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ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
1906 11 September, A mass meeting of Indians took place at the Empire Theatre in Johannesburg in connection with the agitation at present going on in the…
ArticleDefiance Campaign 1952
The post-1948 period saw the African National Congress (ANC) abandoning its traditional reliance on tactics of moderation such as petitions and deputations. In…
ArticleEnd Conscription Campaign (ECC)
In the late 1970s four young men publicly refused to obey their army call-ups by the South African Defence Force (SADF) and were sentenced to up to 18 months…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
Chairperson Your Majesties and Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and…
2. Potchefstroom: A Fighting Location
In the mid-1920s African protest escalated throughout the Transvaal countryside. African labour tenants and farm workers, chafing under poor wages and working…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
The years 1990 and 1991 were as important as they were eventful. The agreements recorded during this period ensured that obstacles in the way of substantive…
Dare you Ponder the Obvious: Of course Mbeki is Aloof by Thabo Mbeki, 1 February 2016
In 2001, the ANC National Working Committee (NWC), of which I was a member, issued the seminal document, “Through the eye of a needle? Choosing the best cadres…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The programme of the Fourth International Organisation…
PlaceGroenberg Mountain, Western Cape
Groenberg is a mountain and is located in Cape Winelands District Municipality, Western Cape, South Africa. The estimate terrain elevation above seal level is…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event by Phil Bonner
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered…
Chapter 2 - The Soweto Uprising of June 1976: A Turning Points Event
By 10:30 on 16 June 1976, thousands of students had gathered in Orlando West to begin a protest march against the imposition of the Afrikaans language as the…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
Luthuli was elected President of the ANC (Natal branch) in 1951 and this speech was delivered at the Bantu Social Centre in Durban in November of that year. It…
EventDr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures in South African history, dies
Dr Piet Koornhof, one of the most controversial figures from South Africa's apartheid era, died in a Stellenbosch frail care centre at the age of 82, following…
EventNyanga school Principal's office burnt
On 24 June 1976 the Principal's office in Hlengisi Primary, Nyanga, outside Cape Town is burnt down. The broader context of this is that on 16 June 1976 school…
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only opened in 1905. It was designed by…
South Africa: The Structure of Things Then by David Goldblatt, reviewed by Robyn Sassen (H-SAfrica), February 2000
Photography was only developed about 200 years ago and was viewed with suspicion as a creative outlet for much of that time. Yet it has developed a reputation…
ArchiveUnited Nations Security Council Address on Arusha Peace Process, by Nelson Mandela, 29 September 2000, New York USA
Mr President, Honourable Members of the Security Council We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report to your honourable…
Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process 29 September 2000 Mr President Honourable Members of the Security Council
We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report to your honourable selves and our esteemed world body on progress and the…
ArchiveKu Tlangeriwa ka makume mbirhi ntlhanu (25) Wa Malembe Ya Ntshuxeko eAfrika-Dzonga
Afrika-Dzonga, Afrika-Dzongamawaku, Ndzithonamihlotiemarhameniya mina, Ndzivuvumelaemakhorhweniyambiluya mina, LokondzianakanyanxanisekolowuAfrika…
PlaceSebokeng Township, Johannesburg
Sebokeng is a middle-class Township in Southern Gauteng. Very near the Industrial Cities of Vanderbijlpark and Vereeniging. It falls in the Region of the…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the…
A Political Reflection By John Fikile Block
The measurement of any collective is not when the executive tasks in the normal course of organisational work, but when leadership is confronted with the…
Appeal to the British People to Oppose the Visit of P.W. Botha: Open Letter to Archbishop Trevor Huddleston, President of the Anti-Apartheid Movement by O. R. Tambo, 21 May 1984
The decision of Mrs. Thatcher, Chancellor Kohl and other heads of government in Western Europe to invite P.W. Botha to visit a number of Western European…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
It is time for intensified mass action against the racist structure in our country. The heroic youth and masses in many parts of our country have stood against…
PlaceNewlands
In 1700, Governor Willem van der Stel was granted land some 9km outside Cape Town, which he named 'De Nieuwe Land' or 'Nieuwland' and developed as a country…
PlaceShangana Cultural Village
The Shagana Village is home to the Shangana people who speak isiTsonga, one of the official 11 languages in South Africa. The Village, which was built by…
PlaceTanzania
The Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama explored the East African coast in 1498 on his voyage to India. By 1506, the Portuguese claimed control over the entire…
JANAM People’s Theatre Group Tour!
11th Annual Julius Nyerere Lecture on Popular Education: Inspiring activism and education Thursday 30 October 2014 from 12h00 – 14h30 at UWC’s Senate…