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ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
Transition to Armed Struggle The brief respite from the Treason Trial which ended on 29 March 1961 and the Rivonia arrests in July 1963 was a period of…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy Chapter 8 Into the Fifties: Defiance Mass trials and mass action characterised the next two decades. The …
Cecil John Rhodes, warts and all by Tim Crowe (Politics Web), 22 December 2015
Cecil John Rhodes was the sickly, poorly educated and otherwise unremarkable son of an English parson of meagre means. He knew from an early age that he was…
Call to A. N. C. Ranks by Albert Luthuli, 1 November 1954
Urging Congress branches to ensure 100 per cent attendance at the forthcoming A.N.C. National Conference, due to begin at Durban on December 16, President…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Source-based Questions
General Tips when answering Source-based Questions: When approaching a source-based question, look at the MARK ALLOCATION of the question. It will…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - Celebrating 50 Years Conference. “White ladies [do not] push heavy skips”:…
PlaceThaba Chewa Municipality
Thaba Chweu Municipality is a local Municipality within the Ehlanzeni District Municipality, in the Mpumalanga Province of South Africa. The Municipality is…
ArticleAll Members of South Africa’s 5th Democratic Parliament 2014
Surname First names Party Abrahams …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Youth League (ANCYL)
The African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) was established on 2 April 1944, by Anton Lambede (who became the League’s first President), Nelson Mandela,…
ArticleDrum Magazine
The establishment of Drum Magazine in the 1950s, notwithstanding the newly-elected Nationalist Party’s policy of Apartheid, reflected the dynamic changes that…
ArticleGrade 11 Topic 3 – Source-Based Questions
An image showing the persecution of German Jews after the Nazi took powerImage Source Source 3A The source below shows how the Nuremberg laws affected…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Source Based Questions
European Expansion Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo …
Our Greatest Indian Leader since Gandhiji -Tribute to Dr. Gangathura Mohambry Naicker (From: Sechaba, second quarter), 1978
As one who has had the privilege, honour and, indeed, the pleasure of being a close associate and comrade-in-arms of Dr. Naicker - MONTY to all of us - in the…
“Our Greatest Leader since Gandhiji”, By Dr Yusuf Dadoo
As one who has had the privilege, honour and, indeed, the pleasure of being a close associate and comrade-in-arms of Dr Naicker - MONTY to all of us - in the…
PlaceMatroosfontein
This Area was established in the Years of Apartheid! It is perfectly positioned; as it is extremely close to the Cape Town International Airport (less than…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
The African People’s Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA) was launched in Duncan Village outside East London in March 1961. The launch followed a…
PlaceSarepta
The Rhenish Missionary Society (Rhenish – of the river Rhine) was one of the largest Missionary Societies in Germany. Formed from smaller Missions founded as…
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
South Africans have now become accustomed to the blatant falsehoods, deceits, relentless misinformation and unbridled malicious campaign, which is the basis…
Art Matters by Suzanne P. Blier, 05 December 2014
Last month, the Harvard Art Museums reopened, and with them another addition to Harvard’s museum landscape: the Ethelbert Cooper Gallery of African and African…
PlaceThembuland
It is a natural region in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Its territory is the traditional region of the Thembu people, one of the sub-groups of the…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1700s
1700 The first "placaat" (ordinance or statute) restricting the importation of Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay…
Tribute to the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid - Statement at the Meeting of the Special Committee on its Tenth Anniversary by O. R. Tambo, New York, 2 April 1973
Mr. Chairman, Sir, Distinguished representatives, Today, we, black and white, peoples of many nationalities and continents, representatives of different…
Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 6 - The Birth of SACTU The formation of a trade union federation based on the African…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Acknowledgement
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThis project has been beset throughout by many difficulties,…
Memorial service of photojournalist Juda Ngwenya by Cyril Ramaphosa, Rhema Church, Randburg, 26 October 2016
It is heart-breaking to say goodbye to a special human being like Mr Juda Ngwenya. He leaves his nation with a gaping wound and his profession with a void…
Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive Bureau, Communist Party of South Africa, 18 November 1930
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 36 - Letter from E. R. Roux to the Executive…
Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 26 June 1969
"A call to action From: Sechaba, September 1969 (Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the…
Move from Condemnation to Confrontation of Apartheid and Colonialism - Statement in Committee II of the International Conference of Experts for the Support of Victims of Colonialism and Apartheid in Southern Africa, Oslo by O. R. Tambo, 11 April 1973
... I should like to say that in discussing political and diplomatic action against apartheid, and against Portuguese colonialism, we should press for a shift…
A Call to Action. Message over Radio Tanzania to the people of South Africa by O. R. Tambo, 26 June 1969
(Abridged text) For over fifty years the African National Congress has led the people of South Africa in the struggle for freedom. For over fifty years it has…