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Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… translation based on my very basic understanding of isi Zulu, ngiyafundza kancane. Sitting in the cell can be a very …
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
… a consultant paediatrician who also worked at the McCord Zulu Hospital in Durban, happened to know Colonel McLachlan. …
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… noted, however, that: In the Indian case, the so-called Zulu factor is often mentioned as crucial. However, this …
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… Badsha, Bestall, Burwitz, Paul Sibisi (1948-), Vuminkosi Zulu (1948-), Catherine, Ian RedelÂinghuys (1949-) and …
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… at home. Initially, its proposed name was Inkululeko [Zulu for ‘Freedom], the name given to a previous series of …
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
… and as far as Kuruman, with the warriors of Cetywayo, the Zulu chief, the maMpondomise, the baThembu, Adam Kok's …
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… were to cater for Sotho/Venda/Tsonga speaking Africans, Zulu/Swazi speaking Africans, Coloureds and Indians …
Chapter 9 - People’s Education and People’s Power: Mobilisation and Collective Action
… of SANSCO was Gatsha Buthelezi, president of the ethnic Zulu movement, Inkatha, and chief minister of the KwaZulu …
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 14. "africanism," T.A.S.A. [Transvaal African Students' Association] Bulletin, 1, 2. (July…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of industrial action by black workers in South Africa…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
Constructing Heritage and Heritage ResourcesHeritage – our past, and where we come from – means different things to different people. Some people relate to the…
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU)
The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) was launched on 1 December 1985, at the height of the struggle against apartheid. As a federation, it…
How to Approach Heaven by Jon Soske (Chimurenga Magazine)
The struggle for freedom is a reckless, foolish and sacrosanct adventure—so believed Albert Luthuli, president of the African National Congress from 1952-1968…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with Africans and did not understand their sensitivities. The recent agitation at the…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… abolition of beer brewing. “I am not in favour of a dry Zulu race”. He urged the Durban municipality to establish …
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… his close ties with Regent Mshiyeni ka Dinizulu, of the Zulu Royal House and the award of a honorary doctorate by the …
ArticleA Charge of Treason by Norman Levy
… Luthuli answered gravely, Ndi lapa (“I am here” in Zulu). This was our expression of independence after the …
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
III - Black Consciousness
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why did they pursue him…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… to get its independence. 1981 KwaZulu: Act on the Code of Zulu Law No 6: Commenced: 29 October 1982 1981 Commission of … over the past two years in the…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… Richter-Strydom, L. M. "Unplanned pregnancies among urban Zulu schoolgirls" in South African Medical Journal , Vol. …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… what to do about Inkatha Ye Nkululeko Ye Sizwe, the Zulu cultural movement dating from the 1920s which had been …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu General Hertzog is rightly recognised first politician to urge with constant…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
… were partitioned into different 'tribal units', such as Zulu, Xhosa or Basutho, to prevent them ganging up or … such as the battle of Blood river (the defeat…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1980-1989
The 1980s witnessed an increase in attacks launched by the ANC through its armed MK inside South Africa. Conversely, the government responded by stepping up…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… women. Beer-drinking was a popular social practice among Zulu men, while beer-brewing gave women an opportunity to …