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ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The indigenous African population had no immunity or resistance to these diseases and thus weakened the African … city, and soon after a British fort. As a…
Message to the People of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, August 1976
… and symbols of domination. Demonstrations and acts of resistance in Soweto and other parts of the country are …
EventFlorence Nightingale, British nurse in the Crimean War, is born
… in the hospital to improve, which was met with much resistance. Eventually however, thanks to her contacts at The …
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
… focused on Nelson Mandela as the symbol of South African resistance, other eminent leaders of the freedom movement …
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… together with the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (Afrikaner Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World Trade Centre in …
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… about alienation, and a model of everyday workplace resistance as the key to worker consciousness, TDS laid the …
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… were inhibited by their lack of technical knowledge and resistance to innovation. Neither were their white … They were part of the input and yet were turned…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… their condition of life through organised labour resistance others expressed their grievances in less obvious … campaign for higher wages, as described in…
Restrictions on the media
… out public awareness of the mass, semi-insurrectionary resistance which characterized South Africa in 1984-85, by … hierarchies and the state. The explosion…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Two - By Riashnee Pather
… occupation of land in municipal Durban until 31 March 1946. The legislation also ended any possibility of any … to have collapsed. The home became the sight…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… involved in the murder of leading political figures in the resistance movement. He won a reprieve. Journalist Jacques …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… and inspired a new era of black political activism and resistance.” [6] Founded in 1968, SASO filled a large void in the restless apartheid resistance, for…
ArchiveOttilie Abrahams: An Honest and Upright Person by Harry Boesak (Pambazuka News), 14 July 2018
… guerilla warfare that Ottilie discovered the anti-colonial resistance of Jakob Marengo. When some commented that Marengo … the important role played by…
PlacePageview
… and the area was declared 'White'. This led to fierce resistance that continued into the 1980s. Although thousands … is "gentle and kind and a most…
’UNITE! MOBILISE! FIGHT ON! BETWEEN THE ANVIL OF UNITED MASS ACTION AND THE HAMMER OF THE ARMED STRUGGLE WE SHALL CRUSH APARTHEID!’
… The gun has played an important part in our history. The resistance of the black man to white colonial intrusion was … - must be united into a single massive…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… under the weight of the state’s response to armed resistance. The banned leaders had in practice worked … Committee of Liberation, later to become the…
PlaceOrlando Stadium
… than just a football arena, Orlando Stadium is a symbol of resistance, resilience, and remembrance in South Africa’s … than just a football arena, Orlando…
PlaceGariep River Mouth, Namibia
The Orange River, Southern Africa’s longest waterway, rises high in the Drakensberg Mountains of Lesotho, only 195 km from the Indian Ocean. Flowing 2 300 km,…
The Struggle against our Weaknesses by A. B. Xuma, 1956
… Africans` just and immediate claims. Congress agreed in 1946 to co-operate with other non-European fellow-nationals …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… While the effect of the Broederbond was insidious, the 1946 miners’ strike was the seminal event of the labour force …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… nearly tripled, from about 85 000 in 1934 to 250 000 in 1946. Such a rapid influx of people to the cities stretched …
PlaceCentral African Republic
… regional political representatives. In November 1946 Barthélemy Boganda became the first Central African …
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… for South African industry. In addition, political resistance by the Black opposition organisations and the new …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… removals by two years. The municipalities also ran into resistance from slum landlords and traders (such as the … These divisions, together with different…
Observatory - Steeped in History and Heritage by Patric Mallet
… and his soldiers were killed and defeated by Khoena resistance, indications are that the start of that battle on … – Christian, Muslim, Jew and Atheist who…
Soweto forty years on: The Black student rebellion of 1976 by Professor Noor Nieftagodien
… felt emboldened by the successful repression of black resistance. They imagined that their ideology would remain … of mobilisation and years of rebuilding…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… collaboration. According to the late, distinguished resistance historian, Philip Bonner, the leadership may have … in order to signify a higher, more intense…
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… and Harare, the telescoping of the four decades between 1946 and 1986 into a moment of time pregnant with great … the very first General Assembly of the…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
… activist in South Africa. Her work with various resistance groups throughout her life, particularly the ANC , … Front in its place in 1963. [15] …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… revolt against the Government and his leadership of the Passive Resisters across the Natal border. This was enough to … even as it does today in the young…