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Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
This chapter grounds the analysis of the emergence, ideology and politics, organisation and collective actions of SASO which are examined in the next three…
PlaceBelmond Mount Nelson Hotel, Cape Town
… install a heated swimming pool for its guests. Since the 1950's the Hotel has continued to upgrade itself to keep up …
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… the political situation at any given time. On May 1, 1950, eighteen Africans were killed by the police during a … campaign for universal adult suffrage…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… from the crucible of the mass campaigns of the 1940's and 1950's, which united in action, the organised might of bodies … among rural and urban workers in…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists had built, if not…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… in our land as proved by those who participated in the 1950 Protest Day and in the great Defiance Campaign of 1952. … Congress and the South African Indian…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… With the passing of the Group Areas Act (no. 41 of 1950), the Durban City Council appointed a technical … sub-committee appointed by the Durban City Council…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… the local school principal, came to the rescue. In April 1950 he convened a meeting of local fishermen and proposed …
Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New Slogan and the Revolutionary Movement among White Workers in South Africa, presented at the Sixth
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 25 - E. R. Roux, The New …
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 6 - M. Lopes,13 "Socialism and …
PlaceFort Cox
… was Standard 6. This was raised to Standard 8 in 1950. In 1982 it was further raised to Standard 10 or …
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in Salisbury (Harare) in the late1950s when white rule in Rhodesia…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Act No 74 of 1983; the Fund Raising Number being 06 600177 000 5. The E M Paruk family in 1934 offered its …
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… of the YCL The YCL was banned, together with the SACP, in 1950 under the Suppression of Communism Act. When the SACP …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… missionary, Tiyo Siga, in the 19th century. During the 1950's, the apartheid government was continually introducing …
Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers’ party
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 2 - The lack of a workers' party The industrialisation of South Africa brought into exÂ…
Biography of Michael Scott from an email contribution by Lorna Richmond, 25 November 2015
… or South West Africa become independent Namibia. In 1950, while at the UN, he heard from the South African … to return to South Africa, Michael Scott , in…
PlaceGhana
… was bad. No good rural health or education policy. Up to 1950 the Govt Secondary schools in the country were 2, the … was bad. No good rural health or…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a programme which still embraces many of the…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of…
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
During the latter half of 2010, a series of events commemorating the 150th Anniversary of the first Indian indentured laborers in Natal will take place across…
Document 93 S. B., “Unite Against Reaction and Oppression: United Front Against National Oppression and Fascism”, Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 93 S. B., "Unite Against …
Speech by President Mandela at the Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Celebration, 25 April 1998, KwaDukuza
Bayede! Wena weNdlovu! Hlanga Lezwe! Siyakhuleka KwaDukuza emzini omkhulu; WeNdlovu ethe imuka;Babeyilandel' abakwaLanga; ibuyis' inhloko yadi'…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' …
Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from the …
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: …
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Document 41 - Letter from the Communist League of America to T.W. Thibedi, 30 May 1932
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 41 - Letter from the Communist … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…