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Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were … United Democratic Front (UDF) and the Congress of South African Trade Unions …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… Union. He served on the Editorial Board of the South African Labour Bulletin from 1976 to 2008 and was chair of … Abstract The 1973 Durban strikes, when 60…
Gandhiji and the struggle for liberation in South Africa
… Gandhiji always considered himself an Indian and a South African. Not only had he spent twenty-one years of his adult … the precursor of the great non…
Some Observations on HIV and Mortality in South Africa: 2007, 2008 and 2013 by Thabo Mbeki, 14 March 2016
… tuberculosis responsible for 10,7% of deaths in the black African population group, followed by HIV disease responsible … during the period since 2008 that,…
Chapter 9. The Struggle against Sweating - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… All South African labour laws have objectionable features which cause … Act. Under all these laws non-European-and especially African-workers are guilty of…
EventGovernment's final consolidation of 'homelands'
… and a way to strip Black South Africans of their South African citizenship. The argument from the point of view of the Apartheid government was that Black…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… was the 'true' successor of SASO. It was believed that claims to SASO's legacy would not confer any advantage, and … previous leaders of the secondary-school…
PlaceKumalosville, Kwa Zulu Natal
… 1908, a Mr Daniel Bester sold 250 acres of land to an African syndicate whose trustees were Chief J.H. Kumalo and … it adjoined the railway line, something…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… Army (APLA) was the underground military wing of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after … of the PAC and other political…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… British, some writers – including the first notable South African English poet, Thomas Pringle, in his famous poem ‘The … names Korana and Griqua have become…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris South African social scientists have severely neglected the … Socialist League, which in 1920 adopted the name of…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… comrades there discussing the problems of organising the African Youth. There was the Young Communist League, but the … comrades. So they felt that the best…
Speech on Receiving the Freedom of Durban, Durban, 16 April 1999
… I know, honouring not one individual, but the whole South African nation. It is they who overcame the divisions of … cultures, precious threads in the rich…
PHOTOGRAPHY REVIEW; Apartheid, Reflected in an Inventory of Simple Objects by Sarah Boxer (The New York Times), 24 July 1998
… is a ''Cafe-de-Move-On,'' one of the coffee carts that African workers in Johannesburg would visit for tea, lunch, … in the middle of a vast grassland is…
ANC Press Statement presented by Oliver Tambo, 16 August 1985, Lusaka
… some as possibly contributing to the solution of the South African problem. He prescribed the same solutions which have … our country and to continue the…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… between the various racial groups that make up our South African population: five years of living on the brink of … opportunity to call on all organisations,…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
… created conditions for a sustained expansion of the South African economy since the Second World War with the rate of … of international debates. He made his…
ArchiveA History of Botsotso by Allan Horwitz
… with inter-action: the different elements of the South African mosaic colliding, synthesizing – affected both by … together with the collapse of COSAW (the…
ArchiveThe Moral Problem of Winnie Mandela by Paul Trewhela (Dailymaverick.com), 6 April 2018, South Africa
… murder of Stompie Seipei, this gross abuse of the South African legal process and of his civil rights prevented … orders, you would die.” Mandela had “the…
ANC Press Statement by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 16 August 1985
… some as possibly contributing to the solution of the South African problem. He prescribed the same solutions which have … our country and to continue the…
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
… Community was inseparable from that of the oppressed African majority. That is why, amongst other things, Mahatma … as an elected chief by a regime that…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Investment Against Crime Seminar 19 August 1998
… are full and unqualified members of the broader South African nation. Ladies and gentlemen; We cannot forget that … Where the situation demands it we deploy…
Biko’s legacy lives on in our nation’s history and culture by Nkosinathi Biko, 12 September 2012, South Africa
… Africa a more humane face”. Although grounded in the South African experience, the message of black consciousness finds … have been declared national…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… legal profession'. The challenge he issued to all South African lawyers was twofold. Firstly, he called upon the … playing not only for Wits but for the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… rural change were key processes that helped to shape South African society. They impacted on black social life and … and vitality of the marabi shebeens. On…
61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… His speech was given at emergency conference of the South African Indian Congress in Johannesburg on 5 October 1930. … Most of us who live in this country…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… to inquire into and report on Communism in the South African Trade Unions, The report was published in booklet … of Mein Kampf - one long, foul slander…
PlaceMali
… as well as some Malinke and Bambara, practice traditional African religions. Even among Muslim and Christian converts, … death rates, though they remain high…
EventBreyten Breytenbach was born on this day
… Breyten Breytenbach was a South African writer, poet, and painter. He became internationally … as a political prisoner of the National Party –led South…
ArchiveEddie Webster leaves a legacy of advocacy for social justice that transcends academia by Ethan van Diemen (Daily Maverick), 5 March 2024
… to understanding and advocating for the rights of South African workers. His academic journey began at Rhodes … the Institute of Industrial Education and the…