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Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
… the Communist Party and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC). Urban branches were encouraged to hold regular …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
Isithwalandwe President Nelson Mandela and the entire family and relatives, President Thabo Mbeki, Deputy President of the ANC, Secretary General and all…
ArticleRock Art
Most researchers who study rock art tend to focus on technical aspects, such as the material and techniques used. Their studies have revealed that ochre was…
ArticleThe House in session
With the parties and their representatives elected, the Tricameral went into operation and the various houses sat for the first time on 1984. While the House…
ArchiveThe Arthur Chaskalson I knew by George Bizos, 5 December 2012
George Bizos says late former Chief Justice would never have been a secret member of a political party Speech by George Bizos SC, Constitutional Litigation…
Forming the Federation
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner 'The battle for democracy and liberation can only be won when women, mothers of…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
South African Institute of Race Relations, Survey of Race Relations 1971: It was announced on 28 October that Mr. Ahmed Timol [arrested on the night of the 22…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… By means of annual memoranda sent by the ANC and the SAIC to the United Nations and by South African delegations …
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… A conference of The South African Indian Congress (SAIC) , held in Cape Town, unanimously resolves to oppose the …
EventPrime Minister B.J. Vorster predicts South Africa will become leading state in the Southern Africa
The South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster declared that if the positive signs of cooperation with the rest of Africa are interpreted accurately, South…
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
On 26 March 1953, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya, when Mau Mau freedom fighters attacked the area…
FOREWORD: THEORETICAL DEBATES AND METHODOLOGICAL CONTROVERSIES
WE, THE UNDERSIGNED, pledge ourselves to Peace and Reconciliation in South African and agree to commit ourselves to the following: 1. The Inkatha Freedom Party…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… Congress (ANC) and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) results in the adoption of the Freedom Charter at …
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
Theories and Practice Scientific Racism These ideas about race were pided into two main theories, scientific racism and social Darwinism. Scientific…
ArchiveZuma's rape accuser questioned (BBC News), 07 March 2006
The woman accusing South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma of rape is being cross-examined in court. The judge has agreed to the defence's request to…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
On 16 December, 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto…
IX - The Doctors
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa After receiving his head injury, Biko began to die. According to Professor Proctor, …
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-South African Airforce airfield now…
Presidential address by Alberth Luthuli to the Annual Provincial Conference of the Natal Branch of the African National Congress, 5 July 1956
(Press report) "The struggle for freedom must go on no matter how hard the struggle might be! It must go on because Freedom is the noblest human attainment…
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
South Africa, Johannesburg, Poert Mzwakhe Mbuli, UDF concert 1989 The State of Emergency's continued bannings and repression only led to reveal the fact that…
EventStart of blood classification controversy
Poppie Bereng, who worked as a phlebotomist for the South African National Blood Service (SANBS) in Bloemfontein, was appointed permanently on this date, but…
EventAnton Hammerl, South African photographer, is killed in Libya
On 5 April 2011, South African photographer Anton Hammerl was killed, allegedly by Libyan forces on the Brega frontline. According to eyewitnesses, Hammerl’s…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
The judge Is dressed in red and white the assessors in black and white the prosecutor in a hostage smile and I in the borrowed robes of my grandmother…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the title of president…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 11 September 1906, a mass meeting of Indians…
Appeal For United Front, July 1948
[A joint appeal to all "suppressed" people in South Africa, whether European or Non-European, to form a United Front to fight for full democratic rights, was…
Document 47 - “Answer to Government’s Apartheid Unions”, The Citizen. 1 3, 30 April 1956
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 47 - "Answer to Government's Apartheid Unions"…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
ArticleThe Nile river and its influence on settlement
‘Not only is the Egyptian climate peculiar to that country, and the Nile different in the way it behaves from rivers elsewhere, but the manners and customs of…
ArticleThe Founding of the SANNC
After actively petitioning the National Convention and being ignored during 1910 and 1911, delegates to the South African Native Convention (SANC) decided to…