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ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… massacre and the subsequent crackdown on political activity. It introduced a new discourse, one that allowed for …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Glossary
A map representing the ‘new’ Union of South Africa of 1956 (The British Cape Colony and the two Boer Republics: The Transvaal and the Orange Free State). …
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
… and medium business. The latter two areas of economic activity will receive the greatest attention of the … Its work must impact on many aspects of national…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… (when it was still legal) and participated in trade union activity in Johannesburg, Cape Town, and Port Elizabeth … in a variety of ways: they “listed” him…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… home - that was more properly the domain of men. Economic activity beyond the home (in order to help feed and clothe …
ArticleKingdoms of Southern Africa: Mapungubwe
… routes. Mapungubwe relied on trade and any blow to this activity would have forced people to move away. The …
ArticleAlbertina Sisulu and the organisations she was connected to
… Nontsikelelo Albertina was too passive and lacked real activity in merely working to set up structures. ● United …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in exile
… the South African government and security forces. Economic strangulation of Lesotho In addition to the military raids … were geared towards building morale…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
ArticleCode Name Rae book launch soon
Rajaluxmi Pillay (also known as Rajes) was born in 1944 in Pietermaritzburg and grew up in Kimberley. She studied in Britain between 1963 and 1966, before…
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Walker and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge,…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
… (east of Cape Town), and on 10 August there was increased activity another unsuccessful attempt to burn down buildings … small. This obviously acted as a…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in the village of Apel became a centre of subversive activity. Peter Nchabaleng , acquitted in 1978 but banned for …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… and its application in order to ensure free political activity and with the view to introducing amended legislation …
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… 1. Repression made students more wary of political activity and of joining SASO. 2. The lack of leadership …
ArticleThe Union of South Africa 1910
… overcrowding, extreme pressure on the land, and poverty. Activity – There is a lot of information on the SAHO …
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… largest trade union federation from any political activity and served 17 black leaders with individual banning …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… and any of its leaders to deny any involvement in armed activity, while allowing those organising MK to do so in the …
ArticleThe Pietermaritzburg Treason Trial, 1984
… Oliver of the Security Police testified on trade union activity under SAAWU. The defence complained about the way …
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… 1968 they attempted to expel him from the PAC. Increased activity after Soweto Riots (1976-1994) With the increase of …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… working in factories as well as participating in political activity. As the working class, the men and women of the Cape … from working in a factory or from…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… university in 1970, began to see radical student activity when the Black Consciousness Movement was born in … population, and wean them away from African…
ArticleTuberculosis
Tuberculosis, also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than HIV/AIDS and Malaria [1] [2]…
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… Mbeki , Hani becomes involved in trade union and political activity. He volunteers at the Roeland Street offices of the …
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… it was the spinning wheel which was the centre of ashram activity. Indian Opinion played a very significant role in …
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… of the colony’s administration and a bustling hub of activity and trading. Slaves in the Cape thus were able to …
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… the party was not spared the suppression of political activity after the declaration of the state of emergency in …
Increasing repression and the turn to the armed struggle
… on 25 March 1960. A strike ensued which disrupted economic activity in Cape Town leaving garbage on the streets and …
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… to be a manual for the training of cadres in underground activity.7 Another charge in this long list was very … objectives. “All was a camouflage” to conceal…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… was to some extent manifested in the intensity of our activity and the language of the campaign. This last, was … where he wrote: A visit to the kitchen…