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68. Passive resistance 1946-1947
… June 1946 and finally suspended on 31 May 1948. The report of the Passive Resistance Council, reproduced here almost in … practice. A new chapter in the…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1910-1919
… their conversations with Lord Selborne, High Commissioner of the Transvaal. In letter to J. C. Gibson, Gandhi refuted … demands. January13, Gokhale wrote to…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… The 1960s witnessed the banning of both the ANC and the PAC in the aftermath of the Sharpeville Massacre. In response to the banning, both … that 132 members…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student … provided for: "an SRC affiliating on behalf of the…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of the Liliesleaf farm -house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter … making ready to receive our returning…
PlaceCypress Tea Gardens, Hermanus
… surround the original building. In those days it consisted of two stone and clay fisherman's cottages built in 1875 in … became known as Swede Wessels when…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, … Smuts. At the same time certain anti-Indian…
PlaceAlkmaar, a Town Near Nelspruit
… in South Africa is a perfect location for Game-viewing being on the Crocodile River and so near the Kruger National Park. There is also the benefit of being…
Straight Talk - Emilia Potenza
… " We are in danger of losing our history" A recent report on history and … in schools offers compelling reasons for the teaching of these disciplines to be…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the Congress of the People (COP) … the same time an assertion of our…
EventArchbishop William Barnett issues a statement condemning Apartheid
… between church and state, when the Archbishop of Cape Town, Rev. William Barnett issued a statement … deaths in detention and the imprisonment and…
EventBBC reports demonstrations at a game ranch in SA
… BBC News reported that hundreds of demonstrators have protested at a game ranch in South Africa over the ill-treatment of fourteen baby elephants from…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1999
… On 3 March 1999, the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela , announced to the National … a reasonable economic policy. The health system…
ArticleThe House in session
… houses sat for the first time on 1984. While the House of Assembly, the White parliament, went about its business as … MPs, the other two houses embarked on…
Ubuntu Awards 2018
… recognise South African citizens who embody principles of Integrity, Passion, Patriotism and Humility. 2018 marks the centenary of the first democratically…
NELSON MANDELA FOUNDATION RESPONDS TO REPORT IN THE DAILY TELEGRAPH 3 March 2001 The followng letter has been sent to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in London in response to an article published in that newspaper today 3 March 2001.
… March 2001 The followng letter has been sent to the editor of the Daily Telegraph in London in response to an article …
ArticleSilverton Siege
… near Mamelodi. En route, ‘the Trio’ realised they were being tailed by the police. In an attempt to escape, they took refuge in a branch of Volkskas Bank in…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … constitutional dispensation, which envisaged the creation of…
Interview with Sunny Singh by C de Vos, Durban, 28 May 2002
… UNIVERSITY OF DURBAN – WESTVILLE DOCUMENTATION CENTRE ORAL HISTORY … had broken down. Where all the other people in your cell being arrested when you were…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West Africa had a rich and varied history and culture long … European slaver traders arrived…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… Students Representative Council (SSRC) . Recent accounts of the event suggest that the SSRC was motivated and guided by underground networks of the African…
ArchiveThe Importance and Power of Gender Safe Spaces by Shanél Johannes
… for our positionalities and realities differ. The creation of a safe space is important to prevent the isolation of our various day-to-day individual and…
Document 4 - ‘Our Annual Conference - An Inspiring Gathering’: report in the ‘South African Worker’
… Prime Minister, YOUR people more than any other section of the white community must surely know in the very core of their beings, if they were unaware of the…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… with different ideological and theoretical views. One of these views was towards a more more Africanist approach. … means to suppress the liberation struggle…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
… This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… Most people credit the abolition of apartheid to many organisations and leaders, such as the … Mandela. It is, however, unlikely that most would think of the…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… 1961, Umkhonto weSizwe (MK) was launched as an armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC). The formation of the MK Umkhonto weSizwe ("Spear of the…
EventFormer anti-apartheid activist, Allan Boesak accuses ANC
… Dr Allan Boesak, former anti-apartheid activist, leader of the World Alliance of Churches and patron of the now disbanded United Democratic … debate was…
ArticleAfrica: What’s in a name?
… call Africa home and call themselves African. Africa, and being African, has become a core part of the identity of millions of the continent's inhabitants,…
EventAnti-apartheid activist Sister Bernard Ncube dies
… activist Sister Bernard Ncub e died at the age of 80. She was a practicing Roman Catholic nun and was … activism and was outspoken about the human rights…