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Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… this thesis a number of forces influencing consciousness formation, primarily the state’s direct propaganda machinery, … factors were significantly…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
… and the ANC Youth League. The meeting ends with the formation of the Joint Youth Action Committee with Kathrada …
ArticleFederation of South African Women by Skylar Jayes
… Internal Sub-Committee did urge the ANC to guide the formation of a national women’s structure, the internal …
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… time was right to call women to a meeting to discuss the formation of a national women's organisation. No record was …
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
… Xuma is elected president. He gives the go-ahead for the formation of a Congress youth league and nominates ET …
Armed struggle & the advancement of the student and labour movements, 1967-1976
… combatants passing through’ that country, as well as the formation of a joint political and military High command. …
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
… Democratic Party {N.D.P} of the early sixties ,the formation of the Zimbabwe African People’s Union [ZAPU] saw … (AZANLA) the was the highest expression of…
Evidence before the Foreign Affairs Committee of the house of commons: Oliver Tambo, 29 October 1985, London
… This is basic to our policy. Therefore, we encourage the formation of organisations that can operate legally and we … is also related to that - the fact that…
Joint statement by ANC Commission on Religious Affairs and SACC, 18 September 2009
Leaders representing the Commission for Religious Affairs (CRA) and the South African Council of Churches (SACC) met at Chief Albert Luthuli House in…
PlaceNiewoudtville
(prior to 1910) The village of Nieuwoudtville was established in 1897 on the farm Groenrivier which, as the name implies, was sited on the banks of the Groen…
PlaceBuffalo City Metropolitan Municipality and East London
… the area around Cove Rock, a 14-meter-high sandstone rock formation near East London, South Africa. (LINK IN FURTHER …
PlaceLekkersing, Namaqualand
The small settlement of Lekkersing, established in 1926 by Ryk Jasper Cloete, lies 60 km east of Port Nolloth. It is said that its name (which means to sing…
EventIan Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia
Ian Smith announced that he is ready to yield to majority rule in Rhodesia (now known as Zimbabwe). This represented an about turn from his announcement of the…
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… Corporation will be a huge concern "for promoting capital formation through commercial institutions". It will establish … today be rejected." Mettler then…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,
… that we have had to engage simultaneously on policy formation, elaboration of legislation and implementation. In …
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… Observatory. He also was one of the early activists in the formation of the African Political Organisation of Matt …
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… Organisation (SaSo). In March 1973 SaSo initiated the formation of the South African Students’ Movement (SaSm) to …
Address by Deputy President Thabo MBeki at the Conference on Infrastructure Investment, 28-29 March 1996
… tariff and trade strategy, restructing of taxation, the formation of NEDLAC, the national training strategy, to name …
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… The call made by Seme was answered with the formation of the African National Congress (ANC) on 8 January … conflict between black and white workers…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… movements severely crippled inside the country, the formation of SASO had an impact that spun into the following … ’, to South Africa on the eighth…
PlaceLouwsburg, Zululand
Louwsburg is a little Village on the main road to Pongola, about 70 kilometres East of Vryheid and roughly 400 kilometres North of Durban. Louwsburg is named…
PlaceKrugersdorp
In Afrikaans it means: 'Kruger's Town, falling under the municipality known as: 'Mogale City'. Krugersdorp was essentially a mining town, regarded as the…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in…
PlaceCape Agulhas, Western Cape
Cape Agulhas is some 32 km South of Bredarsdorp. The name is Portuguese for 'needle' and is said to have been given because the compass needle was seen to…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… alliance, its role in Umkhonto we Sizwe, as well as in the formation of other united front organisations and alliances …
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… exploitation and oppression. It does not allow the formation of an African peasantry. Nor does it allow the …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… proportional representation to ensure that every political formation which has any degree of support would have a place …
PlaceGod’s Window
A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
PlaceCamdeboo was called Aberdeen, Eastern Cape
Aberdeen is about 50 km South-West of Graaff-Reinet and only 3 hours drive from Port Elizabeth.Aberdeen was founded when the Nederduits-Gerefomeerde Kerk …