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Document 25 - Letter from E. R. Roux to John Gomas, 23 July 1956
… Dear John, It would be peculiar if I had the same point of view to-day as I had in Moscow in 1928. I was a loyal … the interval. I am sorry that Time Longer…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - 6 November 2025
… was used to put together a book, Attacking the Heart of Apartheid: The ANC’s MK Special Operations Unit , … conducted with 48 cadres, totalling just over 162…
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
… 50 Years Conference Short Bio Johann Maree was one of the founders of the Western Province Workers’ Advice Bureau in 1973 that … of independence from…
Black ViewPoint - The New Black by Bennie A. Khoapa
… is an experienced social worker and currently the Director of the Black Community Programmes WHEN YOUR SRC President … to you, I replied that I did not feel…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
… lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings … Africa? TAMBO: The ANC has always…
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
… lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings … Africa? TAMBO : The ANC has always…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 ……
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…
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…
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…
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…