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Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
The debate as to whether ethnicity is pre-political or implicitly political can go on forever, without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new…
PlaceZimbabwe
… laws particular to Southern Rhodesia. In the late 1950's the various movements for national liberation in … Zimbabwe: The Struggle for National Liberation…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… in 1961. 1949 19 September, The gold price rises by 44%. 1950 1 May, the ANC calls for a general strike. The police …
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…
Americans for South African Resistance, 25 June 1982
… approach; having judged my people from the strike of 1950, they will certainly behave well." In the meantime I had …
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… in the Bloemfontein, taking part in the campaigns of the 1950s. She was also a member of the National Council of …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… the ANC who were also greatly influenced in the 1940s and 1950s by our young people then, the Youth League of the ANC …
PlaceSomalia
… the hopes for a unified Somali state were dealt a blow in 1950 when the United Nations granted Italy a 10-year …
ArchiveChapter 12 Hangings by Denis Goldberg
After the escape of Tim, Stephen and Alex we who remained behind bore the consequences. The prison was rebuilt and we politicals were held in another prison…
African and Indian in Durban by Fatima Meer
… solidarity caused by the fatal one-day political strike of 1950, when Africans in Durban did not come out equally with …
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… the Bondelswart people refused to pay dog tax. On 1 May 1950, 18 Africans were shot dead by the police in …
American Supporters of the Defiance Campaign by George M. Houser
… approach; having judged my people from the strike of 1950, they will certainly behave well." In the meantime I had …
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 70th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1982
… prepared the ground for the massive confrontations of the 1950`s - the campaign for the defiance of unjust laws, …
Document 28 - Brian Bunting, “Problems of the Multi-Racial Conference”, Liberation, 28, November 1957
… by widening still more the area of the conflict. Where, in 1950, it was the Communists and the Congress leaders who were …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… century, above all on the years lying between about 1950 and 1980, and think about us writers of African history, …
Chapter 14
… do under the new president. But the first three months of 1950 have not indicated any change. And indeed there can be …
ArticleDavid Goldblatt Timeline
… became extremely discouraged and went to work in the shop' 1950 David Goldblatt, Nahoon, East London. 1951 Source: …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… and charged under inter alia section 9(1) of Act 44 of 1950. The case is later withdrawn because sufficient evidence …
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… history of the Congress movement and the struggles of the 1950's, and in the programme and policies of the ANC. The …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
The deadlock was not about principle, but about political power: the power to determine the final constitutional dispensation. It also served to fuel the…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
… Since the passing of the Suppression of Communism Act in 1950, several left-wing political leaders, both black and …
ArchiveElizabeth van der Heyden by Allison Drew
… home at midnight or 1 am. But as the impact of the 1950 Group Areas Act began being felt in uprooted communities …
ArchiveCHAPTER ONE: A Conceptual Overview by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
Figure 1.1. With his call to put “America First”, Donald Trump is the latest recruit to a dangerous nationalism. Flagrantly authoritarian figures like Donald…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Mixed-race marriages declared illegal in South Africa 1950 South African National Party passes the following …
ArticleOrganization of African Unity Timeline 1884-2000
… Mixed-race marriages declared illegal in South Africa 1950 South African National Party passes the following …
Ahmed Timol: Three Documents by Politicsweb, 27 June 2017
… organisation to be outlawed, was driven underground in 1950. In the 21 years of its illegal existence it has added …
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…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… first political organisation to be driven underground in 1950, two years after the present regime came to power. But …