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ArchiveANC Statement on the death of Ray Alexander Simons, African National Congress, 12 September 2004
… Alexander Simons was involved in the liberation struggle from an early age, and remained committed throughout her life to the liberation of the South African…
PlaceStutterheim, Amatola- Eastern Cape
… Africa. This picturesque town is situated about 70 km from East London on the N6 Highway to the north. Stutterheim … has a rich history that makes for…
Tribute at the funeral service of Walter Sisulu by Nelson Mandela (News 24), 25 January 2011
… our last respects to the fallen spears of the nation from a generation now reaching the end of a long and heroic struggle. Those of us from that generation,…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… or Laurens, Geldenhuys was a farmer who had trekked from Swellendam, and from the 1870s was showing a lively interest in gold … farms on the Witwatersrand…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… military authorities imported a large number of horses from Argentina. Unfortunately their fodder was infested with … a settlement of mostly tin shanties…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… College invites you to the 5th Jozi Book Fair taking place from 25-26 October 2013 at Museum Africa in Newtown, … author and human rights activists, Walter…
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…
PlaceWinthrop Building, 8 Durban Road, Wynberg
… The U-plan structure with a thatched hip Roof dates from 1830 and is one of the oldest Houses in the Historical … Mess but came into the possession of the…
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…
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…
Commission 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 …
Black 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…
Message 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…
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…
Legislation 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…
Correspondence 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…
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…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 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…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
… demands that matters like this are understood not from the narrow perspective of party political interest. … 8 people died on that day, the majority of them…