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ArchiveFree us from the call up
… Black poster. Black and white image of soldier tied up in red string. Title in white letters outlined in red. Black and white broken …
ArchiveCRADOYA
… Title in black letters on white background. Black line outline of South Africa. Image of black hand in the middle holding yellow working implements. Words …
BiographyJansie Lourens
… Carl Niehaus , were found guilty of active participation in the African National Congress (ANC), the planting of bombs, assisting people in fleeing the…
BiographyEdward Sonnyboy Bhengu
… Edward Sonnyboy Bhengu was born on 8 November 1934 in Sophiatown to Gladys Toti in the Italian household of the Mattera family. He was the …
Chapter 3
… The Formation of the All-African Convention: The Background In 1935 the Union Government confronted the country with what … mean? It meant intensifying the…
Demand a constituent assembly!
… ANC Poster. Cream background with title at top in black letters. ANC Logo in centre with black image of people protesting. Green letters in centre. …
ArchiveEducation for liberation
… Gold and black poster. Notice of a conference at Camden Town Hall, London, on Saturday 3rd April 1993. Organised by the Black Solidarity Committee of the…
ArchiveMay Day : Living wage rally
… White poster. Title in red letters. Black and white COSATU Logo. Black and white artwork of crowd of people with man in front …
BiographyNorma Kitson
… Norma Kitson (nee Cranko) was born to Jewish parents in 1933 in Berea, Durban . She was one of four children, and had an … The Activist who started the anti…
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… Act of 1913, as a reason why these men left their homes in rural South Africa to contribute to the war effort. It also aims to examine the roles played by…
ArchiveMDM (Mass Democratic Movement)
… Cream poster with title in black letters. Initials of all trade unions and student bodies in red and black letters around the border. Artwork of a black hand…
ArticleANC Women’s League (ANCWL)
… When the African National Congress (ANC) was formed in 1912, it did not accept women as members. In 1918, the government threatened to reintroduce pass laws …
African People’s Organisation (APO)
… which mobilised its members around racial segregation in urban areas that was being introduced as a result of the … to give way to more radical organisations…
BiographyJacobus du Toit
… one of the founders of the Afrikaans language movement. In a series of articles published in Die Afrikaanse Patriot , he pushed for the formation of a …
BiographyDoc Bikitsha
… born on 19 November 1930 at the Bridgman Memorial Hospital in Mayfair, Johannesburg. After passing Matric, Mr Bikitsha … Pius X11 University College, then…
BiographyAlan Wieder
… and Comrade, and most recently Ruth First and Joe Slovo in the War Against Apartheid. Although he lives in the United States, he has been on the faculties of…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… returned at 8 am saying Zakes had been murdered. One day in her life was too little, too soon, to impress on Le Rona … through her mesh curtains and saw a…
ArchiveWomen unite!
… White poster with black lettering. Artwork of a black baby with a red and black striped T-shirt, also a mother with a child outside a shack. Poem in red…
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… scattered clothes hanging from rusty pipes, a young black man is down on his knees. His feet are naked, his … Instead, this is a communal shower room for…
ArchiveUnemployed workers
… Unemployed Workers Movement recruitment poster. Black, red and white poster with title in red letters. Support the campaign in black letters.. Black and…
BiographyPiet Joubert
… President of the Transvaal when the territory was annexed in 1877, joined Kruger and Pretorius to take up arms against … of the Transvaal and managed to…
BiographyAnna Johanna Dorthea De Villiers
… only female principal of the Huguenot University College in Wellington and a lecturer at the Pretoria Technical … of a country was largely determined by its…
Michael Mike Matsobane
… brothers, Mike and Dan, aided the revival of the PAC in Krugersdorp. Their efforts fell under the non-political … brothers contribution to the struggle has…
Lennox Madikane
… , the military wing of the PAC. Following Poqo attacks in Paarl, Cape Province (now Western Cape), Madikane was one … were the first people sentenced to…
EventGifted writer and actor William Modisane is born
… writer and actor William (Bloke) Modisane was born in Sophiatown, Johannesburg. Modisane left South Africa in … did to the character and self-esteem of the…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… GCIS viewing centres around the country, including those in Khayelitsha, Nyanga and Gugulethu here in Cape Town. Let … On broader economic transformation,…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
… 1903 a very tired but fired up young man worked till 3am in the morning in the central business district of Durban. He … began his Ilanga lase Natal. In the…
EventMinister introduces free and compulsory education
… the introduction of free and compulsory education for Black pupils. This was the fifth concession to Black demands since the 1976 Soweto Uprising. The…
ArchiveThe beast of Bisho : Gqozo must go!
… Red poster with black lettering. Black and white image of soldier with army hat on, on the telephone on black block in centre with words in white lettering…
Outbreak of bubonic plague
… The outbreak of Bubonic Plague in Cape Town appears to have given a measure of warning to … a combined area of 6m by 2.4m, providing accommodation for black…