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The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
… and all that. When you start reading those history books your blood curdles - to think of all the things that …
ArchiveAddress by Umkhonto We Sizwe Army Commander, Comrade Joe Modise at MK Military Seminar
Speech by Joe Modise at an Umkhonto we Sizwe Military Seminar, Lusaka, Zambia, 25-26 April 1990. Examines the history of the MK and looks at strategies for…
PlaceAbbasas Mountains, Namaqualand
A Mountain Range 150 km from Springbok. The name of Khoikhoi origin and means 'to carry on one's back'; the Mountain looks as though they are carrying each…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
… we made the observation that it was inexcusable that text-books were not supplied within seven days of the beginning of … Members and Delegates; What this…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
… we made the observation that it was inexcusable that text-books were not supplied within seven days of the beginning of … Members and Delegates; What this…
ArticleNguni Stick Fighting
Introduction This article looks at the history of an indigenous Nguni sport known as Stick Fighting, which was popular in the Nguni ethnic group (Zulu). It…
ArchiveNicaragua must survive: stop US intervention
White, black, red and blue poster. Artwork of a woman's head with what looks like a bowl of fire on top of her head. Produced by National Organisation of…
ArchiveSASO on the attack: an introduction to the So
SASO is an organization which continually probes the various areas of Black life and existence, this set of articles looks at the achievements of SASO since…
ArchiveMessage of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of 8th January, 1985
Message delivered by Oliver Tambo, President of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, on the 8th January, 1985, marking the…
ArchiveSouth Africas racist state and the national
Paper by Jack Simons on apartheid and the democratic revolution. Examines the history of political systems in South Africa, looks at the Constitution, racial…
ArchiveWomen on the right track
Athletics is becoming increasingly popular in South Africa. But men steal most of the limelight while women remain in the shadows. Cheryl Roberts looks at why…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… photojournalism in the continent that inspired those two books, albeit without the quarter-ton of luggage required by …
ArchiveHands off the people
Black and white poster of a Protest Meeting. Black and white image of a man in overalls and boots marching. Anti-censorship meeting. Thursday March 3rd at…
Steve Biko: Gone but not forgotten by Robin Comley and Claire Keeton (Times Live), 12 September 2017
… dismissed from class for playing around, we would take our books outside and study instead of going home.” The jester of …
Presidential Address to the Twenty-Third Conference of the South African Indian Congress, Durban, September 3, 1961
… world which enshrines race discrimination in the statute books of the highest law-making body of the country and …
14. Suicide among indentured
… deceased, who was a shop assistant in India and kept the books of the proprietor, and it appeared to me that he really …
ArchiveMessage of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of 8th January, 1986
Message delivered by Oliver Tambo, President of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress, on the occasion of 8th January, 1986, the…
ArticleSouthern Methodist University Partnership Project - 2013 submissions
Max Agadoni Max Agadoni is a sophomore at Southern Methodist University, studying business and engineering. He is originally from Leawood, Kansas, and…
ArchiveEducation as an instrument for liberation.
This Address to a fund-raising banquet for the South African Students Organization in Durban, June 1973, discusses the traditional role of education, looks at…
ArchiveWomen without men: a study of 150 families in the Nqutu district of KwaZulu
Results of research conducted into the income, expenditure and livestock ownership of the average family settled in Bantu Homelands. The research also looks at…
ArchiveIsolera Sydafrika!
Black poster with white letters. Black and white photograph of a pair of soldiers boots on a board with black faces underneath. At the bottom, on the left-hand…
ArchiveWhy do millions of workers reject Workers Day and instead celebrate May Day?
A pamphlet issued by NUSAS/ERC looks at the rejection by South Africa's largest trade union federation COSATU of the government declared Workers Day on the…
EventWW2: A German bomb fired off Algeria’s coast sinks British transport ship (HMT Rohna) carrying US soldiers.
Built in 1926, the aging steam ship was pressed into service as a troop transport by the Royal Navy and had already carried thousands allied of troops to…
ArchiveSixteen blocks of brick walls with cell windows
Black and white poster. Comprises sixteen identical blocks of artwork of brick walls with cell windows with a man's head peering over the window ledge. The…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… this, communications had involved long, impractical code books as well as invisible ink. Ronnie and Tim turned to … This was achieved by smuggling messages…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… in Yeravda prison in Poona. He read scores and scores of books. There were no lamps in his cell, so he had to do his …
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress
Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress on the occasion ofthe 70th Anniversary of the formation of the African National…
67. The Xuma-Naicker-Dadoo Pact, 1947
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The new leadership had long been urging closer…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… Africa since 1945 (Ravan) appeared in 1983. More recent books include a biography of Mandela (Oxford, 2006) and a … and historian, the author of several…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Yohannes Woldemariam trawls through the history books to expose the truths of Haile Selassie’s 44-year reign …