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Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… finding resolution, but there must be a new way of representing difference that does not entail the violence … and their willingness to participate in…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… Reading from the "Lamentations of Jeremiah", Chapter 5 Remember, O Lord, what is come upon … our wood is sold unto us, Our necks are under the yoke of…
ArchiveThe South African Art Collective That Imagined the End of Apartheid by Keenan Teddy Smith, 27 August 2019
… that same year under the Terrorism Act, the infamous piece of legislation used to imprison Nelson Mandela and silence … 42 days, and her story, like Serote’s…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… affect? Gender-Based-Violence (GBV) is any violent act or action directed at a person on the basis of their gender. [1] GBV is considered a global pandemic…
ArticleThe Seriti Commission
… former president Jacob Zuma to establish a commission of inquiry into the procurement packages and allegations of criminal misconduct resulting from them,…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… was delivered in Zulu. Friends, comrades, and the people of Natal, I greet you all. I do so in the name of peace, the peace that is so desperately and…
Chapter 1: Introduction
… Before embarking on an investigation of vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal, it is important to give an account of what the situation in…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage. In justifying the sentence imposed the … from present surroundings would "kindle the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
… changes that industrialisation brought for the majority of people in South Africa. From being farmers with varying degrees of independence, most people…
Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
… In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Memorandum To The United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid, June 1968
… Congress has on many occasions broughtto the attention of the United Nations and its Member States thecondition of the people of Indian origin in South…
Message by Oliver Tambo to the Soweto rally to welcome released leaders, 29 October 1989
… This is a joyful day for all of us. It is a day of celebration for all the people of our country. Those who … facing us better than anybody else. Continue to…
Albert Luthuli`s speech to ceremony for presenting him the Christopher Gell Memorial Award, 21 October 1961, Port Elizabeth
… I am deeply grateful to the members of the Christopher Gell Memorial Award Committee for giving … to participate so prominently in the remembrance of his…
History lesson: When Vorster stuck the knife in Ian Smith's back by Jamie Miller (Rand Daily Mail), 17 September 2016
… new Cold War conflict fought along racial lines. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger soon committed to defusing the … and South-West Africa-Namibia. But he…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer … overlooked and often forgotten, especially in…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… History of Cato Manor Cato Manor was established in Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal ) and is situated 5km west of the Durban city centre. The Township was known…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
… prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison immediately sprung into action, hurling abuse at him and beating…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive features of White rule in Natal, in particular the Pass Laws, were … to what…
ArchiveChapter 4 Political activity 1950-1963 by Denis Goldberg
… as active as I was and we enjoyed working together. One of our early activities was helping to organise non-racial youth camps over the Easter weekends of…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a … solution lay in unified economic, political and…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend … were held on the Johannesburg City Hall steps, and an Action Committee of…
Ethnicity in Post-Apartheid Discourse: Deconstructing South Africa’s Racial Narrative by Joshua Richman
… Racial Narrative Abstract This paper addresses the falsity of the cultural discourse that stresses ethnicity’s salience … ethnicity as a viable, albeit…
ArticleThe Mau Mau Uprising
… and injustices in British-controlled Kenya. The response of the colonial administration was a fierce crackdown on the … the uprising had effectively been…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1900-1909
… the Transvaal comes down with smallpox, but the isolation of his contacts and his removal to hospital prevents any spread of the disease. 1902 31 May, the…
Legislation, Dissent, and Violence in Sophiatown under Apartheid
… Act. This apartheid law authorised the forced removal of Africans from “any area in the magisterial district of Johannesburg.” This Act was specifically…
Document 49 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: Introduction (Minority) (1934)
… only because the Natives comprised more than four-fifths of the whole population, not as in the Thesis of the Majority Group, even because they form almost…
Domestic work
… Mr Speaker, Members of Parliament. THE GENERAL ELECTIONS on September the 6th, 1989, placed our country irrevocably on the road of drastic change. Underlying…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… Labour is a neglected aspect in published accounts of the history of the Jewish community in South Africa. Although several … union. The first and primary…
Say It out Loud - The 1907 Presidential Address, Outdshoorn, Cape, 7 January, 1907
… English. He said that some people wondered at the reason of the conference. A Cape Town paper had stated that to all … was necessary or not. He put Education…