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Speech delivered on the condolence motion in honour of the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee in the national assembly – 5 February 2009
Madam Speaker I am truly humbled to have been selected by the ANC to present a message of condolence and an obituary on the late Ebrahim "Cas" Saloojee. It…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union
At a GFWBF meeting in Pietermaritzburg in April, metalworkers from two factories called for the establishment of a union. Two months later, the Metal and…
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Conclusion - By Riashnee Pather
From the book: The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa - by Riashnee Pather Conclusion The events of the 1960's made…
ArchiveAppendix 7 South Africa, the transition to democracy and the banning of torture, by Denis Goldberg
… I too was involved and as the resistance heightened in the 1970s and 1980s, we know that many were tortured to death. We …
Rafique Mayet
Rafique (Rafs) Mayet was born in 1955 in Durban, Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school,…
PlacePosthuys
Posthuys is considered of the earliest buildings along the False Bay Coastline and was built in the late 1600's as a lookout post for enemy ships entering…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC When the mass movement recovered at the end of the 1940s, the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
South Africa’s Radical Tradition, a documentary history, VolumeTwo 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew - Bibliographical note and further reading
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Bibliographical note and further reading African…
Chapter Seven - Re-examining the Past
… pre-figurement of the Black Consciousness Movement of the 1970s Gomas set out re-educate himself in the 'values of …
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the second Fosatu…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
The National Theatre Organisation (NTO) was a state funded institution, which was founded to promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
International feminism was a catalyst for South African feminist organisation to address violence against women. In 1975, Anne Mayne, a survivor of both…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
Names: Madlala-Routledge, Nozizwe Charlotte Born: 29 June 1952, Magog, KwaZulu-Natal In Summary: A student activist aligned to the Black Consciousness…
The Industrial Workers of Africa, 1917-1921 by Bikisha Media Collective
The history of four years of the revolutionary multi-racial union in South Africa, the Industrial Workers of Africa, and the labour movement at the time. …
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all fragmented African trade unions into a large federation of non-racial…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew her, it will also be an…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
More than anyone else, Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881-1951) was the founder of the ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States…
ArchiveWomen Freedom Fighters tell of Sexual Abuse in Camps by Carl Collison (Mail and Guardian), 27 October 2017
… Khumalo claims that, after running away from home in the 1970s to receive military training in exile, she was sexually …
Restrictions on the media
… to the end. But the vast cost of apartheid had, by the mid-1970s - combined with an international recession to distort …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1903 South African Moslem Association 62 The South African Moslem Association was…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… had an impact that spun into the following decade, the 1970s. 1960 Both the African National Congress (ANC) and the …
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many political prisoners and detainees, and unbanned many people,…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… in those organisations but it tapered off in the late 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s. THE EIGHTIES The second …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the…
Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985
Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their racial or cultural ghettos, with their own experiences, histories and…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Contextual Overview
What is Communism? Communism is a social, economic, and political ideology whose aim is to establish a communist society in which there is a collective…