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PlaceHershel Memorial Obelisk, Claremont-Cape Town
… The most significant memorial [to Sir John Herschel] is the Herschel obelisk. On 28 November … 1838 the Cape Governor, Sir George Napier, presided over a…
Appeal for action against Apartheid - Statement issued jointly by Chief Albert Luthuli and Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr,10 December 1962
… from every continent. That Declaration was an appeal to South Africa to bring its policies into line with the … Assembly of the United Nations. The…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
… did we think then that six years later we should have to admit that not only have we failed to achieve any positive … the Pass Laws and the Poll tax—we have…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… active support for the movement was slipping away. A magnificent bus boycott, which made a national impact, was carried out in Alexandra township … an…
Speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the Oliver Tambo Institute of Leadership, 17 July 2008, Kawaweta, Uganda
… Distinguished guests, Ladies and gentlemen, Good day to you all. Today is a significant day in our post-apartheid history, as we have … cannot be broken. The…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground. They have failed in all their efforts to hold back the forces of change. They…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to Leon…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… is the three Dutch Reformed Churches in South Africa began to play a leading part in the campaign of the Nationalist Party to … came out openly on the side…
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… historic task of the women, South Africa has emerged as a leading force in the struggle for national liberation and … Whereas : The Women's League of the ANC…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1946
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer … Nations Organisations 1946 India Acts - Trade…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction Background to the project This book had its origins in…
AAM and UN: partners in the international campaign against apartheid
… I think of the 'anti-apartheid movement' as a coalition of anti-apartheid organisations and individuals, as well as a growing number of governments, which in…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
… Indian Congresses quite inevitable. Unlike the ANC who had a larger rank and file the NIC, TIC and SAIC had made no plans to counter the increasingly…
Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the 1940s
… as decades and centuries on historical developments, in a very real sense the 1940s was a time of regeneration for African politics. It was a … The second…
EventSANNC (ANC) meeting is attended by a large number of people
… A meeting in Johannesburg, called by the South African Native … now African National Congress (ANC), is attended by a large number of people, men and women,…
EventThe Native Land Act is passed
… The Natives Land Act (No. 27 of 1913) was passed to allocate only about 7% of arable land to Africans and … the territory initially allocated to Blacks, with…
Appeal For Funds For New Age, January 1956
… As the Union Parliament prepares to assemble for its new session, the people of South Africa … therefore impermissible that we should allow it to remain a…
EventRioting and destruction in Cato Manor and Durban continues
… Apartheid government efforts to remove Black people from Cato Manor close to the Durban city center to Kwa Mashu, a newly established black township on the…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 2 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… children were born I started working again, but now I went to work at the factories because I was a housewife. We had got a house, and at the factory I could…
PlaceBoschhoek Farm, uMzinyathi,-a District in kwaZulu-Natal
… related the history of his people and their struggle to find land security in an interview conducted by the … Advancement (AFRA). This interview forms the…
Congress of the People - I was there
… of the Congress of the People which was held at Kliptown to discuss and finally adopt the historic Freedom Charter … part of the Joint Consultative Committee…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Receiving the Congressional Gold Medal Washington, 23 September 1998
… Remarks at Presentation of Congressional Gold Medal to South African President, Nelson Mandela President Clinton; … and Gentlemen It has been my great…
88. Gandhi’s legacy
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by … also vice-president of the N.I.C., argues that there is a lesson for us in Gandhi…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established it as the basis of State … but the system of racist and fascist…
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… Nelson Mandela was released by South African President F.W. de Klerk after spending 27 years in prison. His freedom … served as president of South Africa…
Document 50 - Socialist League of Africa , “South Africa: Ten Years of the Stay-at-Home”, International Socialism, 5, Summer 1961
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison … In March and April 1960, the African population staged a…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just when they … crisis they anxiously conjure up the…
The White man’s task by Jan Smuts, 22 May 1917
… Before the country had time to settle down under Union, South Africa was fighting in the … prophetic speeches on African problems was delivered at a dinner…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … of course, simply the press agency of the ruling classes…
Address on Behalf of the Graduating Class at Fort Hare College, delivered at the “Completers’ Social,” by M. R. Sobukwe, October 21, 1949
… Prof. Dent, Ladies and Gentlemen, I intend to follow in my opening remarks the conventional pattern. And for that reason I will give a very brief review of…