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ArchivePrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to Zondi, Soweto, addressed to Miss Jumaima Mbele
… 1967 (written from Pretoria Central Prison during his imprisonment; the letter carries no legible date, so this is the period bracketed by his sentencing and…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
… between the organisations. Each leader was to bring his followers to this body and he together with leaders of … spirit of co-operation. The leader who…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… fullest confidence in Mr. Sachs and deepest gratitude for his services to garment and other workers in the past … visited me. My four-year-old son, Andrew,…
PlaceValley of a Thousand Hills
… area is one of intense bloodshed and warfare. Shaka made his mark here when he became king of the Zulu people in 1816 and started out on his path of conquest…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
… Bunting received a lesser hourly punishment later on in his sentence, a 12-hour house arrest for his communist involvement, yet his detainment longitudinally…
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…
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
… many disgruntled ANC members followed Julius Malema and his friends into the new party. Although the ANC officials … system will bring back members is…
Address at the South African Millenium Trust Launch, Kyalami 19 November 1998
… passing century - will have to be answered. The poet makes his own his stern judgement on a dying century and a passing … the sergeants with their insignia…
29. Removal to locations: the people are terrified
… in accordance with the sanitary regulations, and that his presence in town is in no way a danger to the community … with reference to this notice has already…
PlaceNewcastle
… Mines; She and Jess. Rider Haggard is said to be based on his time at Hilldrop House; and O'Neil's Cottage , which was … in Natal with tragic consequences…
PlaceBotshabelo Mission Station, near Middleburg
… Reserve. Initially Merensky built a Home for himself and his followers. The refugees fleeing from Chief Sekukhuni, of Swaziland under the leadership of one…
PlaceRorke's Drift, KZN
… . He became a popular figure. colonists would buy from his stores or take a drink in his simple café. With the Zulus he would trade blankets, … rifle,…
EventThembisile Chris Hani is killed
… had close links to the White nationalist AWB. With him was his daughter, Nomakhwezi, then 15 years old. His wife, Limpho, and two other daughters, Neo (then…
EventEthiopia's capital, Addis Ababa, is captured by EPRDF rebels
… a successful rebel war against the forces of Mengistu and his appointment marked the end of years of civil war in the … government, Zenawi promised a…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
… Jabavu A great lover of the Bantu was once asked what, in his opinion, were the three greatest needs of the South … fact it is now inevitable because the…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… fighting units but to harass the enemy politically so that his forces are dispersed and therefore weakened. This calls … ourselves and of our own forces but…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… was so overwhelming. He lacked transport, houses and food. His daily struggle to exist in the squalor of the wartime locations exhausted him, and his…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… of Communism Act be strengthened by introducing the death penalty for "Communists". Throughout the 1950s … organisation of private gangs of storm-troopers or…
PlaceMhlathuze River
… thinking that he can surprise Shaka, and hastily sends off his much greater army to fight the Zulu. In one mighty … and Mzilikazi (Zwide’s grandson) and…
EventPat Boone, American singer, actor and writer, begins a 10-day tour of South Africa
… turning down a role if he felt that it would compromise his religious beliefs. In 1961, Boone came to South Africa … By the 1970’s he was singing Gospel…
EventControversial 'Black Jesus' painter, Ronald Harrison, dies
… of cancer on 28 June 2011, just before he was to exhibit his latest work. Black Christ remains his most famous work. The painting is now housed at the South …
EventRichard Maponya, one of South Africa's richest businessmen, is born
… first by opening small grocery shops in Soweto with his wife. He then went on to bigger ventures such as setting … motor dealerships, a BMW franchise and…
EventWomen's Memorial is unveiled in Bloemfontein
… to ill health. The speech was read out to the public by his aide. In his speech Steyn emphasised that the memorial has not been …
Freedom for Namibia by Toivo Herman Ja Toivo (1968)
… to be formally educated to know that he wants to live with his family where he wants to live, and not where an official … earn a decent wage; to be free to…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… Schreiner has said, and being amongst the most loyal of His Majesty's subjects, as Mr. Chamberlain and Lord Alfred … when once he has accepted a certain…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
… you the rock from Johannesburg, and Basil Coetzee with his Sabenza band from Cape Town. Everywhere the response was … a vital part in the preparation for…
Speech on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the ANC, Lusaka by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1972
… liberation which involved tremendous sacrifices and even death. This meeting is not of the ANC alone but of the forces …
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt Revisits "On the Mines" by Jeffrey Ladd, 5 December 2012
… about the newly edited and designed release of his long out-of-print collaboration with Nadine Gordimer from … In the end, I adopted a completely different…