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Introduction
… Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Indian traders arrived in the wake of indentured Indians. The services they rendered are highlighted in the first document…
EventAnglo-Boer War 2: Lord Methuen, British general, destroys the village of Schweizer-Reneke
… Baron Methuen and a soldier all his life. Before arriving in South Africa in 1899, he had served in the Ango-Ashante campaigns in present day Ghana as well…
PlaceCamp’s Bay, Cape Town
… Farm that later became Camps Bay. She was born at the Cape in 1663. Her parents arrived at the Cape in 1658 as part of a group of 220 enslaved people taken…
PlaceNqamakwe
… In 1865 a number of Mfengu clans were resettled in the area around Nqamakwe. As refugees from the Mfacane … European missionaries. Realising the need for an…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… society. They impacted on black social life and politics in a particular way. In the first half of the twentieth century, the mid-1940s stand out as a…
ArchiveCourt Transcript of statement from the Dock of Nelson Mandela, Pretoria Supreme Court, 20 April 1964
… statement from the dock at the opening of the defence case in the Rivonia Trial I am the First Accused. I hold a Bachelor`s Degree in Arts and practised as…
Chapter 7 - ‘We Are Also People’
… returned at 8 am saying Zakes had been murdered. One day in her life was too little, too soon, to impress on Le Rona … Graham Mdlankomo and he was born on…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… In July 1990, five months after the South African government had unbanned the ANC, security police in Durban raided a local house. An informer had tipped…
“Let Me Live - Letter to a European”: June 1946
… 1946 8 Dear friend, I am addressing this letter to you in the hope that you would read it with sympathy and consideration. Indians have been in South Africa…
PlaceSprings
… what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni , in the Gauteng Province. It was founded as a coal and gold mining town in 1904, but its History…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
PlaceGugulethu Township
… Pride'. This township was established along with Nyanga in the 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950) reinforced the policy of land dispossession and segregation…
Chapter 2
… African Convention should be viewed as one further step in the political development of the African people. In order to appreciate this step more fully, let…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… dawned upon the world. I feel sure you will join with me in hoping that the present year would bring brighter days … I shall bring to your attention some of…
ArchiveCHAPTER 6 - Towards a Broad Front and Other Desirable Accidents, January 1981 - January 1983 by Howard Barrell
… criterion for the building of a popular political alliance in the legal and semi-legal spheres. There would, however, be no improvement in the ANC's ability…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… 1912 is a number that ought to be deeply etched in the minds of all Africans. For during 1912 achievement … Oliver Tambo and Anton Lembede, who later took…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is sometimes referred … so as to distinguish it from Great Namaqualand…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… This thesis is the product of exile but it was developed in the hothouse of internal resistance during the late 1960s … notes on working together with the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on ANC`s seventieth anniversary: Appeal to the world, 02 December 1981
… liberation struggle to join with the South African people in commemorating the 70th anniversary of the formation of the … Committee has proclaimed 1982 as…
ArchiveUnlike The Gambia’s Jammeh, Mugabe may not disappear, 22 November 2017, AZAD ESSA
… In the central lobby of the Banjul International Airport, a … president of The Gambia, adorns the ceiling. Jammeh, in his characteristic white, free…
PlacePretoria High School for Girls, Park Street
… Pretoria High School for Girls was started by Lord Milner in 1902 as part of his efforts to anglicise the Transvaal … Staats Model School walked hopefully…
PlaceSierra Leone
… Sierra Leone is found in West Africa, fronting onto the Atlantic Ocean , and … National Park and the Tiwai Island Wildlife Sanctuary, in Sierra Leone. Gola…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
… Botswana, Lesotho, Zambia with whom we are involved in a struggle against the fascist regime of Vorster/Botha and … It is quite appropriate that this rally…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the 1995 National Conference of IDASA Cape Town, 18 August 1995
… assets is the vibrant civil society that its people forged in the struggle for freedom. On its continued vibrancy … here does not signify any relaxation of…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to a joint sitting of both houses of the parliament of Lesotho Maseru, 12 July 1995
… victories as our own. The achievement of your forebears in holding colonial forces at bay was emulated, in our own time, apartheid regime encircling your…
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Strategy and Tactics, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… of the Commissions were able to deal with other issues in the S&T document, and have made concrete proposals in this regard. 3. All Commissions proceeded…
Statement at the Conference of The Socialist International and Frontline States on Southern Africa, Harare by O. R. Tambo, 15 February 1989
… National Liberation Movement, My compatriots, comrades in struggle from South Africa, Comrades and Friends: It is … Africa for convening and inviting us to…
Document 38 - Certification of the Constitution; a summary of the judgment of the Constitutional Court
… DEFIANCE CAMPAIGN IN SOUTH AFRICA, RECALLED By E.S Reddy The "Campaign of … of the greatest non-violent passive resistance campaigns in the tradition of…
SAHO Commemorates 40 Years since Soweto Uprising: Intergenerational Dialogue by Roanne Moodley
… without media coverage- while June 16 remains a beacon in our past) I wonder about the differences that may exist … education system, and commodification of…
PlaceClermont, a Township of Durban
… the Apartheid days was a black middle income Township, in Durban. It is surrounded by Westville, Kloof, New Germany and Inanda in the distant. Its main road…