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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…
EventJazz Musician, Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee, dies
… Basil 'Manenberg' Coetzee (54), South African jazz musician who played with Abdullah Ibrahim (also …
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…
General Act of the Berlin Conference on West Africa, 26 February 1885
… AND (6) RULES FOR FUTURE OCCUPATION ON THE COAST OF THE AFRICAN CONTINENT In the Name of God Almighty. Her Majesty … with reference to future occupations on…
EventFormer Bafana Bafana Legend John Moeti dies
… and also member of the Bafana squad thet lifted the 1996 African Cup of Nation …
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 …
EventBusiness Day reports that minister of law and order, Adriaan Vlok, said that apartheid has become an albatross around the country's neck.
… around the country's neck. 'If you ask a black South African what apartheid has done, he will say it has caused …
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 …
ArchiveHistory for the Future by Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Mpilo Tutu
… and a quintessential part of the transition. The South African Truth Commission positioned itself between two … amnesty and where hearings were held in…
EventAllan Boesak's plea for the acquittal on fraud charges is rejected and the case is postponed to the following year
… an extra-marital affair with a white employee of the South African Council of Churches. He later divorced his wife to … was the ANC Western Cape president…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
… The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack …
Sue Williamson Book Launch
… 4 October 2025 Time: 11h00–13h00 Venue: Iziko South African National Gallery RSVP online on WebTickets: …
EventA 13-year-old Welsh school-girl’s letter reaches the wrong hands
… and hoped that her letter would be passed on to any African girl in Cape Town. The letter was addressed to the …
EventWhite entrepreneurs to be given contracts in the 'homelands'
… many already disenfranchised Blacks who had their South African citizenship cancelled, by actively encouraging …