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Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
ArticleThe Tricameral Parliament, 1983-1984
Introduction The Tricameral Parliament, a three-tiered assembly that presided over the last decade of Apartheid, was inaugurated to allow for parliamentary…
ArticleSouth African General Elections 2019 - List of Political Parties
… in February 2019 by the organisers of 2018 protests in the township of Zwelihle, outside Hermanus in the Western Cape. …
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… officials. 27 October Thokoza, PWV Vusi Tshabala Thokoza township civic leader Shot by gunmen in the head and back …
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… failure. In 1976, open rebellion erupted in the black township of Soweto, in protest against the use of Afrikaans …
Indian Community
… between the White residential areas and the large African township of Umlazi in Durban. In Mount Edgecombe, indentured …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… against state assets, worker stayaways, clashes between township residents and security forces, and attacks on black …
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest the impending … outside the administration building in the New…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… hundreds of African men and women assembled in the Langa township outside Cape Town to protest the impending … outside the administration building in the New…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
The "International Tribute - For a Free South Africa" is an historic and unique event. Artists from across the world are gathering in Wembley Stadium to greet…
PlaceGannahoek Farm
Gannahoek Farm is situated in the Colenso district in KwaZulu-Natal Province. In 1894, the McFie family took possession of the farm until 1990. Evictions …
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… that we carry and extend our offensive beyond our township borders into other areas with even greater …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… that we carry and extend our offensive beyond our township borders into other areas with even greater …
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
Early LifeJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma (Msholozi – his praise name) was born on 12 April 1942 at Nkandla in northern Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal). He is the first…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… existence [of women in the rural reserves] “for a native township on the Witwatersrand.”20 If this response was …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening Ceremony of the President’s Cup 2003 Fancourt 20 November 2003
Honorary Co-Chairman of the President’s Cup, President George Bush, President Nelson Mandela, President FW de Klerk, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished…
O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Anthony Heard, October 1985
… once had occasion to observe, when the police go into a township and shoot, when they did on the 21st March, …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… we will prioritise support to small business, as well as township and informal sector businesses in particular, thus …
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
South Africans went to the polls on 8 May 2019 in a general election considered the most important since the dawn of democracy in 1994. The ruling African…
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
In an attempt to restore artistic exchange and dialogue after the Cultural Boycotts of the Isolation Years, the first Johannesburg Biennale titled Africus,…
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
By the turn of the century, despite the fact that women of all races were still virtually restricted to the home, migrant labour had already begun to forge…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
Introduction The South African War of 1899-1902 was essentially a 'White mans' war, fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… follow Rive from his childhood in the famous District Six township, through his internationally successful academic and … lifestyle while writing to empower…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
… bus boycotts in which people walked nine miles from the township to town and back every day for three months to …
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… in urban areas, it emerged that Africans living in Orlando Township are paid wages that average £4 2s. 6d. a month. (It …
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… to cater for our various needs. Dealing with so many township youth was a new experience for him. He was very …
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… of Afrapix exhibit at Cultural Festival in the Bosmont Township, Johannesburg . Peter Mckenzie and Omar Badsha are … projects including, Women's Hostel , in…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
… than to say that classical music only belongs to whites or township jazz only belongs to Black people. One of the fights …
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the second Fosatu…