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Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe … ”” they were the years for which he is chiefly remembered. From the first time when he came…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… African society. Slavery at the Cape differed in style from most other systems of enslavement involving Europeans … labour, the Cape was the recipient of…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
… extent where it can displace The Spear [Umkhonto] or Poqo from their positions as being the revolutionary arms of the … London there seems to be no such…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the riots at Soweto and other places in South Africa held on 17 January 1977, Volume 83
… Excerpts from the transcript of evidence from Abednego Bartholomew Clement Xaba, Chairman of the …
ArchiveBlack women
… Notice of a conference on women's struggle in South Africa from 6th to the 18th January 1990 at the bottom. Quote from Phyllis Jordan. The song Malibongwe is…
ArchiveMessage of goodwill and solidarity
… Message of goodwill and solidarity from His Excellency Dr Kenneth David Kaunda, President of the Republic of Zambia from the chairman of the preparatory…
Archive”Presidential Address” by Dr. A. B. Xuma
… only through unity and concerted action of all leaders from our various races and classes may we hope to achieve our … Conference. It calls for the greatest…
Challenges of Leadership in the Current Phase, 1 July 1997
… healthy and comradely competition, so that we emerge from this process united, with a leadership suited to the … contests which divide the movement and…
ArchiveLegislation and race relations: a summary of the main South African laws which affect race relations
… main South African laws which affect race relations. Acts from 1909 to 1948 include among others those relating to … areas, the African Reserves, housing and…
EventGambia becomes a republic
… countries in West Africa. It gained its independence from Britain on 18 February 1965. On 24 April 1970 Gambia … 2013 Gambian President Yahya Jammeh withdrew…
ArchiveCorrespondence between Jack Simons and Cape Town Chief Magistrate
… Letter from Jack Simons to the Chief Magistrate of Cape Town … and to communicate with his sister-in-law. Return letter from the Chief Magistrate to Jack…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
… have been found in a bank vault in Sweden, 14,000 of them from Coles South African years and a startling 46,000 from the photographer's unhappy exile mainly…
The Wankie Campaign
… There was no friction whatsoever within this unit. . . . From the very beginning we began to notice that we were not … the terrain across the river. For…
Increase Assistance to Liberation Movements - Statement at the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa by O. R. Tambo, Oslo, 11 April 1973
… and security. Only ten days ago, this same statement came from the Secretary for Justice of the United States (2) , who … the facts that the liberation…
Document 109 - G. H. Gool and J. A. La Guma, “Appeal of the National Liberation League for a National Convention of the Subject Peoples of South Africa”, The Liberator, September 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … in exchange for the assurance that the dividends from investment in mine and workshop would be…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… secret ballot; and on the 14th November I walked straight from the University into the offices of the union, with the … of higher-paid workers in the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and … watershed separating the inertia and decline of the 1930s from the populism and mass politics…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… and Historical Town just 35 km outside Cape Town. From the Toy and Navy Museums to the eateries and shops. … Century and a half. A pair of stone storehouses…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … of 14 July 1884 was submitted by ‘traders and storekeepers from Mauritius and other colonies’. The…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 … likewise in time came into the churches in large numbers. From 1850 the Methods were at work in…
PlaceGordonia Division
… borders on South-West Africa and Botswana. It is crossed from east to westby the Orange River, whose banks and islands … are farmed under irrigation along…
EventHumphrey Khoza, former chief executive officer of Uthingo Management (Pty) Ltd and director of several other companies, is born in Germiston
… professes that he inherited his entrepreneurial skills from his mother, who was the sole breadwinner in his family. … a Germiston resident. While Germiston…
EventCongress of the People starts in Kliptown
… The proposition for this form of gathering came from Prof. Z.K Matthews at the African National Congress … convention was attended by approximately 3,000…
EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… on the 9th September 2006 in Cape Town at the age of 91 from an aneurysm. In 1932 Bernstein and her mother immigrated to South Africa from England. She…
EventA plan designed to fight Italian forces, Operation ‘Agreement’ is executed in Libya
… installations, shipping and also to stop Italian forces from reaching Tobruk and Benghazi. The operation was mounted … A., 2011. ‘This Day in African History…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of … was born in Lemnos, Greece in 1953. After…
ArchiveStatement made by Senator O P F Horwood in Senate on June 4, 1971
… university subsidies should be cut. There are responses from several University Principals either criticising or supporting this statement, as well as from…
EventMandela is moved to Victor Verster prison
… African National Congress (ANC) leader Nelson Mandela from the Constantiaberg private clinic in Cape Town, where he had been recovering from tuberculosis, to…
EventThe Internal Security Act is passed
… confinement to a particular district, prohibition from attending any kind of meeting and prevention from being quoted. It also provided for house arrest. … O…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… nice and pretty phrases are used to justify this diversion from the democratic road. The one that comes to my mind is … this civilization is indebted to…