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Black Peoples Convention - National Leadership
… Drake Tshenkeng B. NATIONAL LEADERSHIP OF THE SOUTH AFRICAN STUDENTS ORGANISATION (SASO) Elected at the formal … for the Educational and Cultural Advancement…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… or, to use a more correct expression, out of their African civilization, have for generations remained quite, … had the chagrin of being treated as the…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… to extend the area of human freedom in South Africa, other African patriots - devoted men - did so before me! I also, as … it is a welcome recognition of the…
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
… of class oppression in the particular context of South African politics and society –all were there in the songs … this had on maintaining meaningful contact…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… educational system was Euro-centric, and undermined African achievement. The Africanist revival of African history that centred around themes such as African…
ArticleNatal Indian Congress (NIC)
… under the umbrella organization, the SAIC (South African Indian Congress). However, in the 1930s-1940s the NIC … Indian Congress, the three later went on to…
PlaceOhrigstad
Ohrigstad was founded in 1845 by Hendrik Potgieter, the well-known "Voortrekker" leader. He named the Town after himself and George Ohrig: Andries-Ohrigstad…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Racism against Indians
… author of the Preamble was left Isolated and as a South African, I myself felt the humiliation. I then thought that … The memo states that the local…
ArticleDutch Reformed Church (DRC)
… they transplanted their Dutch Reformed theology to the African continent. Jan van Riebeeck formally established the … groups to pray under, one umbrella,…
ArticleTransition and negotiation, 1990-1994
… Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new democratic … Constitution was also the birth…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Men like Ahmed Mohammed Cachalia and Thambi Naidoo gave up family life to work alongside Gandhi. Though wives and …
ArticlePretoria: The Founding of the City
… for more than 20 years [ii] . Mzilikazi was a Southern African King who founded the Matebele kingdom, Matebeleland … the Boer-populated Transvaal (former…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… against the apartheid government. In both coloured and African townships in Cape Town protests and against the … security forces led by a Vlakplas based unit…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
… may be traced. We observe a permanent see-saw between African unity, which fades quicker and quicker into the mists … side, the leaders who have been the…
PlaceRetreat, Cape Town
Retreat is a Suburb of City of Cape Town, Western Cape with a postal code. It is about 15 kms West-North-West of the Provincial Capital City of Cape Town. The…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
… of the Superpowers. Despite its racist policies, the South African government was supported by many governments in the … Britain and the USA. This was…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… for the past two decades, as chief executive of the South African History Online (Saho) website. During a pandemic … the attendant trauma inflicted on…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial …
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted the charge that South African movement was engineered and controlled from India and … no pecuniary benefit from Phoenix, the…
ArticleOliver Tambo Speeches 1971-1979
… Speech by Oliver Tambo on the Sixtieth Anniversary of the African National Congress ". Lusaka, 8 January 1972 1973 " … ". Address by Oliver Tambo to the…
Extract from a speech made at Bethlehem on 2 September
… your work, continue to strive for your ideals, so that the family you are building or hope to build some day can live … in the Federal Parliament. Now they…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… on the social and political structure of the South African society. This alone is evidence of there being … but she seemed to gravitate towards disadvantaged…
ArticleA History of the Springbok Legion
… used to fondly describe the roughly 200 000 white South African men who volunteered to serve in the Union Defence … when the springbok was used as an emblem…
PlaceKoringberg
… Koringberg, one of many in the areas to have its roots in the church. It was only when the …
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… Open any school mathematics book and the role of African scholars has been relegated to the category of … was in some way linked to tribalism. The…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… Attempts to reform this system were made by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) which appointed … A series of reforms were suggested…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against…
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… Since 1994, when democracy was established, South African students had their own struggles. In recent years, … were led by the student organisation called…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter Campaign
… On 23 March 1954 the executives of the ANC, South African Indian Congress, South African Congress of Democrats and the newly formed South African Coloured…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…