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PlaceSt. Wendolins Ridge, Pinetown
… Pinetown, on land owned by the Roman Catholic diocese of Mariannhill and individual African Plot Holders. The … Umhlatuzana River in the Pinetown area. With…
Indian Community in Lenasia
… Calls were made by the Indian Congress to reject the plans of the newly elected Nationalist government, but the drastic shortage of housing for Indians in…
EventSongwriter, film producer and actor Joe Mafela dies
On 18 March 2017, legendary actor Joe Mafela passed away on his way home from Soweto, after he was involved in a car accident in Johannesburg. According to…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
… for Ruth First, after she was assassinated on the streets of Maputo by South African agents, Ronald Segal, another … teacher,” whose “whole life was…
ArticleGayle: The Language of Apartheid South Africa’s Gay Underground
… The socio-political landscape of Apartheid South Africa was a challenging one for members of the LGBTQI+ community. Under the former National Party … of sex…
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… Director of Ceremonies, Your Excellency, the Acting Director-General of UNESCO, Mr Marcio Barbosa, Distinguished Guests, Ladies … it was desired that they…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with the … form and voice in the mid eighties after…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 3: The Scramble for Africa: late 19th century
… The colonisation of Africa was part of a global European process reaching all the continents of … imposed on their governing system without any proper…
PlaceWalter Sisulu University, Mthatha- Eastern Cape
… University (WSU) was established on 1 July, 2005 in terms of the Higher Education Act No 101 of 1997, as amended. WSU, a comprehensive University, … The new…
EventCiskeian police disrupt residents' meeting
… meeting, which was held to inform those residents of Peelton unable to attend a previous meeting, of the incorporation of the whole of Peelton into the…
Speech at Meeting to Commemorate South Africa Freedom Day and to Condemn the 600-year Alliance between Britain and Portugal by O. R. Tambo, London, 20 June 1973
… We meet in the wake of great international gatherings concerned with the building of a future of peace, progress and friendship among the … in their country…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and … until the Second World War, the European workers,…
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by … being found guilty on five…
45. Mass meeting at the Empire Theatre, Johannesburg, 1906
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 11 September 1906, a mass meeting of Indians…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
… Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory and the…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The Congress of the People was over. We had come down from the mountain, … start, interminably delayed by the…
ArticleThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad 1906 - 1990
… a delegation to the UK in response to the implementation of new land laws in the Orange Free State, which had stripped black residents of their legally…
ArchiveAppendix 5 Notes on Palestine and Israel by Denis Goldberg
… anti-apartheid campaigning was an important part of our struggle. The violence of the apartheid regime was as nothing in comparison with the … families?…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… its homeland policy and the introduction of the Tricameral Parliament gave Coloured and Indian … house, initially under Section 50 of the Internal Security…
85. Charter for Change, 1981
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … the Natal Indian Congress, the Anti-S.A.I.C. committees of the…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
… Diepkloof covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). It is located ……
ArchiveKeynote Address at National General Council Meeting, by President Thabo Mbeki, 12 July 2000, Port Elizabeth
… Comrade Chairperson, Members of the NEC, Comrades delegates, Distinguished veterans, Your Excellencies, Members of the diplomatic corps and guests, Members…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
… got its name from having been the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Its earlier unofficial name was 'Kanaldorp', a name supposedly derived from…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… I could “enjoy” all these facilities but the effects of solitary detention lingered. Fear of further interrogation and solitary confinement left me … with…
PlaceGenadendal Historic Village & Museum
… This interesting and Historic Village of Genadendal is the oldest Moravian Mission Village in … organ in South Africa. Genadendal, which means; 'Valley of…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… the New National Party (NNP), was disbanded and some of its members joined the ANC. NNP leader Marthinus van Schalkwyk became a member of the ANC and a…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… The Soweto riots of 1976, in which school children protested against being … for 'constructive engagement' with, rather than isolation of, South Africa. This…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
… Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks…
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 … in the Pretoria district prior to the…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
… for her work in the underground ANC during the height of the anti-apartheid struggle reveal the excessively brutal and inhumane treatment of Africans by the…