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Second World War and its impact, 1939-1948
… UN General Assembly. Source: P. Joyce (2000), Suid-Afrika in die 20ste eeu Kaapstad: Struik, p.107. In September 1939, … people employed in the manufacturing…
Statement at the International Conference on the EEC and South Africa by O. R. Tambo, Dublin, 27 January 1979
… for national and social emancipation of the oppressed black majority in South Africa, and indeed southern Africa as a whole. This … aims to broaden our…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… Trial which ended on 29 March 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of preparation for both sides, … that surrounds me here. It makes me…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… centre of governance for traditional rural communities in South Africa. The institution of traditional leadership … a traditional leader was accountable to…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… On 3 September the Tricameral Parliament opened in Cape Town while protest demonstrations began in the … the start of the longest and most widespread period…
The CASA Conference
… the Dutch Anti-Apartheid Movement, organised the Culture in Another South Africa (CASA) conference and festival in … was taken in order to support the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… 1930 White women get the vote. This means in effect that the weight of the black vote is decreased from 3.1% to 1.4%. The first restrictions against the…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
… on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they … of schools, beginning at Hanover…
ArticleNUSAS Wages Commission Timeline 1971-1973
… were printed and distributed by the students to workers in industrial areas, outside factory gates and at taxi ranks. … interest by the public and government…
PlaceCape Town's Art Museum of Illusions-Kloof Street, Cape Town
… opening new Museums. Each Museum of Illusions is in a unique location for a specific experience! Visiting one … seen them all!" The first Museum of…
PlaceUniversity of the Witwatersrand, (Wits)
… The University of the Witwatersrand is the 1st picture in the Banner! With an interesting Link availible to read in Further Reading. The History of Wits is…
PlaceDurban Harbour and Port
… biggest Container Terminal and one of the major Ports in Africa - the Durban Harbour. The modern Port of Durban was … the Cape Colony settled on the shores…
ArticleAbout Nkosi Albert Luthuli Oral History Project
… year it is open to secondary school teachers and learners in Grades 8 to 11. The aim of the competition is to increase … us the building of a new land, a…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been achieved. … that they are easily supplied, and like most men,…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female … to the movement against the unfair treatment of black Africans…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… R.P. Lamont. Hussey and Lamont were University students in engineering in Michigan, in the late 1880's. They were ambitious, Hussey … and is still…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Kensington Ridge. Takes its name from the Farm purchased in September 1861 from the Widow of BP Viljoen, by Frederick … boer families coming up from the Cape…
ArchiveCuito Cuanavale, Angola 25th Anniversary of a Historic African Battle by Ronnie Kasrils (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… Congress of the South African Communist Party was held in Cuba in April 1989. When Jorge Risquet, one of Fidel Castro’s … battalion, 32 “Buffalo” Battalion,…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), … movement. [2] The Open Stellenbosch protests were led by black students who argued that…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the formation of the … Committee has proclaimed 1982 as…
How the Ahmed Timol case was reported on at the time by South African Institute of Race Relations (Politicsweb), 28 June 2017
… October 1971 with Salim Essop] had died the previous day in a fall from a tenth-floor window at the police … the University of the Witwatersrand, who is also…
Speech on the Occasion of the Celebration of the Twenty-First Anniversary of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 21 April 1979
… We greet you all in the name of the liberation movements of southern Africa, … wellbeing on the continuous impoverishment of the black majority. Naturally…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… has ever seen, they who were the first to lose their lives in the struggle to defend our freedom and independence and they who, as a people, perished in the…
Ramifications of South Africa’s Dop System by Alexandra Larkin
… on Coloured workers, their children, and their wives in addition to community health and poverty. These negative … the dangers associated with alcohol abuse …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to … of Bantustans and the opposition…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… and progressive internationalist brought hope and progress in our lives and in our country. Fellow mourners and fellow … simply because the then government…
Document 26 - S. P. Bunting, Statement on the Kuusinen Thesis1 , presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 20 August 1928
… spoken on colonial or at least on South African matters in general but in the limited time must confine myself to a … also that the country and land be…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai University students on black campuses were politically active in the 1970s. We have included two documents that illustrate…
ArticleEvents leading to the Bambatha Rebellion
… In 1887 Zululand was annexed by the colony of Natal and the … labour. Rather than work for the white farmers, the black workforce was increasingly attracted…
Biography of Arthur Nortje by Kangkang Yang
… poet of our time.” [i] Due to the racial oppression he saw in South Africa, Nortje fled the country in 1961 to the U.K. … the buffer zone between two…