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ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
During this period the ANC consolidated its hold on power but also faced both internal and external challenges. Significantly, the National Party, which was…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
Solomon Tshekisho Plaatje was born 140 years ago in what is today South Africa’s Free State province. When he was 40 years old, he published Native Life in…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South…
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…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 3) The Broederbond Just as it was the white man’s way to think and dream for the…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
The passive resistance campaigns led by MK Gandhi in South Africa had huge consequences not only for the history of the country but also for world history in…
Preface
This study of "protest art" in South Africa for the period 1968 to 1976 presented me with several difficulties of research in relation to decisions regarding…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… the British had made some effort to reconcile with the Boers and ignored the claims of the Africans. A new …
Say It out Loud - The 1921 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 29th March, 1921
… the natives south of the Equator." He concluded, " The old boers would save South Africa, and to have peace they should …
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
The first treason trial in South African history post apartheid regime is under way amid high security at the Pretoria High Court, with a group of alleged…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be described as the…
The role of Cecil John Rhodes' British South African Company in the Conquest of Matabeleland
Introduction European interest in Zimbabwe can be traced to the 18th century. This began with the arrival of Christian missionaries in 1858, who befriended…
Gandhi, Tamils and the Satyagraha in South Africa by E.S Reddy
At a farewell meeting of the Tamil community in Johannesburg on July 15, 1914, Gandhi said that the Tamils bore the brunt of the satyagraha struggle and that…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
The tremendous achievements of the union in all spheres since (928 were made possible largely by the rapid development of South African industry generally and…
Mission Stations - N-S
… described as follows: "Their village had received from the Boers the name of Hooge-Kraal, from its position on an …
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION In May 1906 smoking habits amongst the ladies…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic This part describes the nature of housing and…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
William Morris, one of England's foremost Socialists, poet and artist 1834-96, also had two daughters, but only one of them-May -took a keen interest in his…
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Hester Cornelius (Translated from the Afrikaans) I was born and brought up in the Lichtenburg District, Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in…
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
The Poor White problem spread to the factories and the slums of Johannesburg and was soon felt in the offices of the union. There was a constant flow into the…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little attention was…
Archive2004 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2004 (Before National Elections)
… South African, I was fully expecting war as right-wing boers and Bantustan chiefs conspired to annihilate Nelson …
ArticleA history of Soweto
The consequence of this promising wealth was that a great number of people left their farms, rural homes and other towns in South Africa to make a quick buck…
ArticleBloemfontein the Segregated city
In the early days of the Free State, citizenship was limited to the White population only. This became part of the constitution in 1854, and included those who…
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Protest against the Women's Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931 1 The above two…
Some of Gandhi’s Early Views on Africans Were Racist. But That Was Before He Became Mahatma by E.S Reddy (The Wire), 18 October 2016
It is important to remember that the early Gandhi had little contact with Africans and did not understand their sensitivities. The recent agitation at the…
48. Breach of the compromise
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A mass meeting was held in Johannesburg on 24…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… A Commando expedition of Boers, Khoe and San cross the !Garib (Orange) River and …