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Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… workers' wages by twenty-five per cent. to bring the wages on the Rand into line with coastal rates. The union, on the other hand, considered the existing…
Document 26 - Nelson Mandela’s reply to F. W. De Klerk
… Central Executive Committee held a strategy workshop on the 23 - 24 Oct. 1995 to deal with critical issues … ensure a greater understanding of the agenda and…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… for the deadlock abounded, in the media especially. On 20 May the ANC alleged that someone had tapped its CODESA … allegation, but the culprits were never…
EventRhodes statue removed at UCT
… excrement at the statue of Cecil John Rhodes situated on Rugby Road of the campus of the University of Cape Town, the statue was removed a month later on the…
ANC President Jacob Zuma to speak at the Imvuselelo one Million Membership Countdown Launch, 16 July 2011
… Fikile Mbalula and members of the ANC NEC sub-committee on Organising and Campaigns will on Monday, July 18, visit the historic Lilies Leaf farm in … during…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA’s richest gold deposit
… On 3 June 1954, a mining engineer at the Erfdeel farm in the … from nearly 6,000-feet. The Essayists revealed that, based on the test, the gold ore under…
EventANC receives letter of gratitude from the British Prime Minister, Herold Macmillan
… to the ANC for giving him the organisation's views on Nationalist apartheid policies. The recipient of the … to receive ANC delegation to talk about Britain…
EventBiafra, a Nigerian Province is recognised by Tanzania
… On 30 May 1967, Biafra declared itself independent from … President of Tanzania, supported this move by the Biafrans on the basis of ongoing instability due…
EventAn application to the Pretoria Supreme Court, to declare the Freedom of Choice to Terminate Pregnancy Law unconstitutional, fails.
… who asked the Pretoria High Court to set aside the Choice on Termination of Pregnancy Act, arguing that a fetus has a … with the Reproductive Rights Alliance…
EventDr Wilson Carswell, medical adviser to the government’s Aids unit, says about 100 000 South Africans are infected with HIV
… On 21 May 1991 the medical adviser to the government, Dr … in the world. It also has the highest number of sufferers on Antiretroviral Treatment (ART) in…
PlaceOnze Molen, Durbanville
… was declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 17 August 1984. At the beginning of the 19th Century, … he met William Burchell when he…
PlaceRust en Vreugd, Buitenkant Street, Cape Town
… the Cape during the mid-18th century, but it was designed on a grand scale and is larger than the average townhouse of … façade, a stoep with an overhanging…
PlaceRepublic of Griqualand West or the Digger's Republic
… and drove all the Transvaal officials out of the Area. On 30 July 1870 he declared the Klipdrift Republic and by … Digger's Republic or the Republic of…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… Mokhesi, better known as the "Sharpeville Six" opened on this date. They were accused of having killed the deputy … were found guilty of public violence but…
ArchiveBoycott the Can
… A2 red, yellow, black litho on white; graphic people demonstrating; crossed out soft … 22 black workers and after a week hired 3 white workers; On the 22…
EventAnnouncement of Hezekiel Sepeng’s 2 years suspension
… Olympic 800m silver medallist Hezekiel Sepeng was banned on 11 May 2005 from all competition for two years, following a drug test on 21 February of that year…
EventLocal elections receive go
… An emergency session was convened by parliament on October 12, 1995, to approve legislation to permit local elections to be held on November 1. This step was…
EventThirteen residents are gunned down in Mamelodi by South African police
… This followed the declaration of a State of emergency on 25 July 1985 by President PW Botha in 36 of South Africa’s … the Commissioner of Police could impose…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… he has created, I mean curated, tomorrow. Day 2 Set off on the local bus for Documenta 11 - the hotel has a computer … for the next hour - my bus arrives in…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
… of poverty eradication and a fairer world order firmly on the international agenda. In particular we hosted and … the launch of the African Union and the…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
… one of the oldest political movements in the country, and on the African continent. A key feature of the ANC over the … adopted by the 1997 and 2000…
Toast Remarks by President Jacob Zuma at the State Banquet in Honour of the President of Zambia, His Excellency, Mr Rupiah Bwezani Banda during his State visit to South Africa, 02 December 2010, Pretoria, Presidential Guest House
… Oliver and Adelaide Tambo, to Wattville in Benoni tomorrow on this special occasion. We extend a warm welcome to the … South Africa, and ensured that our…
ArchiveKvinnor mot apartheid
… grey and white poster. Artwork of a woman with a sack on her head, with initials ANC on it, and a rifle on her shoulder. …
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
… he went out to meet Jake N'tuli, the South African boxer. On the way back, Mokone bought a newspaper at Piccadilly … the policeman's supervisor recalled…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… of the World (IWW, the Wobblies) was the main influence on the radical left in South Africa in the early twentieth … strike in 1909. This cost him his job,…
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… us to the established of a 'democratic South Africa'. On the basis of this commitment many would have been led to … in the path of realising this goal. 2…
Bethal case-book
… Article on slavery at Bethal. A description of poor living … labour, beatings, lynchings and other gruesome assaults on Blacks working on farms in Bethal. …
ArchiveAway with this terrible system: yes to democr
… of a skeleton of a face, with the words: prefect system on the face; with image of people on on either side. …
ArchiveRemovals : who is next?
… Black lettering on white background. Red and white image of house on left hand side. Removal truck in red and white on right hand side. …
ArchiveDefend the right to sit where you like: resist train apartheid
… Circular convening a meeting to discuss segregation on trains and flyer calling on passengers to resist segregation on trains by sitting in seats marked For…