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Chapter 3 - SASO: The Ideology and Politics of Black Consciousness
… programme. Ideology and Politics Much writing on SASO notes its launch, or its formal inauguration in July 1969 and …
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… Sir George J Napier, the Governor of the Colony, 1840. End Notes [i] Christopher Lloyd, The Navy and the Slave Trade, …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
Dr Stals; Ministers of the Cabinet; Governors and other representatives of the central banks of the member countries of the SADC; Distinguished guests; …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence regarding the families move to Brandfort
Nelson's responses to the Brandfort sojourn are recorded in extracts from the letters that follow: I have thought of you since I heard of the heavy snowfall…
Address to the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 28 October 1999
Chairperson of the NCOP, Honourable Premiers, Honourable Members of the House, Ladies and Gentlemen; I would like to thank you most sincerely for the…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
Albert Luthuli`s foreword to pamphlet published by the South African Congress of Democrats, 8 August 1960
"Face the future" 8 August 1960 The white minority rule policy of segregation and more so its virulent form, apartheid, have screened off from each other…
Document 3 - Resolution on ‘the South African question’ adopted by the Executive Committee of the Communist International following the sixth Comintern congress
COSATU is deeply disturbed by the manner in which the Department of Finance is approaching the 1998 budget. Both in discussion in Parliament and at NEDLAC, it…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
It is common knowledge that Indians came to South Africa in two categories, namely as indentured Indians and as 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
Professor Ben Turok, now 92 years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok is the sole surviving…
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
The origins of Enoch Sontonga and the song he wrote, Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrika are humble and rather obscure. Enoch Sontonga, from the Mpinga clan, of the Xhosa…
EventPortuguese sailors reach St Helena Bay
Vasco da Gama's Voyage of "Discovery" The reason for putting "discovery" in inverted commas is because the land was not, as so many explorers argue,…
Document 36 - The first hearing on certification: a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
The COSATU Executive Committee met on Friday, 24 May 1996 in its second ordinary meeting of the year. Below are some of the decisions taken by the Executive…
Indian Community
2010 marks 150th anniversary of the arrival of the Indian indentured workers and the birth of this community in South Africa. Durban is home to the largest…
A celebration of 70 years of ‘African Claims’ - ANC by Zizi Kodwa, 11 May 2015, South Africa
… Physician-in-Charge Cragman Community, Clinic, Evaton. Notes: 1. Congress Series No. II. Issued and Published by the …
Paper Presented to the International Conference for Sanctions Against South Africa, 1 April 1964, London
"Apartheid - the Indictment" One of the biggest failures of any group of people this century has been the failure of the ruling white minority in South Africa…
Address by President Nelson Mandela on the occasion of the president’s budget debate in the National Assembly 20 June 1996
Madame Speaker; Honourable Members; Ladies and Gentlemen. Tomorrow parliament rises for the winter recess. I am certain we will all agree that we have…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
“Exodus without a map”: What happened to the Durban moment? by Edward Webster
… later. The workshop was postponed indefinitely. In the notes for the opening speech he planned to give at the …
Review Essay: Crisis, History and the Challenge of Reinvention in the Postcolonial: The African National Congress after Apartheid by Laurence Piper
… of the ANC. Beginning by unpacking ‘agency’, Butler notes that a key theme in ANC discourse is the enduring …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
‘Wash Me Black Again’: African Nationalism, the Indian Diaspora, and Kwa-Zulu Natal, 1944-1960 by Jon Soske
… African Studies 27, no. 3 (September 2001). Freund notes that: “The local state had limited capacity and … in debates over the nature of the “subaltern.”)…
ArchivePhotography 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 being…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
Your Excellency, the President of the General Assembly, Sheikha Haya Rashed Al Khalifa, Your Excellency, the Secretary-General Kofi Annan, Your Excellencies,…
44. Gandhi explains ‘satyagraha’
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai M K. Gandhi introduced a new weapon in the…
84. The South African Indian Council: A. Rajbansi’s opening speech, 1982
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Despite the low percentage poll in the election,…
ArticleZulu
The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
A Grand Heritage: Malians express great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, Malinké, and…
PlaceEersteling Monument, Polokwane
The Eersteling gold mine, the site of the first commercial gold mining activity in South Africa’s modern History, has, in many instances, been relegated to…
PlaceNiger
Niger (was a former French colony to the north of Nigeria) and Nigeria (was a former British colony) were both named after the Niger River that flows through…