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The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… political terrain resulting from the banning of the African National Congress and Pan Africanist Congress also … politics, academics and the education arena;…
PlaceClarkebury, Eastern Cape
… but Mandela became increasingly interested in native African culture, making his first non-Xhosa friend, a Sotho … War broke out. Although having friends…
Document 69 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 22 March 1937
… W.P.S.A. C.T. Branch. Dear Comrade, The strike of the African Metal Workers Union has been defeated with … 3) Natives scabbing through the general in…
A Helots’ Bill of Rights
… South African Communist Party Documents. 1923 A Helots’ Bill of … Tweedie . Every intelligent worker, whether of European or African descent, must associate…
EventMurder trial of “Sharpeville Six” opens
… Apartheid. The World Council of Churches (WCC), South African Council of Churches (SACC), Black Sash and other … Minister Kobie Coetsee. Pressure was…
PlaceUNISA’s Department of Art History, Visual Arts and Musicology
… while pushing boundaries of what is possible. The South African painter, Walter Battiss is one outstanding alumni of … and practice. "UNISA is the largest…
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… alternative, and this was especially so in the South African situation. The contending parties were not only … delegation was to meet with cabinet ministers,…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… the tailors were members. The newly-established South African Commerce Journal of being socialist agitator who … first to recognize their "foreign…
Building A National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… of democracy in 1994 marked the birth of our country as an African nation on the southern tip of the continent. It … a value system based on human solidarity…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Joe Gqabi, Harare, 9 August 1981
… of this region, correctly reflecting the positions of the African continent, have stood firm in defence of their … He entered political life, therefore, at a…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1948
… with the existing situation in South Africa. Council on African Affairs Just prior to the debate on South West Africa I had long conferences with the Council…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Special Focus: Wrangling between political groups - 1947
… of events here, and under these circumstances, the South African Indian Congress should have been consulted before … still have to live here side by side…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
… the P.A.C. 2. AIMS AND OBJECTS: (a) To unite and rally the African people into one national front on the basis of African nationalism. (b) To fight for the…
Establishment of Food Committee
… the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War , the South African economy was very weak.Unemployment and food shortages … of women’s struggle in South…
Comrade Keith Khoza`s father being buried on Saturday, 3 February 2011
… The African National Congress (ANC) sends its condolences to its …
ANC caucus statement on death of Adelaide Tambo, 01 February 2007
… to the Tambo family, friends, relatives and the African National Congress on this sad loss. Issued by: The …
EventPolice constable is buried alive at Ackerville cemetery near Witbank
… in the political struggle. The killers of 150 South African police officers received amnesty. Mandlazi Solomon …
ArchiveThe rehabilitation scheme: a new fraud
… they claim, was due to overstocking and therefore the African people should reduce the numbers of their cattle. The …
PlaceMiddle Campus, University of Cape Town, Rondebosch
… laid out by architect J.M. Soloman in 1918 when the South African College became the University of Cape Town, …
PlaceSmuts Hall, University of Cape Town
… of this hall was Mark Shuttleworth, who was also the first African in space. "The first thing that you will notice about …
EventNew Zealand imposes a blanket ban on sports teams from South Africa
… was brought about by a combination of pressure from some African states, demonstrations and disruption of rugby and … Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary…
EventPaul Michael Sibisi, SA artist and teacher involved in setting up cultural art workshops in Natal, is born.
… back in school when he was awarded a bursary by the South African Institute of Race Relations (SAIRR) to study at … South African History Online, Michael…
EventANC activists bribe warder and escape from prison
… J.A.; Schoeman, E. & Andor, L.E. (eds)(1999). Southern African Political History: a chronology of key political …
EventMass arrests in Pondoland
… , with 2 067 eventually brought to trial. While the South African Defence Force (SADF) was present in support of the … SAHO, General South African History…
EventBishop Ambrose Reeves returns to South Africa
… in England. Reeves was not welcomed back by the South African government, because he believed in the justice of the …
EventThe Riotous Assemblies Act Commences
… Security Act No 74 of 1982 Click here for more on South African Apartheid legislation. …
EventBruce Fordyce is born
… Bruce Fordyce, legendary South African winner of the Comrades Marathon, was born in Hong …
EventFormer premier of Mpumalanga, Afrikaans poet and lawyer, Mathews Phosa is born
… was born in Mbombela Township in Nelspruit. Phosa was an African National Congress (ANC) political campaigner and …
EventFormer NP member Roelf Meyer is born
… the key major political parties, namely the NP and the African National Congress (ANC). Former Sate President Nelson …
EventZANU-PF wins the first free elections in Zimbabwe
… The Zimbabwe African National Union-Patriotic Front (ZANU-PF) won the …