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PlaceTunisia
Tunisia is bounded by Algeria to the west and southwest, by Libya to the southeast, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and north. Used as a Roman, Arab,…
ArchiveAppendix 6 Studies in Asia by Denis Goldberg
Comments and Personal Observations written in December 1991 as part of group reports at the end of our studies at Institut Tadbiram Awam Negara (INTAN), the…
ArchiveThe end of an era - A tribute to Cde Govan Mbeki, by Jacob Zuma, 8 September 2001, Port Elizabeth
During the past week, the entire country has been united in mourning the fall of a giant of our struggle. Messages of condolences have come from all over the…
Cosatu special congress, Day Two: Numsa, Vavi walloped by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 15 July 2015, South Africa
Numsa, Vavi walloped Dissidents in Cosatu backing expelled metalworkers union Numsa and the ousted general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi believed that, had they…
PlaceSea Point
Early HistoryFor years prior to European settlement, Sea Point formed part of the Gorachoqua and Goringhaiqua grazing paths, which stretched out to Hout Bay…
Address by President Mandela on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) Geneva, 19 May 1998
Director-General; Your Excellencies; Ladies and Gentlemen, Today's auspicious occasion is rich with the ironies of this latter half of the Twentieth…
Memorandum of the National Committee for Liberation. London, mid-1963
The NCL still remains a small elite group, distinguished by its technical competence and secure organisation, rather than by its size or effectiveness. In the…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress…
81. The People’s Candidates Party and the Lenasia Management Committee
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The People's Candidates Party participated in…
48. Breach of the compromise
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A mass meeting was held in Johannesburg on 24…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
… of total annual investment that comes from foreign sources varies from year to year, but it is at times as …
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 8 Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G…
Abdullah Ibrahim and the Politics of Jazz in South Africa
Jazz has had an especial role in the social and cultural politics of South Africa. This paper will trace its function in the political struggle waged by Black…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: Ruth Heloise First was a…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… the next 20 years” and to “diversify our primary energy sources away from coal”, along with the need to stimulate a …
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
At seven p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
Women at the start of the 20th centuryIt is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been…
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal Legislature, empowered town councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
Oliver Tambo, 1 October 1987 - Reproduced in Oliver Tambo and the Struggle against Apartheid, edited by E. S. Reddy
In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or deported by the…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that…
Oliver Tambo, October 1987
Oliver Tambo[1] In many colonial and social revolutions, the leaders of the people had to go into exile to guide the resistance or were imprisoned or deported…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
Emily Hobhouse, Beloved Traitor, by Elsabe Brits, published by Tafelberg, 2016, 336 pages, illustrated. A few weeks ago I reviewed Rob Eales’ book on Emily…
PlaceClaremont Main Road Mosque
Introduction The Islamic community of South Africa has grown significantly since the arrival of the first Muslims to the Cape Colony in 1658. The first…
The first martyrs of Satyagraha by E. S. Reddy
Gandhiji often stressed that satyagraha is not mere jail-going. He warned, during the first satyagraha in South Africa, as early as 1909: "A satyagrahi…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki on the Occasion of the National Women’s Day Celebrations: Groblersdal, Limpopo 9th August 2005
Programme Director, Ms. Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, Premier of Limpopo, Sello Moloto, Ministers and Deputy Ministers, Mayor of Sekhukhune District Municipality,…
46. The Gandhi-Smuts compromise explained
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 28 January 1908, Gandhi and two of his…