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ArticleAnti-Pass Campaign
In the latter part of 1959, PAC membership was still below expectations, and it became clear to the leadership that the movement would have to produce some…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid. The aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre, in 1960, signalled the…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… of Parktown. We do. And as we move round Parktown from the townships we pause and admire the beauty. I do. I am not a …
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of 60th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2015
… in this campaign, and travelled across the country – to townships, informal settlements, rural villages, churches and …
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… of land rights completely in urban areas. They live in townships as tenants in municipal houses. A few are allowed …
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
… But, there was still a problem - the unrest in the townships and countryside showed no sign of abating. Botha …
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… spreading in veld-fire fashion across the segregated black townships and rural settlements. ANC armed activity, although …
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… of Parktown. We do. And as we move round Parktown from the townships we pause and admire the beauty. I do. I am not a …
III - Black Consciousness
… between the eruptions of violent confrontation in the townships and on the streets; but they mark only the ebb and …
The strangulation of activity
… were in force on all funerals in over 70 black townships as at December 1989. Additional conditions include … After the 1976 student uprising in Soweto and…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner My childhood My father, Herman Maswabi, was a well-educated man. He came from…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… say in the Durban area? SS Durban area, including the townships must have been easily about five to seven cells. … that were affecting them immediately. I…
Afrikaner Newspapers and the newspaper industry from 1830
… publication, Bona, aimed at urbanised blacks living in the townships. Later, in 1964, the group extended their black …
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… illegal campaigns in Namibia, Angola, and in South African townships. IDAF roped in legal authority Professor John …
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
… Law are to be strictly enforced after 1 May 1930, even in townships like Springs, which were held to be outside Gold …
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
JOHANNESBURG, Dec. 15— The South African Army reported tonight that six people were killed and five people seriously wounded when a light truck set off a land…
PlaceDimbaza, Eastern Cape
The name, Dimbaza, an African Town in the former Ciskei, about 11km North-West of King William’s Town (on the road to Alice) and Fort Beaufort! Dimbaza is a…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… black professionals were restricted to operating in black townships and/or in the service of the growing bureaucracies … to the bantustans, or to employment…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by leading members of the banned ANC…
ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
Colonial settlement Land wars The 'Frontier Wars' in the Eastern Cape Europeans who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As…
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
Introduction Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid…
PlaceRooigrond
Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province). The…
4. Conclusion
The decisions made by the Party executive at the end of 1938 proved to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to…
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
The United Nations referred to apartheid as “a crime against humanity” (United Nations, edited 2018). In 1956, Trevor Huddleston, an Anglican priest, wrote the…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
… and a separate department for blacks was created. Entire townships and even mission stations were transferred into …
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Segregation Fallacy
… and that choice is not segregation. (7) The Native urban townships arise out of the need of Native labour in the …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… together and work together with youth from the African townships. law of the land, the yardstick by which all other …
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
… together and work together with youth from the African townships. law of the land, the yardstick by which all other …
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… work in low-skilled jobs and live a life of misery in the townships. Rive, however, did not accept this for himself …
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
… would seldom have any relationship with even blacks in the townships ... So mine workers were not only discriminated …