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ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… the 1955 Congress of the People , where the Freedom Charter was to be adopted. This gave the women an opportunity … to lobby for the incorporation of their…
BiographyJo Thorpe
Jo Thorpe was born in 1921, in Fishoek in Cape Town. She grew up in Mooi River and completed her high school education at Pietermaritzburg Girls High School…
Rejuvenation of the ANC and intensification of the struggle 1940s
… (ANCWL) was formed. In 1943, Xuma and the ANC’s Atlantic Charter Committee produced a politically significant document … Congresses, and formed the Congress…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
The nineteenth century in South Africa is noted for the revolutionary processes that resulted in the formation of new states. State formation in nineteenth…
ArticleSASO till SASCO
… the new leadership of Joe Phaahla embraces the Freedom Charter as its guiding document on education, especially the … It was the adoption of ANC policies and…
ArticleStudent Politics: SASO till SANSCO
… the new leadership of Joe Phaahla embraces the Freedom Charter as its guiding document on education, especially the … It was the adoption of ANC policies and…
ArticleAzanian Students Organisation (AZASO)
… organisation that adopted ANC policies and the Freedom Charter over the Black Consciousness Doctrine. In addition … in that the organization committed itself…
ArticleFederation of South African Women (FEDSAW)
… for the protection of the women and children. The "Women`s Charter" , written at the first conference, called for the … all laws and customs that denied…
BiographyThulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela
Thulisile Nomkhosi Madonsela was born in 1962 in Soweto. Her parents, Nomasonto and Bafana were both traders. She obtained a bachelor of Law from the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 2 - The Development of a Colonial Slave Society by Wayne Dooling
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education What were the turning points in southern Africa…
BiographyJeanette Carlson
Jeanette Levinson Carlson was born on 21 June 1929, in Muizenberg, Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape Province). She was the youngest of Israel and…
ArchiveTRC Final Report, page number (original) 277, Paragraph numbers 51 to 50, Volume 6, Section 3, Chapter 2, subsection 7
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… committee that met in secret to organise the Freedom Charter campaign and The Congress of the People in 1956. In …
BiographyMassabalala (Bonnie) Yengwa
Massabalala Yengwa, was the son of the Zulu labourer who had been jailed during the African National Congress (ANC) anti-pass campaign of 1919. Yengwa was born…
Egyptian President Anwar Sadat, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Carter begin a Middle East peace conference
Response by President Nelson Mandela to the 1994 Peace Lecture of the WCRP (South African Chapter) 7 August 1994
The Memoirs of Paul Kruger, Chapter 12, (On the outbreak of war and the barbarity of the English)
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The basis of South African national policy for the last sixty years has been the maintenance of a vast reservoir of cheap African labour for the farms and…
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
BiographyKewpie
Kewpie was a hairdresser and iconic queer figure from District Six. A gender fluid individual who identified by female pronouns, Kewpie was a seminal nightlife…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… of African nationalism. [12] Firstly, through the Atlantic Charter, AB Xuma’s, African claims in relation to this Charter. In addition, the influence of…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… had given this private company, headed by Cecil Rhodes, a charter to administer the new territory on behalf of the …
ArticleTreason Trial 1956 - 1961
… actively in the campaign to draw up the Freedom Charter. According to the prosecution, the Charter visualised the abolition of all racial discrimination ……
Pres. Jimmy Carter of America refuses further aid to Argentina, Uruguay and Ethiopia because of human rights violations.
Sydney Carter, SA painter known for his landscape paintings, dies in President Brand Park, district of Harrismith, OFS.
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION In May 1906 smoking habits amongst the ladies…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 1 - The Uneven Development of Colonialism in South Africa by Jeff Peires
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education To understand the complexities of modern South…
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
The Poor White problem spread to the factories and the slums of Johannesburg and was soon felt in the offices of the union. There was a constant flow into the…