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Extracts from the book ‘A long walk to Freedom’. Nelson Mandela’s autobiography
… this new order is democratic majority rule. 1. BALANCE OF FORCES By the end of the eighties, the strategic balance of forces was characterised by: 1.1 The…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education
The historical debates aside, the significant revolutionary changes in the nineteenth century provided the base on which many of the identities of South…
ANC hard at work despite power failure and strike threat, 27 July 2009
… a threat of Johannesburg being brought to a standstill by striking municipal workers, the work of the ANC has not come … strike, which has resulted in the…
EventSANDF soldiers strike
… work until their grievances had been dealt with. They were striking over the slow pace of the three-year integration … and also the quality of the food given…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
At this stage, it was not at all clear that Europe would come to dominate the world. The intention is to provide a comparative overview of some of the major…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…
Event7 People are killed during a SATS strike
… were killed and about sixty-seven injured when about 800 striking South African Transport Services (SATS) workers, on … a union meeting, were accosted by…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… closer ties between unions and cultural activists. 1980 Striking workers from the Rely Precision Foundry on the East …
ArchiveSupport NUM Strike
… A2 poster silkscreen black on yellow; graphic of striking mineworker; text: Support NUM Strike Congress …
ArchiveFOSATU strikes back at false attack on workers
… STRIKING a gigantic blow against the false attacks on workers …
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
… each with a different purpose. The first is used for striking (Induku), the second for defense i.e. body … (Ubhoko), this stick long comparing to the one…
ArchiveBuilders of the nation: 10: rebirth of the Democratic Labour Movement
… Issued by the Department of Labour. Photographs of people striking. Short history of birth of trade unions in South …
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin August 1990
… of SAMWU demands. Black and white photographs of people striking. List of contents. …
ArchiveMelt away the blues: Dave Hampshire
… Black and white poster. Artwork of a hand striking a match and lighting a wax figure of Margaret …
ArticleQuotations by Oliver Tambo
… that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa." "We have a vision …
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… may adopt from time to time, taking into account the balance of forces within our country and abroad. … other forms of social ownership, and private capital…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… could see themselves,’ in order to achieve a sense of balance, with the African Drum providing that mirror. …
ArticleFinding out about hunter-gatherers and herders
Who were the hunter-gatherers? Many societies all over the world survived by hunting and gathering for most of the last 100 000 years. In southern Africa the…
Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… Committee on 25 November 1992. Covers shifts in the balance of forces, negotiations, phases in the democratic …
ArchiveWhose Reality Mr. Botha?
… and banned; public meetings broken up and banned; striking workers beaten and teargassed; Seven months of the …
Why protect worker’s rights?
The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant…
ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… Yet, that election did not significantly alter the balance of power. The ANC still emerged with an overwhelming …
ArticleAfrapix
… arts' movements. Afrapix photographers managed to balance the requirements of hard news, the events of the day …
The Court’s position in the justice system
The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest court on constitutional matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
… within the security forces. Their highly focussed role of striking specific targets complements the broad terror role … and financiers. In summary, a…
EventGovernment bans 20 Black leaders
… at the Western Deep Levels mine at Carletonville, when 12 striking miners were killed as police fired on a crowd. …
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… of suicide and suffering in the Indian community trying to balance between the importance of race and the importance of …
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… situation. These developments have radically shifted the balance of forces in our sub-continent towards the fulfilment … and the world to spare no effort in…