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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…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
… has unleashed a desperate onslaught to break the people`s resistance and block the path of our further advance towards … are mastering the methods of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the inauguration of the National Council of Traditional Leaders Cape Town, 18 April 1997
… is a reminder of the fact that, valiant though their resistance was, the African people were conquered;a dark … interregnum of defeat and humiliation set in…
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…
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 …
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…
ArchiveSishaywa Zimvula Nje, Simanikiniki Nje, Umhlol’Usekhaya – Reading Mafika Gwala in Times of Thunder and the Terror of the Elements by Sanibonani Molweni
… the laid-back eastern Cape countryside. Born in Verulam in 1946 and grown up in Hammersdale township near Durban where … intricate narrative liberation…
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 …
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…
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 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 …
ArchiveJock Strachan: Artist, guerilla, fighter pilot, bomb maker, fisherman, humourist, writer, hero
… degree from Natal University College in Pietermaritzburg (1946-49), he won a scholarship in 1950 to study at Camberwell …
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…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
… are a good barometer of the state's response to political resistance in the form of mass action of all kinds, such as … in the process and has been dragging…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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 …