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EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
… In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black … consisted of five white officers, seven NCOs and 802 Black troops. There were also some…
EventTricameral Parliament inaugurated
… On 3 September 1984, Members of Parliament convened in Cape Town to promulgate a new South African Constitution … was known as the 'Tricameral Parliament',…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade unionist, political activist and a women's leader both in the Eastern…
ArchiveCost of apartheid: GST
… Cream poster with title in red and black letters. Black and white artwork of men, sweating, pulling a rope …
EventPeter “Terror” Mathebula dies
… 2020, Peter “Terror” Mathebula South Africa’s first black world champion boxer died. Mathebula was born on 3 July 1952, in Transvaal (now Gauteng ). A…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… to urge the repeal of pass laws. Sobukwe led a peaceful Black march to Orlando police station in Soweto on 21 March 1960, the same day a similar protest took…
Interview with Albert Luthuli by Studs Terkel, 6 May 1963, Chicago
… From Perspective on Ideas and the Arts TERKEL: Here in a suburb of Durban, South Africa, we are sitting with … an African. Originally, Bantu was used to…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
… what I saw on 9 August 1956 ”” thousands of women standing in silence for a full thirty minutes, arms raised high in the … until they became only one face,…
Address At Meeting On The Occasion Of The 60th Anniversary Of The Formation Of The South African Communist Party, London, July 30, 1981
… 1981. On this historic occasion our message goes to all in our country, who stand for the complete destruction of the … fighting spirit of Soweto alive. We…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… Resistance Movement - AWB) stormed the World Trade Centre in Kempton Park, Johannesburg , Transvaal (now Gauteng) where … action was due to their bitterness…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… ABSTRACT Heinz Klug is a white man born in South Africa who vehemently fought apartheid from both … he still continued to fight for the rights of the…
EventThe National Union of Mineworkers start South Africa’s longest wage strike
… At the time it was the second largest trade union in South Africa. NUM represented mainly Black mineworkers in the gold and coal mines belonging to the…
Postscript
… book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph ... Two roads diverged in a wood, and I, I took the one less travelled by, And that … There is burning of cars, houses,…
ArchiveFrom conscience politics to the battlefield
… This thesis examines the ways in which the Liberal Party - the Natal Division in particular … The Party gradually shifted its attention to the voteless black…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… be bridged, but there is wide agreement that it existed in the first place and is at the origin of today's … throughout the twentieth century, control the…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
… Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and … It is wonderful for us who have grown up and…
The Atlantic slave trade
… colonies that European countries were starting to develop. In America, for instance, which was a colony of England, … saw a large furnace of copper boiling,…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
… Contingent, the recruitment process for troops to assist in World War 1 was not heavily impacted. On the 23rd of March the 1st ship, the Durham Castle,…
EventMafika Gwala born
… poet, writer and BCM member Mafika Gwala was born today in the town of Verulam, KwaZulu-Natal. Soon after joining the … began to write his first poetry and …
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… South African labour market,’ Charles van Onselen writes in New Nineveh, ‘has always been dominated by … mining, … story of South Africa’s labouring classes,…
Address to the Nation on Radio Freedom by O. R. Tambo, 22 July 1985
… Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined … against the puppet local government…
Address by Oliver Tambo to the Nation on Radio Freedom, 22 July 1985
… Cape, the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle. Already in these areas many people have been arrested. Combined … against the puppet local government…
ArticleNelspruit Timeline 1815-1996
… the Voortrekkers to establish the first White settlement in the Eastern Transvaal at Ohrigstad. A second group led by … centre for the Boers. 1840s Boleu…
ArchiveThe romantic rewriting of Haile Selassie’s legacy must stop by Dr Yohannes Woldemariam, 4 February 2019
… Haile Selassie, who ruled Ethiopia from 1930 to 1974, died in 1975, but he lives on through the romantic lyrics of the … Marcus Garvey’s famous prophecy: …
ANC Youth League Manifesto 1944
… Issued by the Provisional Committee of the ANC Youth League in March 1944. PREAMBLE WHEREAS Africanism must be promoted … briefly it is: The contact of the…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Support from persons and Organisation - 1946
… Mahatma Gandhi It is my firm conviction that Indians in South Africa must Bt submits to the latest racial … of foreign control is achieved. A Member: Race…
ArticleRivonia Trial 1963 - 1964
… Often referred to as "the trial that changed South Africa,” in October 1963, ten leading opponents of apartheid went on … of the South African Students…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1866-1909
… In this period early African political organisations were … to register 600 of their followers. 1886 African voters in the Eastern Cape increase from 1150 to…
PlaceMaphikela House
… In 1912, prominent black leaders gathered here and forged the … the ruling party of the country. The house was built in 1926 and was Maphikela’s second…