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EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
… Africa, who fought on the side of the Allies. The South African force suffered approximately 9000 casualties and 14 … mainly of supplying troops, men and…
EventSir Bartle Frere, the new British High Commissioner delivers an ultimatum to Cetshwayo the Zulu king to disband his army'
… the idea of creating a Confederation of all Southern African territories, with a view to being appointed Governor … at a time when British colonial…
CHAPTER 10 - CONCLUSION
… land mines were laid only a few kilometres inside South African territory and were thus not long, if at all, at the … they originate from one of the…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… now consider it necessary in the national interest for the African National Congress and government to meet urgently to … or not they are nationalists and…
James Stewart - the ANC fighter who spoke truth to power by Martin Plaut, 1 February 2016
… York) and Clive L. Glaser (Professor of 20th century South African History at the University of the Witwatersrand, … From Protest to Challenge. A documentary…
PlaceNamaqualand
… quietly thinking about what it means to _me to be South African, a visitor to South Africa, or even African. So it seems easier to rather explain the effect…
![Letter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.](/sites/default/files/styles/saho_medium/public/archive-files2/let19690815.032.009.743.thumb.gif?itok=6M3u975_)
ArchiveLetter from Steve Biko to Colin [Collins] re follow-up discussion on financial assistance to SASO from UCM, Aug 15, 1969.
… Christian Movement by the President of the the South African Students Organisation Steve Biko …
ANC National Conference, 13 July 1991
… 760,000 members met in the 48th National Conference of the African National Congress. This conference was the first of … support the ANC has achieved. The…
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
… place great significance on the development of the South African group. The approaching war will shake the English … the opinion that your work within the …
Document 50 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Trade Union Question (No division On this question) (1934)
… in South Africa reflects the backwardness of the South African worker. All the Unions are under the control of … policy of the two existing Workers' Parties,…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… paper to be written in the languages spoken by the South African negroes, by this I mean a paper for spreading the … years been hiding such a literature to…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of that day? The recent annual Conference of the African Political Organisation decided that it could not … of what the day signified to us. A brief survey…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… of it. Our power lay in the fact that we carried the South African society on our shoulders, literally in so far as our … clear-cut ideas on Africans. He was…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… were visible in the dominant faction. Members of the South African Transport and Allied Workers Union (Satawu) staged a … executive committee member Ebrahim…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… , in Pietermaritzburg. Then in 1947, a Medical School for African, Indian and Coloured students, in Durban. ( now known … Universities were among the first…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… the first workers' cooperative in the history of the South African Labour Movement. This paper will examine the process … These two features made this…
EventFirst celebration of International Women's Day
… as the historic 1956 anti-pass march by thousands of South African women. Visit our feature 'History of Women's struggle … ' for further information about…
PlacePretoria Art Museum
… artists to the City. Her donations also included South African works by artists such as Pieter Wenning, Frans … artists to the City. Her donations also…
David Goldblatt by Jean Dykstra, 11 September 2011
… in his current exhibition at the Jewish Museum, the South African photographer ponders how it is possible to be decent …
Insurrections III: The Storming
… at the University of the Western Cape and the Centre for African Studies at the University of Cape Town. It is …
PlaceFort Wonderboompoort, Wonderboom-Pretoria
… the Voortrekker Monument, the Telkom tower, and the South African Reserve Bank. The fort’s roof is destroyed and walls …
PlaceSt Margaret’s House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… It was awarded a Merit Aaward by the Institute of South African Architects in the early eighties. Above the Garage …
Document 57 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 13 January 1936
… in which the problems affecting the revolution in South African be discussed. We feel, however, the need that …
58. Congress has sold our rights
… and Bridglal Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African Indian Congress consisted of a few wealthy …
PlaceVryburg, Bophirima Region
… in the conflict between the British Empire and the South African Republic. Interestingly, and a complete aside, the …
Student Politics in the Era of Democracy
… leading to the first democratic elections the South African Students Organisation (SASCO) continued the tradition …
ArticlePassive Resistance Campaign Timeline
… labour prohibited from 1 July. October, The South African Indian Committee (SAIC) is formed with the aim of …
EventCiskei is granted 'independence'
… Black homeland to be granted 'independence' by the South African Government. Chief Lennox Sebe is elected President by …
EventSA Government spoil Chief Albert Luthuli's chance of Rectorship
… and Glasgow University to obtain permission from the South African Government for Albert Luthuli to leave Natal and be …
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
… Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also …