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The Regeneration of Africa by Pixley Seme, 5 April 1906
ArchiveFighting Talk Volume 12 number 4 December 1956/January 1957
Fighting Talk - a monthly journal for democrats
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 11 Number 3 January 1986
South African Labour Bulletin is a refereed journal. The focus in this issue is Botswana.
ArchiveSouth African Labour Bulletin Volume 11 Number 3 January 1986
ArchiveDawn Souvenir Issue - 25th anniversary of MK 1986
Dawn, a monthly journal by the Umkhonto we Sizwe, documented the guerilla attacks on strategic targets within the Republic.
BiographyJames Randolph Vigne
James Randolph Vigne was born in 1928 in Kimberley and grew up in Port-Elizabeth. He went to school at St Andrew’s College in Grahamstown where he enjoyed a…
Chapter 3 - The Cigarette-Makers Strikes and the First Workers Co-operative Society in South Africa, Cape Town 1906 - 1907
… "Two Cigarette Pioneers" in Jewish Affairs, December 1946, pages 51-56. The details were the result of interviews …
BiographyJudge Jan Hendrik Steyn
Jan Hendrik Steyn was born in Cape Town, Western Cape on 4 March 1928. His mother, Zerilda Steyn, was a pioneer of social welfare in South Africa, founding the…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… by the ANC and South African Indian Congress (SAIC). In 1946 when African mine workers engaged in industrial actions, … of African Trade Unions (CATU) with…
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… active in the FCWU, and was elected a shop steward in 1946. In 1943, Rahima Moosa became the shop steward for the … The FCWU had already attracted some 4 000…
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
Elijah Nkwenkwe Loza was born in 1918 near Alice in the Ciskie,where his father was tribal headman.After completing secondary education, he went to Cape Town…
BiographyColin Gardner
Professor Colin Gardner was born on 26 June 1933, in London, Britain. He came to South Africa with his parents in 1947. He matriculated at Maritzburg College,…
Hettie McCleod
Hettie McCleod was born on 27 June 1922 in Goodwood, Cape Town, Cape Province (now Western Cape). She was the youngest of five children (three girls and two…
BiographyThamsanqa “Thami” Mnyele
"For me as craftsman, the act of creating art should complement the act of creating shelter for my family or liberating the country for me people. This is…
Siphiwe Nyanda
Siphiwe Nyanda was the eldest of the six children of Betsy and Henry Nyanda, a traffic inspector and area supervisor of liquor outlets for the Johannesburg…
BiographyBob Hepple
Professor Sir Bob Hepple was born on 11 August 1934 in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). His father, Alex Hepple, was a trade unionist and Labour Party…
EventANC becomes signatory to the Geneva Convention of 1949 and Protocol 1 of 1977
At a ceremony at the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross in Geneva, the African National Congress (ANC) President, Oliver Tambo,…
BiographyMarion Monica Sparg
Marion Monica Sparg was born in East London and was one of six children. She grew-up in a white middle-class English-speaking South African family in the…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was established to harness…
Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , “A Comment on Trotsky’s Letter to S.A.”, Worker’s Voice, 1, 3, July 1945 […]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 61 - A. Mon [M. N. Averbach] 4 , "A Comment on…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
On June 16, 1976, as we all know, the children of Soweto, Mamelodi, Gugulethu and other areas rose united in response to a massacre unprecedented in its nature…
PlaceAlbertynhof, Kimberley
Suburb of Kimberley to the South of the Big Hole and North-West of New Park. It was established when the Newton Township, was cleared of slums, and named after…
ArchiveIn 1986 there were 153,000 empty white school places: In 1986 there was a shortage of 193,000 places in black schools.
White poster with black lettering and black border. Star newspaper editorial 8th July 1987.
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
One morning, in the middle-class suburb of Johannesburg where he lives, David Goldblatt found his camper van on bricks. "Someone had stolen the wheels during…
Document 64 - Letter from the Workers' Party of South Africa to the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L), 1 July 1936
ArchiveEnvironment 1996
ArchivePress 1986
Say It out Loud - The Coloured People and the Franchise, 1906
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The Coloured People and the Franchise , 1906 On Tuesday 31st July the principles of the Constitution to…
BiographyPeter Moonsammy
Peter Moonsammy was born on 25 March 1928 in Market St, Johannesburg. Moonsamy was the elder brother of Paul and Dasu Joseph who were Transvaal Indian…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… The influx of Black people increased to 23.4 per cent in 1946 from 18.4 per cent in 1936. As a result, the need for … in the 1940s, notably the strike of…