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’I am not prepared to sell the birthright of the people to be free’
… in their establishment and maintenance. Mandela's response to the latest offer was read on his behalf by his …
PlaceVolksrust, Mpumalanga
… suppress the situation. Typical of the police and military response in such cases, some young children lost their lives …
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… Civics Organisation, and the mass democratic movement. In response to the echoes of the call by Pixley ka Isaka Seme …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1948 - Press Reports on the Campaign
… the Union's Prime Minister before the 1946 session of the UN Assembly that we were Union Nationals." South Africa an … who represented the Joint Passive…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… them to see such strikes as useless, and so weakens the response to successive strike calls. The practice of … of 1957 was a nationwide movement - symbolised…
Address to the National Council Of Provinces, 11 November 2003
… 523 million people. This year, 2003, is designated as the UN International Year of Freshwater. We are proud of our own … creation of a day's work. (Anna…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… uprising in the history of the country. 11 September, In response, on 11 September, the Minister of Law and Order … by half a million workers and 400 000…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… Tupolev TU 134A turned towards the South African border in response to signals from a VOR ( a very high frequency …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… “ The African National Congress – Is it Dead? ” as a response to attacks on his leadership. June, The Transvaal …
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… organisations to formulate a co-ordinated African response to segregation. This coalition did not turn into a …
ArticleWomen’s Revolts in Natal: 1959
… earlier for being in possession of dangerous weapons. In response to that, they then marched to the police station …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK)
… over the burning of passes. The states’ heavy-handed response to the peaceful demonstrations and the subsequent …
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… in 1976. In the same year, the Soweto Riots took place. In response, Gross wrote a draft programme which included an …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1960-1969
… action against apartheid ’, to a special session of the UN’s Special Committee Against Apartheid in Stockholm, …
Ruth First Untold by Jerry Saena
This article was written by Jerry Saena and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Abstract: Ruth Heloise First was a…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1910s
… Act sets up the 'reserves' (later called 'bantustans' and 'homelands') and effectively zones Africans to 13% of the …
Rustenburg the Segregated city
… Bophututswana: homeland politics The South African Homelands The history of Rustenburg is, because of the nature …
ArticleMandela and the South African Communist Party
… for supporting the apartheid policy of self-governing homelands. This constituted one of several attacks unveiled …
Chapter II - Partners in protest
… together in the more distant areas. There was little response from white women other than those who were … of the ministers' offices, when our knocking…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
Pomeroy is a small Town in KwaZulu-Natal which is some 72 km North of Greytown and 56 km South-South-East of Dundee. It falls under the jurisdiction of the;…
EventThe ANC calls for a day of protest and observes this day as 'South Africa Freedom Day' for the first time
… disrupting meetings held by the Convention organizers.In response to the 1st May call to "Stay at Home", the …
PlaceCarletonville
… history and evidence for one kind of extreme strategic response to the strife of that period which. In the shifting …
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
… Those first three years of NP government, and the response of the Black political formations as well as that of … a general strike in 1951 fell on deaf ears…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
… and developing countries needs an urgent and comprehensive response. Noting this continuing marginalisation of the … in an attempt to attract the necessary…
Draft Report of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, submitted to the Annual Conference, December 15-17, 1950
… of the National leaders of our Non-European people. The response was very poor in the Transvaal. Police intimidation … Positions are used as positions of…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… - had been founded in the Eastern Cape, partly in response to grave concern about issues of political rights … of the United Nations through his 1952…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… farming areas. The forthcoming independence of the "homelands" will of itself bring about no meaningful change in … governments. But there is one creative…
Opening address by Albert Luthuli to Conference on Unemployment, Low Wages and Poverty, 21 October 1961, Durban
… no one. We only demand our natural heritage, freedom. Our response to this challenge must be to match their cruel and …
150th Anniversary; Anxieties of Commemoration - Towards a National Dialogue by Omar Badsha and Jon Soske
… tenaciously maintain as groups. Until very recently, the response to this rhetorical onslaught has been rather muted …