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ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
Jock Strachan – who died this month aged 94 – prevented a probable second massacre of black demonstrators outside Central Prison in Durban by deliberately…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
1930 October 5, The Asiatics Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… than five percent of the total poll could enter into a coalition of national unity. However, political democracy … ethno-nationalism, hoping to constitute a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up…
Pretoria the Segregated city
Contents Pretoria the Segregated city The Tomlinson Report Atteridgeville and Saulsville Hammanskraal Mamelodi Mabopane Laudium Eersterus …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… General Hertzog becomes prime minister. 17 June, The Pact coalition between the National Party and Labour Party wins …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… emphasise the dominant role of the working people in the coalition of class forces which constitute the liberation …
Chapter 2: The Nature and Character of Vigilantes in Kwazulu-Natal
… the point that the public was well aware of the coalition between the IFP and the vigilantes. 31 On 26 August …
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of independence. Jonathan Wilson tells of a…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic So far, this feature has described how the…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations and throughout South Africa were becoming active in distinctive, often…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… would give them disproportional influence within any coalition””necessitating a numerical counterweight in any … the complex social and geographic…
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…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
Culture/Creativity/Communism: cultural expression and South Africa’s communist movement by Judy Seidman This paper opens up the question about the role…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
Dawood Seedat: The Communist who insisted that there was 'no middle road to freedom’ by Goolam Vahed Department of History University of KwaZulu-Natal -…
ArticleNelson Mandela Awards 1960s - 2000s
Awards 1960s 1964 Elected Honorary President of the Students' Union, University College, London. 1965 Elected Honorary President of the Students'…
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson of…
ArchiveChapter 5 Last resort: armed resistance by Denis Goldberg
After the State of Emergency in 1960, when so many of us were locked up for four or five months in detention, there was a widespread feeling that we were…
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa, Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 03 Jun 2009 …
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
Three documents, fundamental changes that took place in black protest politics and African nationalist thinking during the 1940s, particularly in the African…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… are excluded from partaking in the election. The DTA is a coalition of conservative parties, each based on ethnic …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
UCT Summer School 2020
Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
… with regard to the building of the broadest possible coalition for a democratic and nonracial South Africa. …
Render South Africa Ungovernable! - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 73rd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1985
… alliance headed by the ANC, on one hand, and the fascist coalition of the HNP and the Conservative Party on the other. …