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EventAfrican's Claim is presented at the conference
At the annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) held in Bloemfontein, the document the African's Claim in South Africa, presented by the…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
… on equal footing with the settlers." Maloka concludes the chapter by deconstructing the myth of friendship from the …
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… race, class, belief or sex ’. (Ebrahim, 1998) Indeed, Chapter I of the Constitution states that South Africa is …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
In the 1950s the government's increasingly repressive policies began to pose a direct threat to all people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
Like all other Black ethnic groups, the Coloureds also fell victim to segregation and repressive legislations enacted by Colonial and successive governments…
South African Constitution 1996
The adoption of the South African Constitution on 8 May 1996 was one of the turning points in the history of the struggle for democracy in this country. The…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
The first National Consultative Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known as the …
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… for all South Africans. Increase financial support to Chapter Nine Institutions such as the Commission for Gender …
XI - The Verdict
… of the courtroom, nobody even bothers to comment on this chapter of inhumanity. Not Prins, not Kruger, not the …
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
This article was written by Skylar Jayes and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectAbstractThe Federation of South…
ArticleThe Johanna
The Johanna, or Joanna, was a British East Indiaman vessel sailing from Kent, England, to Surat, India, under the command of Captain Robert Brown. She embarked…
First Matabele War
In 1890 Cecil John Rhodes became premier of South Africa with the support of the Afrikaner Bond. Rhodes' grand imperial vision for a British Africa included…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Building A National Democratic Society Chapter I: Introduction South Africa has entered its Second … to act as one in pursuit of a better life for all…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… became known as the Bulhoek Massacre. It opened another chapter in South African history of Black people's defiance …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… became known as the Bulhoek Massacre. It opened another chapter in South African history of Black people’s defiance …
EventThe Women’s National Coalition Conference starts
The inter-racial Women's National Coalition (WNC) Conference (25-27 February 1994), started in the World Trade Centre, Kempton Park. The conference focused…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… known Grendon near the start of the twentieth century. A chapter on Grendon appeared in his dissertation and was …
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
Introduction Full feature on the History of Women’s struggle in South Africa will give a broader view of the role played by women in the struggle for freedom…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial unions, white dominated racially…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
From the early years of colonial rule, South African youth had participated in various forms against the racist character of colonialism, oppression, and…
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… imposition of comprehensive and mandatory sanctions under Chapter VII of the United Nations Charter. International … mandatory sanctions against apartheid…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner There were such a lot of things happening at that time, and some very good…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
… movement, and indeed, his passing on closes an important chapter in the struggle for freedom and democracy in our …
ArticleDutch East India Company (DEIC)/VOC
March 20, 1602 marked the beginning of the inexorable end for many a state in the then known world. On that day, four hundred years ago, a group of Dutch…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… and social upheaval (see Gaitskell, 1983: 249). This chapter looks first, briefly, at African women's response to … for group prayer on Thursday. As already…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… Subsequent demands of clandestinity closed this chapter on open membership inside the country both for the …