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61. Segregation reduces our people to helotry
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Bridglal Pachai The Asiatic Land Tenure (Amendment) Bill of…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Randall Robinson, Executive Director, Transafrica Forum, 2 March 1983, Washington, DC
… How would you assess the current state of affairs in South Africa? TAMBO: The South African regime has become very desperate. They have lost a lot of ground…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … white trade unions further coerced white workers to act…
Nelson Mandela Correspondence with family
… Island prisoners settled down to the mindless timetable of imprisonment, filling hours with manual labour which … routine repeated itself in the endless…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 1 : Socialist Pilgrims to Bolshevik Footsoldiers 1919-1930 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… and Bolshevik Realities South Africa and the Archives of the Communist International Document 1 Report of M. Wolberg to Comintern on 15 April 1920 Document…
PlaceSteadville, Ladysmith
… the Native Commissioner. He retired in 1931 after 32 years of service. Although it is not clear exactly when the … get flushing toilets and showers in their…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
… contempt is also how Zuma seems to have regarded the rule of law and the millions of South Africans from whom almost R9-billion rands was … State Security…
ArchiveRadio Freedom: A History of South African Underground Radio by Chris A. Smith
… p.m. sharp, seven nights a week, during the darkest days of apartheid, an incendiary radio broadcast beamed out from Lusaka, Zambia. It began with the clack…
Robert Sobukwe Inaugural Speech, April 1959
… Sir, Sons and Daughters of Afrika! Mr. Speaker as already informed you that we had hoped that this inaugural Convention of the Africanists would be opened by…
PlaceKenya
… Kenya is a country in East Africa with a population of 44 million people and the largest economy of the region. The early inhabitants were mostly migrants ……
PlaceTrafalgar High School
… In the time of Education and its opposition to the Apartheid system, … newspapers and on radio. As the oldest School, for people of colour in South Africa,…
EventShashi Naidoo, the South African television host, presenter, model and actress is born
… VJ Search.[iii] Her breakthrough acting role was the role of Linda McGinty who was Ziggy’s girlfriend on the soap opera … series called Society in 2007. She…
PlaceEmalahleni Municipality, Mpumalanga
… District Municipality , in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. Emalahleni is a Nguni word meaning; 'place of coal'. These Independent Homeland Areas…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… The accepted view of black, and especially African, politics after the Rivonia Trial, held by historians and other scholars of South African resistance, is…
PlaceThe Haven Night Shelter(s)
… In February 1975 a group of NICRO Social Workers were having their morning tea break in their offices in Harrington Street. One of the Social Workers was…
ArchiveDavid Koloane fought for the right to define himself – and his art by Ruth Simbao, 24 July 2019
… pioneer in the visual arts who fiercely defied any form of categorisation. As an artist, teacher, mentor, curator, … Thabo Mbeki called him a loyal fighter…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
… While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little … Department…
Article#Am I Next? A Global Question
… after Uyinene Mrwetyana, a student at the University of Cape Town (UCT), was brutally raped and murdered on 24 … West, Khayelitsha in the Western Cape. [2]…
37. Deputation to Lord Selborne, 1905
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A deputation of Indians went to see Lord Selborne…
Concluding Remarks
… the impression is given that protest art is a phenomenon of the Eighties, or that Soweto 1976 heralded the first wave … that, in their evident concern for…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked … in 1974 meant that Mozambique and Angola…
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
… 50 Years Conference The Durban Strikes were one of the pivotal moments in the struggle against apartheid but some of its lessons still need to be (re)learned…
PlaceHelderberg, Somerset West
… The district takes its name from the mountain of the same name, which is Afrikaans for: "clear mountain". … This is referring to the way in which the western…
PlaceDundonald, East Mpumalanga
… Sibande district municipality east Mpumalanga. It was part of the former homeland KaNgwane established under apartheid’s Group Areas Act. Though KaNgwane was…
PlaceBishopscourt, Cape Town
… Bishopscourt, Cape Town, was a prime example of the Group Areas Act's cruel impact, where non-white families (the Protea … to return to their ancestral land…
PlaceDurban International Airport
… Airport, was the major airport servicing the Area of Durban until 2010. The Durban Airport opened in 1951 and … carried the name Louis Botha Airport until…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The African Resistance Movement (ARM): An Organisational History
… 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…
ArticleMohandas Karamchand Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) - Timeline: 1890-1899
… Vegetarian Congress at Ventor. February 19, Result of Matriculation examination is published. He failed Latin. … and it impressed him immensely. Later, it…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
… PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has … that very little, if any, scope exists…