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South Africa's political landscape, as visual poetry: Haunting images have understated, dry elegance by Mark Feeney, 20 February 2011
Goldblatt, who turned 80 in November, is among the greatest of living documentary photographers. He won the Hasselblad Award, something like a Nobel for…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
‘After being a man of the world, I have discovered there is no Zulu, Xhosa, Mosotho or Coloured, but all are and must be known henceforth as Africans’, JT…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress had several…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. -…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
Comrades and compatriots,It is an honour and a privilege to participate in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the ANC Youth League.I wish to commend the…
Year of women of South Africa by E.S. Reddy
she's going to travel very far I was born in 1925 and grew up near Hermitage Street, on the hill in Paarl. We were four brothers and four sisters. My father,…
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
In this chapter my concerns are with SANSCO's mobilisation of students and its collective actions, and especially the form and content of mobilisation and…
V - The Funeral
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Thirteen Western nations sent diplomats to the funeral on 25 September. Police…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
Programme Directors, Ntombazana Botha and Barbara Creecy, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Your Excellency, Vice…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally…
EventRay Alexander Simons, founder of Food and Canning Workers Union, arrives in South Africa
Ray Alexander Simons nee Alexandrowich arrives in South Africa from Latvia where she was born on 12 January 1913. After her arrival in the country she realized…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
It is a great honour for me to be with you on this day, the National Day of Safety and Security. The people of the East Rand, and in particular Katlehong,…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter will examine the…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
- Soweto and All That, June 1976 - October 1978 Fifteen years after our commitment to armed struggle, we could mount no organised retaliation by armed groups…
Madikwa Game Reserve, North West
Many of the Farms described by writer Herman Charles Bosman in his short stories no longer exist, quite a number having been incorporated into Madikwe Game…
PlacePakhuis Pass
Pakhuis Pass (R364) is a spectacular 26.4 km paved mountain pass in South Africa's Western Cape, connecting Clanwilliam with Calvinia. Built by Thomas Bain, it…
The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
Names: Mellet, Patric Tariq. Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: …
ArchiveAppendix 3 The Freedom Charter
We, the People of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that…
Note on meeting with Mr. Sam Nujoma -1983
We, the people of South Africa, declare for all our country and the world to know: that South Africa belongs to all who live in it, black and white, and that…
Appendix - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 The Freedom Charter Adopted at the Congress of the People, Kliptown, on June 26, 1955 We, the…
Early Beginnings
British Association for the Advancement of Science RECEPTION ROOM UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW 5 September 1928 General Secretary C.P.S.A. [Communist Party of South…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
“The ‘baasskap’ cookie must crumble” Mafika Pascal Gwala and the quest for a humane society If Mafika Pascal Gwala, the combative, quiet, loud, tender,…
Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the Congress of the People at Kliptown, Johannesburg on 25 and 26 June 1955
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 23 - The Freedom Charter adopted at the…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson The existence of a large number of unskilled and unemployed …
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…