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EventCODESA’s starting date set
… Delegates from twenty groups agreed after preparatory talks in Johannesburg on a date for the start of substantive … a Democratic South Africa (CODESA) . Its…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… want you to write me a poem about Doris.’” In this story, which is about an storyteller teaching a … more questions. What is a state? What is…
EventHarold Macmillan begins his “winds of change” tour of Africa
… Macmillan began his "winds of change" tour of Africa in Ghana. Ghana became the first country in Sub-Sahara to gain independence in 1957, with Kwame … and,…
Document 68 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa, Johannesburg, to the Cape Town branch, 26 February 1937
… one was arrested yesterday and promised by the detective in charge withdrawal of charges and his job back at higher … scab. He refused. The others have just…
ArticleThe Union of South Africa: Movement towards Republic
… was thought about only after National Party (NP) victory in 1948. In the 1830s when some Afrikaners left the Cape on … Nationalists to counter the challenge…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… Introduction The strike by some 76,000 black miners in 1946 was one of the most significant examples of … Workers Union, the CPSA, white liberals, members of…
EventNqwiliso cedes land to Cape Government
… eldest son of Ndamase, signed a treaty with H.G. Elliott in which he ceded sovereign rights and shipping in the Umzimvubu River mouth to the Cape government …
EventSpringboks beat Scotland at Murrayfield
… voted for the second time Player of the Year at the annual SA Rugby Awards Banquet in Sandton following the 2007 World Cup victory of the Springbok team. In…
EventJan Christoffel Greyling Kemp, general during South African War, is born
… War (the Second Anglo-Boer War), Member of Parliament and SA minister of agriculture, was born in the district of Amersfoort, Eastern Transvaal. He was the ……
PlaceMichaelis School of Fine Art
… 26 January 1932), who founded a diamond company in Kimberley that was later acquired by De Beers , the school … 23 September – November 2016, under the name…
EventCharles Nqakula , Minister of Safety and Security and Chairperson of the SACP, is born
… Party (SACP), Charles Nqakula, was born to a poor family in the Eastern Cape. Nqakula, like his peers, developed political consciousness in the 1970's when…
ArchiveThe declaration to end conscription
… Pamphlet of the SA Catholic Bishops Conference explaining its call for an end …
Turning Points Books 1-6
… and STE Publishers , and simultaneously published on the SA History Online website. Please be aware that because these … of Education Book 3: Migration, Land…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
… calls. Abraham hired a personal bodyguard for protection. In January 1977 he fled to Botswana where he was given … entering any educational institution, any…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… at 54 years of age, she embarked through the Institute for Black Research on a wave of action-research activities which … a hyperactive teenager. Then she…
ArchiveStatement on the expulsion from the ANC of South Africa
… Statement on the expulsion from the ANC (SA) of T Bonga, A M Makiwane, G M Mbele, A K Mqota, P …
ArchiveBarlows company refuses to discuss retrenchments with shop stewards
… For the second time SA Traction Manufacturing at Germiston has refused to …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… inequalities are the result of the skilful use of power in their own inÂterests by whites, who acted thus because … will not fundamentally alter the…
Speech at the Meeting of Representatives of the Parties and Movements Participating in the Celebration of the 70th Anniversary of the "Great October Socialist Revolution" by O. R. Tambo, Moscow, November 4-5, 1987
… on the fact that the victory the working class scored in this country in 1917 resulted in the emergence, on the world scene, of a reliable base and ……
EventDie Burger publishes the term 'Apartheid' for the first time
… some insight into the term ‘Apartheid’ and the state of consciousness of White Afrikaners at the time. Dawie defined Apartheid to mean “apartness,” and in…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of … Ghana) makes it the first British African…
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… under Emperor Menelik II, defeats invading Italian army in the Battle of Adwa. Lumière brothers' demonstration of … Ghana) makes it the first British African…
”Banishment of Winnie Mandela”, 1983 interview Brandfort, OFS
… Mandela bannished & banned to Brandfort. Interviewed by SA documentary filmmaker Kevin Harris for his 1983 …
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… South African Native Labour Contingent (SANLC) was formed in 1916 in response to a request from the British Imperial … by me from the French. (Grundlingh:…
ArchiveStatement on detentions by General Secretaria
… Report issued by the General Secretariate of the SA Catholic Bishops about the detention of two Catholic …
ArchiveSay No To Ciskei Independence
… Homeland Policy means: Dumping grounds for SA; A passport to poverty; Total control of workers; A …
Museum Films
Grey, white and orange poster. Notice of forthcoming films and dates. S.A. Cultural History Museum. Artwork of boats and lanterns against a cathedral…
Museum films
Notice of forthcoming films at the S.A. Cultural History Museum. Pink and blue poster. Artwork of Chinese children playing a game. List of films and dates.
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Maximising the Developmental Impact of the People’s Mineral Assets: State Intervention in the Minerals Sector (Sims), Policy Discussion Document, March 2012
… Impact of the People’s Mineral Assets: State Intervention in the Minerals Sector (Sims), Policy Discussion Document, …
Archive“Lions and Jackals“ Peace Parks in Southern Africa and their Effects on the local Population - An Analysis based on the Kgalagadi Transfrontier Park by Robert Konrad
… “Lions and Jackals“ Peace Parks in Southern Africa and their Effects on the local Population …