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ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
… received amnesty, and Marius died without any closure. My chapter will provide a brief summary of Marius Schoon’s life …
EventThe Women's National Coalition Conference starts
The inter-racial Women's National Coalition (WNC) Conference (25-27 February 1994), started in the World Trade Centre, Kempton Park. The conference focused…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… years at the University of Natal: it will be the opening chapter to her Festschrift that SASA is planning. At least …
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
1959-1960: Formation, Sharpeville and Banning For many years there was tension inside the African National Congress (ANC) between those with more moderate…
ArticleOrganisation of African Unity (OAU)
Context: The Emergence of a Pan-African Rhetoric The Organisation of African Unity (OAU), established on 25 May 1963, was the culmination of a number of…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… land. And in the story of these class battles there is no chapter more inspiring than the 1946 Mine Strike which … Witwatersrand shaft gathered to give the…
Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… time, the Boers declared a Republic and started a new chapter in the history of Greater Johannesburg. …
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… we have to share an honour of witnessing the closing of a chapter of an epic contribution to freedom and justice. But …
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… His successful escape from the building added a colourful chapter to the history of the building. The Staats Model …
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… that this development is proceeding apace. Let us quote chapter and verse. After the strike of 1922, the miners union …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
The 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of…
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… colonialism and invasion will be a proud, if painful, chapter. Success in your quest, under circumstances made …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… thesis that reflect his personal thinking on religion. Chapter IX: Science on the offensive "We thus arrive at the … hemelwaards De ziele haalt, Dat knielen…
EventAfrican's Claim is presented at the conference
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by the…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… Reading from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", Chapter 5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon us: consider, …
Gallery
This extensive history through pictures gallery documents the role that women have played in the liberation and democratisation of our country from 1900…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
The South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO) was formed in 1953 at a Coloured People's Convention in Cape Town. The organisation aimed to unite…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… unjust system. The Freedom Charter has opened up a new chapter in the struggle of our people. Hitherto we have …
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… on equal footing with the settlers." Maloka concludes the chapter by deconstructing the myth of friendship from the …
35. Colour legislation in the Orange River Colony
… of immovable property in this Colony under provisions of chapter 34 of the Law is disqualified from being a voter. Now …
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… race, class, belief or sex ’. (Ebrahim, 1998) Indeed, Chapter I of the Constitution states that South Africa is …
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
ArticleTimeline for Grade 12.4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
1955 The Freedom charter is adopted. This was the statement, charecterised by its demand that “ the people shall govern” that highlighted the main…
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… remember that the last struggle was, as it were, the third chapter in the story of satyagraha . When the first chapter came to a close, we, at any rate I,…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
ArticleThe Johanna
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked…