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EventThe Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, Johannesburg, the apartheid government banned all the organisations under the … People's Organisation (AZAPO) was…
ArticlePrevention/Treatment
… Government dealing with the aids epidemic? In 1987, the apartheid government recognized that HIV and AIDS had the … Nelson Mandela acknowledged after leaving…
PlaceMandela Capture Site, Howick in Kwa Zulu Natal
… the whole: of solidarity. Mandela's incarceration cemented his status as an icon of the struggle, which in turn helped ferment the groundswell of resistance!…
Address by Deputy President Kgalema Motlanthe to the 25th Anniversary celebration of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU), 1 December 2010
… the following in relation to labour matters: All who work shall be free to form trade unions, to elect their … The state shall recognise the right and duty…
ArchiveReminiscences of the Arrest of Fikile Bam & Marcus Solomon in 1963 by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… Magerman Arthur Magerman was brought up in Alexandra by his single mother, a fiercely independent Zulu woman. She saw … in the aftermath of the 1960…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… came from Ramotswa in Bechuanaland2, to Kimberley to find work on the mines. It was there that he met my mother, Sarah … children. When the children were…
PlaceAlabama, Klerksdorp
… Cherbourg outside the Port of Cherbourg, France. It had an American captain and British crew and they arrived at …
ArticleHow to undertake research?
… play in the liberation struggle in South Africa? How did apartheid shape urban development in Johannesburg? 2. Find … credit to the sources you use…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… II celebrated a papal mass in South Africa as he began his six day tour of Africa. His visit to the country came seven years after the cleric angered the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… who fell in that titanic battle against the forces of apartheid repression. And so the repression we experience … part of the country, uniting all our people…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… who fell in that titanic battle against the forces of apartheid repression. And so the repression we experience … part of the country, uniting all our…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… We are honoured that Mikhail Gorbachev could find time in his busy schedule to receive us and wish to thank him most … are dying daily because of a desperate…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
… have as the ANC placed emphasis on the need for practical work and effective implementation within the next twelve … that South Africans are worse off now…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… not always clearly articulated notions of motherhood. In his study of the making of the British working class, E, P. … the negative images mentioned above…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
… can be a purely national development of capitalism. Anglo American, Liberty Life, Sanlam, Rembrandt and Old Mutual … implies a capitalist state. This is…
EventMedical Association agrees to investigate Biko’s death
… outcry against the official explanation of the cause of his death on 12 September 1977. The SAMDC conducted an … security legislation, accused MASA of having…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… was born on 17 November 1903. After studying for his doctoral degree at the University of Leyden in Germany, … President of the South Africa, a position he…
Address by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, to the Ruth First tenth anniversary commemoration trust Cape Town, 17 August 1992
… had last seen him when, during 1948, I spent a few days in his home. Similarly, I could see Comrade Braganza talking … of the systematic elimination of…
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… focussed on making a distinction between TUCSA and the work that the Bolton Hall unions were doing. Harriet moved … TUCSA publicly disassociated itself from…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
… from the scourge of poverty. The theme that informs the work of this conference, 'fighting corruption and … poor, nasty, brutish, and short." Specifically,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… Casualties of Sharpeville Police shot dead 69 unarmed anti-apartheid protesters in the African township of Sharpeville … Peace Prize. Luthuli had been…
PlaceAlbaster Klip, Northern Cape
… probably after reading this diary of Trechardt and his Forefathers! The diary covers the period from the end of July 1836, when Trechardt and his group of…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… effort to rename places that had names with a colonial or apartheid legacy. Port Elizabeth is the largest City in the … David. A grief-stricken Rufane left…
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… is able to support her husband financially by rejecting his idea of having her work on their farm and instead becoming a woman of trade. Her … Nwapa’s…
Iliso Labantu Photo Group
… since 2005. The group has recently been invited to exhibit work at three major arts festivals in Germany and as part of …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
… and 21 December 1991, established five working groups to work out the details of agreements on the above agenda items. … were killed only because they were…
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… settlement. In 1876, Belgium’s King Leopold II announced his intent to fund an exploration of the Congo region, and in … to take part in an international…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… the economic forces and the backward political theory of apartheid. The Master Race philosophy, far from proving … As landed aristocrats, the Afrikaners had…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
… the Truth by M.S. Qwesha Interview: David Hlongwane: His Life and Art. Robert Siwanqaza. Essays: Censorship and … Present by Wole Soyinka; Popular Music and…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary
… with its varied resources, that the missionary finds his place. Looking at the picture as a whole, we see how the … to achieve its aims. While it is…