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ArticleANC January 8th Statements
… between 1972 and 1979 the ANC issued statements related to major events or issues. These were known as Special … below. January 8th, 2024 - The Year of…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… introduce your schooling and political background: I went to school in Pretoria and became very involved in politics … in the struggle for Free Education. We…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is … I was kept in solitary confinement and I thought back to Miss Cook: Why was I the one to be…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate Media to Commemorate the Centenary of the Founding of Indian … ideal of a…
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… of South Africa. Various types of armed resistance spread to urban parts of the country when more organised political … ‘sent Nelson off to Africa a…
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu Timeline 1918 - 2011
… the village Camama in the Tsomo district of the Transkei to a very large family. Circa 1926 Albertina started school … documents were seized, in which blacks…
PlaceMelville Koppies Nature Reserve, Judith Road, Johannesburg
… the previous black inhabitants were well on their way to becoming non-persons, and in their place were white … suspicion that there was gold on the…
Political deaths in police custody 1984 - 1989
… July Ngalo, Johannes (26) Parys Found dead in cell due to serious internal injuries. 29 September Sebokeng … 85 Korotsoane, Tatlheho (28) …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… with dedication and determination over the last year to advance the historic mission of our movement of the … Alexandra walked nine miles from the township…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
… some foreign land as a "discovery" is because, according to the primitive 'finders keepers' rule, this lends support to any claim they make to "owning" the…
This doccie about a SA photographer is worth the watch by Garreth Van Niekerk (channel24), 28 May 2017
… of his extraordinarily prolific life and career – we get to see the man behind the camera with new eyes, and it’s … remarkable. “In the end, the photograph…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 102th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Congress celebrates one hundred and two years of service to our people today. We have gathered to pay tribute to our organisation, our people and our … IT…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Source-based Questions
… should also give a short and correct explanation. Refer to some questions below as an example. Always identify what your question is asking of you to do. …
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… Vorster Square police station, Johannesburg. In testimony to the inquest this week Salim Essop, with whom Timol had … .New ways had to be found to meet the…
EventMorgan Tsvangirai becomes Prime Minister of Zimbabwe
… (MDC-T) sharing portfolio ministries. The downturn to Zimbabwe's fortunes can be traced back to the Lancaster agreements in which Britain, as the former …
ArchiveRemembering Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for music of the day by Gwen Ansell (The Conversation), 23 January 2018
… at the Johannesburg Joy of Jazz Festival, taking time out to deal with his serious health issues, fans were forced to return to his recorded opus for…
Hugh Masekela: the horn player with a shrewd ear for the music of today, not yesterday, 29 October 2017
… Festival and his remaining October shows, taking time out to deal with serious health issues, fans were forced to return to his recorded opus for reminders…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… the more liberal climate of Cape Town Johnny Gomas seemed to have found his niche: organising workers through the … preventing the exports of foodstuffs. In…
ArticleCensus in South Africa
… From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting its third … South Africa (SSA), the interval period was extended to 10 years. The post-Apartheid…
Chapter 9 - Negotiating the transition
… was, where did one start? The ANC and the NP wanted to build on the agreements arrived at in CODESA and to … political and economic prospects appear bleak. A…
BiographyIsmail Jacob Mohamed
… as Ismail Mohamed, the name on his birth certificate and to his family and friends as Josef. Professor Mohamed’s mother worked for White families to earn a…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
… by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s injuries were such that he could … other frontline journalists were taken by…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… Mandela wrote: "Of all the observations made on the strike, none has brought so much heat and emotion as the … "irrationality" which the ruling class could…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
… unemployment, began clamouring for black organisations to assist them. Although the ICU took the lead in responding … whites interrupted him, hurling insults…
ArticleCommemoration, remembering and memorialising June 16 Soweto uprising
… the production of plays including Sarafina which went on to play on Broadway. Sarafina , a South African musical … 1981. Hector Peterson’s tombstone was also…
BiographyKgosi Abram Ramotshere Moiloa
… 1950s, took office in 1932 at the age of 22. He went up ‘to standard five [grade seven] level’ at a local school and … [H.F.] Verwoerd summoned chiefs,…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… Council (SSRC), Dan S. Montsitsi in connection with plans to commemorate the Soweto uprisings. Four white students are … in Namibia. September, 2000…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 3: Turning points in South African History, 1960, 1976 and 1990
… In 1948 South Africa held a general election which was to be decided by the white population of the country. A … has no colour, and that black and white…
Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner
… This paper is an attempt to work out what seems to me to be some of the implications … with the husband being the main provider and the child-bound wife…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
… some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed. The act of … These words, written more than a century…