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ArticleThe Women of Marikana
The town of Marikana, formerly known as and still sometimes referred to as Rooikoppies (red hills), is based in Rustenburg, in the North West province of South…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both within South Africa and outside in exile. Klug believed that…
Community histories of Rustenburg
Afrikaans Community (1838-1899) The First White Inhabitants It is documented that the first pioneers from the Eastern Cape undertook a hunting expedition…
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
Mooivallei Suiwel is a cheese and butter producer based at Bonnievale, a town in the Breede River Valley in the Western Cape. Its name is Afrikaans for …
Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
Madam Speaker I am truly humbled to have been selected by the ANC to present a message of condolence and an obituary on the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee. It…
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… people he had met when he taught near Nietverdiend in the 1920s. Oom At Geel, who is in the stories and who is on the …
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend beyond the workplace per se. Although workers sell their labour power for only a…
Rafique Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the second Fosatu…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
I would have been fourteen years old when Nelson Mandela was first arrested for leaving South Africa ‘illegally`. Although a regular reader of the Manchester…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
- The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 [I]f our own independent efforts had taught us anything in the recent period, it was that our…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… in South Africa progressed steadily throughout the 1920s, mainly because the Pact Ministry was dedicated to a … cooperation with the ICU and the ANC in mid…
Bibliographical note and further reading
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai For the serious researcher investigating any aspect…
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade Thabo Mbeki, Former Heads of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
Mangaung 8 January 2012 Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
The National Theatre Organisation (NTO) was a state funded institution, which was founded to promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
International feminism was a catalyst for South African feminist organisation to address violence against women. In 1975, Anne Mayne, a survivor of both…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
The area known as District Six got its name from having been the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Its earlier unofficial name was 'Kanaldorp', a…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all fragmented African trade unions into a large federation of non-racial…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Names: Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe Charlotte Born: 29 June 1952, Magog, KwaZulu-Natal In Summary: A student activist aligned to the Black Consciousness…
Biography of Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani by Brandon Norman
Abstract Johnny ‘Mbizo’ Dyani was a jazz musician who performed during the apartheid era. He played for almost his entire career in exile before passing away…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew her, it will also be an…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
In Todd Matshikiza’s autobiography, Chocolates for My Wife (1961), which describes the exiled South African writer and musician’s first two years in London, he…
ArticleNational Youth Uprising
Strikes in the Schools Presumably, not all students of the earlier generation 'worshipped the school authorities'! The first, recorded stoppages of lessons,…
ArticleFrontline States
The collapse of apartheid and the advent of democracy in South Africa was regionally supported by a group of southern African states called the Frontline…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 4 - The Fruits of Freedom by Eddy Maloka
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education The first ten years of South Africa’s democracy…
BiographyChief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi
Chief Mangosuthu Gatsha Buthelezi, son of Princess Magogo Constance Zulu kaDinuzulu, King Solomon’s sister, and Inkosi Mathole Buthelezi, the King’s Prime…