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Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
… incubators. As part of the expansion of this programme, township digital hubs will be established, initially in four …
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
Restrictions on the media
A reflection on journalism There is nothing, amid South Africa's vast censorship apparatus, preventing the country's media from publishing the information…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
'UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!' This message was…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the National Day of Safety and Security Vosloorus, 15 October 1994
It is a great honour for me to be with you on this day, the National Day of Safety and Security. The people of the East Rand, and in particular Katlehong,…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… in Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg (in the Orlando Township) and in Cape Town. Both Sisulu and Cachalia were …
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… and completed her matric at the Bantu High School in Dathu township. Whilst doing her teacher training at Modderpoort …
Articlehoz tab example
… African languages. Mandla Langa Mandla Langa from KwaMashu Township, Durban, is a poet, short story writer, and …
Dr. Pallo Jordan’s speech at the 20th anniversary of the Bisho massacre, 07 September, 2012
… assailants organised by the Third Force attacked a small township, killing 45 people and injuring scores. It was later …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… in Port Elizabeth, Durban, Johannesburg (in the Orlando Township) and in Cape Town. Both Sisulu and Cachalia were …
52. Gandhi: my experiences, 1914
… left us. We arrived at Charlestown. This is a very small township, with a population of barely 1,000. There is only …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1970 - 1978 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… to build a masjid in Kwa Mashu was made in 1981 to the township authorities. A year later, a site was purchased, …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
1942 28 June, Martin Tembisile, who later becomes known as Chris Hani, is born in the village of Sabalele in Cofimvaba (then named St Marks) region, Transkei…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas Savimbi were defeated by the combined force…
ArchiveEFF 2019 Election Manifesto
… in the West Coast region. 16. Under the EFF government, township economy equates to township industrialisation, and special tax-free economic … in populous…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… establishment of branches (particularly in Alexandra Township, a black township on the northern tip of Johannesburg), open air … the WIL, joined the group…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
… So we arranged a meeting in Port Elizabeth, New Brighton township with the comrades there because that’s where we felt … afterwards, after Dakar... We had…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… Born in Verulam in 1946 and grown up in Hammersdale township near Durban where he lived for the most part till, …
Article1976-1983: Mass Democratic movements
Introduction
ArticleMass Democratic movements, 1976-1983
IntroductionNovember 1977, Dr Mamphele Ramphele stands over Steve Biko's open casket in his home before the funeral, attended by 20,000 mourners at King…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
Now let us talk of Freedom,. Everywhere in the world today, the oppressed and exploited masses of people are up in arms. They are fighting against the forces…
The Johannesburg Biennale by Bisi Silva (Artnet), 1998
As curious as it may seem to a jaded Western art world, the large-scale global art exhibition still strikes many emerging nations as a good idea. One such is…
Speech to the ANC Rally at Soccer City by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 16 December 1990
Mr. Chairman, Members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades and friends, Compatriots, I came on Thursday, having spent a whole week…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Stephen Bantu Biko was born in King William's Town, in the Cape Province of South…
8. Pillay and others petition the Viceroy of India
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai This petition of 14 July 1884 was submitted by …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… health minister Barbara Hogan, right, in Khayelitsha Township, South Africa, February 2009. A controversial Swiss …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… need increasingly to enable visual literacy among young township people, so together with a couple of friends, we …
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… apartheid, and when the pair visited a family in Alexandra township, hippos descended on them and they were arrested. …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
ArticleOvercoming Adversity from All Angles: The Struggle of the Domestic Worker during Apartheid by Bennett Gwynn
This article was written by Bennett Gwynn and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Overcoming Adversity from All…