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ArchivePetrus Mashishi
… Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his times and a giant…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… called for strength in resistance, citing the example of Patrice Lumumba of the Congo who, he told a meeting of the Queensburgh Indian … a Republic on 31 May…
ArticleDebating Stellenbosch University’s Language Policy
… In March 2015 students at the University of Cape Town (UCT), Western Cape, launched a student … #Rhodes Must Fall which focused on the decolonization of…
ArchiveZondeni Veronica Sobukwe interviewed by Ntsikelelo Sandi,King Williams Town,12 May 1997
… Ntsikelelo Sandi will lead you with questions on behalf of the Commission. ADV SANDI: Thank you Mr Chairman. Let me … today to tell us about Mr Sobukwe. We…
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… Years - Richard Rive The Mount Hermon School File Product of Moody School How Congress Began - R V Selope Thema … universities. Some years ago it broadened…
Africans’ Claims in South Africa, 14 December 1943 by Alfred Xuma
… pages the reader will find what has been termed " Bill of Rights " and " The Atlantic Charter from the African’s Point of View ". This document was drawn up…
African Claims in South Africa by Dr Xuma, ANC Conference, 1943
… Including "The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa" and "Bill of Rights," Adopted by the ANC … from different…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
… The Role of London in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in … relation to the SACP and the ANC The international aspect of the anti-apartheid struggle…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement as a…
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… years old, was an African National Congress (ANC) Member of Parliament in South Africa for 20 years. Turok is the sole … of the Commission on the…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… (Matshikiza 1961a, 38) about his role as composer of King Kong, the South African jazz musical that was about … 1961, 54). Matshikiza’s brief biography in…
Uncovering Josina Machel from obscurity: African women hidden in his-story by Ama Biney, 3 April 2014
… Mozambican fighter for FRELIMO who like thousands of women fought for independence for her country until she died at the tender age of 25. 7 April marks the…
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… me and inspires me to write this to you now, with the hour of your death still a fresh wound in our peoples’ hearts. We … other ‘Madala’ – old man – it…
Document 2 - Against the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943]
… the C.A.D. for Full Democratic Rights [1943] PURPOSE OF THIS PAMPHLET In this pamphlet the "Anti-C.A.D. Committee" … latest moves against the Coloured People…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Notes
… Lembede Booker T. Washington's educational philosophy of self-help and vocational and technical training inspired a … Natives Representative Council and put…
Excerpts from Priscilla Jana’s book 'Fighting for Mandela' that relate to Solomon Mahlangu
… the right thing to do, just as using every possible angle of the law to fight cases and win acquittals was the right … in the work I took on. So when the…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men” that included the otherwise … colonial security agents…
ArchiveAnton Fransch and the Battle of Athlone
… guerrilla soldier who sacrificed his life at the age of 20, by single-handedly taking on a small army of apartheid soldiers. Anton’s story begins in the Cape…
BiographyNjabulo Simakahle Ndebele
… Ndebele began studying at the Roma Campus in Lesotho of the University of Botswana, Lesotho and Swaziland (UBLS). He obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English…
BiographyYvonne Mokgoro
… Justice Yvonne Mokgoro was a judge of the Constitutional Court of South Africa from its inception in 1994 until the end of her 15 year term in 2009 She was…
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
… to the city centre, breakfast included and a shower of my own. He even calls me a taxi. I am pleasantly surprised … in German, but there is no mistaking the…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… itola, he is best known in history for leading the ‘Battle of Grahamstown’ in 1819. Except for his political and … met Makhanda, described him: “We found…
Chapter 2 - THE RECONSTRUCTION PERIOD
… In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Bram Fischer era In the aftermath of the Rivonia offensive, coupled with the 90-day detention … during the period between 1962 and…
BiographyPeter Becker
… Were Becker was born in Rivonia South Africa the youngest of the three sons of Harold Paley Becker and his wife, Anna Petronella Louw. Becker's early years…
BiographyThomas Patrick Murray
… Thomas Patrick Murray was the eldest of the three sons of Patrick Murray, a boiler-maker and trade unionist, and his … Murray was apprenticed to the…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… Fred Khumalo reminded us two years ago, on the occasions of the Mafika Gwala lecture, that as a young man he took a collection of his verse to Mafika Gwala…
BiographyEllen Phyllis Hellman
… , South Africa on August 25, 1908. She was the daughter of Bernard Kaumheimer, who emigrated to South Africa from … was educated at Barnato Park and at the…
BiographyRichard Feetham
… His father was the Reverend William Feetham, Vicar of Penrhos, Raglan, England and his mother, Mary, the eldest daughter of the Venerable Archdeacon William…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… private tutoring at home. She matriculated at the age of 14 in 1929. Two years later Gutsche enrolled at the University of Cape Town (UCT) to study for a…
Say It out Loud - The 1935 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1935
… 1935 1 Another year has just closed, but the lapse of time really never ends, it is but the year that ends. The Old Year has again fallen into the abyss of…