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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 7
… African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin In 1942, a strike was called at the Dunlop rubber factory in Durban The … been organised in 1939. This Union opened…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
… Ibrahim is by no means the only South African musician to use jazz for political goals, the development of his … most creative and marketable direction that…
EventThe second Carnegie Report on poverty in South Africa is released
… solely on the 'poor White' problem. This report gave rise to policy changes which over time, effectively eradicated … and participation of those communities…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… Histories of the liberation struggle have now become bound to the questions of post-apartheid politics and the ideology … achievements both before and after…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… then responded by occupying the living compounds attached to the mine. The company brought in scabs and petitioned the South African supreme court to evict…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Africa. Events that triggered the uprising can be traced back to policies of the Apartheid government that resulted in the … students at the Kilnerton…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the … oppressed population together with democratic…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature and scale. On the … oppressed population together with…
ArticleXenophobic violence in democratic South Africa timeline
… 1994 to 1995 In December 1994 and January 1995, armed youth gangs … undocumented migrants and marched the individuals down to the local police station where…
Biography of Miriam Makeba by Narcy Negrete
… was exiled from South Africa in 1960, she used her success to shine a light on the ugly truths of apartheid government. She utilised her voice to sing…
ArticleLetters: Albertina Sisulu
… story spanning more than 59 years stands as an inspiration to us all. At her marriage to Walter in 1944, Albertina was warned in a speech by Anton … 1 she…
EventMilitary coup is executed in Lesotho
… ruling council that governed Lesotho since 1986. He came to power as the head of a junta that had pledged to root out corruption. Lekhanya subsequently…
The Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA): CODESA 1
… organisations that were united in their opposition to apartheid gathered in Durban to form the Patriotic Front. … 1991, ‘29 political, state and trade union…
ANC AND 1999 ELECTION NOMINATION LIST
… federation will not be drawing up a list of its own people to be given to the ANC as part of the election nomination list. This … the implication is that, …
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… an external organisation. Rather, we have come here to be with our own, to listen to our own, and to speak to our … this crucial Congress reminds us that we…
63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… The differences surfaced visibly when the S.A.I.C. decided to participate in the Colonisation Enquiry Committee. The … The attitude on the part of some has…
EventThe New Zealand Mounted Rifles leave Wellington for the South African War
… (NZMR) departed from Wellington aboard the SS WAIWERA ship bound for South Africa on 21 October 1899. As the war drew … of 214 officers including the crew…
PlaceTransvaal Province
… located North of the Vaal River, that existed from 1910 to 1994. It's now part of the Provinces of: ' Gauteng ; … Limpopo River marked its border with…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
… the vacuum left by the failure of the Communist Party to build a mass workers' political organisation was being … Though the CP leaders played a role in the…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… the SACP and COSATU, Comrades and friends, Allow me first to thank the leadership of the South African Communist Party … both in high school and at the…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… Coloured, African and Indian vote in the Cape in relation to the White vote. The Women's Enfranchisement Act extended … that the Voortrekker just as I…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… raises his profile in the Communist Party. He is elected to the Johannesburg District Committee of the CPSA. March, … closing speech. As a result, when the…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
… released and many others who were in exile were allowed to return to South Africa. Several meetings between the … and forty-three political prisoners began a…
South African History Online and Principia College Partnership Project - 2018 submissions
… in a South African history survey course that sought to put Africans back at the center of their history and highlight African … With only an overview of…
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
… which had been given an open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to … stimulated in successive generations a…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… which had been given an open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to … stimulated in successive generations a…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… of unskilled and unemployed "poor whites" posed a danger to the state and to the process of capital accumulation. It impressed upon the … Unemployment, with…
Archive`The struggle is my life`- Nelson Mandela press statement
… The magnificent response to the call of the National Action Council for a three day strike and the wonderful work done by our organisers and … no power on…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… were Afrikaners, were predominant. In 1935 the union began to pay special attention to the organisation of Coloured … to the union office and we would take…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE INTERNATIONAL DAY OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE PALESTINIAN PEOPLE Pretoria, 4 December 1997
… as South Africans, our Palestinian guests and as humanists to express our solidarity with the people of Palestine. I … Indeed, these soldiers of peace know…