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ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… speaking there was no legal segregation until the mid-1950’s, were, with some exceptions, divided into racial … but this ended when they were finally crushed…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
… Township are ready for handover to ex, servicemen. 1950 Parliament passes the Union Group Areas Act. 1961 The …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… Marriages Act of 1949, the Population Restriction Act of 1950, and other racial classifications. Probably the most …
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… Meer , establishes the Durban Districts Women's League. 1950 Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) is banned. Sonia …
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
"Without doubt it is a far more costly thing to kill the (indigenous population) than to Christianise them." (Warneck 1888) European missionaries to…
ArticleChanges in modern forms of communication
… per second. The ENAIC Image source In the late 1950’s UNIVAC and other ‘first generation’ computers were …
ArchiveCHAPTER EIGHT: Indian Resistance Politics In Transition, 1990-1996 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other onerous mutilations of my…
The Pioneers
… 1943, and at the Johannesburg Art Gallery between 1944 and 1950. 21. Couzens, The New African, p. 249. 22. "Primitive …
ArchiveHow China broke the chain of infection by Vijay Prashad
On 31 March 2020, a group of scientists from around the world – from Oxford University to Beijing Normal University – published an important paper in Science…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
Main catalogue Books 1. ASVAT, Farouk, 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. :…
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
The ANC appreciates the fact that the people of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… it was abolished by the Nationalist Party Government about 1950. No serious-minded African grieved over its abolition. …
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
Comrades and compatriots,It is an honour and a privilege to participate in this Freedom Charter Forum organised by the ANC Youth League.I wish to commend the…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
The President of Cosatu, Comrade Willie Madisha, General Secretary, Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi and all members of the Central Executive Committee, The Secretary…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the …
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 38 - "How to Build o … South Africa's Radical Tradition: 1907-1950 v. 1: A…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… of the European Union. This Policy has, since the 1950's, offered subsidies to farmers and guaranteed prices …
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
Viva COSATU, Viva! Viva SACP, Viva! Viva ANC, Viva! Viva the Alliance, Viva! Comrades, it falls to me to say a few words to bring this Special Congress to a…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Some were banished away from their homes to the …
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… into exile following the Suppression of Communism Act (1950) and the Unlawful Organisations Act (1960) . From …