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ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
… which had made their way down to the southern tip of Africa combined with a decade of defiance and popular … life. His book A Portrait of a People is banned…
Document 46 - D. Tloome, “The Origin and Development of Non-European Trade Unions”, lecture delivered to the Johannesburg Discussion Club on 27 February 1953, Viewpoints and Perspectives. L 1,21 February 1953
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two … trade union movement. It is common knowledge that in South Africa labour is not…
Chapter 6
… second World War inevitably had its repercussions in South Africa and by 1943 its effects were seen in a deepening of … of the White "master-race"was…
EventThe ANC celebrates its centenary anniversary in Bloemfontein
… of Black people from power in the new Union of South Africa. Pixley Seme, Alfred Mangena, Richard Msimang and … H. and Mbenga, B. (2007) New History of…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… This was due to changes in economic conditions in South Africa's hinterland, and the consequent need to secure … Frere was appointed British high…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… Harmel had written that a democratic revolution in South Africa "need not involve violence" [74] , he turned in 1961 … they appreciate also that the taking…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… Seventh Annual Conference of the Communist Party of South Africa, which lasted from Saturday evening, December 29th to …
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… an inspiration to students at universities across South Africa. Pro-Frelimo rallies were hosted by Students …
ArchiveThe end conscription campaign 1983-1988: a study of white extra-parliamentary opposition to apartheid
… of Arts in the subject history at the University of South Africa. This thesis includes chapters on the role of South …
EventPresident Jacob Zuma arrives in Moscow to attend the commemoration of the 70th Anniversary of Victory in the Great Patriotic War.
… visit was meant to build the warm relation between South Africa and the Russian Federation with cooperation in … South Africa Government,(2015),P resident…
ArchiveInterview with Duma Nokwe
… Banned, detained and in 1962 house-arrested, he fled South Africa in early 1963. He occupied leadership positions in the …
EventANC members, Walter Sisulu and Duma Nokwe go overseas under false names
… Poland, Russia and Communist China. They returned to South Africa on December 1953 and attended the 41st annual …
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved over 10,000 African municipal … African hotels,(2013),' A history of Apartheid…
EventANC and government to surge ahead with reforms
… rejection of the Convention for a Democratic South Africa (CODESA), the African National Congress (ANC) and …
EventTrade Unionists convicted of kidnapping and assault
… of the National Union of Metalworkers of South Africa, said they would appeal against the conviction and …
EventAlan Paton, author of “Cry, the Beloved Country” and founder member of the Liberal Party, dies
… Alan Paton is one of South Africa's most celebrated authors. His most renowned novel …
Event17 anti-apartheid organisations are restricted in terms of Section 6 of the Public Safety Act
… Unions (COSATU), the National Education Union of South Africa (NEUSA) and the National Education Crisis Committee …
EventCorner stone of Mission Church is laid in Graaff-Reinet
… of Rupert's mother. It is the 6th oldest building in South Africa and houses some of the best paintings and graphic … et al. (eds) (1970). Standard…
EventMary Elizabeth Barber, pioneer naturalist, dies
… She helped to establish the stratigraphic geology of South Africa for the first time, and initiated the examination of …
EventFeminist writer and activist, Diana E. H. Russell is born
… In 1963, Russell joined the Liberal Party of South Africa and was arrested while participating in a peaceful …
EventJan Carel Juta (52), father of the publishing industry in SA, dies in Chiswick, London
… born in Holland in 1824. He sailed to the Cape in South Africa in 1853 where he soon established the company that has …
EventSA’s gold-panning team returns victorious from the World Gold Panning Championships held in Slovakia
… South Africa’s gold-panning team returned with one gold and two …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… 1 committed us to the established of a 'democratic South Africa'. On the basis of this commitment many would have been … with all of us in the process of…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… He left England once again in 1968 to return to Africa where he worked on a four year contract at the … Salisbury in 1957 with only the scantiest…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
… from my vacation there." Cape Town is one of South Africa’s most Historically important Cities. It was here, in … where the first European Colonists set…
The Pioneers
… the 1930s taxes had been imposed on all chiefdoms in South Africa, driving more and more people into wage labour. (3) It … One example of such work was the…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… open operational mandate - to beget a revolution in South Africa. Vula was supposed to be the answer to chronic … was no ANC leadership presence on the…
EventThe SA department of foreign affairs announces that the bodies of two South Africans have been found in Thailand
… established to help family members and friends of South Africa tourists in the tsunami-stricken area to locate their …
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… attempted to become an effective political force in South Africa. The Party was formed in May 1953 as a non-racial …
EventPolice arrest members of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) High Command at Lilliesleaf Farm
… but bought with funds from the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA). At the farm police found documents relating … Liliesleaf Farm, ‘A Brief history of…