on 19th of October 1928 on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days…
Address at Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, 11 December 2001
Vice-Minister of Education, Madame Wei Yu, President of the University, Professor Wang Dazhong, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen: First of all, let…
ArchiveAmos 'Amla' Monageng interview by Kyla Jade Mc Nulty, The University of Pretoria, 2 May 2016
Interviewer- I Amla – A I: Okay so the first five questions are for research purposes. It’s just background information about yourself. So it’s how do you…
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…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
Contents Chapter 1: Theoretical Debates and Methodological Controversies Chapter 2: Questions Method Chapter 3: The Constitution of Black as ‘Other’ …