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ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Financial Strangulation of Native Education
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu A great lover of the Bantu was once asked what, in his opinion, were the three…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
Mr. President, The Honourable Heads of State Your Excellencies Honourable Ministers Allow me to express my great appreciation to you for affording me the …
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
… would have been that protest is best when it is covert or "aestheticised". A work that fulfils this latter … forms of its figures, the drawing harks back to…
ArticleOliver Reginald Tambo Timeline 1917 - 2011
… Jonker Heads a top-secret mission, Operation Vula, a covert project. November 4-5 Delivers a speech At The Meeting …
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… they to injure or kill people in planning or carrying out operations. These instructions have been referred to in the … The Manifesto of Umkhonto was issued…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new constitutional…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
… or surgeons, and they would then be asked to assist at operations and get a fee for it. All the evils of private …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The government will probably ban this book…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… According to one report: "At Impala Platinum's Rustenburg operations workers are living in appalling conditions at …
![”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/field/archiveimages/social_conditions_among_bantu_women_and_girls.jpg?itok=-8M0Ng6G)
Archive”Social Conditions Among Bantu Women and Girls”. Address by Charlotte Maxeke at the Conference of European and Bantu Christian Student Associations at Fort Hare, June 27-July 3, 1930 [Extract]
In speaking of Bantu women in urban areas, the first thing to be considered is the Home, around which and in which the whole activity of family life circulates…
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the Non-European Unity Movement? The Non…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the 90-day detention…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress had several…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly Street attempted a…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… is performed almost entirely by women, the more difficult operations and the work on the better quality garments being …
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
The following article was written just before the Emergency, having been commissioned by the Editor to commemorate one hundred years of Indian settlement in…
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… disputed this, insisting that the government first disband covert security force units. The ANC also objected to the …
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… and industrial products. It controlled directly the operations and policies of a train of subsidiary industries - … was little real organised preparation for…
Address by Selby Msimang, President, Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union of South Africa, July 23, 1921
At Thursday evening's session of the Industrial Commercial Workers (Amalgamated) Union of South Africa, Mr. Selby Msimang (president) delivered his annual…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
… continues to shelter guerrillas conducting murderous operations and acts of sabotage against South Africa. 1980 22 … states against supporting ‘terrorist’…
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… 1994, witnessed some of the worst bloodletting, overt and covert state sponsored violence South Africa had yet …
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
… in SA. * Aboobaker Ismail : a commander of the Special Operations Committee of MK. * Arthur Chaskalson : a former SA …
Speech by Rev. Dr. Allan Boesak at the launch of the United Democratic Front, 20 August 1983, Rocklands Civic Centre, Mitchell’s Plain
President, distinguished platform guests, ladies and gentlemen! We have arrived at a historic moment. We have brought together under the aegis of the United…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
Britain takes control of the Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded Holland in 1795, the British feared that the French would take control of the…
Chapter 13
Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu There are two current platitudes which have been an obsession with the great masses of…
III - Black Consciousness
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why did they pursue him…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… launched as a result of this threat. Discreet recruitment operations culminated in many incensed students taking up …