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Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … paper argues that those activists who provided support to the emerging…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… industrial unions and non-racial industrial unions merged to form one trade union called South African Trades and … the Workers Charter. This Charter was…
EventThe apartheid government reportedly pays compensation for death of Steve Biko
… developed. The aim of the Black Consciousness Movement was to address the psychological impact of apartheid, and to unite all non-white South Africans under…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… JoÁ¢o Baptista (1662). As the survivors made their way to safety, they encountered various groups of people with … pastoralists dominated the area around…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… March 1960. March - April, Nation-wide strikes in response to banning of the ANC. 20 March, Rioting and arson in … two weeks. Ninety five percent of the…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
… This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference … paper we revisit the work of Karl Polanyi and our attempt to apply it…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… Zimbabweans, The people of this country are not strangers to the graveside. They have even known mass graves. In their … ready to tear asunder the bonds of…
Event1 575 people are detained under a state of emergency
… The events which led to mass detentions in April 1960 were the following: A state … by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) on 21 March 1960, led to bloodshed…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… is the three Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa began to play a leading part in the campaign of the Nationalist Party to disrupt the trade unions. They…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… From the moment I assumed office, I came face-to-face with the "Poor White" problem, one of the major … the competition of the Africans. After the…
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… 27 June 1955, it was clear that the government intended to accuse the leading activists in the congresses of treason. … foolscap sheets of paper, copied 156…
PlacePhansi Museum
… clay pots, ceremonial attire and medicinal items dating back to the mid-19th Century. We have a particular love and … they are made, their beauty and their…
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… ↵ The value of history is derived from its obligation to view all factors and clues of the past that lead up to one … instilled itself as the royal family,…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… from being a 90-day detainee under solitary confinement to an awaiting trial prisoner was bewildering and the … identified as threatening. His family’s…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… oppression of men and women on the basis of colour has led to a combined fight against the system instead of a battle of … Native Transportation Amendment…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… novels on South Africa. His style has been compared to Kafka and Beckett. He is best known for novels such as … , making him only the second South African,…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me the newspaper file I needed. He was … is both personal and political. The…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 2: Explorers from Europe find southern Africa
… Great Zimbabwe When Mapungubwe was abandoned, it was to the benefit of Great Zimbabwe. The cultural, political and economic power in the area shifted to…
ArticleHistory of Women in Prisons during Apartheid
… the times of apartheid, Blacks were continuously sent to prison for little or no reason making it even more difficult to resist apartheid. While it is well…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleThe Bambatha Rebellion begins
… of the tax came when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in the Silverstream district. The Hlongwas refused…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… they were formally charged on 16 June 1971 with conspiracy to overthrow the state, recruiting members for the armed … awarded him a gold pin in 1971 on its…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
… against apartheid. May Day, as we know it, refers to various international socialist and labour movement … Serfs, slaves, trades people and others had been…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… approximately 3.5 million Africans were forcibly removed to the State created 'homelands.' The intensification of … in urban areas without a valid pass,…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… Britain, France, Russia - in April 1917, and sent troops to reinforce the Western Front (see Map 1. In March, Germany, … five major offensives against Allied…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all intents and purposes the Coloured people were looked … men to lead them intellectually and…
42. Petition from Indians at the time of Union
… Pachai This document, dated 10 July 1909, was submitted to the Secretary for the Colonies in London at the time that … Natal authorities and the Indian…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… Black Kei River near his home in Ntabelanga. He decided to call his followers “Israelites” as he identified with the … stopped working and ploughing their…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
… fair play had repeatedly been shaken, he had already come to the realisation, where many of his fellow-leaders had not, … with much favour in the British…
Article2016 in Review
… of December we reached 10 million page views. It is nice to know that we are making a difference in classrooms and … this past year and have a dedicated team…