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ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
… indentured Indian, Chellagadu, charged for absenting from work without permission. 1901 January 23, Conveys condolences … takes over nursing of patients…
Archive25 Years of Freedom and Democracy: Success , Challenges and Solutions
… child. Many people including schoolchildren died fighting apartheid. Through people, working together apartheid was destroyed and South Africa is now a…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… the union, the workers in the selected factories stopped work and assembled outside their respective premises to form … and assured the pickets that no scabs…
Statement by Oliver Tambo to the Press, 16 November 1984, Addis Ababa
… a renewed offensive by the African continent against the apartheid regime and in support of SWAPO and the ANC. We say … so-called reforms in South Africa,…
Statement to the Press by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 16 November 1984
… a renewed offensive by the African continent against the apartheid regime and in support of SWAPO and the ANC. We say … so-called reforms in South Africa,…
EventThe UN General Assembly adopts resolution 1881, requesting South Africa to release all political prisoners
… With the inception of apartheid in 1948, numerous repressive laws limited the … and boycotts to undermine the administration of the apartheid government…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
… structures. Producing a working draft According to the work programme, the first working draft had to be published … a 'package deal'. Roelf Meyer of the NP…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… a right to the same pay as the white man gets for the same work. Only thus will the workers be able to resist the future … member of the working-class. The…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
… said he was the local Pan-Africanist leader. He told (us) his organisation was against violence and that the crowd was … her chest had been shot away. He…
ArticleHigh Farce in the House
… butchery at a state-subsidised rental; that he had misused his office to improperly grant the rights to service stations to his friends; among others…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… 2 Sept. 1884, Mr. McEwan called upon me to say a Coolie of his was dead. At 10.15 a.m, I visited Mr. McEwan's place … a beam by a rope in the centre of the…
14. Suicide among indentured
… 2 Sept. 1884, Mr. McEwan called upon me to say a Coolie of his was dead. At 10.15 a.m, I visited Mr. McEwan's place … a beam by a rope in the centre of the…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… and writing conventions. For the purposes of the present work, a set of ‘standard’ conventions has been adopted, where these are based on those used by Carl…
ArchiveSteve Fataar could have had a rock star ego but didn’t by Rafs Mayet, 24 January 2020
… Fataar, used to like doodling and drawing flames all over his school books. Steve and his brothers, Edris (better known … dad, Ike Mayet. My dad had won the…
ArticlePixley ka Isaka Seme Timeline 1881-1951
… Pixley ka Isaka Seme is born in Natal. 1906 Seme presents his speech at Columbia University on “The Regeneration of … Seme obtains a Bachelor's degree in…
Chapter 6
… 1936, p. 4083). In the same year he redoubled his assurances: "The Government wish once more to give the … We buy it for the Natives to plough while they go…
Address at a Banquet at the Guildhall London, 13 June 2001
… working tirelessly for the same cause. We are hard at work on an African Recovery Programme, MAP, focused on the … to forge a constitutional democracy from…
Enuga S Reddy: Meeting with SWAPO in Dar Es Salaam -1969
… Nanyemba, Chief Representative, said the only way to end apartheid in Namibia was to expel South Africa from Namibia. … was happening in Namibia. The…
EventKaunda calls for Thatcher’s exclusion from talks on South African sanctions
… In protest of the system of apartheid, economic sanctions against South Africa had been … of sanctions would significantly pressurize the apartheid…
Document 136 - “Report on the Relationship of the Party to other Workers’ Organisations in South Africa”, Freedom 5, 4 August 1946
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew IN his opening address at the Annual Conference of the Party in … but one answer from Communists to the…
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… for a while, and then I think he was introduced to his wife, they married he made his way to Durban and they started a family. Eventually, … went wrong and…
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
… On 18 March 2017, legendary actor Joe Mafela passed away on his way home from Soweto, after he was involved in a car … when he featured in a film by Peter…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… a result, most men have to go out into the urban areas to work for most of their lives. But the pass laws and the other … distinct and also experience the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… Usually they tried to live near their place of work to cut the cost of transport. We have shown how the … is no difficulty to us at all, but when the native…
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
… and representatives because they knew that you would work to advance their cause and the cause of the peoples of … over the city of Pretoria, for too long a…
EventFormer Presidents de Klerk and Nelson Mandela are joint recipients of the Nobel Peace Prize.
… rule who abandoned the unsustainable and untenable apartheid system towards a non-racial and democratic South Africa. This meant the release of anti…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College, 02 May 1984, Mazimbu, Tanzania
… leave southern Africa. Well, comrades, history does not work that way. We are more surprised by what has happened … academic front against one of the…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… leave southern Africa. Well, comrades, history does not work that way. We are more surprised by what has happened … academic front against one of the…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… The United Nations Special Committee on Apartheid, which was set up by the General Assembly under … and promote a comprehensive programme of action against…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1900s
… on the Delagoa line to Machadodorp, where he lives on his train carriage. 11 September, Accompanied by his private secretary, Paul Kruger crosses the…