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PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
Named after Lewis Peter Ford of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house miners. The…
EventWorldwide speculation begins that a bright flash detected over the southern Indian Ocean was a South African nuclear test
… May 1980, attributing the double flash to a micrometeoroid striking the satellite and sunlight later reflecting off the …
PlaceMarikana, Bojanala Platinum District Municipality
… 16 2012, the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners. … 16 2012, the South African police shot and killed 34 striking miners. …
Nelson Mandela Memorial Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki: University of Witwatersrand, 29 July 2006.
… enrichment at all costs, and the most theatrical and striking public display of that wealth. What this means is … welfare and transport, the economic growth…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
… yet intimate effect. Though small, she had the poise and balance of the dancer she had been as a young girl — and it …
Address On World Aids Day, 1 December 1999
… to a threat that put the future of entire nations in the balance. Let future generations judge us on the adequacy of …
Document 28 - Negotiations: a strategic perspective
… the means of production. The right to strike attempts to balance this huge inequality in power. This is recognised in …
Statement at the 2053rd meeting of the Security Council by Mfanafuthi Johnstone (Johnny) Makatini, 9 December 1977
Mr. President, it gives me great pleasure to extend to you, in the name of the African National Congress, the warmest fraternal congratulations on your…
ArchiveFrom Lithuania to a false start in Johannesburg and settling in Cape Town, Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire (The Heritage Portal), 21 September 2016
Review of The Reb and the Rebel Jewish Narratives in South Africa 1892-1913. Edited by Carmel Schrire and Gwynne Schrire. Published by UCT Press and the Kaplan…
Performance, Violence and the Collapse of a Cultural Movement by Ari Sitas
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper discusses how by 1995 the cultural movement that had its…
David Goldblatt’s Portraits of Ex-Convicts at the Scenes of their Crimes by Max Campbell, 6 October 2016
In one image from “Ex-Offenders at the Scene of the Crime,” a series by the South African photographer David Goldblatt, we see an older woman named Ellen…
Time for ANC members to speak out when democracy is at stake by Denis Goldberg (Sunday Times), 17 April 2016
Members of the party can no longer follow party orders to remain silent on Nkandla, writes Denis Goldberg Dear Comrade Secretary-General It seems to me…
Fifty Fighting Years by A. Lerumo. The Communist Party of South Africa, 1921 - 1971 - Foreword to Book, by Dr Yusuf M. Dadoo,1972
We, South African communists and progressives, are very pleased that the People's Publishing House has considered it of sufficient importance to come out with…
The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Progressive social movement organisations in South Africa, including…
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Why would young Black South African men refuse low wage jobs in a time…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
Imam Haron was born on the 8th February 1924 in Claremont, Cape Town. He was influenced by the various progressive political trends in South Africa and…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
The South African government for the first time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two official photographers…
Document 37 - The Bill of Rights
… must be just and equitable, reflecting an equitable balance between the public interest and the interests of …
Speech by Oliver Tambo at dinner hosted in his honour by the Minister of External Affairs of India, Mr. P.V. Narasimha, 21 January 1983, Rao, New Delhi
… And that support has contributed to the present favourable balance of forces within South Africa. For, the ANC is more …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future does not exist in a vacuum — it is …
ArticleTimeline — Land Dispossession and Restitution in South Africa - 1995-2013
… legislation, the new government had to strike a balance between nation building and addressing the land …
Oration by the President of the Republic of South Africa, Kgalema Motlanthe, at the funeral service of the late Cleopas Mododa Nsibande, 3 January 2009, Benoni
Master of Ceremonies UMama wethu uMam` Sarah Umndeni wonke wakwa Nsibande, Abantwana, izizukulu nezizukulwana Sithi akuhlanga lungehlanga! Members of the…
Fourthly, as to the NATIVE QUESTION
I The Constitution of South Africa shall provide for the establishment of one sovereign state, a common South African citizenship and a democratic system of…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… In my account, I have tried to establish a judicious balance between emphasizing the enormous power of racial … with vehement anti-Indian prejudice. 25 The…
Action Kommandant film review by Kabelo Kemp (www.kathradafoundation.org)
Action Kommandant is a story about a young activist from the dusty and drug ridden streets of Bonteheuwel. Directed by Nadine Cloete under Ma'engere Film…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
Webinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors: Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza The Making of the Trotskyist Tradition in South Africa: A…
PlaceYellowwood Park, Durban
The first thing that strikes you about the leafy garden suburb of Yellowwood Park, just 14 kilometers from Durban, is that the majority of the roads are named…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… in petty-commodity production or labour power. The balance gradually tipped towards the latter as the century …
PlaceEastern Cape Province
… in the Eastern Cape. Scenic diversity is one of the most striking characteristics of the region, ranging from the …
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… their own attacks on workers, including mass dismissal of striking workers, and collaboration with security force …