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Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
In the name of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress of South Africa and on behalf of the struggling people of South Africa, I…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Chapter One Before embarking on an…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen. Tomorrow parliament rises for the winter recess. I am certain we will all agree that we have…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
A Report of the CASA Conference and Festival We want the world to know We have come a long way now We are not like spotless white shirts We are khaki…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
Esmé was as active as I was and we enjoyed working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance was being forged between racially…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
No equality under the Union Jack, 1900-1910 Gumede’s hopes that the British victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
On the occasion of the 95th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress, our movement salutes the people of South Africa and the world. We…
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
On 31 March 2020, a group of scientists from around the world – from Oxford University to Beijing Normal University – published an important paper in Science…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Thandi Modise, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President David…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and apartheid-South Africa” Wolfram Kistner [1975] makes an…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
For this complex period to be studied, the Sharpeville massacre, Soweto uprising and the release of Nelson Mandela and unbanning of liberation movements have…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
The content of this article was taken from the book A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman, (Cape…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
Prohibited from meeting openly by South Africa’s apartheid government, the Seventh Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
Great gains have been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that there is…
Address at the AGM of the SADC Electoral Commissions Forum Dar Es Salaam, Tanzania 27 September, 1999
Your Excellency, President Benjamin Mkapa Chairperson of the Forum, Justice Lewis Makame Chairperson of the Electoral Commissions of Southern Africa …
"Racial Crisis in South Africa" . Address to meeting of Pakistan Institute of International Affairs, March 2, 1961
South Africa has a population of 15 million, of which 12 million are non-whites and 3 million are whites. The white people of South Africa are a settled…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The Nationalist Party, though always claiming to have no association with Nazism, had staked everything on a Nazi victory. Hitler's defeat, therefore, weakened…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
A cartoon illustrating the process of getting to the idealised “American Dream" Image Source Introduction Like communism in Russia, American capitalism…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
"The danger begins only when they make a virtue of necessity and want to freeze into a complete theoretical system all the tactics forced upon them by these…
First National Consultative Conference: The Freedom Charter revolutionary programme of the ANC, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
For over two hundred and fifty years the African people fought wars of resistance against the European invaders in defence of their motherland - South Africa…
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1947 by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Report on Passive Resistance, 13 June 1946-13 May 1947 …
Say It out Loud - The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1923 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 3rd April, 1923 1 Two years have gone by since our last…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
The deadlock was not about principle, but about political power: the power to determine the final constitutional dispensation. It also served to fuel the…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On that day in August 1956, I was already fifty-one. I often wonder just how it took me so long to find the road…
Chapter 6
Regeneration of the All-African Convention: The Background In spite of all the forces ranged against the progress and political development of the African…