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BiographyBenjamin Magson Kies
… political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his death in 1979. His major contribution as an activist was to the development of…
ArticleThe South African Coloured People’s Organisation (SACPO)
… Apartheid . James la Guma and Reggie September were two of the SACPO’s founding members, and served as President and … segregationist legislation was the…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
… I The Constitution of South Africa shall provide for the establishment of one … a common voters' roll, and, in general, proportional representation. IX…
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker, President of the Senate and Deputy President, Deputy Presidents, Chief Justice, distinguished members of the National…
Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943
… - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 7 - Draft declaration of unity provisionally adopted at Unity Conference, … Bloemfontein, 17 December 1943 These…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated societies control … honour and respectability are…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki, at the University of Havana, Cuba, 27 March 2001
… Guests; Comrades and friends: In 1940, the Office of Public Opinion Research in the USA conducted a nation wide … those words that seemed to describe best…
ArticleBlack Sash
… The Women's Defence of the Constitution League In 1955 a small group of white middle-class women who were predominantly … It was initially formed to protest…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide when they occur, to a large extent on the…
Address By President Mandela - Opening Of The President’s Budget Debate Cape Town, 2 March 1999
… the nation: a nation which has mandated each and every one of us to work towards the goal of a better life for all South Africans, and especially the … It…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
… On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station ……
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
… farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We have convened on this grieving piece of the…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic much neglected … as 1901 and played prominent roles in…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
… Response to the State of the Nation debate by His Excellency Mr JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; National Assembly 16 February 2010 … 2010…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… Master of Ceremonies; Premier Tokyo Sexwale; Mayor Mxolisi Xayiya; … I am very proud and honoured to be a free citizen of Boksburg. It is a city whose own…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… June 18, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal reposted from Amandla! Magazine — A defining feature of the 1976 uprising was the decisive…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… well before Jan van Riebeeck, administrator in the service of the Dutch East India Company (also known as the VOC) … caused much damage to shipping in the…
ArchiveSpeech at the Unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini, Tuesday 19 January 1999
… Address by President Nelson Mandela at unveiling of the Samora Machel Memorial, Mbuzini 19 January 1999 Your Excellency, President Chissano of Mozambique;…
Oration by Oliver Tambo at the funeral of Moses Kotane, 26 May 1978, Moscow
… with Moses Kotane was in 1946, which was the beginning of a period of great political upheavals in our struggle, a period that was to prove most decisive in…
Speech by President Mandela at the Funeral of Nokukhanya Luthuli, 22 December 1996, Groutville
… 22 December 1996, Groutville Comrade chairperson; Members of the Luthuli family; Minister and Premiers; Leaders and veterans of the ANC; Members of the…
ArchiveStatement on Mbeki's recall, by Jacob Zuma on behalf of ANC NEC, 22 September
… The National Executive Committee of the ANC met over the weekend of the 19th to 21st September 2008, to deliberate on various … NEC decided to recall Comrade…
Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party: what needs to be reassessed by Tom Lodge
… that Stephen Ellis refers to about Mandela’s membership of the Communist Party is pretty definitive. It is based upon recollections of party members some of…
Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998
… Statement Issued By GCIS: Briefing on the Case of Robert McBride - 21 May 1998 … | library | articles & documents | briefing on the case of Robert McBride…
EventUS House of Representatives approve Bill to impose stricter sanctions on Apartheid South Africa
… On 18 June 1986, the House of Representatives of the United States of America approved a Bill that would impose stricter … US House of Representatives…
The end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… Thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirement for the degree of Master of Arts in the subject history at the University of South … The end conscription…
"Should we get rid of the whites?" - Albert Luthuli answer to a question, 5 March 1959
… [Drum, a Johannesburg monthly, asked a number of African leaders, "Do we really want to get rid of the white man?" The following is the reply of Chief Lutuli…
EventSouth African photojournalist and member of the Bang-Bang, Club Kevin Carter, commits suicide
… after winning the Pulitzer Award for feature photography of a controversial picture depicting famine in Sudan. Carter came under a lot of criticism for a…
EventA United Nations team finally arrives in Mbandaka, Congo, to investigate alleged massacres of refugees
… Following the Rwandan genocide of 1994, thousands of Hutu refugees fled to the neighboring Congo (DRC), … as Zaire. This was in an attempt to escape the…
EventCanada offers a second contingent of troops to the British in the South African War
… The Canadian government offered a second contingent of troops consisting of infantry, cavalry and field artillery to bolster British … need for additional…