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ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
… In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
… made this now well-known Heilbron speech. As a result of disturbances in South African politics the Prime Minister … the work started by my predecessors: to…
78. The Natal Indian Congress calls for a national convention
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In his address as acting president of the Natal…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
… only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established it as the basis of State ideology and…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
… only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established it as the basis of State ideology and…
Intensify the Revolution by O. R. Tambo The 'Morogoro Conference', Morogoro, Tanzania, 25 April – 1 May 1969
… Contents Extracts from the Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the Consultative … in spite of the fact that Wilson himself declared UDI…
The Rorke’s Drift Art and Craft Centre
… Street, Rorke's Drift is notable for the central role of women. The Evangelical Lutheran Church Art and Craft … in 1962 and had a significant impact on the…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
… with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a product of a continuous process in Zimbabwe which had started with the establishment of the Southern…
The people armed, 1984-1990
… Numerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government … in the armed struggle combined with mass…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… Numerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government … in the armed struggle combined with mass…
Raymond Tucker: Attorney interview with Rupert Taylor 26 January 2000, 32 St John Road, Houghton, Johannesburg
… project for two-and-a-half years and its involved a number of people at Wits and it’s also an international project, … next month, I’m going to be sitting…
Belonging - A History of Indian South Africans
… this sweeping narrative shuttles between the corridors of the Colonial Office in London, the contested streets of Durban, and the growing sway of Delhi. At…
EventPrime Circle released their album ‘Hello Crazy World- 10th Anniversary Special’
… Crazy World- 10th Anniversary Special’ in celebration of the first album they released ‘Hello Crazy World’ in July … to their longevity and musical success…
ArticleKey sites
… Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These … chow" originated. The "bunny chow" was an invention born of the City’s racist…
"What I would do if I were Prime Minister" by Albert Luthuli, 5 February 1962, Chicago
… South African problem will call for radical reforms, some of them of a really revolutionary nature. The basic reform will be in … reducing it. This is the…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… high treason. We had been charged under the Sabotage Act, not for treason, so he was imposing a sentence of life imprisonment for each of the charges on…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… issues: Public participation unit to educate on the role of public in the elections process in relation to service … with the state. Strengthen all formal…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
… that has raged the world over, killing countless numbers of people and wiping out entire ethnic groups and cultures, … This disease has plagued humankind for…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… the City workers and employment seekers away from the City of, Pietermaritzburg . In 1964 the Department of Bantu Affairs in partnership with…
40 Years of Shop Floor Resistance in a Rubber Factory by Sithembiso Bhengu
… This paper reflects on the 40 years (1970s to 2010s) of research on shop floor orders, resistance, and cultural formations of workers in rubber factory in…
PlaceRooi-Els, Western Cape
… Rooi Els perches like a child's puzzle piece on the edge of Route 44, the first little seaside village after leaving … borders the Kogelberg Nature Reserve,…
Chapter 20. Malan’s Road to a New South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Round about 1940 the propaganda committee of the Nationalist Party issued a pamphlet under the title, … expounded by Adolf Hitler in Mein Kampf, as Section…
Freedom Charter sold out the dispossessed by Motsoko Pheko (The Sowetan), 2 Feb 2012
… not 100 years old. It abandoned the fundamental objectives of the original 1912 ANC more than 50 years ago. In 1955, a section of the 1912 ANC leadership was…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human … in KwaZulu Natal in the nineteenth…
Analysis: Is South Africa doing enough to prevent heritage flight? by Rebecca Davis (Daily Maverick), 07 March 2017, South Africa
… Goldblatt was the first South African to be granted one of the art world’s major benchmarks for international … success: a solo exhibition at New York’s…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… The tragic events in Bisho are yet another grim reminder of the profound illness that afflicts our country. South Africa is a country traumatised by…
Professor Terence Ranger: An Obituary by Trevor Grundy
… Trevor Grundy writes on the life of the historian and political activist At a dinner party in … Ranger, who has died at his home in Oxford at the age of 85,…
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… This Town is near the Land where the 'Battle of Majuba' was fought, where the Transvaal won independence … South African War. On 27 March 1889, President…
ArticleAfrican Resistance Movement (ARM)
… Origins One of the defining moments in the struggle against apartheid in … Massacre and its aftermath. The heavy-handed response of the state saw thousands…