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ArchiveSCANC Newsletter No 3
Newsletter produced by SCANC (Students Committee Against New Constitution) urging support for a co-ordinated campaign by students to sign a petition rejecting…
ArchiveSouth Africa : The Cordoned Heart Poster
Black and white poster. Second half of title in red letters. Photo of men carrying coffins with flowers in top. Exhibition on 4th March at Gertrude Posel…
EventBeyers Naudé and Allan Boesak arrested for leading a protest march
Beyers Naudé, Allan Boesak and 200 others are arrested for leading a march through the city of Cape Town to Pollsmoor Prison. They were protesting for the…
ArchiveCAS: Conscription Advice Service
Red, blue and white poster. Notice of Conscription Advice Service. Red and white border with initials CAS and goemetric shapes. Blue and white photograph of…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Early Writings
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 1. A. M. LEMBEDE, "The Importance of Agriculture," Iso Lomuzi,Vol. IV, no. 1 (October 1934…
ArchiveSurvey on Black Women in Employment in a number of Pinetown factories: Conference Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference 1978
Survey on Black Women in Employment in a number of pinetown Factories- Conference Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference on 14 March 1978…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
The revolution in Cuba, culminating in Fidel Castro’s seizure of power on 1 January 1959, was from the beginning based on a non-racial ethos, and revolutionary…
Celebrating 20 years of ASAI!
ASAI wants to invite you to join us for a full afternoon celebrating 20 years of ASAI: making art history from below.Date: Friday, 28th November 2025Venue:…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
9th September 2019 marks the 55th anniversary of the death in police detention of Suliman “Babla” Saloojee (aged 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the…
ArchiveStatements on Black Consciousness and human rights
The Southern African Catholic Bishops, in their Plenary Session of 4 February 1974, recommended that these pamphlets be studied as part of a pledge of…
ArchiveCost of apartheid: GST
Cream poster with title in red and black letters. Black and white artwork of men, sweating, pulling a rope dragging a large platform with bags of money,…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party (NP),…
ArchiveTransport and General Workers Union
A2 red, yellow, black, blue silkscreen; graphic of workers with flag (TGWU logo); text: We fight for Good Wages; a safe and healthy workplace, no unjust…
EventANC Matthews Mapumolo dies in police custody
Matthews Mapumolo, an African National Congress (ANC) member, dies in police custody after he had been confronted at home in Swaziland by a group of armed men…
EventEight British tourists are killed
Eight British tourists, five men and three women, were killed on their way to the Royal Natal National Park when their bus swerved to avoid a pedestrian on the…
EventThe Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period of time
The Voortrekkers are united for the first time and only for a short period, when Gert Maritz moved his own laager and several small laagers scattered over a…
EventWomen call for alternative ways of conscription
The Star reported that a number of women called on the government at a press conference to permit those men who refuse to serve in the army to make their…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were very restricted. The…
Statement in Court by Dr G. M. Naicker and Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding and Abetting Under the Immigrants Regulation Act of 1913, February 26, 1948
Statement In Court By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26,…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A provisional settlement was reached in 1911…
Forming the Federation
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner 'The battle for democracy and liberation can only be won when women, mothers of…
ArchiveDenis Goldberg belongs to those who defeated apartheid
As a white person in white-ruled South Africa, Denis Goldberg chose to be part of the struggles of the oppressed rather than live in the glare of white…
EventBritish troopship wrecked – 372 drown
The British troopship Arniston was wrecked on the rocks at what is now called Arniston in Marcus Bay, about twenty-five kilometres from Cape Agulhas. Of the…
EventNigerian political campaigner, women's rights activist and traditional aristocrat, Funmilayo Ransome Kuti is born
Funmilayo Ransome Kuti was born Francis Abigail Olufunmilayo Thomas on 25 October 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Kuti founded a women's organisation with 20 000…
Nelson Mandela by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "No Easy Walk to Freedom: Articles, Speeches and Trial Addresses of Nelson Mandela edited by Ruth First", 1965.
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
MANDELA AND TAMBO said the brass plate on our office door. We practised as attorneys-at-law in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
Nelson Mandela made many powerful speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East…