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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1940-1949
… In the 1940s the ANC rejuvenated itself and began to work more closely with the SACP, putting behind … relationship between the two parties in the 1920s and…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… made on the strike, none has brought so much heat and emotion as the stress and emÂphasis we put on non-violence. Our most loyal … Instead, in the hope of…
Apartheid - The early 1980s
… early 1980s in South Africa. After the crisis of the early and mid-70s, the government's 'total onslaught' had managed to suppress much unrest and had it…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
… it comes to that, of being mashed into pulp with a mortar and pestle." 1 It was already clear that though satyagraha is a totally non-violent and civilised…
PlaceWelgelegen Manor House, Belfour
… Welgelegen Manor is the embodiment of the incredible life and ambition of industrialist and innovator, Andries Mostert. Andries Mostert was born in … in…
ArticleAbram Fischer Timeline 1908-1975
… who was State Secretary of the Free State Republic and the only Prime Minister of the Orange River Colony in … Oliver Schreiner and Tilson Barry (the leading…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… that party-political prejudice which warps the intellect, and when they should try to view in their true perspective … are taking place which will profoundly…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured – communities. The magazine became an important platform for a new generation of…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… of work. Three years later, he had settled in Cape Town and had befriended Arthur F. Batty, who was a political activist and trade unionist. It was through…
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… members, Armstrong Madoda, Gaby Pillay, Morgam Moodliar and Sunny Venkarathnam are detained under the Terrorism Act . … the state, recruiting members for the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… The Nile river and its influence on settlement The tomb of Tutankhamen Way … had the most highly crafted items, many were made of gold, imported wood, inlaid…
PlaceNorth West
… The North West Province was part of the old Transvaal , and includes most of the parts of the old homeland, … in the North West Province. Platinum is more…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… South African poet, essayist, writer of short stories and soon-to-be novelist. “I have been always where I am … Africa started?” he asks. We agree, about 10…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… new Southern Centre for Inequality Studies (SCIS) in 2018, and initiated a project on Alternative Forms of Ownership (AFO). The project ’ s aim was to…
Document 4 - “The Great Native Strike”, “ The International, 27 February 1920
… of a strike of 40,000 mine natives. Owing to the compound and indenture system, the general public have seen very … To-day the E.R.P.M. natives are out, to…
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
… post-1973 period created a space for academics, students, and activists to contribute in a structured way to the building and strengthening of the trade…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… to 2010s) of research on shop floor orders, resistance, and cultural formations of workers in rubber factory in … together research on workplace in everyday…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
… Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee … paper focuses on the “ginger”…
Chapter Six - The Fighter in Turmoil: 1946 - 1960
… Biography by Doreen Musson The years between 1930 and the 1940s were ones of profound change in the structure … Although the primary industries of…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. and to Canada. When he realized he could never return to the … man who grew up in Port Elizabeth…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) meets in Durban and appoints S.R. Naidoo as the SAIC's nominee to the Young … *relocation of Indians to designated…
ArticleBlack Community Programmes (BCP)
… In the late 1960s and early 1970s, after the banning of the ANC and PAC, the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) resuscitated … of action, they appointed…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai One hundred and ten organisations met in Durban on 10 and 11 October … over…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
… children of historical processes which are determined (and at the sme time determine) human actions and philosophies. It is principally this exercise,…
"Apartheid - the Indictment": Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sactions agains South Africa by O. R. Tambo, April 1964
… to discard policies which have nothing but destruction and disaster to offer for the future of the country. The … is the bigger for the insane determination…
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
… to discard policies which have nothing but destruction and disaster to offer for the future of the country. The … is the bigger for the insane determination…
PlaceElandsfontein Farm, Pretoria
… Pretoria, about 25 km (45 min drive) from Johannesburg; and about 25 min drive from Jan Smuts International Airport. We Farm with peaches and cattle. Here…
ArticleZulu
… Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… to defend itself against attacks by the ruling class and the Nationalist Party (NP) government, elected in 1948. … to the economic forces governing mining…
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
… formed in Cape Town in the early 1960s. White composer and pianist Chris McGregor joined forces with some of the … are legendary in the European jazz…