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The melody of freedom
… of apartheid. Fear of revolutionary songs, fear of South African jazz, fear of mbaqanga, fear of guma, fear of all those kinds of non-biased and authentic…
ArticleTowards a people’s culture - Art and Resistance under Apartheid
… or Resistance Art? Peter Magubane / The Drum Archive / african.pictures Sharpeville Massacre 1960. Two … of references to other works of art like Dumile Feni…
ArticleTimeline of the Marikana Massacre 2012 - 2013
… The build-up to the killing of 34 mineworkers by the South African Police was marked by incidents of intimidation and … in the Rustenburg area, North West…
ArticlePopular resistance and police brutality in democratic South Africa
… Marikana protest by mine workers. On 16 August 2012, South African Police Service (SAPS) officers shot and killed at … killing of Andries Tatane, a 33 year…
ArticlePoverty and development
… Department of Labour is still sometimes ignored. The South African Human Rights Commission (SAHRC), the Commission on Gender Equality (CGE) and the South…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan is born
… Africa in 1944, he was appointed to the Department of African Languages at Fort Hare. In 1946 he accepted a post as lecturer in the School of African Studies…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
… remaining colonial, racist and apartheid power, the South African regime, which must be dislodged from Namibia and … all anti-imperialists. Q : How would you…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed to New Times, Moscow, January 1980
… remaining colonial, racist and apartheid power, the South African regime, which must be dislodged from Namibia and … all anti-imperialists. Q : How would…
EventRobert McBride is arrested in Mozambique
… McBride, at the time a high-ranking official in the South African Department of Foreign Affairs, was arrested by the … McBride's arrest fuelled suspicions…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… On 8 January 2012, the African National Congress (ANC) celebrated a centenary … 8 January 1912 when it was found in Bloemfontein as South African Native…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Bibliography
… by The Department of Education Bonner, Philip. African Urbanisation on the Rand between the 1930s and 1960s: … Bundy, Colin. Remaking the Past: New…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
… with Africans. In 1943, a conference of the South African Indian Congress resolved to explore ways of achieving co-operation with the African National…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… of cultural practices that are being used by Southern African hunter-gatherers. Examples are the making of ostrich … Khoi and San off their land. Because of…
EventSouth Africa and Mozambique sign a non-aggression pact
… would not allow the liberation movements such as the African National Congress (ANC) and Pan African Congress (PAC) to establish bases in Mozambique or to ……
EventSADF responds to allegations by FAPLA
… he declared that his forces had killed over 230 South African troops in the course of the offensive and had destroyed large numbers of vehicles, the South…
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South African Students and the National Union of South African Students. Presented at the 62nd Annual…
EventGhanaian President Kwame Nkrumah calls on world leaders to impose “total economic and political sanctions” on South Africa
… Nkrumah was one of the founders of the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) and its first president. On 22 March … on South Africa because of its Apartheid…
Claremont Histories
… photographic exhibition stand in conjunction with South African History Online at the 2015 Harfield Village Carnival. … Celebrate history with Claremont…
EventThe MK and ZIPRA formally announce that they had formed a military alliance
… Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK), the military wing of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Zimbabwean People’s … Revolutionary Army (ZIPRA), military wing of…
’Appeal for action to stop repression and Trials in South Africa’, Statement at the meeting of the Special Political Committee of the General Assembly, New York, 8 October 1963
… which the United Nations is making to induce the South African Government to abolish and abandon policies which are … my own behalf, but also on behalf of my…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the European Parliament, Strasbourg: 17 November 2004
… own country in 1847. "How strange that Europe's one-time African colonies have made such a request even if it could … occupation of Liberia by once-hated…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
… many ways. Everyone has for example heard talk of a South African nation, a Zulu nation, and African nation. In each case something different must be meant,…
EventEthiopia requests OAU to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden Province
… Ethiopia requested the Organisation of African Unity (OAU), predecessor of the African Union to stop Somali intervention in the Ogaden … without any…
EventNelson Mandela is acquitted of high treason
… Nelson Mandela, leader of the Transvaal branch of the African National Congress (ANC), was acquitted of treason … 23 Whites, 21 Indians and 8 Coloureds, of…
EventCOSATU intensifies campaign against apartheid
… Africa's largest labour federation, the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), held its third annual congress … Campaign. The mood was defiant and…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… The Act was transgressed not only by independent African farmers and sharecroppers but also by landowners. … enterprise was labour intensive at this stage…
Nelspruit the Segregated city
… segregation has a history that reaches far back into South African history. According to AJ Christopher, “ formal urban … a permanent presence. After the…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… of the first Coloured political organisation, the African People’s Organization (APO) in 1902 in Cape Town. In … in the advancement of Coloured education…
ANC to convene Provincial Memorial Services in honour of Madiba, 8 December 2013
… The African National Congress, South Africans and the world at … and Reflection today. From tomorrow, 9 December 2013, the African National Congress shall…
Joint Statement by Chief Albert Lutuli, Dr. G.M. Naicker and Peter Brown appealing to the British People to Boycott South Africa, 5 December 1959
… internal pressures to be able to influence the South African Government. They look for assistance abroad and … year it is proposed to conduct a limited…