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Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… The second document is an ANC report of its delegation to the Minister of Justice in July 1941. At this time, the … whenever it has had any at all, has been…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… In November 1943, I was called into a small dress factory to settle a dispute caused by the employer, quite unjustly, … I moved that the employer be…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at May day rally, 01 May 1987, Stockholm
… It is a great honour for the ANC and for me, personally, to have been invited to participate with the Swedish labour movement and people in … struggle. While…
ArchiveChapter 14 Out of prison: 28 February 1985 as a free person by Denis Goldberg
… Once I knew I was being released I had a problem. I needed to buy clothes. Under guard I was taken shopping in Pretoria … to be meeting the world’s media and…
’Asinamali’
… forget it and they made slogans on walls. 'We want to have a pound a day.' We used to say ' Asinamali - sifunimali '. ['We have no money, we … on that…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
… It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with … guns. By 1914, more than 50,000 Indian workers had gone on strike, 10,000 Indians…
EventIvory Coast’s new prime minister, Daniel Kablan Duncan, takes office
… crime rose dramatically in the capital, Abijan. By 1990, a strike of civil servants and students led to the establishment of a multiparty democracy. … worked…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… Africa has a long history of student protests going way back to the anti-Apartheid marches that predated South Africa’s … often come up against heavily armed…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… tribes resulting in war and eventually contributing to the Mfecane 1812 Apprenticeship laws are promulgated at … Zwide of the Ndwandwe and is seized in an…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … and capital in a period where businesses could not afford to increase…
Address at the National Council Of Provinces, 12 November 2002
… you very much for affording me the opportunity once more to continue our dialogue with the National Council of … government's theme of this year, of lending…
ArchiveThe Womans place is in the struggle
… of woman with fist inside map of Africa; text: AWO; You strike a women you've struck a rock; Launch Alexandra Women's …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… this time in Pietermaritzburg, I believe it is imperative to first examine closely the political environment at the … scene one of the highlights of this…
Bloemfontein - segregation in education
… all White children between the ages of 10-16 years had to attend school for at least two years. Many children, … income bracket, still did not attend school…
ArticleForced removals on Highveld and "black spots", 1912-1991
… In the early 1960s the Apartheid government moved swiftly to dislodge numerous Black communities on the Transvaal … State and bought farms they could have…
ArticleInkatha Freedom Party (IFP)
… Zulu nationalism and created a platform for Buthelezi to advance his political ambitions. Buthelezi used the name … formally launched the Inkatha Cultural…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Today when we think of the leaders of the struggle we tend to think about Nelson Mandela , Walter Sisulu , Oliver Tambo … other prominent men. It is not…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… Simons, Ticktin, Sheridan Jones and Katz, 1 have attempted to improve our knowledge of such organisations, and the … workers. Their involvement in the 1919…
EventBhawani Sannyassi Dayal dies
… India. Dayal was one of the organisers of the Indian strike led by Mohandas Gandhi at Newcastle in 1913, and was a …
ArticleSouth West Africa People’s Organisation (SWAPO): An Organisational Timeline
… the Ovambo People’s Congress (OPC). 1958 Toivo attempts to smuggle the OPC’s petition to New York for presentation at the United Nations, but is … (Walvis…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… contribution in understanding the advancement from protest to challenge of white minority domination in our country. … 1946, the African mine-workers in…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… not write down their history. Instead, they told stories to their children about what happened, and so it was passed on from one generation to the next. In…
Liberation organisations
… Campaign The South African Defense Force (SADF) claimed to be 'the protector of peace-loving people'. However, it was … of both white and black soldiers. The…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Marks) region, Transkei (now Eastern Cape), South Africa, to Gilbert and Mary. He is the fifth of six children. 1950 … Youth League and local agent for the…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… of South Africa. Biko and his peers were responding to developments that emerged in the high phase of apartheid, … expelled from Lovedale College after he…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1800-1899
… resistance was launched by African people in response to their loss of land, livestock and political power. As voortrekkers moved away from the Cape Colony…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… Historical Context to Thabo Mvuyelwa Mbeki 1932 Epainette Moerane (Ma Mofokeng … Ma Mofokeng. 1945 Govan Mbeki and Ma Mofokeng give birth to their third born…
EventKhoikhoi warriors defeat Portuguese thieves
… Francisco de Almeida served as the viceroy to the Portuguese State of India from 1505 to 1509. Upon his successor taking over he sailed back to his homeland…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… material conditions in the Cape Colony that gave impetus to the rise of Jewish Trade Unions and their formation and … and D. Polikansky in tobacco, M…
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
… On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to be granted to the Transvaal and Orange River Colony will … interpretation and whether the Imperial…