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Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
The evidence that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party…
ArticleUrban Removals - the Destruction of Sophiatown
Introduction This feature examines the history of forced removals in Johannesburg up to the destruction of Sophiatown. It begins by establishing the link…
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
The name of Dr William Fehr should be familiar to many of those who have visited Castle Good Hope in Cape Town at least once during the last fifty years. Young…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… to help get medical services for the people in the homelands. On weekends, Sikhakhane-Rankin worked with doctors …
New year message to the ANC external mission by Oliver Tambo, 01 January 1971
Dear friends and fellow countrymen, The opening of a new year is the occasion for the exchange of greetings. From this southern part of the world of…
New Year Message to the ANC External Mission by O. R. Tambo, 1 January 1971
Dear friends and fellow countrymen, The opening of a new year is the occasion for the exchange of greetings. From this southern part of the world of…
ArchivePreface by Denis Goldberg
After 22 years as a political prisoner and 24 years thereafter I felt it was time to write about my life in South Africa in struggle, in prison, in exile, in…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1652 - 1699 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1652 Arrival of Malays 1 J S Mayson, describing the Islamic life in the 19th…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
Control: 1910 - 1948
Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, 1913, the South African Native found himself, not actually a slave,…
ArticlePre-colonial history of Southern Africa
South Africa has one of the longest sequences of human development in the world. It begins with two million years old hominid fossils. Human Origins South…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… setting up of the interim government, the future of the homelands, time period for the implementation of the changes …
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
… Africa who may cling to notions of living in independent homelands but the vast majority have accepted the validity of …
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold War conflict fought along…
ArticleBiography of Mongane Wally Serote by Matthew Williams
Abstract The paper reviews the life of South African poet Mongane Wally Serote during apartheid South Africa in the mid to late 20th century. During this time…
ArticleGreat Trek 1835-1846
The Great Trek was a movement of Dutch-speaking colonists up into the interior of southern Africa in search of land where they could establish their own…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
1960 21 March, In a peaceful anti pass march led by the PAC at Sharpeville, the police open fire on the unarmed and peaceful crowd, killing 69 and wounding…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa is a political lobby group which represents many traditional leaders and chiefs in South Africa. It seeks…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… that played a role in the Tricameral Parliament and the homelands to decide where their allegiances lay. Secondly, …
ArchiveThe Mandela I knew by Saths Cooper, 6 December 2013
During my incarceration in the same single-cell block in Robben Island Maximum Security Prison with Nelson Rohihlala Mandela between 1977 to 1982 I got to know…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
… region as refugees enter Natal to return to their homelands that had been absorbed into Shaka's kingdom. While …
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… whether he has his residence in the urban areas or in the homelands. I am black. I know the black man pretty well - him …
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
… uneducated, the surplus people deported to the so-called homelands, the victims of abject poverty. Among these are …
Archive2011 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2011
… land reform projects and irrigation schemes in the former homelands as well as distressed farms owned by individuals. …
Archive1999 - President Mbeki - State of the Nation Address, 25 June 1999 (After National Elections)
… uneducated, the surplus people deported to the so-called homelands, the victims of abject poverty. Among these are …
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… and eventual "independence" in so-called "Bantu homelands", nothing can conceal the reality of South African …
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
… of their Black running dogs, albeit in their locations, homelands, self-governing states and ethnic councils. He was …
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre…