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Document 71 - Spartacus Club October Revolution Celebrations Oddfellows Hall, 70 Loop Street, Cape Town, 6 November 1937
… the Native Land Act has been passed, which drove thousands of Natives off European-owned farms where they had lived as … and Anna, make up their minds to go…
ArticleAbstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes Conference
… Following is a list of abstracts presented for the 1973 Durban Strikes - … push heavy skips”: Examining NUDW and CCAWUSA organising of occupational…
ArticlePass Laws and Sharpeville Massacre
… resistance during the 20th century. But earlier forms of passes, had in fact been used in various instances since … were forced to carry "permission"…
PlaceSibongile Township
… The coal mining town of Dundee is situated in a Valley of the Biggarsberg Mountains. The adjacent Township is named … is; Endumeni Local Municipality. This…
EventFather Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep
… Father Frans Claerhout, acclaimed South African painter of Belgian descent, dies in his sleep at a Bloemfontein hospital after being admitted with pneumonia…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… literature on this brutally violent chapter in the history of the liberation struggle focuses largely on the conflict … movements against each other…
ArticleCosatu timeline
… 2010 19 January: ( Congress of South African Trade Unions ) COSATU affiliate The Food and Allied Workers' Union (FAWU) entered their third week of striking…
Nelson Mandela Mandela and Winnie’s studies
… through newspapers left carelessly by warders. After years of protest they graduated to a restricted number of papers and to the radio, and eventually to TV…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a … into existence. Important in this respect was…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, ANC leadership of all structures, Our Alliance partners and other ……
PlaceWeenan
… Weenen stands as a testament to the turbulent History of South Africa! Located on the serene Banks of the Bushman River in KwaZulu-Natal , it remains as the …
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 … prison is a…
ArchiveUmkhonto we Sizwe - Structure, Training and Force Levels (1984 to 1994) by Tsepe Motumi , African Defence Review No 18, 1994
… INTRODUCTION In examining the history of Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK) since its establishment in 1961, a number of distinct phases are discernible. Originally a…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2011 - 2020
… Zuma delivers the traditional ANC January 8th Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 99th Anniversary of the ANC in Polokwane,…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… At the end of a road eight kilometres from the Village of Hilton, on an Escarpment above Pietermaritzburg , are … struck rocks off Danger Point near Cape…
PlaceElandsberg Nature Reserve, Western Cape
… a provincial nature reserve in 2008 in recognition of its importance to conservation. Bartholomeus Klip has … the reserve in perpetuity. At Bartholomeus Klip…
EventSouth African football legend Steve Mokone is born 23 March 1923
… greatest footballer South Africa has ever produced, often being compared with the world’s all time greats including The inimitable Pele of Brazil. … at: www…
Passive resistance in South Africa by Oliver Tambo, 2 June 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. There was an issue involving human…
Black ViewPoint - Kwa-Zulu Development by Chief M.G. Buthelezi
… Chief M.G. Buthelezi is the Chief Executive Councillor of the KwaZulu Legislative Assembly. In South Africa, this is one of those rare occasions where people…
Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… weakened the party considerably. Towards the end of 1945, it seemed as if South Africa was at last entering a … South Africans had given their lives in the…
PlaceSouthport, South Coast
… between Sunwich Port and Sea Park, on the South Coast of KwaZulu Natal. Southport and the various little Suburbs, tend to regard themselves as extensions of…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… and the woman to three months. There were two children of the marriage. In justifying the sentence imposed the … from present surroundings would "kindle the…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… and musician’s first two years in London, he recounts being interviewed by a “man from the newspapers” (Matshikiza 1961a, 38) about his role as composer of…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local…
Dr. Nelson Mandela’s acceptance address at the Clark University Investiture Atlanta, Georgia, 10 July 1993
… Mr. President, Distinguished members of the faculty, Ladies and Gentlemen, It is a singular honour … to receive this degree, I accept it not as recognition…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
… THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of … in the ANC in exile, as…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … and national questions. The following document consists of the…
South African Tragedy: Jail Part Lovers by Joseph Lelyveld (New York Times), 5 January 1983
… She and Neil Aggett had been a couple for the better part of a decade. In that time, they both became doctors, then … paths into welfare and trade union…
Kaunda to be discharged from hospital, 25 September 2012
… to be discharged from hospital on Tuesday, four days after being admitted with an undisclosed ailment, medical sources …
Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s
… The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has … and Tom Lodge. According to Lodge, through the development of food…