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Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the House of Assembly in…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
“The ‘baasskap’ cookie must crumble” Mafika Pascal Gwala and the quest for a humane society If Mafika Pascal Gwala, the combative, quiet, loud, tender,…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, from the south east and…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work by historian Shula Marks about Allison…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
This is the obituary of Hermanus Loots, better known by his nom de guerre, James Stewart, who exposed the atrocities in the ANC’s Quatro prison camp. Martin …
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew In submitting the following points for the…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that reason I will give a very brief review of…
Robert Sobukwe Speech at the University of Fort Hare as President of the Students’ Representative Council, 21 October 1949
Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that reason I will give a very brief review of our…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
RP: Good morning. This morning we are interviewing Dr Vanitha Chetty, and we bid you welcome. VC: Thank you. RP: She is the daughter…
PlacePrieska
Prieska is a very small Town that is perched along the Orange River in the Northern Cape. It is 240 kilometres south of Kimberley and its famous Big Hole…
PlaceUgie, Eastern Cape
Ugie is a Town in the Joe Gqabi District Municipality, in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa. Ugie is situated at the Southern foot of the Drakensberg,…
PlaceTsolo, Eastern Cape
(prior to 1910) St Augustine's was established in 1865 by the Reverend Bransby Key as a station of the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel on Foreign…
PlaceGreyville Racecourse and Convention Centre, Durban
The History of Greyville dates as far back as 1844, when it hosted the Province’s first official Horse Racing Event. The Track has had the honour of welcoming…
PlaceHarrismith, Free State
The town of Harrismith is situated in the Thabo Mofutsanyana region of the Free State Province, South Africa. Harrismith is a small, charming country Town…
PlaceBredasdorp, Overberg
Located on the Northern edge of the Agulhas Plain, about 160 kilometres South-East of Cape Town and 35 kilometres, North of Cape Agulhas. The Town was named…
PlaceClarendon Circle, Johannesburg
Clarendon Circle was a Landmark Intersection, of the North East Route into Johannesburg. It was a Circle of note Located where East Avenue crossed Empire,…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, down to our daily lives. The delegates…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas 23 August 2008 Fatima Meer's career at Natal University spanned…
PlaceSaldanha Bay
Saldanha is a seaside village that lies in the Northern most corner of Saldanha bay - the largest and deepest natural bay in the Country. The Saldanha…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
1940 Dr. A.B. Xuma is elected President-General of the African National Congress (ANC). Walter Sisulu joins the African National Congress. The population…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
One pound a day for the factory worker who today cannot buy what he makes. One pound a day for the miner who earns his phthisis and goes home broken and to die…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggle of Women in South Africa and Namibia, 11 August 1981
Mrs. Gertrude Shope On behalf of the Women's Section of the African National Congress and in the name of the entire oppressed and struggling people of South…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists had built, if not…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
From the book: A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin One of the immediate effects of the split over Sir Raza Ali's…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the AU-African Diaspora Ministerial Conference Gallagher Estate, Friday 16 November 2007
Director of Ceremonies, Your Excellency, Chairperson of the AU Commission, Prof. Alpha Oumar Konare, Your Excellencies Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Your…
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
During my incarceration in the same single-cell block in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison with Nelson Rohihlala Mandela between 1977 to 1982 I got to know…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…
PlaceThe Space
In 1970 Brian Astbury, a Professional Photographer, was hired to take rehearsal photos of Athol Fugard, Yvonne Bryceland, Val Donal and Wilson Dunster who were…