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ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
… The year 1658 marks the beginning of the slave trade at the Cape colony. During the first four years of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlement at the…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
… African Communist Party ( SACP ), as well as the opening of new fronts/sites of struggle in a changed and changing environment. The … or dismiss ancient and…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
… KwaZulu-Natal and the Free State border, perched on top of the plateau, is the smallest, most charming-world renowned … church in the world. This tiny church…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
… Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArticleEconomic Freedom Fighters (EFF)
… The EFF sees economic freedom as total ownership of economic and natural resources by the previously oppressed … own economic resources for the development…
Mission Stations - M
… by Merensky did not take place, as he states, as a result of Mswati's death, which occurred in 1868, but because the Regent, Malambule, had retained some of…
How do we understand Nelson Mandela@100? by Raymond Suttner, 29 May 2018
… Celebrating the centenary of Nelson Mandela’s life is an opportunity to move away from the cliché-ridden assessments of his multi-faceted personality…
Glossary: Transport through time
… talk about the period before Christ and before the fall of Rome in the year 476. Archaeologist Somebody who studies … used for sails and tents. Cargo Goods…
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, April 1964
… On behalf of the South African Indian Congress I express my … than submit. Savage sentences of up to twenty years are being served by members of my…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
… Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian settlers in that country who were subjected to … prison on December 10th. Miss Molteno…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… extended a cordial welcome to the delegates on behalf of the local branch of the organisation, who, he said, … Hon. A. Lyttelton had said so. But man did not…
ArticleAfrica: Colonialism, Arts, Protest & Independence
… Liberia are recognized as independent entities. Partition of West Africa and East Africa 1896 Ethiopia, under Emperor … South Africa, is expelled from Fort…
BiographyMarcus Solomon
… 1939. His father, a waiter by profession, was a Hindu born of Tamil parents from Sri Lanka, although his paternal … was Christian. His mother, classified…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
… THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and … precise to guarantee that the constitution…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … rejecting the South African Indian Council as a useless body,…
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… association before the agreement expired in the middle of August 1932, but these proved futile. The employers again … the strike continued on its stormy…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 21 August 1990
… POM We're talking with Mr. Gumede on the 21st of August. I recall when we talked the last time you had said … aim. POM So they are really seeing the…
ArticleWhy protect children’s rights?
… The inclusion in the Bill of Rights of a special section on the rights of the child was an … of that child's age; or place at risk the child's well-being,…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - … on the support of the white minority, had come into being. The United Party upheld…
ArticleFietas: Pageview timeline 1880-1988
… is evacuated and the area burned to the ground. July, Most of the evacuees start moving back into the urban centre, mostly into the ‘Malay Location’, one of…
ArchivePress statement on the Industrial Conciliation Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers Union, The Food and Canning Workers Union and The African Food and Canning Workers Union.
… Act following a joint meeting between the Federation of S.A. Trade Unions, The Western Province General Workers …
America, Spanish conquest
… Spain. (These men were later murdered by the inhabitants of the island for mistreating them.) On his second voyage, … against the Aztecs. The Spanish were…
ArticleBisho Massacre 1992
… was in mourning for those killed in the Boipatong Massacre of 17 June 1992, the Bisho Massacre added to the bleak … took place on 7 September 1992 in Bisho,…
Address on South African Freedom Day 2001, Pietersburg, 27 April 2001
… Ngubane Mayor Thabo Makunyane Distinguished Guests People of the Northern Province: In the past seven years we have … get a better sense of the reality of…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… When I was freed after 22 years I had spent 45 per cent of my life inside the walls. Now I have been outside the … I have nightmares about it. When I entered…
”Report on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee” by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … c) and acceptance of the…
ArchiveReport on Talks between the PAC and the OAU liberation Committee Sub-committee by Potlako K. Leballo, Dar es Salaam, November 20,1968
… Ordinary session in Algiers, last July, the OAU Committee of Eleven adopted the following resolution regarding the Pan … c) and acceptance of the…
ArticlePeople involved in Rivonia Trial 1963-1964
… RIVONIA: THE STORY OF ACCUSED NO.11, by Bob Hepple On 11 July 1963, I was one of seven men arrested at the Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, near … dramatically…
VIII - The Pathologists
… Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa The cause of death revealed in the medical evidence was not disputed. … He had performed a post mortem…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… the All Africa Convention (AAC) in Bloemfontein. Far from being a united force for a significant part of the 1930s, the ANC was plagued by divisions and ……