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ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
September 2015, District Six Homecoming Centre, Cape Town. Performance Curated by: Sumangala Damodaran, Tina Schouw and Ari Sitas Performance Visual: Piya…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
This article was written by Devon Wall and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Customary Law in South Africa: …
ArticleSouth African major mass killings timeline 1900-2012
… almost on a war footing, against the unarmed workmen. 1950 27 March, 14 people are killed by South African police …
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… and the South African Indian Congress (SAIC) in the period 1950-1953 had served to transform the former into a mass … The Industrial Legislation Commission…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
ArchiveBibliography by Howard Barrell
… of Underground Movements (London: Faber and Faber, 1950). Moss, G., The Wheels Turn. South African Political … Simons, J., and R., Class & Colour in South…
ArchiveJonas Gwangwa embodied South Africa’s struggle for a national culture by Gwen Ansell
Music is not a zero sum game with only one ‘best’. But if you seek to name one musician whose life embodies the South African people’s struggle for a national…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against Apartheid We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
Mobilise the world for sanctions against apartheid! We owe the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid a debt of deep gratitude for inviting me to…
Black Reaction to Apartheid, 1948-1973 - Address to the Annual Meeting of the African Studies Association by O. R. Tambo, Syracuse, New York, United States of America, 1973
… were precipitated, however, by the killing on May 1, 1950, of a number of workers who were observing the day, … a national stay-at-home strike was called on…
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… the struggle for freedom during the period from 1950 to the first democratic elections in 1994. Historical …
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The Industrial Conciliation (Natives) …
Document 34 - Letter from the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, to the Executive Committee, Comintern
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 34 - Letter from the Executive …
Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to Douglas Wolton, 5 September 1928
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 27 - Letter from E. R. Roux to … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around Mandela’s health
Introduction Apart from a prostate operation in 1985 and equally successful treatment for TB in 1988, Nelson's health had been good. At a time when the Press…
Albertina Sisulu, Freedom Fighter
By Sara We salute one of our best known heroines of South Africa, Albertina Nontsikelelo (Blessings) Sisulu, on her 70th birthday in October. Albertina…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
ArticleA history of Soweto
… resources required to house the township population. In 1950, Ernest Oppenheimer visited Orlando. He was appalled by …
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
The overthrow of Portugal’s Prime Minister, Marcello Caetano, on 25 April 1974 hailed a watershed moment for the former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique,…
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… the organisation's non-collaboration with the AAC 1950 The All African Convention (AAC) slowly ceases to be an …
Zulu Community
… and ‘Asian’ suburbs, as a result of the Group Areas Act (1950). In terms of this act African Durban residents were to …
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract The African National…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… was a fresh-faced 16-year-old when I started my studies in 1950 at the University of Cape Town. In the long summer … 50s. Action for unity When I started my…
ArchiveMandela’s Democracy by Andrew Nash, 26 June 2013
The Tribal Model of DemocracyIn his speech from the dock, at his 1962 trial for inciting African workers to strike and leaving the country without a passport,…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend beyond the workplace per se. Although workers sell their labour power for only a…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… East India Company. London: George Allen & Unwin, Ltd., 1950. de Kock, W. J. (ed.) Dictionary of South African … Asia. Chapel Hill: University of North…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… to white settlement. Under the Immorality Amendment Act of 1950, people of mixed races could not reside together, making …
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The government will probably ban this book…