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The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Biography Eddie Cottle is a postdoctoral fellow at the Centre for…
ArticleMarikana Massacre - 16 August 2012
… African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on a crowd of striking mineworkers at Marikana, in the North West Province … demand a living wage. On 10 August, a…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… her lead military parades 1662 said that she was a still a striking figure who still retained her martial prowess. …
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
Moosa “Mosie” Moolla was born in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful import-export…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… the strike Lonmin management refused to meet with the striking miners. On 16 August 2012 , 34 miners were killed … and Xolani Ndzuzu (centre) speak to the…
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… register upon their return. The compromise is now in the balance. 22 June, Smuts makes Gandhi a new offer to repeal … on strike in Natal and within two weeks…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… existed among opposites that may have to co-exist. The balance between unity and struggle would be dictated by the … reality, including as accurate a reading…
The appointment of Judges
… of Education of the North-West Province (1997) - striking down regulations preventing permanent residents from … Gay and Lesbian Equality v Minister of…
BiographySefako Mapogo Makgatho
… Transvaal branch of the SANNC gave active support to the striking workers. These strike actions, undertaken mainly by …
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… policy approach in Zimbabwe and for destroying the fragile balance that Zuma is trying to create inside the Zimbabwean …
BiographyJoseph Chamberlain
Joseph Chamberlain was a British statesman, a colonial administrator and politician who went from being a radical, almost socialist liberal to an arch…
EventZuid-Afrikaansche Republiek decides that December 16 will be a public holiday called Dingaan's Day
… December 16 as a public holiday was an attempt to strike a balance between a divided past and promoting national unity …
ArticleThe “Wind of Change” speech
… successful, and by their example so compelling, that the balance will come down in favour of freedom and order and …
ArticleThe Strikes and Popular and Political Support
… since Sharpeville and the turn to armed struggle. The striking workers and their demand for a living wage received …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking for a wage of increase of 9,5 percent. The union … killed, police officers open fire on a…
BiographyJohn Langalibalele Dube
… a mission-educated indigenous person struggling to find a balance between his traditional ethnic roots and Christian …
BiographyFrank Alexander Landman
Raised in the close knit community of Dowerville, Port Elizabeth (P.E.), Frank was the youngest of three sons and the third of the six surviving children of a…
Denis Goldberg: Freedom Fighter and Humanist
A Tribute to Denis Goldberg Preface Foreword Chapter 1 A Marvellous Life! Denis Goldberg, South Africa and the World Chapter 2 Denis Goldberg and…
ArticleHuman Rights and the South African Constitution
South Africa's Constitution (1996) enshrines the supremacy of the Constitution and the rule of law. Everyone in South Africa, including the government, and all…
The Mission: A Life for Freedom in South Africa by Denis Goldberg
Foreword by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan Preface Chapter 1 Break down the walls Chapter 2 Respect for all, Childhood in Cape Town, 1933 – 1949 Chapter 3…
Gold and Workers 1886 - 1924 by Luli Callinicos
Inside Front Cover Acknowledgements Title and Dedication - A People's History of South Africa Contents Epigraph - Questions of a Worker Reading…
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… African War of 1899 to 1902, there was no clear-cut balance of power in favour of the victors. Six years after … of Vereeniging of 1902, Britain was still…
ArchiveMkhumbane our home African shantytown society in Cato Manor Farm, 1946-1960 by Iain Edwards
This study is concerned with all the material structures of everyday life and the nature of power in the African shacklands of Cato Manor Farm. Click to read:…
ArchiveThe Final Prize by Norman Levy
“Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the newspaper file I needed. He was looking at…
Side By Side: The Autobiography of Helen Joseph
Helen Joseph is one of the most well-known South African women to campaign against apartheid. Her autobiography is being published on her 81st birthday and is…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke
CONTENTS Introduction Chapter I - The Missionary Movement where it came from Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary Chapter III - Dr. Philip - …
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… power supply to regions in the country. This was done to balance the demand for electricity with the available supply, …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… clear, here was the living movement of the most vulnerable striking back at the system; prepared to sacrifice everything …