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Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One … of legislation ever to come before any Union Parliament. All other statutory…
EventSA national soccer team, Bafana Bafana, win the SA’s first ever FIFA sanctioned match.
… South Africa had been suspended by FIFA in 1961 and formally … in a FIFA-sanctioned international.Cameroon arrived as Africa's most celebrated side, the…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… give real meaning to people's involvement; to once and for all take away this myth that MK is their highly trained, … Politico-Military Strategy Commission …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
… and Energy Affairs to say together with one voice: Let us all take responsibility for freeing our communities of crime … violence to achieve their goals…
ArticleMangosuthu Buthelezi was a man of immense political talent and contradictions
… his role as both a chief and as ANC president. Yet South Africa was changing. When Buthelezi chose to engage with the … of the country ruled exclusively and…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1946
… the late Mr. Roosevelt and Generalissimo Stalin. They were all comparatively young men who took over leadership in the … Indians who might find a salary of …
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho … August 1981 said, "THERE WOULD BE NO LLA, IF…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years Since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Olehile Bada Pharasi
… the foreign observer would be forgiven for thinking South Africa was experiencing its own “Arab Spring”. And, just as … it was marred by violence that did…
BiographySaul Sibusiso “Minus Khosing” Mashinini
… in the smuggling of arms for military operations in South Africa. Mashinini was also a member of the Communist Party. …
Matthews Mabelane
… Act on 21 January near Zeerust while crossing into South Africa from Botswana. He was transferred to John Vorster …
BiographyStephen Zelwane Nkadimeng
… soon (together with communists) they would enter South Africa and take over. He had not overstepped the rules of the …
BiographyDorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu
… to the struggle for a free and democratic South Africa. Dorothy Nomazotsho Zihlangu passed away in 1991. …
Chapter XV - House arrest
… On 13 October 1962,1 became the first person in South Africa to be put under house arrest. The minister was … drastically curtailed my freedom and changed my…
PlaceNew Brighton Location
… Bubonic plague and, between 1901 and 1903, most of South Africa's major towns recorded outbreaks of this disease. The … Port Elizabeth in 1901, and although…
5th Jozi Book Fair
… Book Fair taking place from 25-26 October 2013 at Museum Africa in Newtown, Johannesburg. This is the fair for … activities are geared to encourage reading…
Doing Oral History
… teachers in the field. Ultimately the vision was for all learners in KwaZulu-Natal, regardless of their grade, to … of suspicion of strangers might be…
Address at the National Council Of Provinces, 12 November 2002
… us finally to resolve this matter to the satisfaction of all our people, including the traditional leaders. I am confident that as we engage this process, as…
ArchiveThe Little Freedom Fighter with the Ponytail by Greg Ardé
… one that's fast gaining ground. Many politicians in South Africa are not at the forefront of the struggle for a better life for all. The struggle is for…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… independent legal profession'. The challenge he issued to all South African lawyers was twofold. Firstly, he called … institutions concerned with justice…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… indulging in fights. If you can do it, it's preferable at all times, and if one has regard to a nation, a group of … amount of heartache and saying well,…
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… was also described as a passionate and invested woman in all subjects of which she wrote. Many historians have also … through the significant effects of…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… among certain people within the Xhosa community in South Africa, with threats of protest and strong criticism against … villages where these problems exist…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… slaves spoke Malagasy while slaves originating from East Africa had their own languages to communicate. Furthermore, … or two have to go out each day to…
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… 21st century, a number of people lost their lives in South Africa amid liberation struggle. However, some of these … are killed by South African police while…
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… In 1961, when the government decided to declare South Africa a republic and change the constitution without … Ministers' Association. ANC leaders almost all…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one … narratives of precolonial and colonial…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… the 1922 General Strike and the 1929 Stock Market collapse all played a role in prolonging this era, and it was not until 1932, when South Africa went off…
ArticleThe Durban strikes and the resurgence of the trade union movement in 1973
… the beginning of the 20 th century Black workers in South Africa made many attempts to organise themselves into unions … the early 1960s onwards, the state…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… to assemble for its new session, the people of South Africa face the grim prospect of more fascist attacks from … ghastly possibility of having to carry…