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ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… Albert Luthuli, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of his receipt of the Nobel Peace Prize. I say this because I … raised go far beyond them. He brings…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… to plead to the Indian Government to send its citizens to work in their cane fields. After protracted negotiations … considers it reasonable that the…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… around this issue. Evolutionary theory Charles Darwin. His theory of evolution describes how we developed to become … more about archaeology. You can read…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
… other neighbouring countries left their families behind to work as contract labourers in the mines. The migrant labour … African workers. African migrant…
EventThe Natal Indian Congress is formally revived
… of inactivity due to the harassment of its leaders by the apartheid government. It was formed in 1894 by Mahatma Gandhi … Gandhi). Ramgobin had a long…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development … contribution was…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at a Luncheon hosted by Prime Minister Tomichi Murayama Tokyo, 5 July 1995
… Japan gave to us in the struggle to free ourselves from apartheid is remembered with gratitude by our people. Our … when South Africa has become a democracy…
PlaceKwaMashu
… townships that emerged with the implementation of the Apartheid Group Areas Act during the 1950s. The Group Areas Act was a system used by the Apartheid…
PlaceDriefontein, Mpumalanga
… a white policeman, Constable Johannes Nienaber. The anti-apartheid activist and land rights campaigner was addressing … school in the then Eastern Transvaal …
The strangulation of activity
… ban, renewed annually, on all indoor gatherings at which work stoppages, stayaways or educational boycotts are … e.g. World Conference on Religion and Peace,…
PlaceMontagu Pass
… John Montagu , and planned by engineer Charles Michell, work began in 1844 with H.O. Farrell as superintendent. In … is renowned in the Town of Blanco and…
EventSASOL plant under attack
… to a standstill and make it burn for days, because of his knowledge of the plant. Patrick went to Angola to train … in explosives, and came back to Maputo to…
Beyers Naudé: former General-Secretary of the South African Council of Churches and before that Director of the Christian Institute interview with Rupert Taylor, 4 February 2000, Northcliff, Johannesburg
… the main aim of the project is to look at a range of anti-apartheid NGOs, particularly those that have focussed on … (Mandela) had been playing, and the…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
… athletic, bow-legged Major John Harding, who walked us to his prison. Harding, a Frederik van Zyl Slabbert look- alike, … like to study in prison and whether…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 December 1977. According to the apartheid … encountered Dingane. Nervous about white…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… of a life’s obsession for the soon-to-be 84-year-old. And his open-ended visual essay about the things humans put up in … and the obligation of an artist to…
Address at the Meeting of Nigerian and South African Business 2 October 2000
… as well as to our respective regions and continent. In his recent epic poem "Mental Flight", Ben Okri writes the … This new Africa will emerge out of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
… justice for all. Let there be peace for all. Let there be work, bread, water and salt for all. Let each know that for … since Chief Autshumato was imprisoned…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… of the proposed Arabic chair, Dr Daud Mall and his wife, Sakina [Bibi Mall] flew to Cannes, France, to seek … based organisations in the Transvaal to get…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… The Group Areas Act is designed to intensify the policy of Apartheid to which the Nationalist Government is wedded. It … people and is designed to frustrate…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… for the Liberation Struggle Nelson Mandela, delivering his presidential address to the ANC Youth League in December … or limit the possibilities of mass…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… sociologist a cycle of isolation and discrimination as the Apartheid state tightened its grip on everything; a cycle of … she was about to be retired. She…
PlaceBonteheuwel
… and whites distinct residential zones, the beginning of Apartheid! This act established the distinct areas of South Africa in which members of each race…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… political activist at the time, recalls the views of his political circle: [B]y 1977, it was becoming quite clear … this lustre openly it hid much political…
PlaceWoutersen Vault, Wessels Road, Green Point.
… It was erected in 1827 by the widow of Peter Woutersen. His granddaughter married, Jacobus Christoffel Wessels, whose … interesting and there is reason to…
EventNongqawuse’s unfulfilled prophecy
… would sweep all White people into the sea. Sarhili ordered his subordinate chiefs to obey the injunctions. The first … 30,000 streamed across the border in…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… which South African Indians can be relocated, begins its work. 22 August, Albert Christopher, Manilal Gandhi, S.L. … Maharaj Singh, the Indian Agent in South…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… living in their homes. If their children could not find work or keep their jobs, the lodger's fee meant that they had … ' Oubaas ' Weeks was an overbearing…
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… state president in South Africa from 1948 to the end of Apartheid in 1994 was a member of the Afrikaner Broederbond . … power and were opposed to a further…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… African Bolshevik-Leninists in this great and responsible work to which they have set themselves. The South African … lie of being above the class struggle…