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Document 12 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi19 to E. R. Roux 20, 27 January 1927
… Lensfield Road Cambridge England Dear Comrade Your letter of the 5th January has been received last night … didn’t, still we are pleased to see that you…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… victory in the Anglo-Boer war would result in the removal of the oppressive features of White rule in Natal, in … economic situation, Gumede stated: When we…
PlaceSouth Africa
… Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana , Lesotho , Namibia , … Mr. Fred Brownell - (is a civil servant and is the head of the…
Press statement by Oliver Tambo in Moscow, 06 November 1986
… We are currently in Moscow as a delegation of the African National Congress which is here to hold discussions with the leadership of the Communist Party of…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name … at the bottom…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the denominations … In the 1950s an important sociological study of these church groups,…
PlacePretoria Boys High School
… schools in rankings nationally, as well as in all of Africa. Notable alumni includes: 'two Nobel Prize … Rhodes scholars; several Government Ministers and…
Digging deeper into our history by Nicole Mccain (News24), 13 September 2016
… Behind the imposing grey granite walls of the National Mutual Building of Australasia, on Church Square, lie over 150 000 historical … under one roof. The…
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO THE RALLY AT KWA - MTHETHWA KwaMbonambi, 21 May 1995
… Nkosi Nyambose Bantu bakwaMthethwa Members of the Provincial Legislature Distinguished Guests Comrades and Friends I would like to thank the organisers of…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938 The Spark Organ of the Workers Party of South Africa … do it for them. Judging from your letter, the threat is…
Arthur Chaskalson: 24 November 1931 - 1 December 2012 by Jeremy Gauntlett, 4 December 2012
… Adv Jeremy Gauntlett on the life and work of the late former Chief Justice Arthur Chaskalson's last … nothing if it is not underpinned by the moral…
Banned, but never silenced by Glyn Williams (Editor - The Daily Dispatch), 6 September 2012, Eastern Cape, South Africa
… The editor of the Daily Dispatch, Donald Woods, had become increasingly concerned about the future of South Africa – more and more he left the day-to-day ……
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…
Cosatu special congress, Day One: The façade finally falls by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick), 14 July 2015, South Africa
… Falls For the longest time, the national office bearers of Cosatu insisted that they have a firm grip on the federation. After the expulsion of metalworkers…
ArticleTransformation in Southern Africa Timeline 1700-1800
… The Mfecane roughly starts at this time. 1818 Dingiswayo of the Mthethwa leads all his forces against Zwide of the Ndwandwe and is seized in an ambush and…
The South African History Online (SAHO) Graduate Internship Programme
… research and for graduates to become familiar with the use of the web as a tool for research, thus contributing to the development of content for the website…
From Segregation to Apartheid
… achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under … crisis was brought to a head by the…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
… One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection … between 1899 and 1902 – or the Anglo-Boer War – the events of that period are back in the…
ArticleBlack Consciousness and student revolt in the Cape
… to fill the political vacuum. A movement based on the idea of being Black began to organize and educate the Black people … College campuses, Indian students…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
… was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its … Indian Congress (SAIC). There was a general…
Burundi: A year later, still in crisis by Simon Allison (Daily Maverick), 05 May 2016, South Africa
… today is not safe tomorrow. Civilian life today is a life of fear, a life of uncertainty, and not knowing exactly what is happening … it becoming the fiefdom…
ArticleHow did the Nazis construct an Aryan identity?
… Adolf Hitler, the leader of the Nazi Party, argued that the Germans was superior to … purity' and used the word 'Aryan' to describe his idea of a 'pure…
ArticleBasotho Wars 1858 - 1868
… The three Basotho Wars (1858-68) and the formation of Lesotho The conflict between the Basotho people and White … in what is now the Free State/ Lesotho area…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
… It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF became clearer. These were the first detailed … better organisation and working together…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important to understand that the focus of THIS section is…
ArticleRobert Mangaliso Sobukwe Timeline 1924 - 1978
… National Congress Youth League (ANCYL), the youth wing of the African National Congress is formed. 1946 African … consequences, showing the increasing…
The National Question in Post 1994 South Africa. A discussion paper in preparation for the ANC`s 50th National Conference by Z. Pallo Jordan
… "The danger begins only when they make a virtue of necessity and want to freeze into a complete theoretical … their choice. But the political democracy that…
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
… 1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last … than good. The enemies of socialism, so it…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… in its own way, you know. I grew up in an environment of poverty. I was staying with my mother's people. They were … then engaged in the war, and the United…
Black Concentration Camps during the Anglo-Boer War 2, 1900-1902
… as wagon drivers, etc. They suffered severely as result of the British "scorched earth policy" during which those who … to concentration camps, as were the…