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“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
… takes up this question by examining the work histories and decisions of young men in an informal settlement on the … of low-wage jobs is at once a critique…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… the various progressive political trends in South Africa and internationally. He was influenced by the Muslim Brotherhood, the Teachers' League of SA, the…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… Chairperson and Deputy Prime Minister of Singapore, Professor S … there was trade between Africans and outsiders who found gold and other minerals on the…
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… know this Massacre of our people by the apartheid regime and its security forces started with the killing of a student … diamonds were discovered in Kimberly…
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
… Chinese government had not initiated the lockdown of Wuhan and the national emergency response, then there would have … China has rolled out perhaps the most…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… Broederbond Just as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the Africans, the Broederbond (1918–1990) … solidarity. In this they were most…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… the backdrop set against one of British greed for gold in The South African Republic (Transvaal) and colonial expansion by the subjugation of independent ……
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… 1 , this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty … systems have been under severe strain…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… Culture/Creativity/Communism: cultural expression and South Africa’s communist movement by Judy Seidman This … culture of liberation. This issue has been…
IFP 2019 Election Manifesto
… alleviate poverty, redress inequality, empower families, and fulfil the rightful aspirations of all our people and future generations. The IFP Will champion:…
Imperial Duty by John Ruskin, Oxford 8 February 1870
… in temper, but still have the firmness to govern, and the grace to obey. We have been taught a religion of pure … must either now betray, or learn to defend…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… "I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the … it possible to trade…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Congress of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) Cape Town, 18 October 1994
… Agricultural Union. It marks your 90th anniversary, and it is, at the same time, the first in a democratic South … I would like to thank you humbly for this…
Liberation organisations
… was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983, and based its ideology on the…
The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
… core demand emerging from the anti-apartheid civil society and the progressive trade-union movement. In the case of … goods such as health care informed by…
EventAfrican Mineworkers' strike starts
… Africa (CPSA), which was active in distributing pamphlets and other material related to the strike. About 60 000 miners … by force. According to official…
50. The campaign resumed in 1913
… History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A provisional settlement was reached in … was being resumed. The visit by G.I…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
… described as the story of how Europeans defeated, robbed and ruled the indigenous people for the enrichment of … South African history is the emergence of…
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
… 1923 1 Two years have gone by since our last Conference, and in that brief period so many great events of tragic … position of the non-European races as it…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… labour power for only a specified period of time each day and each week, their proletarian status ensures that all … Under Apartheid in South Africa, Black…
EventGwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… Gwala, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and Zephania Mothopeng a member of the Pan Africanist … released from Robben Island by the government…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA and the ANC, in contrast to the antagonistic relationship between the two organisation during the 1920s…
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu Education. The uprising was … exploiting the minerals of the African…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 6 - Education for Freedom
… illustrates the relationship between structure, content, and socialization that we have seen in discussing … the organizational structure of the factory…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… was paid to what transpired once the court cases concluded and the sentences were determined. In fact, from the onset of … first mining fields in 1874, when…
Acceptance speech by President Jacob Zuma on the occasion of being awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters in recognition of his contribution to education at Texas Southern University Houston, Texas, 23 September 2011
… on my own behalf, but that of my country South Africa, and the people I represent. While I am proud today to be … relations that exist between the people of…
I - Introduction
… been a pebble flung into a pool; the circles spread out and out, until ripples touched far shores. He was the … circle, or by professional interpretation of…
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… political repression, students at the University of Natal and the University of Cape Town formed Student Wages … encouraging dockworkers to attend Wage Board…
PlaceGouda, Cape Winelands
… Kloof'. Gouda was once the Rail Terminus, for Porterville, and another Branch Line fed from Porterville to Hermon. Gouda's Residents are predominantly…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… for more than 60 years. Abrahams was prolific, insightful, and poignant. Unfortunately, he is also largely overlooked and often forgotten, especially in the…