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Document 5 - Programme of the Communist Party of South Africa adopted at the seventh annual conference of the Party
… Q: Until the early 1960s, the tradition of resistance to apartheid was one of … go round the world now, especially in the aftermath of the Truth and…
ArchiveThe tasks of the Democratic Movement during the State of Emergency
… United Democratic Front draft article discussing the tasks of the Democratic Movement during the State of Emergency. … The tasks of the Democratic Movement…
ArchiveThe Economics Unit and the decision of the National Consultative Conference
… ANC memorandum on the setting up and purpose of the Economics Unit and its move to the Department of Economics and Planning. … The Economics Unit and the…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
… Have you ever expressed any views yourself in regard to the advantages or disadvantages of a non-violent struggle? … mind explaining to their lordships what…
ArchiveThe SACP says : no to the selling of the peoples assets
… The SACP says : No to the selling of the Peoples Assets! White poster with black lettering and … The SACP says : no to the selling of the peoples assets …
ArchiveThe making of the working class: Part 11 - The ICU collapses
… Collapses BY the end of 1924 paid up membership of the ICU stood at 11 000. Most of these members were concentrated in the Eastern and Western Cape. … The…
ArchiveThe national situation or the real tasks of the liberatory movement
… Draft of an article published in the independent newspaper, Ikhwezi Lomso on the liberation movement. … The national situation or the real tasks of the…
ArchiveThe role of the Trade Unions in the National Liberation Struggle
… An article about the National Liberation Struggle as their decision to join the United Democratic Front was made as part of their … The role of the Trade…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… Your Excellency, the President of the General Assembly, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Your … set by the founders in San Francisco because, in truth, it…
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
… On this occasion the Prime Minister made good use of the opportunity of talking to Afrikaans students. At the time … I shall have uttered nothing more than…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2012 submissions
… African/African-American history and culture. Project: The Failure of Good Intentions: What Went Wrong with the Truth and Reconciliation Commission upon…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the closing ceremony of the 19th meeting of heads of government of the Caribbean Community and Common Market (CARICOM) St Lucia, 4 July 1998
… for this opportunity - too long delayed - to meet with the leaders of the peoples of the Caribbean. It has been delayed in recent … completed the liberation…
ArchiveThe great conspiracy. Part 1: The story of the Chamber of Mines
… It is customary today for the Transvaal Chamber of Mines to surround itself with a … The great conspiracy. Part 1: The story of the Chamber of Mines …
Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. The agreem
… Britain returns the Cape formally to the Netherlands and the flag of the Batavian Republic is hoisted on the Castle. …
The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds that
… The report of the Snyman Commission into the disturbances on the campus of the University of the North at Turfloop, finds …
ArticleSouth Africa before and in the build up to 1899
… A number of interrelated factors led to the South African War. The factors that have been covered in the text below include; the conflicting political…
ArticleTimeline of the German and Herero, Nama War and Genocide
… 1904 6 January, The settler Frau Sonnenberg tells German soldiers stationed at the Waterberg, including the Sergeant in charge, Sergeant Rademacher, that the…
ArticleStates of Emergency in South Africa: the 1960s and 1980s
… One of the key instruments used by the apartheid government to neutralise political dissent was the State of Emergency (SOE). In periods when the government …
ArticlePopular struggles in the early years of Apartheid, 1948-1960
… Historians recognise the significance of popular struggles over the past 100 years. But debates among historians about their … formal political formations…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of the world. European colonisation and domination changed the ……
Constructing the Union of South Africa; negotiations & contestations, 1902-10
… Scanned in copy of the last page of the Treaty of Vereeniging, click to enlarge and view other … Africa, driven by economic and political ambitions, and the…
ArticleThe World and South Africa when Nelson Mandela was born
… influenza pandemic. In July 1918, when Mandela was born, the First World War was still raging with no end in sight. In … against Turkish forces in Palestine…
ArticleThe 1992 Whites only referendum ‘For’ or ‘Against’ a negotiated constitution
… March 1992, President Frederick Willem de Klerk announced the results of a referendum in which only white people were allowed to participate. The aim of the…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 4: A Heritage trail through the provinces of South Africa
… is our heritage? Heritage is what we have inherited from the past. Each of South Africa’s nine provinces is rich in … or even in naming a place after a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and 16 June – The birth of a new generation
… The Black Consciousness philosophy gained most of its support in the secondary schools and universities. The role played by the Black Consciousness Movement …
ArticleThe development of Music in South Africa timeline 1600-2004
… 1600s In the Dutch colonial era, from the 17th century on, indigenous tribes people and slaves imported from the east adapted Western musical instruments and…
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… I welcome you all to this thirty-sixth annual session of the Provincial conference of the African National Congress (Cape). I know what personal … see a good…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively … war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the British,…
ArticleLenin’s implementation of Leninism in Russia and the changes made
… While looking at the background information on the Russian revolution and the change to a Communist state in Russia, we have already … Lenin’s implementation…
ArticleA History of the South African Film Industry timeline 1895-2003
… 1895 The Kinetescope (invented by Thomas Edison) was a box in which people could see a moving image. The first Kinetescopes in South Africa were opened to…