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ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a painting of Yahya Jammeh, the former president of The Gambia, adorns … myself in southern Senegal…
Luthuli House to be auctioned over R25m debt?, 20 August 2017
… say an attachment letter will be delivered by the sheriff of the court to Luthuli House tomorrow, an action that is set to cause untold embarrassment to the…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… While the abolition of the slave trade by Britain in 1808 was haled as a victory … experienced at the Cape through examining the experiences of people …
EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
… in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. He was the second youngest of 7 siblings. He attended Modderdam High School and joined Cosas (Congress of South African Students)…
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… offensives planned for that year. General Haig, commander of the British forces in France described the situation as … 35 000 Black South Africans had…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
… In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on … Parents Association (BPA) and the National Association of Youth Organisations (NAYO)…
"Peace and Development in our Region" Speech at "War on Want" Conference by O. R. Tambo, London, June 1988
… this opportunity to pay homage to the farsighted leaders of our region who, eight years ago, decided to establish the … even at that time, the apartheid…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
… Glitters by Emilia Potenza Up to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the … diamond-mining industry. Transcript…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
… Exam Memo Level 1 & 2 Difficulty Source A: Description of Robespierre’s 1790 speech. For the source’s online origin, see footnote [1] 1. Explain the ideas of…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on … unity…
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…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth varies substantially in various…
Closing address by President Nelson Mandela in the president’s budget debate Cape Town, 22 April 1998
… in the past few years, are first and foremost achievements of the people of South Africa as a whole. As individuals we have been … the basis for the…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… The "Colonial" Labour Front, 23 October 1922 "The policy of the Communist International on national and colonial questions must be chiefly to bring about a…
Archive”I am Albertina Sisulu”, Interview from Blue Portraits
… Sisulu. Metetiwe. Born in the Transkei, in the district of Tsomo on twenty-first October 1918. Educated in a lower … school that took me up to high school in…
ArchiveHARWU: The Aborted Attempt to Build a National South African Catering Union (1984 – 1990) by Allan Horwitz, June 2018
… was shaped by many forces, both in the general context of the political struggle to end ‘big and petty apartheid’ … and with regard to the organizational…
Address by President Jacob Zuma to the Indian community Mount Edgecombe, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, 18 April 2014
… The Minister of Justice and Constitutional Development, Mr Jeff Radebe, … and regional Leadership present, The Treasurer-General of SANCO, Mr Roy Moodley,…
Chapter 2 - Historical Background
… Africa itself. The Constitution was not a product solely of negotiation in the Constitutional Assembly. Experiences in … 1929, dealing with the 'Native…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… and musical items were provided, to celebrate the building of their new factory in Plein Street; 2 the social evenings … volunteers attracted large crowds,…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Two of our most loved women leaders, Mary Moodley and Lilian Ngoyi, died at the end of the 1970s. They had both…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… our past teaches about the present. The second anniversary of Nelson Mandela’s passing has coincided with a heated … he saved or sold out the country. His…
PlaceKalahari Desert
… a large basin like Plain in the interior Plateau of Southern Africa . It occupies almost all of Botswana , the eastern third of Namibia , and the Northern ……
PlaceLangeberg Municipality
… Cape Province. The Langeberg Municipal Area forms part of the Cape Winelands District Municipality and is made up of the following Towns: Montagu ; Ashton ;…
ArticleTuberculosis
… also known as TB, occurs all over the world and is one of the most infectious diseases, causing more deaths than … and Malaria [1] [2] . It is estimated that…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Religion and Churches
… their spiritual make-up, the Africans exhibit indications of striking affinity to the people of the Orient, i.e., Asiatics. Africans are a deeply … feeling…
III - Black Consciousness
… very existence was regarded as threatening the stability of the apartheid state, and the state turned the formidable strength of its restrictive laws and its…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 4
… the Southern African Indian Community by C. H. Calpin One of the immediate effects of the split over Sir Raza Ali's marriage was to hold up … the…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
… who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full of lively energy and songs and cheerfulness of her infinitely … she was one of the great organizers…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Numerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government … in the armed struggle combined with mass…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Numerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government … in the armed struggle combined with mass…