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Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
… Comrades, Compatriots and friends, We meet 100 years since the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act, which dramatically robbed the indigenous people of our…
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… The Poor White problem spread to the factories and the slums of Johannesburg and was soon felt in the offices of … Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the…
Establishment of the Cape and its impact on Khoikhoi and Dutch
… The formation of the VOC in Netherlands in 1602 increased Dutch dominance of the in the maritime trade. Acting on behalf of the Dutch government, ……
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Background Before P W Botha came to power in 1978, the government of John Vorster had begun a process for … commission headed by Erica Theron was appointed…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… The 1940s opened with the devastating Second World War in full swing. This decade also marked the gradual transition from a mining and agricultural economy …
ArticleEuropean trading systems in the Middle Ages - fourteenth to sixteenth centuries
… Expanding European frontiers The Trek Boers, with their servants and slaves, move inland From the late 1600s and into the 1700s, the Cape settlers moved…
ArchiveThe revolutionary way out: a statement by the Central Committee of the South The African Communist Party
… The revolutionary way out: a statement by the Central Committee of the South The African Communist Party …
Speech at the end of the Consideration of the Budget of the Presidency 22 June 2001
… Speech at the end of the Consideration of the Budget of the Presidency 22 June 2001 …
Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget of the Presidency, 21 June 2001
… Speech on the Occasion of the Consideration of the Budget of the Presidency, 21 June 2001 …
ArchiveThe compound, the reserve and the urban location: the essential institutions of Southern African labout exploitation
… The compound, the reserve and the urban location: the essential institutions of Southern African labout …
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… 1885 The Asiatic Bazaar Law was passed in the Transvaal, which authorized the creation of separate districts for Indians. Its primary … Timeline of the Group…
Apartheid-Crime in aftermath of democratic elections May 1994, December 1996
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely … established…
Introduction
… IN THE AFTERMATH OF DEMOCRATIC ELECTIONS - May 1994 - December 1996 Introduction The South African elections of April 1994 have been widely … established…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The African National Congress, the S.A. Indian…
Chapter 4 - THE PARTY AND THE “SOLDIERS OF LUTHULI”
… A few months after the first formal ANC-SACP meeting in exile, in June 1970, the Party organised its first augmented CC meeting in Moscow, along the lines…
Cataloguing the archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement
… The archive of the Anti-Apartheid Movement arrived at Rhodes House Library in Oxford in 1996 and it is planned that the cataloguing process will be complete…
EventThe fall of the fortress town of Tobruk
… The fall of the of the fortress town of Tobruk was a major blow to the Allied forces during World War Two, as the town contained … SA Military The Second…
EventThe First Draft of the Constitution is published
… was launched to elicit public views on what should be in the Constitution. On 19 September the first consolidated draft of the new Constitution was ready,…
ArticleThe History of Christmas Day and its celebration in South Africa
… in South Africa. On this day Christians commemorate the birth of Jesus Christ in Bethlehem. The date is traditional and is not considered to be the actual…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation", Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943 […
ArchiveMinutes of the second general meeting of the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in South Africa
… Minutes of the Second General meeting of the Society for the Abolition of the Death Penalty in South Africa held on 24 … Minutes of the second general…
EventThe SA Constitutional Court abolishes the death penalty
… On 6 June 1995 a historic resolution was taken by the Constitutional Court to abolish the death penalty. The court ruled that capital punishment, as provided…
ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… oral histories Stories or ‘oral histories’ tells us about the past through the spoken word as told by one generation to the next. It is also an important way…
EventThe ANC and Government accept the Pretoria Minute
… The Pretoria Minute is agreed upon by the government and the African National Congress (ANC), concerning release of … Kaapstad: Human & Rousseau.| African…
EventEpainette Mbeki receives the Order of the Baobab
… and community worker in Idutywa, Eastern Cape, received the Order of the Baobab in Gold for her "exceptional contribution to the economic upliftment of the…
EventThe Cape Times appears for the first time
… The first issue of South Africa's first daily newspaper, The Cape Times, was published in Cape Town as an English … with Frederick York St Leger as editor…
ArchiveTasks of the ANC in the present period
… Memorandum listing the tasks of the African National Congress. Covers the nature of our society, the character of the struggle, the … Tasks of the ANC in the…
ArchiveThe history of the Black mans struggle for l
… This paper, possibly prepared for the inaugral conference of the Institute of Black Studies, Wilgespruit, 13-18 July 1976, traces the history of the…
ArchiveStatement of the National Executive Committee of the National Executive Committee announcing the dissolution of the United Democratic Front
… Statement of the National Executive Committee of the National Executive Committee announcing the dissolution of the United Democratic Front. … Statement of…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
… This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…