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65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… stand we have the astonishing position of four companies (Anglo American, Sanlam, SA Mutual and Rembrandt) between them … measures to redistribute wealth - a…
Archive2013 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2013
… meeting in Pretoria with Sir John Parker, the chairman of Anglo-American Plc to discuss the reported plans to restructure and retrench 14 000 workers at…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 2 - Industrialisation and the Revitalisation of Black Politics in the1940s by Mohamed Adhikari
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Three documents, fundamental changes that…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… there anything better to write about? Shaka Zulu, the Boer Wars (1 & 2), Sterkfontein, the 'Border Wars' .... heard …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
Introduction. This chapter [1] begins within an overview of the Khoisan languages in general, and briefly describes the three or four main families that…
ArchiveHow history will judge FW de Klerk by RW Johnson, politicsweb (28 November 2021)
… And in general Canada took steps to live up fully to its Anglo-French culture and history. All this happened because …
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
It helped enormously that I had a post to go to. Ronnie Kasrils was meticulous in requiring me to provide real information showing that I could indeed handle…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… singing of an apartheid-era song with the words “Kill the Boer”. The ANC dismissed a ruling by a regional high court … the linking of the singing of the…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… nineteenth century political events ? such as the First Boer War ? contributed to ‘the struggle to give Afrikaans its … the slaves mocked their White madams …
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
… to these companies, thus exempting companies like Gencor, Anglo-American and BHP Billiton from paying the required …
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… in 1982: From the Urban Foundation to Manpower 2000, from Anglo-American to Barlow Rand, the argument has consistently … abound. Dennis Etheridge, a previous…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… African War, when her father was interned for his pro-Boer sentiments. After the war, the Stern family moved to …
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Afrikaners of their generation, the terrible wrongs of the Boer War still rankle in their hearts. They have many English …
Chapter 3 - Gumede’s role in NNC and SANNC Politics, 1909 – 1919 ‘We pray that the people be allowed to live in peace in their own land’.
… fear of further dispossession of their land: Since the Anglo Zulu War in 1879, large tracts of land in Natal and … the destruction and submission of the Zulu…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… voel so jammer vir jou! Oud-Unionis (binnensmonds): Een ou boer sal nog gaan, maar die tweede sal ek wraggies nie weer …
Local Government
… line in such a way as to connect the capitals of the two Boer Republics by the straightest possible route. This meant …
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… the British for four years in a guerrilla struggle in the Anglo-Boer War at the turn of the 20th century. Rusty said for …
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… each other in quick succession: The discovery of gold, the Anglo-Boer War, the Treaty of Vereeniging, the Act of Union, the …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… of Isandlwana and the Centenary of the beginning of the Anglo-Boer War. These unforgettable events in the birth of the …
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
… early days of the NUM, tells the story of a meeting with Anglo American at the time of the 1987 strike during which … general secretary of the NUM. "They…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
Fellow South Africans, Comrades and compatriots, Today, January 8, we celebrate the 80th anniversary of the formation of the African National Congress. …
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive …
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Police vehicle in Mamelodi and the latter went off at an Anglo American building in Johannesburg, causing extensive …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1980s
1980 is declared the Year of the Charter, marking the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the Freedom charter in 1955. 1980 SACTU declares the year as…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… impregnable is suitable for guerrilla type operations. Boer guerrillas with the support of their people operated in …
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… on the nationalist party (the slave- owner Party ofthe Boer farmers) and by the South African Party . which …
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… old, the family went to live in Thaba 'Nchu. During the Boer War, my father joined the Free State forces under the …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1946-Press Reports on the Campaign
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1946 NIC Meeting, Curries Fountain, Durban There was…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… class South Africa. To the world outside he was the major Boer stateman who had been big enough to pass from successful guerrilla commander against the…