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EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
BiographyDr. Abu Baker Asvat
This article was written by Michelle Hayman and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship The ‘People’s Doctor’ ‘He struggled to liberate…
III - Black Consciousness
… and self-reliance. In 1946 A. M. Lembede prepared a policy document for the ANC Youth League in which he rejected …
SABC CEO quits after about-turn by Shain Germaner (Cape Times), 28 Jun 2016
Less than a week ago, SABC acting group chief executive Jimi Matthews furiously defended the public broadcaster, its chief operating officer, Hlaudi…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Stephen Bantu Biko was born in King William's Town, in the Cape Province of South…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… organization which the accused supported or joined. ‘Any document’ found in the possession of the accused or any …
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… Commission which appeared in April 1944 was a shameful document. It accepted the basic premise of the mine owners; …
ArticleA History of South African Literature, timeline 1824-2005
… was the decade in which the Freedom Charter, the central document of the anti-racist movement, was written on the …
Biography of Bessie Emery by Elizabeth Venditti
… political interest in her letters, and that Head wanted to document and cover the racial injustices she faced throughout …
PlaceDitsong National Museum of Military History, Johannesburg
Lovers of military history are sure to enjoy a tour of the Ditsong National Museum of Military History. The museum, located on an 80ha site next to the…
EventMandela smuggled out the country and appears in Addis Ababa
Early in 1962, Nelson Mandela was smuggled across the borders of South Africa. He was granted an Ethiopian passport by Haile Selassie, and classified as a…
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden McClain passed away on Sunday the 02nd of October 2011. We at…
44th National Conference: Report of the National Executive Committee, 18 December 1955
… year. The Freedom Charter was not just another political document, the Congress of the People just another conference. … to have adopted the Freedom Charter…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian Congress rejected it and launched …
Opening Address to the ANC National Consultative Conference by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 14 December 1990
… should not be undermined. However, in defending this document, it is no longer enough for us to repeat the tried …
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
… of Slovo's "Negotiations: What Room for Compromise?", a document which was a product of debates within the ANC on the …
Address at The Youth Day Rally, Witbank, 16th June 2003
… Programme. Already, Cabinet has adopted a policy framework document for the scaling up of the NYSP. Work is commencing …
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… Act (referred to as the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian Congress rejected it and launched …
Domestic work
… This resulted in the Law Commission's interim working document on individual and minority rights. It elicited …
ArticleThe Sedition Trial 1946 - 1948
The history of the struggle against racial oppression and exclusion in South Africa is inextricably intertwined with the struggle of workers against…
PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
The Transvaal, is one of the former Province of South Africa. It occupied the North Eastern part of the Country. The Limpopo River marked its border with…
20. Johannesburg Parsees claim special status
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A petition dated 17 September 1906 was sent to…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… A pass book The term ‘pass' was used to describe any document that curtailed an African's freedom of movement and … Charter. The Women's charter was adopted…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… movement with a clear vision of the road ahead. This document intends to provide a basis for these discussions. … response to changing and dynamic economic…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… was hopelessly outdated. A draft of a new basic strategy document had been prepared before the conference, 98 but was … ‘incipient’. 99 The draft for a new…
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in South Africa was the Sharpeville Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed…
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
… substantiate this claim its lawyers submitted an unsigned document of two pages to the court that greatly exaggerated … of modules for which interpreters had…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
“The time comes in the life of a nation when there remain only two choices –submit or fight”. In 2005 Dr Garth Benneyworth (Sol Plaatje University) located a…