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ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College. She then went on to receive a Master…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
Yohannes Woldemariam trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign over Ethiopia. Emperor Haile Selassie, who…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… seek no glory and no accolades. Your actions, writings and speeches over five decades bear testimony to the fact that …
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… and fought for it – among other rights – through speeches and articles published in local newspapers. In So …
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… (Umeh 1995, 23) that ran through Nwapa’s writings and speeches was “rooted in resistance,” (Umeh 1995, 23) and was …
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
… later killed at the hands of the Security Police at John Vorster Square, Johannesburg. After the pilgrimage, Molvi …
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… on the one hand the combined forces of the Smith and Vorster regimes, and on the other the united guerrillas of …
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… were in a jubilant mood; we sang freedom songs and made speeches until the early hours of the morning. Of course, … this move for some time, because of their…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… (now Zimbabwe) where he attends meetings and gives speeches on the United Soviet Socialist Republics. 4 December … steps. Dadoo, Michael Harmel and JB Marks…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… its ruthless action against rioters. Prime Minister John Vorster’s attempts to win conservative African states into an … could further undermine any African…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… a system of regional regrouping as outlined in the recent speeches and writings of Field Marshal Smuts. We hope that …
The strangulation of activity
… limited (usually 50); no freedom songs or political speeches; addresses only by ordained local priest and family … This followed a statement by the Prime…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
… is the most important path before us. It is no use making speeches, the time has come in South Africa for everyone to …
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… minutes of that Conference, and contains extracts from the speeches, resolutions and the Charter adopted by the …
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… extraordinary man will be given not on the basis of the speeches he made abroad, but on his actions at home. South …
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… to take an active interest in union work. He made militant speeches, vigorously attacked the Nationalist Party, and …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… delivered what is looked upon as one of his greatest speeches. A question such as this lay itself open to all …
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… struggle. Van den Bergh was the protégé of John Balthasar Vorster, the Minister of Justice, who in 1941–43 was a fellow … organization even more extreme than…
ArticleList of uMkhonto weSizwe Operations
… building: Johannesburg Magistrates court (200m from John Vorster Square Police Station) - explosion; no details 1983 … seven MK members 04/03/86 SAP…
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… agreed to disperse the protestors in if a meeting with J B Vorster , then Minister of Justice, could be secured. He was …
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
… Confronted with a growing labour crisis, in 1977 BJ Vorster legalised trade unions. Between 1979 and 1982, as a …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… other things. So this meeting is determined not to accept Vorster's Bill. We have no guns or Saracens but with our bare …
ArchiveKeynote Address at National General Council Meeting, by President Thabo Mbeki, 12 July 2000, Port Elizabeth
… the delegates to see them and hear their revolutionary speeches, even if these speeches have nothing to do with what is under discussion. …
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… Garveyism did not appeal to Gumede. On the contrary, his speeches on his tour through the Transkei contained criticism … was Alexander Maduna, who had been…
ArchiveFrom the Archive of Steve Bantu Biko by Mafika Gwala, 23 May 2019
Mafika Gwala was a significant South African writer, who emerged in the 1960s and 1970s. A prominent activist of that era, he expressed the political needs and…
Wosa on the 1997 Conference for Socialism
… organ of the Parliamentary opposition, used to report our speeches and publish them in that paper. In conversation one …
III - Black Consciousness
… constituted 'terrorism'. The indictment was concerned with speeches and pamphlets issued between 1971 and 1974, showing, …
From retirement to parliament
… a system of regional regrouping as outlined in the recent speeches and writings of Field Marshal Smuts. We hope that …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… statement from the dock, one of the great political speeches of all time. Less publicised was the performance of … I have dared to challenge the Apartheid…