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Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… biotechnology, recently artificial intelligence) which in part led to the demise of techno-economically … ‘a workers party’, ‘a focus on workplace…
PlaceMsunduzi River
… the biggest canoeing event on the African Continent , and one of the World’s most popular River Marathons, attracting … victory for Ernie Pearce and Bob…
PlaceWinburg
… Area. Concentration Camp Memorial : Winburg was one of the locations where a concentration camp was … The Church is still in use today and is a significant…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… conference for the SACP, as it takes place at the end of one of the most momentous weeks in the history of our … in order to succeed we will need to unite…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… conference due in December of that year. Whilst one might have expected this latter period to have been one in which interviewees sought to bolster old myths…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
… musicians — all of them black — and were able to record one session together before the country's brutally racist apartheid government forced them into exile…
Isitwalandwe / Seaparankoe the Highest Award of Honour, 1955 - 2014
… struggle. Isithwalandwe, literally translated, means "the one who wears the plumes of the rare bird" and was …
A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition
… - is the symbol of a remarkable negotiated transition, one that turned a country under apartheid into a modern and …
In conclusion
… work for 4 months of the year. They sometimes have only one meal a day. There were no schools, no hospitals, and no …
EventSouth African historian Charles van Onselen is born.
… Gauteng (then Transvaal).[i] van Onselen has become one of the most widely respected South African historians, …
PlaceMaloti-Drakensburg Park
… a period of 4,000 years. These 249,313 hectares make up one of the ten Heritage Sites in Southern Africa - Khomani …
PlaceOld Railway Station Museum, Uitenhage
… of the railway from Port Elizabeth, it is reputed to be one of the oldest Railway Stations in South Africa. At this …
PlaceHector Pieterson Memorial and Museum, Soweto
… Street, Orlando West ( Soweto ). The museum is named after one of the first casualties. But commerates all of those …
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic: Answers to Questions by May 1961
… can take. Apart from mass meetings and processions, one means of making the government and the white people see …
EventThe Biafran War erupts as Nigerian forces invade the Republic of Biafra
… ethnic diversity. It has never truly integrated as one country. It served the British to have the country in …
EventPrime Minister opens SA's first atomic reactor
… purposes only, with the provision of additional energy as one of its chief aims. A secret project was begun by the …
Document 66 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 21 February 1937
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 66 - Letter from …
Document 35 - Letter from John Gomas to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 29 October 1930
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 35 - Letter from …
EventSA Prime Minister sends a goodwill message to the new government of Mozambique
… countries to be used as launching pads for attacks on one another. Mozambique agreed to expel the ANC from their …
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the ‘Colour-bar’
… Port Elizabeth township. The play was about two brothers, one (Fugard) light-skinned and a second brother (Mokae) was …
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
… following day police report that 15 Black protesters and one policeman were killed in the violence, while 31 people …
EventRight wing Wit Kommando bombs academic’s office
… principles, claimed responsibility for the bomb attack. One source states the year as 1979, but gives no specific …
EventPresident Vorster challenges Dr Rhoodie
… be proved that members of his Cabinet had been aware of one specific project, namely the funding of The Citizen, …
EventA Whites-only referendum in SWA gives a support on Black majority.
… South African sponsored forthcoming elections in December. One of the parties, the Democratic Turnhalle Alliance, was a …
EventCruel murder of Dora Bloch
… Dora Bloch, one of the elderly British hostages of hijacked Flight 139 …
EventThe death in police custody of Ahmed Timol, political activist and underground operative, is confirmed
… the thirty year old teacher at the Roodepoort School and one of nineteen Indians in detention, died after he had …
EventThirteen residents of Mofolo die in IFP attack
… police failed to direct that the marchers should travel on one route after the rally. Instead, IFP marchers were allowed …
EventHarms releases his report
… The one-man Harms commission released its report on its …
EventThe Big Three are convicted of treason
… other suspects. Though several were released on bail after one year, the Big Three were kept in Pretoria Central Prison. …
EventThe Pope arrives in Lesotho
… people. Not more than 10 000 out of an expected crowd of one million people came to see and listen to the Pope's …