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History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
In 1976, the United States suddenly turned its attentions to Southern Africa, wary that events there might escalate into a new Cold War conflict fought along…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… there was a march by some 100 students through a nearby township protesting against the forced removal and relocation … 249). Indeed, the interlocking…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… tendency for SANSCO to concentrate on macro-political and township-based civic issues and to put its energies into township-based activities meant that the…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… to generate extra income using strategies common to most township residents - playing fah fee , a Chinese numbers … resuscitating it. They convened meetings…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
Mr. Chairman, Honourable Heads of State and Government, Distinguished Leaders of Delegations, Excellencies, On behalf of the National Executive…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… family was forcefully removed by the government to Kagiso Township during her youth. Matshoba attended Boipelo Primary …
ArchiveMandela, From a Freedom Fighter to an Icon of Reconciliation
When Nelson Mandela walked out of the Victor Verster prison on 11 February 1960, after 10,053 days of incarceration, people all over the world watched the…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the Golden Doves of Peace Awards ceremony 7 June 1994
(Madame/Master) of Ceremonies Members of the National Peace Secretariat Members of the Diplomatic Corps Distinguished guests For me personally, the…
ArticleSouth African Film
Feature Films are the long format, fictional (non-factual) films you see in cinemas. They are called long format because they are longer than most other forms…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… 'winning hearts and minds' (WHAM) of the masses by token township upgrading. At the top of the system is the State …
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
… against by whites, they were also discriminated against by township people," Motlatsi explains. After hearing him out, …
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… citizenship even if they have lived all their lives in a township near Johannesburg or Durban, and although the …
Country Divided in Black and White by Holland Cotter, 1 July 2010
For the last few weeks millions of fevered eyes have been fixed on South Africa, host to the World Cup, which ends next weekend. For half a century the probing…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… in Pageview. They voluntarily moved to the Coronation Township and Albertsville. Hertzog and Smuts differed …
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… who were forcibly removed from Doornfontein to Orlando township which had been established in 1932. Walter was … fine paid by his family. Despite the hazards…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the…
ArticleDesmond Mpilo Tutu Timeline
19317 October, Desmond Mpilo Tutu is born in Klerksdorp, in the then Transvaal province of South Africa.1961Desmond Tutu is ordained as a minister in the…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
For many years there was tension within the African National Congress (ANC) between those with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… The first Alexandra Bus Boycott takes place in Alexandra Township , Johannesburg, with commuters forcing bus companies …
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
Programme Director; Members of the families of Bopape, Dlephu and Motloung; Members of the PEC and REC; The Executive Mayor and Councillors; The…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
On behalf of the South African Youth Congress, whose leadership is working under most precarious conditions inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… the people's army, Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK). As alternative township structures, street committees, and people's courts …
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
Your death has come way too soon; none of us could say, with a straight face, that we were prepared for it. Therefore, please forgive us if we appear too…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
Premier Raymond Mhlaba and members of the Provincial Government; Chairperson of the Transitional Local Council, Nceba Faku; Our host, Ric Wilson, Editor of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
Premier Raymond Mhlaba and members of the Provincial Government; Chairperson of the Transitional Local Council, Nceba Faku; Our host, Ric Wilson, Editor of…
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…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
Dear Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1960s
… Suppression of Communism Act, and restricted to Orlando Township.After ANC is outlawed, Dorothy Nyembe becomes … Revolt. Lillian Ngoyi is banned and confined…