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Will the real PAC please stand up? by Phumza Sokana
INFIGHTING within the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is far from over as two factions in the party battle with each other over the legitimacy of this weekend’s…
Document 3 - Peace Treaty of Vereeniging
Today's opening address of President Nelson Mandela to parliament will go down in the history of our country as one of the most sober analyses of the…
Tribute to President Reginald Oliver Tambo by ANC Treasurer General Dr Mathews Phosa on the occassion of the OR Tambo Lecture, 27 October 2011, Kimberly, Northern Cape Province
Programme Director Leadership of the Organisation of Cde. Oliver Tambo and the Alliance Business Community Comrades Patriots Ladies and Gentlemen …
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
1861 Sefako Mapogo Makgatho is born at Ga Mphahlele, Pietersburg district in Transvaal (now Limpopo province). 1870 The death of the King of the Baostho…
Thabo’s pen versus perceptions by Tinyiko Maluleke (Sunday Independant), 24 January 2016
Since the rising of the sun of democracy upon the magnificent Drakensberg, none of the other sons of the soil on whom we have bestowed the title of president…
Chronology
1935 May, Joint Select Committee of Parliament tables the Representation of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and Land Bill October, Italy attacks Ethiopia…
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
ANC National Chairperson, ANC Provincial Chairperson and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black and white, will go to the polls to…
1983, Volume 7 Dawn pages 4 and 5 Article: The great illusion
THE GREAT ILLUSION First of all 22 percent of the whites did not even bother to vote which is approximately 700,000 voters, i.e. about half the votes cast in…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… and political cornerstones of the new South Africa. [13] Notes [1] Mabule Dorah Riah, 2018. "Who Cares What We Speak: …
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
Introduction The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men changed from being farmers in their…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
Gangsterism is often characterized as anti-social behaviour frowned upon by polite sections of society. There is no doubt that the behaviour of gangsters like…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… in Durban in the Kwa-Zulu Natal province of South Africa. Notes [1] “Africana philosophy” is the name for an emergent …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… in London, the successor of the Anti-Apartheid Movement, notes that it is was no accident or mere coincidence that the …
The significance of the Bulhoek massacre today by Sam Matiase, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… defiance’ at Ntabelanga, accordingly, the recorded history notes that, towards the end of 1919, during a mid-day service …
Memorandum from Nelson Mandela to F. W. de Klerk, 26 June 1992
… provides a useful point of departure. This report notes that the causes of violence are many and complicated. …
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
… the lessons from it, and so prepare the way to victory. NOTES [71] No Easy Walk to Freedom , p. 105. [72] The …
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… 1960, the political initiative was grabbed by the PAC. NOTES [50] Ben Turok, Strategic Problems in South Africa's …
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… in private conversations, letters to newspapers and in notes in his memoirs-diary, he was a challenging …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1990-1999
During the 1990s, behind-the-scenes negotiations between the government and the ANC gathered pace. As part of that process, the ANC, PAC and other parties were…
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa These are the indisputed facts concerning the treatment of Mr. Biko. Mr. Biko was…
Local Government
When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep region, they brought with them a mindset that was essentially rural and…
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…
PlaceVredehoek
Vredehoek is a hillside neighbourhood at the base of Devil’s Peak. The stairways here were built in the early twentieth Century to connect homes to streets and…
Newspaper article taken from the City Press in 2002: Student Politics under Apartheid
… in radical politics through SASO. Masterpiece Gumede notes: ‘When we came to Ngoye we were immediately grabbed by …
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
Introduction Socialist Ideals and Bolshevik Realities South Africa and the Archives of the Communist International Document 1 Report of M. Wolberg to…
PlaceDundee
The Battle of Blood River Heritage Site in KwaZulu-Natal represents a unique way of Historic storytelling because there are 2 separate interpretive centres,…
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
This article was made possible with the support of the British Academy Elizabeth van der Heyden, known as Betty or sometimes Liz, was born on 8 December…
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…