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Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had … trying to win the loyalty of the African States. Afrika is being wooed…
EventThe Black People’s Convention (BPC) holds its first National Congress
… to promote Black solidarity and foster the philosophy of Black Consciousness. Envisaged as a broad-based … (SASO), the BPC was established as a national…
ArchiveChapter 8 The Rivonia Trial by Denis Goldberg
… prosecutor in a hostage smile and I in the borrowed robes of my grandmother’s wisdom corn she said cannot expect … been at Liliesleaf farm and were arrested…
ArchiveInterview with Shaeera Kalla, former SRC president at Wits University, interviewed by Kyla Mc Nulty
… we were taught was, this led me to do reading outside of what was prescribed. During my first year at Wits I joined … both sides, firstly students feel…
Chapter IX - Treason - South African style 2
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The months of legal argument on the indictment were over at last and … government?" For ten weeks we listened to…
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
… African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world. Therefore, what … in civil society find that their…
Letter to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua by O. R. Tambo, 1974
… Your Excellency, The leadership of the African National Congress of South Africa takes this … to the high post of Secretary-General of so august a body as…
Letter by Oliver Tambo to the OAU Secretary-General, Mr. William Eteki Mboumoua, 01 June 1974
… Your Excellency , The leadership of the African National Congress of South Africa takes this … to the high post of Secretary-General of so august a body as…
Chapter III - The world outside
… in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive legislation. Sadistic … electric shocks applied to sensitive parts of the…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… is race, it is unreal to consider the position of the one sex in isolation of the other. The enjoyment of … hypertension and mental illness are on the…
Harry Snitcher 1, Unite Against Segregation! Condemn the C.A.C. [1943]
… [1943] Document 1 In spite many leading representatives of the Coloured and Malay people, the Minister of the Interior, Mr. Lawrence, has declared that the ……
ArticleSouth African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
… Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the…
Book Launch: The Nightwatchman, Hlonipha Mokoena
… We're so looking forward to the launch of Hlonipha Mokoena's new book, THE NIGHTWATCHMAN at Love … Hlonipha and historian Khumisho Moguerane on the portrayal…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March, Pretoria, 9 August
… composed to mark this historic occasion. By the middle of 1956 plans had been laid for the Pretoria march and the … meet with their leaders so they could…
Islam
… is a person who submits his life to the way and authority of Allah. This means that everything in a Muslim's life is … someone who can repeat the Shahada,…
EventThe British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announces that a mysterious epidemic (AIDS) is causing increasing concern in the United States
… AIDS has dramatically improved the diagnosis and treatment of the disease, however, in the 1980s, relatively little was … men in the United States. The…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education This chapter looks at how archaeology and the … to the public as a mystery, even though a…
New tactics in the revolt
… the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent of the labour force away from work, the SSRC was forced on to … and, it was claimed that the…
EventMother Teresa is buried
… school and devote herself to working among the poorest of the poor in the slums of Calcutta. Working alone at first but later joined by … the public funeral…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in … was all-encompassing, was chosen to refer to the umbrella body. After their…
ArticleKey terms with definitions for this topic
… in one God and revealed through Muhammad as the Prophet of Allah Kingdom: an area controlled by a particular person … a particular thing or idea is important…
Chapter 4
… Why the "Compromise"? What is the explanation of the wholesale reversal on the part of the leaders? It is … rise to the growth of industry and commerce,…
‘God Made the White Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa by Mohamed Adhikari (South African Historical Journal, 55), 2006
… Man, God Made the Black Man…’: Popular Racial Stereotyping of Coloured People in Apartheid South Africa by Mohamed …
’The beast is in the open’, Statement by Oliver Tambo at the International Conference in solidarity with the struggle of the Namibian People, Unesco House Paris, 13 September 1980
… International Conference in solidarity with the struggle of the Namibian People, Unesco House Paris, 13 September 1980 …
Letter replying to letter from the Prime Minister’s office and statement of intention to launch defiance campaign, from Dr. J. S. Moroka and W. M. Sisulu to Prime Minister D. F. Malan, February 11, 1952
… to letter from the Prime Minister’s office and statement of intention to launch defiance campaign, from Dr. J. S. …
Next to the Man, and Not Forgotten: Gay McDougall And the Southern Africa Project Of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, 1963-1994 by Myra Ann Houser
… Forgotten: Gay McDougall And the Southern Africa Project Of the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, …
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
… South Africa enjoyed a clean sweep of the International Rugby Board (IRB) awards in 2004. The … African flanker, Schalk Burger, was named IRB 'Player of the…
PlaceTranskei
… An early history of the Transkei area Originally the Transkei included the … a complex re-allocation of lands with "friendly" groups being allocated land in…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1940-1948
… 1948 1942 August 9, Gandhi is arrested in the early hours of the morning under the Defence of India Rules following the "Quit India" resolution and … into…
Toast remarks by the President Jacob Zuma to the official state banquet held in his honour on the occasion of the state visit to Uganda, 25 March 2010, State House Entebbe, Uganda
… as my delegation. We wish to convey the warmest greetings of the government and the people of South Africa to Your Excellency, and to the government and the…