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The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… This article was written by Meghan Knapp and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership … Over the past century South Africa has…
The Freedom struggle in Rustenburg
… pretended to be a labourer and investigated the conditions of farm workers in Bethal. He wrote the story 'Bethal Today' … Snyman, on whose farm he had worked…
ArchiveMeeting between Minister F W de Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks accompanied by the Angolan Deputy Foreign Minister Mr Venancia Da Silva Moura: H F Verwoerd Building, 27 April 19
… Klerk and Lt Gen Antonio Dos Santos Franca Ndalu, Leader of the Angolan delegation to the Cape Town JC Talks …
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… To: Mr. F. W. De Klerk State President of the Republic of South Africa 9th July, 1992 Dear Mr. De … of demands with regard to violence requiring immediate…
Event90-Days Act commences
… The General Laws Amendment Act of 1964 (passed in 1963) or the 90-Day Act, commences on this … without trial, for 90 days. Further, on the expiration of such…
Document 24 - “Wreckers at Work”, (Editorial), Liberation. 18, April 1956
… in any organisation when people freely express their point of view." -President A. J. Luthuli It is always necessary … themselves to criticising a single…
EventThe Pondoland Revolts
… The Pondoland revolt in the Eastern Cape refered to the action taken by iKongo to reject tribal authorities and self-government of Transkei, initiated by the…
EventSADF officers dismissed
… State President F.W. de Klerk announced that 23 members of the South African Defence Force (SADF), including two … forcibly retired or suspended. This…
ArticleSlave Resistance
… Worden points out that slavery “”¦became the mainstay of arable farming in the western districts, played a significant role in the functioning of Cape Town…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… People’s Convention (BPC) was an umbrella organisation of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM). BCM had its … campuses, mainly white, liberal universities…
PlaceImizamo Yethu, Hout Bay
… The Township of Imizamo Yethu is situated in the picturesque seaside Suburb of Hout Bay in Cape Town . Hout Bay is like a microcosm of … Marconi Beam , near…
ArticleSouth African Indian Congress (SAIC)
… 1860-1923 is characterised firstly by the introduction of indentured Indian labourers into Natal and of the "passenger" Indians who came to trade, and…
Article1913 Satyagraha Campaign Resumes
… settlement was reached in 1911. But in the letter of 12 September 1913 reproduced below, A.M. Cachalia, chairman of the British Indian Association, explains…
Township Uprising, 1984-1985
… demonstrations began in the Transvaal, marking the start of the longest and most widespread period of black resistance to white rule. The Lekoa and Evaton…
The African Women`s Demonstration in Natal: Report by Albert Luthuli to the Natal People`s Conference, 6 September 1959
… Since the middle of June 1959 to date, August 31st, 1959, Natal has been … in Natal is very much alive and explosive as a result of these demonstrations…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
… February 1957 A timely article by the banned ex-Secretary of the African National Congress, now on trial for treason. … ever since it came into use as a…
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 … the people, so that government could…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
… workers. No-one was killed. However, without the strength of unions behind them, workers struck for short periods. Three quarters of strikes were less than…
The Broederbond by Norman Levy
… (1918–1990) already a state within a state by the end of the 1940s, saw it as its mission to think and dream for … of the Broederbond were carefully selected…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… Youth League for placing the Freedom Charter at the centre of its programme. In many ways, the Freedom Charter was a product of … since the establishment of…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… go on tolerating the ill-treatment they suffer in the land of their birth. Today our people are suffering as never before under this Nationalist Government…
BiographyStephen Bantu Biko
… Introduction Stephen (Steve) Bantu Biko was a popular voice of Black liberation in South Africa between the mid 1960s and … the youth) were highly receptive…
PlaceTouwsrivier
… Touwsrivier is a community of approximately 8000 people and is also home to the World's … largest: ' CPV Solar Plants '. Located 13 km outside of…
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
… University (NMMU) opened on 1 January 2005, the result of the merging of the PE Technikon the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE) and the Port Elizabeth…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
… by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading, comes … archived history through his photography,…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa women – ranging from all backgrounds and … Whites, and Blacks – staged a march on the…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, … while Reagans smiles and Thatcher grins…
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era … foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life…
Document 6 - M. Lopes, “Socialism and the Labour Party”, The Bolshevik, April 1920
… Labour Party", The Bolshevik, April 1920 In a recent issue of our esteemed contemporary, the International, appeared a … eye upon the Labour Party which has…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, … We prepared masses of roneod material…