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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…
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…
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…
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 …
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…
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 …
PlaceSlave Church Museum
The South African Missionary Meeting House/ Sendinggestig Museum (short for the Slave Church Museum) was built between 1802 and 1804. It was founded by the…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… said: "The Freedom Charter was not just another political document, the Congress of the People was not just another … and guiding its actions. In the…
Address of Nelson Mandela at his Investiture as Doctor of Laws Soochow University, Taiwan, 1 August 1993
… we adopted the Freedom Charter in 1955. This is a document born of our struggle, rooted in South African … with international acclaim as an outstanding human…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… from the United Nations General Assembly. 1975 A strategy document “New Road to Revolution” triggers ideological … Unity (OAU) in Kampala, Uganda adopts as…
Congress of the People - I was there
… in the Freedom Charter itself. For this was a document which was intended to be our blueprint for the … as I did then, that the Freedom Charter is a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… Draft of our Strategy, Reconstruction and Development document. We will therefore receive and consider a document which lays the basis for far-reaching…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… people shall govern. The Freedom Charter is a very great document, because the same things, which we have been saying … and every person should read it. It…
PlaceHuguenot Memorial Museum, Franschhoek
The story of the Huguenot Memorial Museum is quite fascinating, and lends the Building and its contents a certain charm and intrigue. In the 1700’s, the…
UCT Summer School 2020
Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Since 1969, the ANC produces a Strategy and Tactics document as a guide and theoretical foundation for our … in the ANC Bill of Rights of 1923, the African…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 conference … of a decade and was effectively non…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… The Bill was essentially the same as the original 1930 document and it also set up the Feetham Commission , which … African Freedom.” Although his name is…
Address to the Summit of the International Conference on Financing for Development, 21 March 2002
… This gathering has been favoured with a consensus document. This consensus must be accepted as a foundation on …
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… for a democratic South Africa in a Charter for Change, a document that was adopted by the meeting. It is reproduced …
Biographical Introduction
… the reader to view the biographies as a dynamic working document, and would welcome any information that might add to …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… the populism and mass politics of the 1950s. The first document is a description of the ANC's 1937 conference … of a decade and was effectively non…
PlaceGraafwater
The Heerenlogement cave which was used by travelers as overnight accommodation in the 17th and 18th centuries is 25 km from Graafwater on the Vredendal road. …
PlaceBloubergstrand, Tableview -Cape Town
Bloubergstrand is a Suburb of Cape Town, 25Km North of the City! The beach at Bloubergstrand is a popular location for a classic view of Table Mountain across…
ArticleReferencing Resources for Historical Research
… for Footnotes (Web Material): 1 A. Author, 'Title of Document', Name of Website , Place of Publication, Name of … http://url , (accessed Day Month Year)…