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ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
… parties did not feel it proper to make the final document without public support through the electoral system. …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… women. Women take a stand against passes A pass was a document that black people were forced by the government to …
ArchiveSecret Histories | South African Photographer David Goldblatt Reveals the Effects of Apartheid on His Native Land by Miss Rosen, 29 September 2016
… apartheid began, Goldblatt picked up a camera and began to document the developments in South Africa, which continue, …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Opening Session of the South Centre’s Council of Representatives New York, 21 September 1998
… The outcome of the Twelfth Summit, embodied in its Final Document and the Durban Declaration for the New Millennium, …
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… 10-page abridged version of the Stuart Report (Chapter 4, Document 115). In a section headed “Mutiny in Umkhonto we … Commission, an investigative body…
Address by Deputy President Thabo Mbeki at teh Development Planning Summit Hosted by the Intergovernmental Forum, 27 November 1995
… despite its almost biblical character, the RDP Base Document did not provide us with all the answers. We have … our vision do not replace the targets set in…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… Committee. The adoption of a constitution and policy document was deferred to future conference which could be … had referred to the Freedom Charter as the…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
Mapping Sites of Memory: The Sobukwe Letters
… enter as another form of archive. If the photographs document the public terrain of struggle, Sobukwe’s …
Exhibition Opening: Tales of History Retold
… eight artists were invited to select artefacts from the document archive of the Association for Visual Arts (AVA), a …
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
PlaceUnited States Consulate, Cape Town
The U.S. Consulate General in Cape Town serves as a branch of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa. It is located in the suburb of Westlake. They are…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… might control the African who was required to carry some document that would identify him and bear witness that he had … taxes. As time went on, other things…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… We found it very difficult to get hold of the full document. (There was no internet in those days.) The state’s … lawyers objected to this quotation without…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… duty conscientiously and live in peace with his employers."119 Despite the introduction of more and more "Trust" … natural guardians." Unfortunately the date…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… will seek to explain how we came to adopt this great document that is respected throughout the world as one of the … Charter was adopted at the Congress of…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… democratic South Africa should encapsulate. Every policy document that the ANC produces, every action it takes in the … and social transformation, in our…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… but at the same time part of the organisation ’ (Meer 119). SPEAK frequently focused on organisations such as the …
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
… This paper is part of a current research undertaking to document the history of these initiatives and to reflect on …
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
Background Terry Crawford-Brown petitioned the Constitutional Court in 2011 to compel former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… 1899, in Collected Works, Vol. III, (hereafter CW), 119 ↵ [22] “Natal Mercury”, 18 October 1899 ↵ [23] Letter … March 1900 ↵ [76] “Times of India”, 9…
Hlaudi manifesto gives Jimi Matthews and his SABC comrades no option but to vote #Hlexit by Ra'eesa Pather (Mail & Guardian), 27 June 2016
… He taught himself photography, and eventually went on to document apartheid atrocities through video and film. His …
Manifesto of the emigrant farmers By Piet Retief, 1837
… with Lt.-Governor Stockenstrom, Piet Retief left this document behind when he joined other Afrikaners on the Trek …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by Walter Sisulu
… for an as-yet un-born Youth League, before presenting the document to colleagues such as Willie Nkomo, Lionel …
PlaceStendahl Mission
… was a verbal agreement and therefore there was no legal document to support the claim. When Stendahl was officially …
History of Muslims in South Africa: Bibliography by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… February 1976. 118. Al-Qalam, Durban, August 1984, p 3. 119. South African National Zakah Fund Annual Reports 1990, …
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… The 1996 constitution is routinely praised as a splendid document but it is surely already clear that it was a bad … trusted far too much to simply drawing…