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Congress of the People - I was there
June 25 and 26 1955 are dates indelibly impressed on the minds and hearts of every Congress member who was active at the time. They are the dates of the…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Paper On The Group Areas Act And Its Effects On The Indian People Of Natal, May 195649 A: HISTORY AND AIMS OF THE ACT 1. The Group Areas Act enacted by…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 4 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner The struggle continues 'I don't know what you mean by "tired". I can't give up…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Contextual Overview
A. The Mineral Revolution ↵ In this section we will briefly discuss the discovery of gold in the Witwatersrand and the Gold Rush. We will also discuss how…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1960-1969
This period began with the intensification of the anti-pass campaign, which resulted in the banning of the ANC and the PAC following the Sharpeville Massacre…
Grade 12 - Topic 2 - Independent Africa
In 1884, at the Berlin Conference, the European powers carved up Africa amongst themselves. By 1914 all of Africa, except Liberia and Ethiopia, was under…
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
Immorality Amendment Act, Act No 21 of 1950 This Act was one of the most controversial pieces of Apartheid legislation. It prohibited adultery, attempted…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative Abstract This paper addresses the falsity of the cultural discourse…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
Indian South Africans timeline 1900-1909 1900 The East London Mayor's Minute for 1899-1900 states that 1,000 refugees from war in the Transvaal and the…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
- The ANC’s operational strategic heritage, 1960-1975 The tradition of all the dead generations weighs like a nightmare on the brain of the living. And just…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of President Nujoma of Namibia Cape Town, 13 May 1996.
On a winter's day in 1976 more than 20 000 pupils from the African township complex of Soweto began a protest march against a Bantu Education Department…
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and South Africa generally). The influenza epidemic with many thousands of deaths and the end of the…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris Nineteen-eighteen was a significant year for Cape Town (and…
The strangulation of activity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The classical freedoms of association, assembly and…
ArticleKey sites
Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
My paper is about two women who focused on a common ideal, namely, the use of hand labour for social reconstruction after the Second South African War of 1899…
The people armed, 1984-1990
Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
1984-1990:- The people armedIntroductionNumerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government in the…
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
At first, James Motlatsi was wary of Cyril Ramaphosa. He wasn't sure if the young lawyer, who grew up in Soweto, was genuine when he wanted to organise the…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2010
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town 11 February 2010 …
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that…
PlaceBetty's Bay
It is located 100 km from Cape Town beneath the Kogelberg Mountains on the scenic R44 ocean drive between Pringle Bay and Kleinmond. The history of Betty's Bay…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
Introduction Documents In Volume 2 Document 1 Letter from Negro Bureau to Eastern Secretariat, 1931 Document 2 Letter from J. Gumede to International…
PlaceGauteng Province
The Area of Gauteng Province is small; stretching from Pretoria in the North to Vereeniging in the South. Gauteng in Sotho means: 'for place of gold'…
Constitution of the African National Congress (South Africa), January 1958
1. NAME: The name of the organisation shall be the African National Congress hereinafter referred to as the "Congress". 2. AIMS AND OBJECTS: The aims and…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 5 February 1999 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable…