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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…
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…
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…
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…
EventDr Abrahams to be returned to Bechuanaland
… The South African prime minister, Dr H.F. Verwoerd, announced in a … Protectorate. Dr. Abrahams and three other South West African People's Organisation …
EventSecurity Council examines violence in South Africa
… parties, the Security Council invited the Organisation of African Unity now the African Union, Forty-Eight Member States as well as the African National…
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…
EventGermany invades Poland, starting World War II
… on Germany two days later. On September 4, 1939, the South African parliament refused to accept Hertzog's stance of … the most divisive issues to have…
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…
EventBafana Bafana play 2-2 draw with Cameroon
… into the international fold, the newly formed South African soccer team, Bafana Bafana, came up against one of the African soccer giants, Cameroon, in three…
EventCelebrated nurse, Constance Nothard, is born
… Cape. Nothard rendered outstanding service in the South African Military Service in Western Europe during the First … in France. She received the first Gold…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather … Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu The Changing Nature…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… Party were invited to the Congress of the People in 1955. It is for these qualities that, in your illness and …
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… in the early twentieth century. But who were the South African Wobblies? This article looks at three key figures. … Union, and fought against the oppressive…
”Policy of the Congress Youth League.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in May 1946
… are noticeable on the far-off horizon. A new spirit of African nationalism, or Africanism, is pervading through and stirring the African society. A young…
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew
… Introduction Part One - South African Socialists and the radically-divided working class … 1929 Document 18 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to the South African…
ArchiveAlliance paper: the alliance in the Western Cape
… Assessment on the alliance in the Western Cape between the African National Congress, the South African Communist Party and the Congress of South African…
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…
EventFEDSAW Western Cape Region launched
… The Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) was one of the women’s rights … launched in the Western Cape. Leading women in the South African struggle were…
EventSAP fighting in Zimbabwe
… It was officially disclosed that the South African Police (SAP) were in Rhodesia (later renamed … urging of the Liberation Committee of the Organisation of…
EventNico Basson says that SADF had supplied weapons and covert assistance to IFP in order to weaken the ANC
… a retired army major, Mr. Nico Basson, said that the South African Defence Force (SADF) had supplied weapons (such as … to Inkatha Freedom Party (IFP) in…
EventProposal for a new constitution
… on 27 August 1990 said that negotiations for a new South African constitution should begin in 1991 and be completed within two years. The African National…
EventPresident Mbeki opens the second sitting of PAP
… The South African state president, Thabo Mbeki, opened the second sitting of the Pan African Parliament (PAP) for the first time at its new … March 2004, by…
EventSA government threatens to pull out of the UN peace plan for Namibia
… The South African government threatened to pull out of the United … for Namibia unless action was taken against the South West African People's Organisation …
ArchiveReport of meeting with HM
… Report from H. Makgothi to the African National Congress National Executive Committee on a meeting with Ntatho Motlana, regarding the South African political…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in Jamaica, … Mphahlele, Abraham’s friend and…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Banda, failing which, by Mr. Kenneth Kaunda of the Zambia African National Congress in Northern Rhodesia. Both have … demand the right of self determination…