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ArticleThe Interim South African Constitution 1993
On 13 November 1991, Nelson Mandela announced that the first constitutional talks would take place on 29 and 30 November at the World Trade Centre in Kempton…
ArticleWomens Rights
It was not until the introduction of the Bill of Rights that all women in this country received formal recognition as equal citizens. South African women …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
1997 marks the 85th anniversary of the ANC. We are now also just over half way through the first term of the ANC`s national electoral mandate. It is important…
Karen Nieuwoudt
I was born on the 11th of September 1965. I grew up in Johannesburg in an Afrikaans family. I went to the University Of Pretoria where I obtained a BA Degree. …
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art exhibition, open to South African artists of all races’. The first iteration of Art South…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
The Black People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its origins in university campuses, mainly…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
In September 1993, the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to manage South Africa’s…
ArticleBlack South African literature
The origins of Black South African literature in English lie in the Eastern Cape. The Glasgow Missionary Society founded the school of Lovedale at Alice in the…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, "The Opposition in…
ArticleThe caring nature of Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu
Nontsikelelo Albertina has been described countless times as a caring and service-oriented individual who spent her life lifting up those around her, whether…
Tribute To Michael Harmel: Oration At Funeral In Prague, June 24, 1974
We have come together to pay homage to Comrade Michael Harmel, an outstanding South African revolutionary whose whole life was unconditionally and totally…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for dockworkers were not implemented, stevedores in Cape Town and…
The Court’s position in the justice system
The Constitutional Court is South Africa's highest court on constitutional matters. So its jurisdiction - the scope of its authority to hear cases - is…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
1905 Charlotte Maxeke, formerly a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on a choir…
”Apartheid Over Our Dead Bodies:” Speech, July 1948
Speech at mass welcome meeting in Johannesburg organised in his honour by the Transvaal Passive Resistance Council on his release from prison] I am deeply…
General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF)
NUSAS students set up the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF) in 1972. They worked closely with Harriet Bolton of TUCSA. The aim of the GFWBF was,…
Polokwane an Overview
'Street soccer' game on a makeshift field, near Polokwane in the Limpopo Province. 2010. © Chris Ledowchowski The Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
Travelling conditions on the ships transporting workers from India were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the danger of disease breaking out, ever…
Professor H. W. van der Merwe: former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor, 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road, Observatory, Cape Town
Professor H. W. van der Merwe former Director of the Centre for Intergroup Studies interview with Rupert Taylor 23 November 1999, 6 Cambridge Road,…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1990-1999
1990 2 February, President F. W. de Klerk makes a speech at the opening of Parliament, announcing the lifting of a 30-year ban on the ANC, the Pan African…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
The period after the Sharpeville Massacre and the banning of the African National Congress (ANC) and the Pan African Congress (PAC), especially after the…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an important development for South African children, most of whom had…
ArticleNontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu’s “Mother of the Nation” Legacy
Nontsikelelo Albertina Sisulu, affectionately known as Ma Sisulu, has been described countless times as a caring and service-oriented individual who spent her…
ArticleBirth of the African Mine Workers’ Union
The 1946 mine workers' strike was led by the African Mine Workers Union, whose president was J.B.Marks, he was also a leader in the South African Communist…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49 delegates, was the highest…
Bantu Education boycott
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner - 'The Bantu Education Act will make African mothers like fowls who lay eggs for…
Community Arts Project (CAP)
The Community Arts Project (CAP) was established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips…
ArticleA history of Kwaito music
This genre of music started emerging in the 1990s. It is a mixture of a number of different rhythms from marabi of the 1920s, kwela of the 1950s, mbaqanga…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Congress (TIC)
The TIC (Transvaal Indian congress) was first called the TBIA (Transvaal British Indian Association) which was founded in 1903. The organization was later…