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A Brief Commentary on the Question of HIV and AIDS by Thabo Mbeki, 7 March 2016
Towards the end of 2015 I sent the communication below to a fellow African to respond to some comments he had made on the matter of ‘Mbeki, HIV & AIDS’. We…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
Sibongile ‘Promise’ Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually abused by the then…
ArchiveChimamanda Ngozi Adichie: A Reformist-Feminist by Charles Nwosu
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie is a stern, resilient, and unapologetic reformist-feminist. With her feminist approach, she is poised to break down gender-based…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
Master of Ceremonies, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk about the South African economy to this important…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and usher in a new process of negotiation towards…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Exiles who sought political asylum from the…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
Luthuli was elected President of the ANC (Natal branch) in 1951 and this speech was delivered at the Bantu Social Centre in Durban in November of that year. It…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
Introduction Following British victory in the South African War, the Union of South Africa was forged in 1910 under the British Commonwealth. The Union…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY PROJECT "VOICES OF RESISTANCE” INTERVIEWEE SUNNY SINGH INTERVIEWER C DE VOS DATE 28…
Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, “A Critique of Mr. W. P. van Schoor’s.The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa” Discussion, 1, 3, June 1951
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 52 - LA. Jordaan, "A Critique of Mr. W. P. van…
Chapter 13
Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the…
ArticleKey sites
Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
1806 Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge. 1852 Gold…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by abolitionists like Granville Scott and William Wilberforce,[i] for the…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 12) A Charge of Treason When detectives invaded the Congress of the People on 26…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
I was very pleased to receive the invitation to make statement to the Special Committee against Apartheid on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the …
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in…
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
[NOTE: In this statement at a meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid on June 25, 1982, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the …
Chapter XV - House arrest
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was …
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
pp. 41 – 49. If the breadwinner was imprisoned I would organise help as much as I could, and all the time I knew it was the right thing to do, just as using…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
Contents Introduction PART I) PLANNING APARTHEID Dutch Reformed roots in South Africa How are colonial histories of planning transnational? Apartheid as…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
PlaceZimbabwe
The earliest settlement of the area now known as Zimbabwe goes back about 100 000 Years. Bambandyanalo is an Archaeological site in present-day Zimbabwe, just…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
THE STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH AFRICA, THABO MBEKI, AT THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY CHAMBER, Cape Town, 9 February 2001 Madame Speaker…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme …
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President Paul…