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Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
… wide depression of the 1930s, which at its worst saw one in three people unemployed in the United States In South Africa, the Great Depression had socio…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… It’s early winter in Cape Town, cold and gray, when I take the 1044 train from … to meet the photographer Omar Badsha at his house in Woodstock. I sit in the…
EventKenneth David Kaunda wins Zambian elections
… republic on 24 October 1964. The victory of Kaunda in the elections signaled an important phase in the struggle against colonial domination in the sub…
ArchiveInterview with Peter Donald Hjul
… interview with Peter Donald Hjul who was a leading figure in the Liberal Party, which existed from 1953 until 1968. Born in Northern Rhodesia in 1929, Hjul…
EventAndries Dreyer, church archivist and collector of Africana, dies
… Andries Dreyer was born on 10 January 1872 in Philadelphia, in the present day Western Cape Province. After studying at the Normal College in Cape Town, be…
EventSamuel Tshabalala becomes the first black athlete to win the Pietermaritzburg-Durban Comrades Marathon
… Arguably the grandest marathon in the world, athletes flock to South Africa from all over the world every year to take part in the race. They run the 90…
Say It out Loud - A letter to the Coloured People of South Africa
… of the Union of South Africa marks an important step in the political history of the country. The change that will be effected in the government of the four…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… military means. The political events which have occurred in the last few years have convinced the overwhelming … It can also be gauged by their reluctance to…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
… ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States and Britain, issued the call to Africans to meet in Bloemfontein in January…
Address by Nelson Mandela on behalf of the ANC delegation to the Conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central Africa Addis Ababa, January 1962
… to attend this historic conference and to participate in its deliberations and decisions. The extension of the … reaction, should mark the beginning of a new…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… Square used to house the Dutch Reformed Church building in Pretoria, with the open space around it used as ‘outspan’ … and used the proceeds to build two new…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… under the auspices of the Market Theatre Foundation. In the last two years Windybrow has been Restored. The team … Books Reading Room. It is a centre that is…
"What I think of Macmillan`s speech": Article by Albert Luthuli, 1 March 1960
… turned to Africa, including the Union, "to see." But, in the end, he did more than "see." He gave us oppressed people some inspiration and hope and to all…
Black ViewPoint - Introduction edited by B.S. Biko (1972)
… Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa IT IS SIGNIFICANT that in a country peopled to the extent of 75% by blacks and whose … to the black people. Our relevance…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
… The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford … The first Pinelands…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
… without receiving royalties for his work. Linda was born in Pomeroy in rural KwaZulu Natal in 1909, and went to Gordon Memorial Mission School. At the … 2010…
ArchiveAssia Djebar: A Life of Resistance and Inspiration by Logan Landry
… Life Fatima Zohra Imalayen was born in 1936 in the town of Cherchell, Algeria (Chronology Assia Djebar … French although French would come to be her enemy…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
… Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the ……
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… Introduction The ANC had concluded in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be … one, a front of…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
… The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the … prosecution's case, and the Freedom Charter a key document in the trial…
PlaceSea Point
… to Hout Bay and Table Bay. Sea Point was later so named in 1776 when Sam Wallis, one of the commanders serving under Captain Cook , encamped his men there in…
PlaceClarkson, Eastern Cape
… A Moravian Mission Village in the former Humansdorp District, 26 km South-East of Assegaaibos Railroad Station, located in Cacadu District Municipality. It…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
… TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant milestone in the development of the liberation struggle. To assess ……
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… Shula Marks about Allison Champion’s influence on workers in the years leading up to his banning in 1930. The first of this two-part series focuses on…
EventTatamkhulu Afrika South African poet, writer and struggle activist dies
… Tatamkhulu Africa was born in As Sallum in Egypt as Mohamed Faud Nasif to an Arab father and a … on 7 December 1920. His parents relocated to South Africa in…
80. Local affairs committees: a means to an end
… committees, or local affairs committees, was introduced in 1963. These bodies were to be given increasing powers over the years in the running of local…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to the Twenty-second Biennial Conference of the South African Indian Congress, 19 October 1956, Gandhi Hall, Johannesburg
… once more to open your biennial Conference. It was in 1954 when I had the honour to open your twenty-first … centre around summoning you and all who like you…
2003 New Year Message, 30 December 2002
… a close. The last month of this year will be remembered in the Southern hemisphere for the total solar eclipse in some parts that for six seemingly long…
EventFormer Tanzanian President Julius Nyerere dies
… became a symbol of the struggle against colonialism in Tanzania and to other African countries including South … allowing several liberation movements to…
EventThe Dutch Reformed Church rejoins the World Alliance of Reformed Churches
… with the WARC persuaded the church to renounce apartheid in its theological teachings. The DRC was suspended from the WARC at the 21st General Council…