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Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… of people, as long-distance migration in search of work began; and the huge cultural and material changes in … it never recovered. King Cetshwayo was removed…
PlaceGauteng Province
… taxed, barred from holding skilled jobs and forced to work as migrant labour – hence the emergence of squatter … from an almost menacing image as the former…
Burundi: The ambiguous coup by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 14 May 2015
… Nkurunziza was stuck in Dar es Salaam tweeting up a storm, his former intelligence chief was busy taking over the … Godefroid Niyombare. “President…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
… in my first year at Michaelis School of Fine Art and he, his fourth year in architecture at UCT. We warmed to each other from the start. I was fascinated by…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
… of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year-old Roodepoort teacher and anti-apartheid activist who fell from the 10th Floor of the … was set up specifically to trap him –…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don`t … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… about, let us be united in defeating and destroying the apartheid regime. Some organisations, for example, don't … them that the Freedom Charter poses the…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… 40 years old, he published Native Life in South Africa, his great expose of the ruinous effects of the 1913 Natives’ … was also a proud member of the…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… the Observatory refers to W.J. Hussey and a good friend of his, R.P. Lamont. Hussey and Lamont were University students … in California, where he studied…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… recognition and struggling to find a place in a post-apartheid society. The film festival, in honour of women's … was completed. This was largely due to the…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
… perhaps because the person on whom Daniel Defoe based his famous character – the real Robinson Crusoe – had … from the quayside in Cape Town, and having…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… example of an inspiring transition from the oppression of apartheid to the freedom of democracy. The transition, … to ethnic hatred among Africans; others…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… apparently took an interest in local developments besides his political labour problems, and as these developments have … as we found out soon afterwards. He…
ArticleMafika Pascal Gwala Annual Lecture
… African poet, activist and intellectual whose life and work played a leading role in giving form to the debate about …
ArticleMafika Gwala Third Annual Lecture, 5 October 2017
… African poet, activist and intellectual whose life and work played a leading role in giving form to the debate about …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 82nd Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1994.
… that each and everyone of our people freely exercises his or her hard-won right to elect a government of his or her … national unity will be to begin the…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… a loose alliance of those parties, which had held an anti-apartheid position. It also included some black political … preferring the Chief Justice to convene…
Closing Address of Comrade Nelson R Mandela, Deputy President of the ANC 16 December 1990
… attention a host of weaknesses and even mistakes in our work and made a wealth of suggestions to improve the … of the peace process being derailed. We met De…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… areas. Yet it is striking that Gumede was allowed to voice his protests at numerous political rallies. This phenomenon … on the historical developments and…
PlaceSophiatown
… ). It was bought by Hermann Tobiansky, who named it after his wife; 'Sophia'. Subsequently, the Area became a Whites … in Sophiatown. The National Party (NP)…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… General of the All African Convention (AAC) expresses his view in an article published in The Crisis. He argues … of the separate voters' roll signalled the…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… rights and a value system based on human solidarity; and work with African and global progressive forces to advance … and mass mobilisation to challenge…
Address To The Nation On National Women’s Day, 9 August 1999
… every man respect the dignity of women! Let every man pay his child maintenance! Let every man stop abusing women and … of the health of our nation, that we…
Document 37 - “Communist Election Policy Defined: National Conference Decision”, The Guardian, 8 January 1948
… be done by the Communist Party ling general elections to work for the defeat of the extreme reactionary and … forthcoming elections to council, Conference…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend … a framework for the development of…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
… the white ruling group in South Africa. 2. Segregation and apartheid are fundamentally based on the maintenance of white … Party and hence it embodies that…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… shared. Often they were so intensely involved in their work that they were apart even when they were together. When … had been tortured, exonerated the…
47. The assault on Gandhi
… hospital. Mr. Doke, a clergyman, who did a great deal of work for us during the later stages [of our campaign], … of the assault; he suggested that I should…
Archive"Isikhumbuzo" (Memorial): Self-authored obituary by Petros Sipho Mkhize, dedicated to Getruth Ndlovu, written while awaiting execution, Pretoria Central Prison, circa 1967
… dedicated it "To Getruth Ndlovu." On it he recorded, in his own hand, the key dates of his persecution: his arrest on 14 September 1966, his … awareness of…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book