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Document 64 - Letter from the Workers’ Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
… Government which consists of an alliance of the wealthy Boer landowners with British Imperialism. In the matter of …
EventHistory of December 16
… that 16 December be designated as a public holiday in the Boer Republic. In 1894 the Government of the Free State also …
ArticleAfrica’s Millennium Development Goals
The Millennium Development Goals (MDGSs) were perceived as a life line the United Nations and the rest of the world were throwing to Africa in order to save…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory by abolitionists like Granville Scott and William Wilberforce,[i] for the…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… face of white hysteria. His paper was owned by the giant Anglo-American Corporation whose founders said they were …
Business leaders pay tribute to Mandela by staff writer, December 8 2013
… made his true greatness manifest for the entire world." ”¢ Anglo American CEO Mark Cutifani commented: "Madiba’s …
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…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
Mangaung 8 January 2012 Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
… desert. I am the grandchild who lays fresh flowers on the Boer graves at St Helena and the Bahamas, who sees in the …
The Afrikaanse Handelsinsituut
… the English Imperial Banks (Standard and Barclays) and the Anglo-American Corporation. In 1939 an alliance between the …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… In September 1985 major industrialists such as chairman of Anglo America Gavin Reilly also travelled to meet the ANC …
ArticleBoeremag Treason Trial Timeline
… spy tells the Pretoria High Court. Smit, the "shadow Boer" who claimes he had infiltrated the Boeremag's inner …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1600s
… 1690 (approx) This period marks the appearance of the trek Boer, a semi-nomadic Dutch farmer and cattle grazer who …
Interview with Ari Sitas, Of Socialism and Dentures by Jonathan Mandel, 10-11 April 2015
… the intersection of the borderlines of three communities: Anglo, Afrikaner and Jewish. The boundaries have been made … the palmtree and cement, the Zulu, the…
Chapter 29. Policy and Tactics of The Union
… hatred of the English, who had fought their fathers in the Boer War and had put their mothers into concentration camps. … no back". When we dealt with the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
PlaceManenberg, Cape Flats
Manenberg is a Township of Cape Town, South Africa, that was created by the Apartheid government, for low-income Coloured families in the Cape Flats and…
PlaceHermanus
… he was the Transvaal agent for the Railways. During the Anglo-Boer War, Hoy was in charge of Military Railways, …
ArticleNatal Workers’ Theatre in the 1980s
Introduction Starting in the late 1970’s and reaching its height in the 1980’s, the South African province of Natal (now known as KwaZulu Natal – KZN) saw a…
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
… described him as “the only Englishman who truly understood Anglo- Saxon ideals and destiny”. Rhodes bribed, …
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… The working classes suffered the consequences of the Boer War, the inflationary circumstances, and the insidious … Cape during the period under examination…
Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… up by Lord Kitchener and Milner on the one side and the Boer representatives on the other, and as amended by the … the Transvaal is worse than that they…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
… up by Lord Kitchener and Milner on the one side and the Boer representatives on the other, and as amended by the … the Transvaal is worse than that they…
Mobilise Our Black Power - Statement to the People of South Africa on the Tenth Anniversary of Umkhonto we Sizwe by O. R. Tambo, 16 December 1971
… the bowels of the earth; we call upon the labourers in the Boer farms and on farm jails; we call upon the workers in the …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Transvaal. Both my father and my grandfather fought in the Boer War and were taken prisoners. My mother, as a little …
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… million non-Europeans outsiders, even outcasts. Before the Boer War, the British were looked upon as "Uitlanders. Now, …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical…
ArticleThabo Mbeki (1942 - ) Timeline
… a group of several important White businessmen led by Anglo American chairman Gavin Relly at an isolated game lodge …
Say It out Loud - Protest against the Women’s Enfranchisement Act, and the Franchise Amendment Bill, 1931
… of the Transvaal and Free State treatment. Well, Boer and Briton joined arms. They walked, if it is possible, … But he had to choose without looking into the…
Chapter 3
… the reactionary attitude of the Northern Provinces-the Boer Republics. In fact the whole political history of the … Queen as their "protector"-would vote…