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ArchiveStudent walkouts have changed history before. In South Africa, one helped end apartheid by DeNeen L. Brown (The Washington Post), 14 March 2018
… Hector Pieterson, a 12-year-old South African boy, was one of the first students to die. On June 16, 1976, more than 10,000 black high school … in Afrikaans,…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
… transfer of political power from the National Party (NP) to the African National Congress (ANC). Contrary to many predictions, South Africa avoided a…
PlaceDemocratic Republic of the Congo
… as the Democratic Republic of the Congo, the country has a 25-mile (40-km) coastline on the Atlantic Ocean but is … and cultural centre. The country is often…
Document 65 - Minutes of the meeting of the Workers’ Party of South Africa. Johannesburg Branch held at 90 President Street, Johannesburg, Friday, 24 July 1936 at 8 p.m.
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison … Moloenyane, 69 Good Street, Sophiatown be accepted as a…
EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… Italy. From an early age, she felt it was her calling to become a nurse, but mainly due to class and gender prejudices, … link: SA Nursing Council)…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… boxer, Joe Louis. Ali’s comment contrasted Louis to another deceased celebrity, the reclusive and … Ali said: “Howard Hughes dies, with all his billions –…
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… As a direct result of the abortive Jameson Raid of 1896, the … Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek realised that they would have to make far better arrangements for…
Statement In Court By Dr. Dadoo And Dr. G. M. Naicker, When Charged With Aiding And Abetting Under The Immigrants Regulation Act Of 1913, February 26, 1948
… the said persons were prohibited in terms of Section 4 (a) read with the Minister's Minutes of the 1st August, 1913, from so entering. We would like to deal…
Address at a Public Rally Dar Es Salaam Dar Es Salaam, 17 November 1998
… the CCM Ladies and gentlemen My brothers and sisters It is a rare privilege to have the opportunity to address the people of Tanzania. To be allowed to do so…
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of the city of Cape Town Cape Town, 27 November 1997
… Distinguished guests; Citizens of Cape Town, It is a great honour to be given the freedom of one of South Africa's leading … Tutu. In that sense I am proud…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world’s … rabble of thieves and lumpens.” Weber was…
PlaceMofolo Arts Centre
… on Mzilikazi Street in Mofolo, the Mofolo Arts Centre is a hub of cultural and artistic exploration in Soweto. The … is one of the few institutions that gave…
ArchiveStatement Celebrating Ten Years of Democracy, ANC Chief Whip Nkosinathi Nhleko, 10 May 2004, Parliament Cape Town South Africa
… of the brave collective efforts that all our people put to ensure the birth of democracy. In the same measure, we … our people as they worked to reconcile…
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the ANC - 20 September 2008
… of the judgement for our movement, and for our people as a whole. The judgement has had a profound impact on many aspects of our legal system. It has … also…
EventAll African People Conference is held in Accra, Ghana
… A year after Ghana gained Independence from Britain under the … of Egypt and Ghana), which was followed by the historic A A P Conference. The A A P…
EventNotorious Pirate, Captain William Kidd, is reportedly sighted off the coast of Cape Town
… pirates in history, Captain William Kidd, was thought to have become familiar with the practice of piracy while serving as an apprentice on board a pirate…
PlaceTwo Oceans Aquarium, Cape Town Waterfront
… alike. See over 3,000 creatures, from the smallest Species to yellowfin tunas and sharks. Cape Town’s Two Oceans … the Atlantic and Indian Oceans meet…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… in Johannesburg by Herbet Dhlomo in 1933 and was devoted to promoting black theatrical development. It was housed at the Bantu Men’s Social Centre, a club…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
… masses of unthinking people in this land with reference to the Natives: The first is, that the Bantu are a child race; the second is that the Europeans are…
Tribute at the funeral service of Walter Sisulu by Nelson Mandela (News 24), 25 January 2011
… road with greater frequency, marching in the procession to bid farewell to the veterans of our movement, paying our last respects to the fallen spears of the…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Banquet help in honour of President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi Cape Town, 2 June 1998
… and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you and your delegation to South Africa. May you … and beyond. If South Africa's own growth strategy has…
On trial for treason
… arrested 156 individuals, White, Black and Coloured, on a charge of high treason. The next month after that protest of the women to the mayor in Port…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
PlaceZimbabwe
… the Great Enclosure ". Since then the area has been home to many great Kingdoms and States such as, Great Zimbabwe … , Rozvi and Ndebele . In the 1880s the…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… the University of Natal “Non-European” Section and became a close friend of Steve Biko. He was elected president of the … “As you say his name, I see Steve…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… taking place within an international context of transition to the Socialist system, of the breakdown of the colonial system as a result of national…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… and other observers; Comrades and friends, We have come to the conclusion of our very successful and fruitful fourth national policy conference. We have met…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… guests Comrades and friends, We have gathered in Kliptown to relive the historic moment in the history of our country … articulate their common hopes, dreams…
III - Black Consciousness
… Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why did they pursue him so … police to eradicate this threat. Biko…
”Africans and San Francisco.” Statement by Dr. A. B. Xuma, May 8, 1945
… what part the African National Congress is taking to bring to the attention of Allied Nations and [the] outside … at every straw that something must be done…