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Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… With sporadic de m onstrations continuing in the urban townships, seventeen of these organizations were summarily …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s ‘Mother of the Nation’ who was never First Lady by Mashupye Herbert Maserumule (TheConversation.com), 3 April 2018
Winnie Madikizela-Mandela – doyen of South Africa’s liberation struggle and the matriarch who was dubbed ‘the mother of the nation’ – took the apartheid system…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at a banquet in honour of her majesty Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands Pretoria, 30 September 1996
Documents: An anonymous Cape Town correspondent, The nineteen days (Sharpeville and the days after.before), this article has been published in SAHO's library…
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…
ArticleThe influence of apartheid
The Ndebele and the apartheid state When the Nationalist Party was elected to power in 1948 by a minority of the white electorate, their platform promised…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… the use of the army in the countryside, the black urban townships as well as the schools and the creation of what the … the level of unity we have achieved,…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
ArticlePhotography and the Liberation Struggle in South Africa
Introduction We are not dealing with sets of statistics. We are talking about people of flesh and blood, who laugh and cry, who love and hate, who enjoy…
Women at the start of the 20th century
It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been given some recognition. Previously the…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
1815 Louis Trichardt and Hans van Rensburg cross the Oranje/Gariep river. June 1836, Van Rensburg leaves Trichardt while Potgieter goes on an expedition to…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1930s
… Law is to be strictly enforced after 1 May 1930, even in townships like Springs which were held to be outside Gold …
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… which transported some 25,000 Africans each day from the townships of Alexandra, Sophiatown and Lady Shelburne, …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… the court that in 1976 there was tension in the African townships, especially in Soweto. As a result, a community …
ArchiveApartheid Super Spy, Craig Williamson’s Trails of Death and Destruction: The Scandinavian Connection, (Responses to recent exposures in Jyllands Posten) by Prithiraj Dullay
… the speed at which it spread to virtually all the black townships in 1976-77 and across the country caught the …
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… people fought back - in the factories and mines, in the townships, on the farms, in the reserves. The crushing of the …
Chapter 4 - Removing the obstacles
… the return of exiles, the presence of troops in the townships, political prisoners, the state of emergency, the …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
On 16 December, 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Chapter VII - Democracy?
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph In January 1957 we were back again in the Drill Hall. The cage had been removed and our seats were now numbered. I…
Chaskalson was a pillar of strength in my battle against HIV/Aids by Justice Edwin Cameron - Constitutional Court, 9 December 2012
Arthur Chaskalson was a formidable man. He could be severe. To those he opposed, he could be intimidating. But he also had a tender side. That was mostly…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
Statement at the 25th Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 24 – 26 July 1989
… and executions and withdraw the apartheid army from the townships. The apartheid regime cannot claim to be ignorant …
Archive1994 - President Mandela, State Of the Nation Address, 24 May 1994 (After National Elections)
… civics and other community organisations to rebuild our townships, restore services in rural and urban areas, while …
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… has already established a number of "rural locations" townships in the reserves. The Eiselen article says a number …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
… and commercial farms. While the poverty and crime of the townships more often than not enforce racial isolation on …
Chapter 3 - Exploring the feasibility of negotiation
… restricted organizations, the removal of troops from the townships, the ending of the state of emergency, the repeal …
Chapter XII - Can we be free?
… Police leave was cancelled and the army rode around black townships in tanks in a demonstration of armed force. All …
71.The Group Areas Act
… to go into the dormitories and the cubicles called Indian townships, of people who were landowners and are now tenants …