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Press statement by Nelson Mandela on his return to South Africa 4 August 1993
”ANC Calls for Passive Resistance”. Statement in Umteteli wa Bantu, June 27, 1931
Letter to the Sub-Native Commissioner, Pietersburg, from Filipus Bopape, November 23, 1917
UDF Poster ‘Declaration of the United Democratic Front’ by UDF, 1983, South Africa
ArchiveThe Queen who longs for home by David Madingwane (SPEAK), November 1993, Johannesburg
William Henry Brann, SA cricket player (1922-1923), is born in Port Elizabeth.
ArchiveDiscussions between South African and United States delegations: Washington, 17-19 March 1983
Minutes of a meeting between delegates representating South African and the United State of America, to discuss international relations between the Soviet…
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
CHAPTER I : The Establishment of the Indian Community: The Beginnings of Protest, 1860-1923
The League of Nations, established in 1919, holds its first meeting in London.
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
… that the Immigrants Regulation Act was passed on June 14 1913. The Act put an end to Indian immigration and restricted …
BiographyThamsanqa Rutherford (Thami) Jali
Jali was born Durban. He is a painter, sculptor and a graphic artist who studied at the Rorke’s Drift Art Centre, 1981-1982. He studied ceramics at the Natal…
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English (World Socialist Website), 30 September 2014
An evaluation of South African novelist Nadine Gordimer (1923-2014) by Sandy English “Sailors gag on stinking meat, children refuse to go to school. No one…
Prisoners of Apartheid - Statement at a Press Conference in Addis Ababa by O. R. Tambo, 11 July 1973
July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years since the leadership of the South African liberation movement was arrested at Rivonia. Three months later the…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
Marcus Solomon was born in Grahamstown, Eastern Cape, on 27 January 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka,…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 20 May 1983, Volume 76
Transcript of evidence (continued from 17, 18, 19 and 20 May 1983) from Bishop Desmond Tutu, to the Commission of Inquiry into the South African Council of…
BiographyNatvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia
Natvarlal Dayalji “Natoo” Babenia was born on 28 March 1924 at Coedmore Road, Bellair, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). Natoo Babenia’s political activism…
ArchiveCommission of Inquiry into the South African Council of Churches held at Pretoria on 11 May 1983, Volume 66
Transcript of evidence (continued from 9 and10 May 1983) from Wolfram Kistner, Director of the Commission of Justice and Reconciliation in the SA Council of…
ArticleTimeline: Father Trevor Huddleston
… 1913 15 June, Trevor Huddleston is born in Chaucer Road, …
BiographyBrigitte Sylvia Mabandla
Brigitte Mabandla was born on the 23rd of November 1948. In the mid-1970s, she worked as a youth co-ordinator at the Institute of Race Relations in Durban but…
BiographyAutshumao (Herry the Strandloper)
Autshumao also known as Herry the strandloper (beach walker), he was chief and interpreter of the Gorinhaikonas. In 1630 he was taken to Bantam by the English…
BiographyRosamund Everard-Steenkamp
Rosamund Everard-Steenkamp was born in Carolina, Mpumalanga, 1907. She was a daughter of Bertha Everard, had a brief career cut short by her death in a…
BiographySicelo Mhlauli
Sicelo Mhlauli was born on 25 May 1949 in Cradock. After completing high school, he trained as a teacher at Lovedale College and upon completion taught at…
BiographyMewa Ramgobin
Mewalal “Mewa” Ramgobin was born on 10 November 1932 in Inanda, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents arrived in Natal as indentured labourers. His…
BiographyFort Calata
Fort Calata was born on 5 November 1956. Fort’s grandfather, the Reverend Canon James Arthur Calata, was the Secretary General of the African National Congress…
BiographyOlive Schreiner
Olive Schreiner was a writer and feminist and one of the first campaigners for women’s rights. She was also a pacifist. She did not agree with British…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… of discontent against the pass system. As early as 1913 protests against were launched in the the Orange Free …