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Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the struggle against racism, today known by the name 'apartheid". Some of these…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
Mahatma Gandhi achieved greatness for the struggles that he fought on the political, economic, cultural and moral fronts. His ideas about love, truth, soul…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1948 Resisters will cross border: No Permits …
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are discernible. Originally a…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Sunday, August 29 Things are hotting up again. We haven't seen much happening here…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President Paul…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Thandi Modise, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President David…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 3 February 2006 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the Non-European Unity Movement? The Non…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
OUR LAND AND JOBS NOW! PEOPLES’ MANIFESTO AND A PLAN OF ACTION FOREWORD BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF JULIUS MALEMA FOREWORD The year 2019…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
THE HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or discussed with new recruits. There were…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! We of the African National Congress meet once again to review South African and world events; our Congress policy of rights and…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
LEGISLATURE, GOVERNANCE AND CONSTITUTIONAL AFFAIRS 1. PARTICIPATORY DEMOCRACY Participatory democracy can be enhanced by addressing the following issues: …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn, USA, May 4 2015 Nelson Mandela and the last…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise, Deputy Speaker of the National…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
... A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist in: it teaches them not to think of…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and apartheid-South Africa” Wolfram Kistner [1975] makes an…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 11) “Bantu Education or the Street” The first half of the 1950s was the…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy Chapter 8 Into the Fifties: Defiance Mass trials and mass action characterised the next two decades. The …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison diary that he kept…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
Contents Economic Development and the Expansion of the African Working Class The Quiescence of Political Organisation in the 1930s Mass Spontaneity and the…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of…
ArticleSita’s story
My Childhood at Phoenix Settlement I was born on 19th of October 1928 on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
INTRODUCTION No significant change has occurred in South Africa in the last decade. Apartheid and racism continue their tyranny and the South African society…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
This essay discusses my experiences and recollections of the 1957 bus boycott in Alexandra, the township in which I grew up. Unusually, it was a freehold area…
ArticlePaper abstracts and biographies of speakers
NameKoni Benson & Asher GamedzeOrganisationUniversity of Cape Town Biography Asher Gamedze currently cuts up most of his time between playing music, studying…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
Women at the start of the 20th century It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been…
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
The Soul of the ANC is under severe attack not from external forces as we would have thought, but from its own members and leaders. At the beginning, and in…
Sita - Memoirs of Sita Gandhi by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie
My Childhood at Phoenix Settlement I was born on 19th of October 1928 on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days…