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ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
… with Ivan Potekin and Alexander Zuusmanovich, wrote a book on African workers in South Africa – with Nzula using the … 50 years later. ‘Gumede asked the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… represents the amount remitted by Mr. Jehangir B. Petit on behalf of Prof. Gokhale. We have not received detailed … Club, Johannesburg, in honour of Rev. J…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… Communist Party (SACP) warmly congratulated FRELIMO on its election into government: On this momentous day – 25 June 1975 – the day on which Mozambique takes…
PlaceKwaDukuza timeline
… was thickly wooded, with some open patches or grassland on which King Shaka and the Zulu peoples grazed their vast … is the 24th, but this is incorrect),…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… Notice No. 2130. Its provisions had a devastating effect on the lives of many banned and listed people ”” the four hundred … forgotten people, about the…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… to do. This was giving me confidence in the work I took on. So when the exceptional case of Solomon Mahlangu landed on my desk, and in my view needed…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… 1994 marked the birth of our country as an African nation on the southern tip of the continent. It provided South … than apartheid. It asserted the humanness…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… Algeria and Angola where they were briefed exclusively on methods of suppressing popular struggles. All … Your Worship, that this court, in inflicting…
Support our People until Power is Restored to Them - Statement at the Plenary Meeting of the United Nations General Assembly by O. R. Tambo, New York, 26 October 1976
… liberation movement in South Africa, and especially, on behalf of the oppressed people of South Africa, including … in South Africa. Their determination to…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… , who has died , was a history maker. He was born on 27 August 1928 into a tumultuous global century, and into … Congress (ANC). The violence claimed…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… to be grateful to the missionaries. Dr. Philip put it on record that: "The Hottentots belonging to the institution … Xhosa territory, committing slaughter…
IV - The Death of Steve Biko
… 1978, South Africa Biko was arrested for the last time on 18 August 1977 and Section 6 of the Terrorism Act. On 14 September, the Rand Daily Mail carried the…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter II - Functions of the Missionary
… their share the main task and how each one carried on where the other left off. This history, therefore, must … conflict with the Government, especially when…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of the accession to power of the Nationalist government in 1948 right up to the dying days of the eighties, a period of … into the subject, and to provide a…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… hiring other people to do casual labour for him, and so on. But he was a cripple. Despite all that he did not want to … League. We were drawn in and we held…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… "Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote … forced population transfers, contempt for civilian lives – were first forged…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… It is hard these days - twenty-five years on - to recapture the feeling of the time of Rivonia - of the … Party had been 'captured' of the trial and its head…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… According to the Report of the Carnegie Commission on The Poor White Problem in South Africa (Stellenbosch … more than 300,000 were very poor that is, they…
ArticleIndenture: A new system of slavery?
… Hugh Tinker entitles his book? The answer would depend on how the reader defines the word "slavery." In ancient … India to enlist the support of the Indian…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
… the other four members were cemented: Louis Moholo-Moholo on drums – the only surviving member – and Nikele ‘Nick’ Moyake on tenor saxophone, Mongezi Feza on…
Place18 Gangster Museum, Khayelitsha
… path of gangsterism by giving susceptible youths a hands-on look into what that life is like! In the museum a person … interacting with the visitors and…
EventIsidingo will air it's last episode
… On 25 November 2019, the South African Broadcasting … due to low viewership numbers. Isidingo first aired on 7 July 1998, and after twenty-one years on…
PlaceKoelfontein Wine Farm
… person who has been fortunate enough to lay down roots on this farm is grateful for the life its soil has bestowed … of Koelfontein farm, one which continues…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… van der Heyden, known as Betty or sometimes Liz, was born on 8 December 1935 and raised in the working-class area of … Alexander suggested, because of the…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show … the culture as well. As Schadeberg said, reflecting on that period at a…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… Some were descendants of black labourers who had worked on white farms in neighbouring districts and who had migrated … of regulations that intruded into…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… not enemies but political rivals. We could work together on issues that would be in accordance with our basic aim of … Indeed, your strength lies in your…
Mission Stations - G-H
… of resistance against the British, in 1880. It was located on Chief Sebeke's lands. Sebeke, whose name was variously … been a Pedi chief. Alexander Merensky…
ArchiveObituary for Andrew Verster
… Andrew Verster died peacefully in his bed on Sunday 16th February. It was the kind if death he would … versatile and develop a lot of skills so that I could…
PlaceThulamela, an Archaeological Site
… they named- King Ingwe - meaning leopard. This was because on the day his grave was found, a leopard was waiting as the … ancient settlement in the far north…