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EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… vote and to hold public office, they demanded the right to work and an end to discrimination on the job. Since 1917 the … in industrially developing…
EventTryphina Mboxela Jokweni is honoured by the ANC
… April 1987 she was detained and tortured for this by the apartheid police based in Amanzimtoti , south of Durban. …
Archive2015 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 12 February 2015
… State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint … of South Africa as a whole and dealt a fatal blow to apartheid…
The Trust Feed Massacre
… Mitchell was the first senior policeman during the anti-apartheid struggle to be tried and sentenced to death for a … times, which was later commuted to 30…
PlaceBabanango, Kwa-Zulu Natal
… in 1885, for their support of King Dinuzulu who succeeded his father Chief Cetshwayo as King of the Zulu nation in 1884, upon his death. The Town was founded…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… thank the Secretary-General for the selfless and dedicated work he carried out during one of the most challenging … resembles that of the Biblical Cain who,…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… Durban Corporation for better wages 2. Moothen pleads for his wife to be returned 3. Charge of assault against an … 9. In search of better employment 10…
ArchiveThe women's suffrage movement: The politics of gender race and class by Cheryl Walker
… (WEAU), it was the culmination of many years of uphill work. White women had finally won their political majority … the northern provinces throughout the…
ArchiveAddress on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the ANC by Cyril Ramaphosa, Ohlange Institute, Ethkwini, 8 January 2019
… John Langalibalele Dube and all the other great leaders of his generation on the path we have travelled and the great … ago, on the 27th of April 1994,…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… and the majority of the people. It expresses itself in apartheid, a system legalising what the racists would like to … enslavement of the majority of the…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… and the majority of the people. It expresses itself in apartheid, a system legalising what the racists would like to … enslavement of the majority of the…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… the tradition of getting progressive speakers to address his congregation. This tradition persists still today. He was … and others. He spoke out when others…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
… Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was …
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… slaves from the Americas who had fought for British in the American War of Independence were eventually also settled in … that freedom rarely lasts unless a…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… companies, thus exempting companies like Gencor, Anglo-American and BHP Billiton from paying the required amount for … defended these actions saying that he…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… as a pre-eminent academic centre in the sociology of work and, importantly, public sociology more generally. A … contested the political, economic, and…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… supporters of our cause, firm allies against racism, apartheid and war, on whom we can depend regardless of what … concern and involvement in the struggle to…
EventThe National President of the Black People's Convention, Kenneth Hlaku Rachidi, declares that riots have lead to a new era of political consciousness
… with Youth Day, was the result of increasing opposition to apartheid amongst the black youth of South Africa. In particular, students were protesting against…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… people". But to carry out these plans, Vorster needs time. His imperialist supporters also need time to adapt to the … and with a very few exceptions are…
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… There is no security for him; there is no future for his children, and there is no outlet for his energies and … when the Government, sticking fast to its…
ArticleKenyan Timeline
… for about three years. 1832 The Sultan of Oman moves with his court to Zanzibar. He establishes plantations to grow … and export of Ivory and slaves become…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… their land and confined into Native reserves and forced to work in a system that confined them to segregated ghettoes, …
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
… time, mobilised a regional general strike to pressure the apartheid government to accede to students’ demands, among … and was arguably a major turning point…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Eiselen is made Secretary of Native Affairs. 1950-52 Six apartheid laws are passed: the Group Areas Act (1950), the … to Meadowlands. The “Defiance Campaign”…
Address to the Joint Sitting of the National Assembly and the National Council on the New Partnership for Africa’s Development, 31 October 2001
… past of slavery, colonialism, neo-colonialism, racism and apartheid, has succeeded to create a new world of peace, … Facilitator of the Burundi Peace Process…
Banishment
… policeman, if he couldn't get me some old curtains from his wife. He said, 'Oh no! My wife has no curtains!' I said, … took me there, he said to me that I'd…
PlaceVredehoek
… – were designed by Kenneth Duncan and completed by his firm in 1969. The cylindrical design of the trio acts as … of Rhodes Memorial . They view the towers…
PlaceThe Owl House
… of the house is said to have been completed before work on the outer area began. She made use of found articles … Fugard who was inspired to write The Road…
PlaceFlagstaff
… In 1877 Zachariah Bowles and his partner, a Mr Owen, established a trading store on the … tend to migrate to other Areas in search of education and work,…
Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… showed - were those trained by the Party. Solly and his aides were never really good interracialists. Trade … will not necessarily evaporate. Nevertheless,…