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EventDurban Declaration is published denouncing Thabo Mbeki's AIDS denialism
… AIDS Conference being held in Durban that year. The document was signed by people with doctorate level … qualifications including 11 Nobel Laureates. Despite…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… Communist Party members from ICU membership ( official document released by the SACP after the expulsion ). Clements …
PlaceLutheran Church, New Germany
… that time, the membership stood at 321 and was growing. A document signed on that day gave thanks to the Lord of the …
EventAfrican National Congress Youth League is founded
… reading: Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944' (document in SAHO library) Freedom in our lifetime, the …
5. Muslims of Durban complain about the vexatious curfew law
… after 9 p.m. at certain times of the year. In the document reproduced here, dated 26 March 1877, Muslims …
48. Breach of the compromise
… of the British Indian Association. In the following, document Gandhi explains the breach. Source: Indian Opinion, …
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1970 - 1979
… in the German Democratic Republic, the SACP adopts a document, "The Way Forward from Soweto," which stresses …
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… democratic South Africa should encapsulate. Every policy document that the ANC produces, every action it takes in the … and social transformation, in our…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… men had been required to carry were replaced by a single document - the reference book - which contained information … (5) The term "pass" was frequently…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
… The large scale staging is unsuccessful. The DWCL drafts a document on its aims and principles, and the potential role … Workshop is cancelled and Hlatshwayo…
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… might control the African who was required to carry some document that would identify him and bear witness that he had … taxes. As time went on, other things…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… the Council of Policy, Van Riebeeck came equipped with a document called the ‘Remonstrantie’, drawn up in the …
BiographySantu Mofokeng
Born in 1956, Mofokeng grew up in and around Soweto (Johannesburg), spending most of his childhood in Orlando East. Mofokeng’s initial experiences with…
PlaceBergtheil House, 16 Queen’s Avenue, Westville
… and workshop implements, whilst photographs and records document the gradual growth and success of the boroughs as …
Congress of the People - I was there
… in the Freedom Charter itself. For this was a document which was intended to be our blueprint for the … as I did then, that the Freedom Charter is a…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… Draft of our Strategy, Reconstruction and Development document. We will therefore receive and consider a document which lays the basis for far-reaching…
EventAfrican's Claim is presented at the conference
… African National Congress (ANC) held in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by …
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
… approve the draft as received; instead, it referred the document back to the Constitutional Assembly for revision and …
ArticleSouth Africa’s Key economic policies changes (1994 - 2013)
… As was first articulated in the original 1994 RDP document the ANC government sought " to mobilize all our …
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943] Document 1 In spite many leading representatives of the …
Letter to Americans by Albert Luthuli, distributed by the American Committee on Africa with the "Appeal for Action", 4 November 1962, New York
… this call to action. The Appeal must not remain merely a document; it must become the base of an international …
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… the transport means of the time; clocks and china document the culture of the time . An embroided cloth …
PlaceBophuthatswana, was Previously a Homeland
… the release of political prisoners in 1991 Please add this document to our resources page. In March 1994 Bophuthatswana …
Resolution of the Executive Committee of the AAC, February 15, 1936 46
… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 9 - Letter from W. H. Andrews to Tom Mann," 26 …
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… draft was only published on 22 November 1995. The 63-page document was the culmination of 18 months of work by the …
BiographyViolet Weinberg
Violet Weinberg was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, the daughter of a Jewish refugee who fled from Latvia, then a part of the Soviet Union, where Anti…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… the chief prosecutor haltingly read from a 53- page document outlining the crown’s case against us. On the second … Charter (which the prosecution alleged…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… the sweep of apartheid repression, the HRC published a document entitled Anatomy of Repression in December 1989. This document summarizes the many forms of…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Since 1969, the ANC produces a Strategy and Tactics document as a guide and theoretical foundation for our … in the ANC Bill of Rights of 1923, the African…