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Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
Mr. Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and continents, representatives of different…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to The Joint Sitting of Parliament, Palais Du Parliament, Brazzaville, Republic of Congo, 1 December 2005
Your Excellency, Speaker of the National Assembly, Jean-Pierre Thystere-Tchicaya,Your Excellency, Speaker of the Senate, Ambroise NoumazalayeHonourable…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… Leaders, Ikosi Sipho Mahlangu, Western Cape Khoi San Leader, Prince Jacobus Titus, Kgosi John Molefe Pilane, …
Article on the pass law deputation in July 25, 1889
Pirie was, on Thursday last, the scene of a large representative and important gathering of Natives of the district of King William's Town to hear the Native…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the 1960s, integration schemes became an increasingly important tool for facilitating…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
Turning points in modern South African History since 1948& In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of…
Address to CODESA by comrade Nelson R. Mandela, President of the ANC 20 December 1991
Chief Justice and Joint Chairpersons; Leaders of Political Parties and Movements; Distinguished Observers from International Organisations; Members of the…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the opening ceremony of the United Nations Global Forum on Fighting Corruption and Safeguarding Integrity, Sandton Convention Centre, 2 April 2007
Director of Ceremonies, Distinguished delegates and guests, Ladies and Gentlemen, I would like to thank you most sincerely for giving me the opportunity to…
The ANC’s attempt to become the sole legitimate representative of the people of South Africa by Martin Plaut
In 1979 the African National Congress launched an attempt to receive international recognition as the “sole legitimate representative of the people of South…
Nelson Mandela Timeline 1920-1929
1920 The Housing Act is passed. This Act made funds available for the government to house the poor. “The resultant estates were required to be racially…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened…
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
Contents Discovering Seme - Tim Couzens The Early Years - Richard Rive The Mount Hermon School File Product of Moody School How Congress Began - …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
Contents and Contributions Contents: Comment: AW Oliphant, Stories: Going to See Mr. BV, Shimmer Chinodya; Nhamiwa's Magic Stick, Maria Munsaka; The Jungle…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
< Menu page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor,…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
Stories and Interviews as oral histories Stories or ‘oral histories’ tells us about the past through the spoken word as told by one generation to the next. It…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
This topic examines transport, in all its forms, namely; land, water and air. It looks at the earliest to the most modern forms of transport. The focus in the…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 Three days before the massacre on Monday 6…
ArticleTransport on water
Transport on water Ships and boats are as old as the desire to travel over and across water, and to fish. Boats are smaller than ships. They can be powered by…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It prohibited adultery, attempted…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
1970 11 June, It is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in…
Storming: The Insurrections Ensemble by Marcus Grossman, September 2015
Global Studies Programme It was Shakespeare’s puzzling take on colonialism that Cesaire and many others decided to re-interpret and re-interpret. But for the…
PlaceKronendal, Main Road, Hout Bay.
The estate of Kronendal was part of land granted to Willem Basson in 1713, although it was only developed as a farm towards the end of the century. Its…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
Chairman of the China Express, Mr Chu-cheng Kan; Ladies and gentlemen, Any meeting to share ideas on topics of such importance to the future of South…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
The crisis facing South Africa and the world today has its roots in: (1) the barbarism and injustices of market supremacism, racial supremacism and patriarchy;…
ArticleWhat is heritage?
Heritage Heritage is a deceptively simple idea. It can be considered to be made up of the practices and traditions that are passed on from parents to children…
PlaceObservatory
Observatory was a residential suburb of Cape Town, and derived its name from the Royal Observatory, which was established there in 1821. It's an arty district…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress from 1952-1968…