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Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… today as they were of the whole of it then. Years of colonial policies and apartheid neglect have ensured that, 50 …
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… South Africa CAN substantially determine the expansion of colonial liberation movements in Africa; the early stages of …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the XIV Summit Conference of the Non-Aligned Movement, Havana, Cuba 14 September 2006
… anything else, was an initiative on the part of the anti-colonial and anti-imperialist movement to ensure that the …
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… the late Queen Victoria. In a despatch from the then Colonial Secretary, the Duke of Newcastle, to the Governor of …
PlaceKwaZulu-Natal Literary Trails (under Heritage Routes)
… to different key places in Paton's life. For a look at colonial literary history, the Rider Haggard trail includes …
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… populations were enslaved, abused and killed. In 1542, colonial laws were introduced to protect the Amerindians. In … century, the USA expanded by buying…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… resident magistrate of Klip River country and the acting Colonial Secretary for Natal, Christopher Bird. “As to the … disturbances. Following the Anglo-Zulu…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… century, it was regarded as a stronghold of capitalist and colonial values. The establishment of other suburbs further … Yet, because of their closer…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… to put together a collection of modern art for this colonial town. But in fact, Florence Phillips’s preference … expanded on the proposal “to hold an…
Chris Hani Memorial Lecture by Pallo Jordan, 15th April 2003, South Africa
… of conspicuous consumption disgusted him more than the colonial arrogance of the settler bourgeoisie. While he … that the world may well be entering a second…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… the wedding of his friend, Hardutt Singh's, sister, the Colonial Office in the Port of Spain declares him a … immigrant and detain him on instructions from…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… in 1960 and 1961. The air was redolent with anti-colonial and revolutionary struggles. Armed revolutionary … in South Africa. He predicted that it would…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
… (the Transvaal and the Orange Free State) and the British Colonial Powers. One of the causes of this tension was the … as he claimed that he already paid…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… people. On this road lies the continuation of the anti-colonial tradition of the Irish people who themselves fought … to be contributing to the elaboration…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
… this violent clash marked a turning point in the European colonial mission known as the Scramble for Africa . This … such a powerful symbol of African…
EventThe Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser, a bilingual newspaper and the first to publish news and advertisements, is published for the first time.
The Cape Town Gazette and African Advertiser was the first newspaper to be published in Africa. It was started by two slave dealers, Alexander Walker and John…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
… of African patriots who were not prepared to endure colonial subjugation. In South Africa, as we know, at the … time when Inkosi Luthuli was born, our armed…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… to be defeated. In South Africa the whites maintain their colonial rule over the black population, or the majority. The … population are worsening; the…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… from diverse backgrounds without links to former colonial interests. My own origins are Irish and as you know, … agreed to fund the arrangement, compensating…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
… In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in … Republics (Transvaal and Orange Free State).The British colonial power, through its…
PlaceTranskei
… River and on 10 May Governor D'Urban extended the colonial boundaries to the Great Kei River. On 16 June this … the Great Kei River around Kei Drift and…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
… to create a black labouring class was a long process. Colonial conquest did not automatically bring about a class … the formation of the Union of South…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… taught and later went into the civil service. The British colonial retirement age of 45 was also imposed on the locals. … all over the country and provided…
EventSlavery abolished in the Cape
On 1 December 1834, slavery came to an end in the Cape Colony. The move to abolish slavery in the Colony came a year after the Slavery Abolition Bill of 1833…
ArticleSouth Africa needs a national holiday on 16 November to acknowledge its indentured
… which was the catalyst for the earlier struggle against colonial domination initiated by that noble soul from …
EventCongo administration is handed to the Belgian government
… policies toward the Congolese. Atrocities committed by colonial officials in the Congo were circulated in Europe, … be the most graphic account of the…
ArchiveJakes Gerwel: The epitome of integrity and courage by Niren Tolsi, 30 November 2012
… Gerwel's academic work positioned him as "the first post-colonial theorist in Afrikaans". "He was thinking critically …
PlaceLesotho
… territory of Basutoland played an important role in the Colonial History of Southern Africa. The first formal contact …
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… in our history. The resistance of the black man to white colonial intrusion was crushed by the gun. Our struggle to …