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ArchiveSurvey shows ignorance about big moments in South Africa’s history – like the Sharpeville massacre (TheConversation.com)
… Survey (SASAS), Round 17 (2020/21) Differences Another striking finding was the wide variation in awareness levels. …
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
< Menu page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
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…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
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…
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… is no longer the movement for an idea, the search for a balance between freedom and equality, the Mandela’s promise … and creating a range of power-blocs to…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… to go on strike. Gandhi went to Newcastle and spoke to the striking miners, whose employers had turned off the water and …
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… overstepped the boundaries that maintained the delicate balance of power between masters and slaves. On this occasion …
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
… (former Ciskei area) was annexed in 1865, the racial balance was tilted in favour of Africans who came to …
Archive2017 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2017
The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces; Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly and Deputy Chairperson…
ArchiveThe Man Before Mandela by Steven Gish
Few alumni know this, but one of South Africa’s most important civil rights leaders is part of the University of Minnesota family. One hundred years ago,…
Oliver Tambo, Southern Africa, South Africa and the ANC replies to questions by Sechaba, 01 April 1968
… explains why the South African regime was rocked by the striking power of the guerrillas in Rhodesia as violently as …
Statement by Nzo Mnumzana in the plenary meeting of the General Assembly, 20 November 1984
… that other erstwhile buffer zone drastically changed the balance of forces in favour of the liberation struggle. The …
Address to United Nations Security Council, by Nelson Mandela, 15 July 1992, New York United States
… his involvement in the poisoning of activists was on the balance of probabilities true. Despite a judicial commission …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… weapons although with an increasing number of guns. This balance was upset when Britain sent in troops to support the …
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… in Angola and Mozambique had drastically tipped the balance of force in South Africa in favour of “liberation, …
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find themselves at the cutting edge of social…
THE POLITICS OF COLLABORATION: THE CAMPAIGN FOR PARTICIPATION IN THE TRICAMERAL PARLIAMENT
Introduction The first elections to the Indian House of Delegates (HoD) in the racially segregated tricameral parliament took place on 28 August 1984. The…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
As the Polly Street Art Center drew to a close so Rorke's Drift was established. Polly Street was urban, Rorke's Drift rural. If Polly Street attempted a…
ArchiveAri Sitas in Conversation with Sumangala Damodaran
Sumangala Damodaran, author of The Radical Impulse, speaks candidly with her friend Ari Sitas (with whom she has collaborated on a number of musical and…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… that the world, too, can destroy apartheid, firstly by striking at the economy of South Africa. But if that failed, … to apartheid. There is no answer to…
Archive2001 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2001
… quarter... " The surplus of the financial account of the balance of payments exceeded by a considerable margin the … that we have established the necessary…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… and to concede that the socialism it reflects has, on balance, been so distorted that an appeal to its positive … our ranks. We need to continue the search…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2014 (before National Elections)
State of the Nation Address By His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
… grace of each Lembu individual. [...]I was losing my balance. I remembered that every civilized white man, who … and ridicule to the Africans. The only…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 69th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1981
… has been transformed by the concrete reality of the balance of forces in Southern Africa into an ephemeral … build on this achievement cannot be over…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
… a downfall of the Mangope government , Mandela guaranteed striking civil servants their jobs, but harshly criticised …
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… drastic measures, even violence. Soviet : Originally striking/revolutionary committees elected by Russian workers …
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… deported in this way, 141 of them to Transkei, and the balance to Ciskei, Venda and Bophuthatswana. Formal …