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EventBeverly Palesa Ditsie is the first out lesbian woman to address the United Nations about LGBT rights
… Soweto at the height of Apartheid in 1971, Ditsie was an anti-Apartheid and LGBT rights activist. She was one of the … 2006.|South African History Online, …
Document 21 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 27 October 1930
… you yesterday copies of the resolutions passed at the Anti-Pass Conference with three paragraphs of general report …
EventSouth African Communist Party leader Abram Fischer is sentenced to life imprisonment on charges of communism
… Trial in 1964. It was inevitable that his involvement with anti-Apartheid activists and his dedication to the SACP would …
EventThe South African Football Association (SAFA) is founded
… Africa, was racially segregated. In 1902 the South African Indian Football Association (SAIFA) was founded in Kimberley, … African Football Association …
EventSA and Mozambique revive Nkomati Accord
… South Africa agreed to cease its support of RENAMO, an anti-government guerrilla organisation in Mozambique. This …
EventSA judge jails former state assassin Eugene de Kock for more than 200 years
… functioned as a para-military squad, either executing anti-apartheid activists or forcing them to end their …
EventFormer South African Prime Minister and State President John Vorster is born
… Vorster was instrumental in the founding of the anti-British Ossewa-Brandwag (OB), and also became a general …
Bush Radio mourns, Professor William T. McClain (1923-2011)
… One of Bush Radio’s board members and a strong anti-apartheid activist Professor William Tilden McClain … the University of London. Initially he was going…
ArchiveCongress Resister 1983 - 1989
… Congress Resister was published by the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC), which was formed at the turn of the … non-existent. At this time, some activists in…
Introduction
… African Indians, mobilised in the 1890s against growing anti-Indianism in various parts of South Africa, were … to flow. Albert Christopher observed…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the joint session of Parliament of Trinidad and Tobago, Port-of-Spain, 2 July 1987
… Britain was very different. The first overtly racist legislation enacted by a British Parliament, the South Africa … in our county: the Coloured community…
Chapter 2. The Early History of the Garment Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The Select Committee recommended that minimum wage legislation be instituted. A law to regulate wages of young … The most exploited section consisted of…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
… community did never the less criticise apartheid, and anti-apartheid groups existed in many countries to increase … first time in 1946 regarding the…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… and so on. That's where I was born. My father was an Indian labourer from India. He came down in the 1860 period … you know the then Congress. You know…
Document 3 - Letter from F. A. W. Lucas to James Ramsay MacDonald,
… consisting of fifteen members, was elected, eleven holding anti-war views. The "see it through policy" has resulted in … that it was necessary to give the…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
… capitalists and their supporters to join in an "anti-Nat alliance" or even by appeals to the "morality" of … Yet the Congress leadership retained their faith…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… was allied to, the Medu Art Ensemble, played a role in the anti-apartheid struggle movement, which means that this …
ArticleCongress of South African Trade Unions 1994 - 2014
… on the Banks and their services to the people and the anti-privatisation protest action campaign were also held. …
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… the bucket strike of July 1918 by municipal workers, the anti-pass protests in 1919 and the 1920 African Miners …
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… Q: What is your answer to the accusation that you are anti-white? A. Our reply has been officially given in a … that it does not become "dangerous." Q: Q…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress timeline 1959-2011
… England and Egypt. 21 March, The PAC leads a peaceful anti pass march and local PAC leaders first gathered at … The funeral for the victims of those killed…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… together by forming a united front failed. In exile, the Anti Apartheid Movement sprang up in Britain, Holland, Sweden … (ANC) and the Pan Africanist…
87. Today’s lessons are tomorrow’s weapons for students
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal … of 600 school students in Natal who were expelled for…
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…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… afforded the opportunity to play an organised role in the anti-apartheid struggle and in the building of a … work at starvation wages. Though Coloured and…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
… of his return from exile. “Albie Sachs is a hero of the anti-apartheid movement and a leader of South Africa’s … of the death penalty, the overturning of the…
PlaceRooigrond
… in Grondbrief 964/1873. Nearly a century later, when their anti-eviction case went to the Supreme Court and even during … on what they considered their…
4. Conclusion
… executives of the CPSA and Transvaal ANC, participated in anti-pass campaigns, ran several successful campaigns for … to go wherever the struggle was raging…
EventDeath in detention of Imam Haron
… were silent. He urged his constituency to support the 1960 anti-pass marches; he spoke out in favour or workers on …
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
… on Robben Island where 370 men, convicted under security legislation, were held. On the island, 12km north east of Cape Town, political prisoners of the anti…