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‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
‘”¦ when historians assess the democratic credentials of Thabo Mbeki’s government in future, it is likely that their most critical attentions will focus on its…
Hendrik Verwoerd: 10 quotes by Hendrik Verwoerd (Politics Web), 20 September 2016
The 6th September 2016 was the 50th anniversary of the assassination of National Party Prime Minister Hendrik Verwoerd on the floor of the House of Assembly in…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
South Africa After Soweto - O. R. Tambo Interviewed to World Marxist Review, February 1978
TAMBO: The events in Soweto and other parts of South Africa have become a significant milestone in the development of the liberation struggle. To assess these…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, from the south east and…
Statement at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid in observance of the International Day of Solidarity with the Struggling People of South Africa (Soweto Day), 16 June 1989
On behalf of the South African Youth Congress, whose leadership is working under most precarious conditions inside South Africa, I should like most sincerely…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
Chairperson, Mr Al Gore, US Vice President, Mr Jim Wolfensohn, President of the World Bank, Ministers here Present, Excellencies Ambassadors, Business…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew For months past, "the Bantu press" has been working very…
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade…
Document 57 - Lionel Forman, “Self-Determination in South Africa: A Contribution to Discussion”, Liberation, 37, July 1959
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 57 - Lionel Forman, "Self-Determination in…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu There are two current platitudes which have been an obsession with the great masses of…
83. South African Indian Council elections, November 1981: To vote or not to vote
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 297 040 Indians out of a total of 350 000…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on January 1976 in reply to a motion of no confidence in the Government by the Leader of the Opposition
During this debate the Prime Minister outlined South Africa's involvement in the Angolan War. He stated clearly that South Africa participated in the war as a…
Women in the apartheid society by Fatima Meer
… themselves to the liberation of their people (1) From "Notes and Documents", No. 4/85, April 1985 (2) The source of …
ArticleCape Town the Segregated city
Contents Early settlement patterns of exclusion Towards racial segregation Segregated city Conclusion Once the fort and the early settlement were…
ArticleSouth Africa in the 1970s
During the early 1960s, civil society was disempowered and social movements were repressed. Although the capacity for social movements to impose change…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
Hayden Proud, Curator of Historical Collections of Painting and Sculpture, Iziko Museums of Cape Town Some years ago, a small body of artists clubbed together…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
The 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria, South Africa constitutes an especially noteworthy moment in women’s history. On 9 August 1956, thousands of South Africa…
Archive1997 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 1997
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honorable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honorable…
South African and World leaders
South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by side and even together in South…
ArchiveThe Emperor has no Clothes by Liz Timbs
… vested under Zwelithini as a trustee. As Carolyn Hamilton notes in her book, Terrific Majesty (1998), “With this …
28. The Dealer’s Licences Act is an attempt to weed out smaller traders
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal…
28. The Dealers’ Licenses Act is an attempt to weed out small traders
The Dealers' Licenses Act, passed by the Natal Legislature, empowered town councils and town boards to decide licence applications. In terms of the Law, their…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… The detonator approach resonated through it. Kasrils' notes of this period: [W]e always felt that we had the …
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… women, the men did not know the day and the hour..pa From "Notes and Documents", No. 6/83, March 1983 The earliest …
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… the men did not know the day and the hour..pa 1) From "Notes and Documents", No. 6/83, March 1983 (2) The earliest …
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
… with the women she investigated, as emerges clearly in her notes describing their home circumstances. One respondent …
Address of the President of South Africa and Commander-in-Chief of the SANDF, Thabo Mbeki, on the occasion of the Presidential Fleet Review, 5 September 2008, Simonstown
"Presidential Order of the Day - we wish you and the South African Navy every success in ensuring the maritime security of our nation and helping to underwrite…
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
Members of the Luthuli Family, Honourable Premier, Dr Zweli Mkhize; Hon Minister of Arts and Culture Mr Paul Mashatile; His Majesty King Zwelithini…