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ArchiveSo truth be in the field
… point. With emphasis on the moral elements of social action including the injustice of racial oppression. Some …
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… to launch a total boycott of the trading stores. Similar action took place in the Qumbu district. In retaliation the … from the women, but also because of…
ArchiveReport of NUSAS President
… government's policy of Total Strategy, as well as of state action against NUSAS during the year. …
Lost in Transformation? Reviewing 20 Years of Transformation in South Africa
… The Politics of Transforming, Transformation & Affirmative Action, Judicial Transformation, Higher Education …
BiographyKing Cetshwayo
King Cetshwayo’s place of birth was his father’s (Mpande) kraal of Mlambongwenya, near Eshowe. He was born in 1826, a very troubled period in the history of…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… democratic movement is leading. It is the people united in action against baaskap, for baaskap is baaskap by any other … if he dare. Let us all rejoin the…
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… movement is leading. It is the people united in action against baaskap, for baaskap is baaskap by any other … if he dare. Let us all rejoin the ranks and…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… who were required to investigate the accusations and take action against the perpetrators. Ordinance 19 also provided … Maitland becomes Governor of the Cape…
ArchiveInterview with the Midland Chamber of Industries
… their views at a time when political protests, labor action and repression countrywide were at record highs. A …
EventRDP White Paper is tabled in Parliament
… group and gender. It also proposed the use of affirmative action to reverse imbalances that existed in the public …
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… a great resistance movement on their part so that unity of action can be welded on the anvil struggle. White supremacy … able to withstand the torrent of…
EventZwelethu Mthethwa found guilty of murder
… 16 March ↵ [2] Melody Kleinsmith, 2017, Our Lady Arts Action Discourse. Iziko (Online) http://www.iziko.org.za/news/entry/our-lady-arts-action-discourse ↵ [3…
Document 23 - Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk
… on protest would be. We are going ahead with the mass action plans for January 16, 1996. This does not mean that we … to the ongoing negotiations. But we…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… the Horse-Drawn Artillery, in their eagerness to come into action, had left the Infantry behind and found themselves in … and Onrus', all being names of…
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… WITHOUT THE EXCLUSION OF ANY COMRADE. Election of a JOINT ACTION COMMITTEE proportionate to the existing forces or, … after a few months of joint work;…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… Century. The Koffiefontein district saw much military action during the Second Anglo-Boer War of 1899-1902 because … Century. The Koffiefontein district saw…
EventGandhi demands end to White ‘hooliganism’
… stopped only on 24 June when the Smuts government took action after wide protests. …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa. Following the demise … on the proceedings, four mining…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… United Nations General Assembly: United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid Delivers a speech: Comments and … Presents a statement Need for New…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… people of colour, and there was a surge of mass political action by blacks in defiant response. The 1950s certainly … This was in line with the ANC's…
ArchiveNUSAS talks to the ANC
… of the African National Congress, armed struggle, mass action, and the relationship of the ANC with the South …
Speak - the voice of the community
… rents and better service provision. United community action against the Government elections resulting in mass …
EventMahatma Ghandi sends a telegram to Dr. Dadoo
… the Passive Resistance Campaign on 1 August. A Council of Action for the campaign was set up with Dr. Yusuf Dadoo as …
EventRSA golf team is expelled from Greece
… golf championship starting in Athens on 8 November. The action by the Greek Foreign Minister followed a request from …
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… of workplaces and the limited scope for successful strike action, it made sense to push for industry level bargaining. … effective use of the strike weapon,…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… such hell that the government will be forced to take action 25 against the union. Whilst its numbers never reached … pressure applied from the Minister of…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Foreword
… Congress had initiated the new strategy of "Unity in Action" which flowed out of the experience gained in the … leaderships that would be committed to unity…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… the liberation struggle. The scale of recent industrial action by workers is even more impressive when we recall that … of strikes involved over 100,000…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… denies us both. We are oppressed mainly through political action. Relief will only come when we come to exercise an … influence in the body politic of the…
EventUN Special Committee releases its report
… to monitor and promote a comprehensive programme of action against apartheid in South Africa. It pressed for …