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74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… a million signatures. The Freedom Charter is a significant document because it represents a milestone in the political …
PlacePrince Albert
Nestled at the foot of the Swartberg Mountains, Prince Albert is a Karoo gem that feels untouched by time. The town’s well-preserved Cape Dutch and Victorian…
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over forty years. He was a…
PlaceMcGregor, Western Cape
Legend has it that our Breede Valley neighbors would admonish their errant children with "Behave! Or I'll send you to McGregor!" and no one can deny that…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… had decided to affiliate with the Third International, 119 thus accepting the Bolshevik tactics and strategy, the … of the League and the Party, releasing…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… pass including women in the legal language. Moreover, the document only used masculine pronouns, making the distinction …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… at length was able to hand over to the High Commissioner a document duly signed by himself and Lobengula, a document that is rightly designated as "The…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act. The document also mentioned the NIO's opposition to the … p 375 –378 23 Nelson Mandela. Long Walk to…
ArticleWomen in the Cities and the Resistance Movement
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… is convened in the German Democratic Republic and adopts a document entitled ‘The Way Forward from Soweto’. The …
ArticleThe Cattle Killing Movement
… with their collaborators would retreat into the sea. [119] At each month from June 1856 to the latest June 1857 … 2003.), 129 ↵ [117] Ibid, 125 ↵ [118] Ibid,…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… Congress. It is significant that the "African Claims," a document drawn by the African National Congress in 1944 … Mr. Ngubane would like the world to…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
… the ANC leadership called on Madiba to prepare a strategy document on how the ANC can operate underground given the … Madiba, a prisoner, negotiated the…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic transformation in southern Africa…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… suicide, and that no-one was to blame for his death. A document found in Mr. Timol's possession, which formed part … There were also documents with secret…
ArchiveDeputy President Cyril Ramaphosa: Memorial Service of Steve Mokone
… people adopted the Freedom Charter. It was in this seminal document that our people said: “The colour bar in cultural …
PlaceBenin
… 18 June, 2009] Facts About the Republic of Benin: Official Document . University of Pennslyvania website [online. …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Accepting the Deutscher Medienpreis Baden-Baden, 28 January 1999
… the opening lines of the Freedom Charter, the basic policy document of our liberation movement adopted more than forty …
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… text, like any other legal draft, is a cohesive document, and changes effected in one part of the text …
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… on local and national questions. The following document consists of the report submitted. V. Lawrence, Ahmed …
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
… and it later withdrew from the L.M.C. In the next document the committee's chairman, Dr. R. A. M. Salojee, …
48. Breach of the compromise
… of the British Indian Association. In the following, document Gandhi explains the breach. Source: Indian Opinion, …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
… Africa on the Power Grid (Cape Town: HSRC Press, 2009), p.119. [5] Gentle, “Escom to Eskom”, p.53; Jaglin and …
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… place. It fitted exactly the type of place described in a document about setting up the weapons manufacturing facility for MK, disguised as a poultry farm…
The Godliness of Apartheid Planning by Elizabeth Corrado, (University of Illinois), 5 October 2013
… resulting from displacement. The first major church document to address race policy by the NGK was released in … that: The reason for this shift in argument…
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…
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… and its favourite object of contemplation is itself’ (p. 119). Other key traditions include communism and … the adoption of a SACP-originated Strategies and…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… Coloured Population, 597,000; pupils of school-going age, 119,000; pupils at school, 89,000; pupils not at school, … out of his old avocations. " Here was a…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
… < http://psimg.jstor.org/fsi/img/pdf/t0/10.5555/al.sff.document.boo19800300.042.000_final.pdf > ↵ [10]. The Pulitzer …
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
… International Labour Organisation in a strongly worded document which, in addition to briefing the international …