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BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… David Wilcox Hlahane Bopape was the son of Pedi-speaking farm workers, Levi and Jerita … He was born in 1915 at Houtboschdorp near Pietersburg in the…
BiographyPoomoney Moodley
… in Natal. In 1930, when Poomoney was two years old, the family moved to Clairwood. Her father was a policeman and her mother supplemented the family income…
BiographyMarimuthu Pragalathan “MP” Naicker
… a union organiser for sugar workers, and for some time in the 1950s was Durban branch editor-manager of the left-wing newspaper New Age . In the 1940s he was…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… Comrades, Compatriots and friends, We meet 100 years since the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act, which dramatically … unite the African people. It is 40…
Control: 1910 - 1948
… Intervention from Above: The 1913 Native Land Act "Awaking on Friday morning, June 20, … African labour (at much lower wages) led to a series of strikes by…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th … unite the African people. It is 40 years since the ‘Durban strikes’ of 1973,…
The Role of Women in the Struggle against Apartheid, 15 July 1980
… Women in South Africa, since the turn of the century, have emerged as primary catalysts … of importance in South Africa. Trade union actions such as strikes…
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… Dr. James Sebe Moroka was the great grandson of Chief Moroka I of the Barolong, from Thaba Nchu in the then Orange Free State. Moroka was born on 16 March…
BiographyRuth First
… Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May 1925. She was the daughter of Jewish immigrants Julius and Matilda (neé … was born in Latvia and came to South Africa in…
BiographyPaul Grendon
… and artist that used his art as a medium to shed light on the political struggles of the time. His work will go on to leave a deep and … but on South…
Archive2014 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 17 June 2014 (after National Elections)
… The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the … conditions, such as the prolonged and at times violent strikes, and also the shortage of…
BiographyJanet Mary Cherry
… a family committed to social justice. Her father, Robin, the Dean of Science at the University of Cape Town and physics professor, and her … High in…
BiographyHendrik Frensch Verwoerd
… Hendrik Frensch Verwoerd was born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands on 8 September 1901. He was the second child of Anje Strik and Wilhelmus Johannes … laws,…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A … of colour, admission of all non-whites to all high schools and universities and the abolition of…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… published in Ebony. Reproduced with permission.) ...The solution to the South African problem will call for … Workers shall have the right to strike, for…
BiographyJohn Kgwana Nkadimeng
… John Kgwana Nkadimeng was born in Sekhukhuniland in the rural eastern Transvaal in 1925 and after completing … to work in a tobacco factory. Whilst employed…
ArticleTimeline of the 1973 Durban Strikes
… 1972 October and December - Strikes at the Durban docks October 1972 - when new wages for … End of January - newspapers list 29 firms affected by strikes…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 … ANC at Veeplaats. Sisulu speaks of the…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
… Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa , the farmworker population in the Western Cape make up the … Strike 2012 In late 2012, a series of…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… and a much larger world. Therefore, what happens in the 'North' has a huge impact on what happens here. For this … rights in the South. African Americans…
BiographyProfessor Fatima Meer
… Meer was born in Grey Street, Durban on 12 August 1928, the daughter of Moosa Meer and Rachel Farrel and the second born of their nine children. Her mother,…
ArchiveCHAPTER TWO: Class, Consiousness and Organisation inthe Political Development of Indian South Africans, 1860 - 1979 by Kumi Naidoo
… This chapter comes from the book …
BiographyJames Barry Munnik Hertzog
… Munnik (JBM) Hertzog was born in Soetendal Wellington on the 6 th of April 1866. Hertzog was the eighth child of Johannes Albertus Munnik Hertzog, a … Johann…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on student … never had an opportunity to establish itself in Soweto as schools were in…
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament, Cape Town, 12 February 2015
… The Speaker of the National Assembly, The Chairperson of the … of the Constitution in every school. From this year, schools must also practise the African…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… The first leader of the National Party (NP) became Prime … on the state, defining its symbols, and giving their schools and universities a pronounced…
General South African History Timeline: 1970s
… June, I t is announced that Security Police have arrested the leader of the Soweto Students’ Representative Council … difficult for workers to survive on low…
BiographyDenis Theodore Goldberg
… parents, Sam and Annie, had both been born in London, the children of Lithuanian Jews who had left the Pale of Settlement to escape the Russian pogroms. Sam…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in … difficult for workers to survive on low wages. Spontaneous strikes resulted: workers walk out…
BiographyWilliam Andrew ‘Willie’ Hofmeyr
… matriculating from Nassau High School, Hofmeyr enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) where he completed a BA in … [ii] . Through this time, his…