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First National Consultative Conference: Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee, 25 April 1969, Morogoro
… Enemies Our immediate enemies, the white fascist regime in South Africa, are an important and integral part of the … economic and military dominance over the…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
… is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa. 1961 Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in … ourselves apart on this issue of…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… Bill imposes segregation on Indians in the Transvaal. The South African Indian Congress meets at an emergency … Indians into the South African Defence Force…
EventGeneral H. Van Den Bergh blames the SACP for anti
… were cautiously planned by communists linked to the South African Communist Party (SACP) and leftists in exile. … Van Den Bergh claimed that those were all…
Mary Margaret Ngalo
… influential in encouraging many to join the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) , an organisation which sought … and the ANC was banned, her husband…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… give it to white farmers, who mostly moved from Britain or South Africa. This process marked the start of a pattern that … of settlers increased sharply…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … of all these rapid advances in the material and physical world, man appears to be either…
BiographyWendy Heather Woods
… Germaine Greer’s writings, Woods started viewing the world more analytically and for a while, grew more radical in … about Biko’s murder. They eventually…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… go on to grow his company into a major book publisher in South Africa. The Zuid-Afrikaan ‘was formed largely as a … in The Fort for his stance against…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, … Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the march in a great…
BiographyMarius Schoon
… legally allowed to communicate so they decided to leave South Africa. They first lived in Botswana where they continued to … he met Sherry McLean who he…
BiographyChristiaan Neethling Barnard
… circumstances in 1922 in Beaufort West on the edge of South Africa’s arid interior region called the Great Karoo. He was … of grossly diseased valves in…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… of the reserve economies. Full proletarianisation in South Africa, would threaten the migrant labour system upon … that had started in the 1920s and 1930s…
BiographyThandi Modise
… to be commanded by young women. In 1978 she returned to South Africa to work underground as an MK operative. She was … April 2004]| Anon, Thandi Modise, Ms ,…
BiographyAaron Mosibudi Mangena
… Representative Council (SRC) which was affiliated with the South African Students Organisation (SASO). At the end of … committee from 1982-1994. Mangena…
BiographyPregaluxmi (Pregs) Govender
… divided workers to join the non-racial Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) and become the more … to introduce gender-responsive budgets…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai … movement of Asian people in the Transvaal…
BiographyMavivi Myakayaka-Manzini
… during high school, when she got involved in the South African Student Movement (SASM) in 1973. She continued … to remain politically active despite the…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
… dream for her to become an educated Black woman in South Africa. Her journey led her to become a founding member … 1999. Today, she lectures over women’s…
EventThe Bondelswarts surrender to the German forces
… control over the nomadic, Khoikhoi groups in Namibia, then South West Africa. The Bondelswarts, a nomadic Khoikhoi group … in 1905, surrendered in 1906…
Extract from a speech made at Koffiefontein on 11 August 1967
… seen in perspective. He referred inter alia to the UNO and South West Africa; the rumours of an impending split in the … developments in Africa and our…
BiographyNdeutala Selma Hishongwa
… sent to Sweden to study on scholarship from the Lutheran World Federation and studied at the University of Stockholm … a newlywed couple in northern Namibia…
PlaceUnion Buildings, Pretoria
… The Union Buildings are considered South Africa's Architectural Masterpiece! Designed and built … and the Afrikaners. On the grounds are the Dellville Wood…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… population, according to the 1916 edition of The Guide to South and East Africa , stood at 900 whites and 960 blacks. … Boer leaders seized the occasion to…
BiographySimon Petros (Peter) Matseke
… was drafted as a driver for the Boer commandos during the South African War. During his time there he learned to speak High Dutch. Following the war he was…
PlaceNorth West
… the Platinum Province. North West Province is an inland South African Province that borders Botswana. Capital : … fame: Siege of Mafeking (today Mafikeng) in…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… ANC. For instance, the car bomb explosion in front of the South African Air Force Headquarters and the South African … end the ban on the ANC. Nelson…
BiographyMavuso Walter Msimang
… and refugee programmes in Zambia, and then worked for the World Food Programme in Kenya. He was Care International's … programmes in Ethiopia. He has worked…
EventC. Lindenberg Letty, botanical artist, is born
… was the eldest of five children. At the outbreak of the South African War in 1899, the family moved to Estcourt in Natal . It is … have, having had no formal…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the South African Communist Party Policy Conference, 27 September 2008, Randburg Towers
… Mbeki from government. In many democracies around the world it is a normal occurrence in the hustle and bustle of … in meeting its mandate. Comrades,…