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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…
Cape Slave Naming Patterns by Robert Shell
When Robert Semple visited Cape Town in 1804 he correctly noted the significance of the naming pattern for Cape Slave owners: It may here be observed that the…
Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois”, Internal Bulletin of the International Communist League (B-L), no. 2, May 1935
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 53 - Remarks of Comrade Dubois", Internal…
The Democratic Party (DP)
The Democratic Party (DP) was formed on 8 April 1989, when the former Progressive Federal Party, Independent Party and National Democratic Movement merged…
Introduction
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1961 the South African Government gave…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
Introduction Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu (née Nontsikelelo Thethiwe) was one of the prominent anti-apartheid South African leaders, widely referred to as…
Grade 12 - Topic 4 - The end of the Cold War and a new global world order 1989 to present
There were many reasons why apartheid collapsed. You can read about the crisis of Apartheid in the 1980s in section 5 of the grade 12 material. The collapse of…
Rustenburg the Segregated city
Rustenburg the Segregated city Towards Union The Afrikaner character of the town persisted after Union in 1910, and there was little to attract other…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on International Relations, 27-30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
Introduction 1. The conference in general agreed with the characterisation of the international situation as outlined in the discussion document, however the…
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…
ADDRESS AT THE SCOTTISH PARLIAMENT, 13 June 2001
Honourable Speaker, First Minister, Ministers, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: I am greatly honoured that you have given us the opportunity to…
PlaceCape Town, Western Province
"Cape Town has just been voted as the top city in the world by the prestigious Time Out publication. And I fully agree with this, having just returned from my…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… could only achieve independence outside of Empire. Foot Notes [1] See J T F Jordens, Gandhi’s Religion. A Homespun …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
Land restitution is one of the key issues since South Africa achieved democracy in 1994 and as such an overview of what has been achieved since the…
ArticleCosatu timeline
2010 19 January: (Congress of South African Trade Unions) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
ArticleBoipatong massacre - 17 June 1992
On 17 June 1992 the Joe Slovo Informal settlement in Boipatong outside Vereeniging was attacked by a group of about 300 armed men from Kwa Madala Hostel in…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… Times. [29] September, Dulcie. Dulcie September’s Private Notes. Paris, France, 1985. https://www.scribd.com/document/359360953/2-DS-Notes-on-French-Arms…
Chapter 7 - Gumede keeps the bright fire burning, 1928-29
… There were White Communists present at the meeting taking notes. And why shouldn’t they? To secure his own position, …
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
… raised the possibility of a merger with NUSAS (Personal notes, December 1989). At about the same time, Andrew …
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on trial for their lives on charges of…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir…
ArticleCulture and Resistance Conference, Botswana, 1982
Several hundred artists and activists from South Africa living in exile and within the country, as well as foreign nationals, were hosted by the Botswana…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
Hertzog and Pirow’ Bills were putting the Africans more and more into a state of slavery’. Gumede, April 1930. INTRODUCTION In 1930 Gumede had taken the…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
Poet, scholar, botanist, auxiliary soldier, journalist, politician, talented sportsman and grandson of a famous Herero leader, Robert Grendon is one of the…
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… two children, Susie and Joe. Strachan’s Wikipedia entry notes that he was “unusual among white activists in that he …
PlaceSarepta
The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish – of the river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions founded as…
Appeal to the British public by Dube
APPEAL TO THE BRITISH PUBLIC ABOUT THE NATIVE LAND ACT, 1913 by John Langalibalele Dube President, South African Native National Congress [This extract from…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
Dr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo played an outstanding role in the South African liberation movement for over half a century - in persuading the Indian community to link…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
Comrade Chairperson, Esteemed members of the Diplomatic Corps, Fellow members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Leaders of our allied…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… have been captured in this manner. For its part, the ANC notes this latest kidnapping act, and warns the South African …