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PlaceUmlazi
… a township. This prompted the mission community to take action. Delegates from Umlazi were sent to Cape Town to …
PlaceKwaMashu
… urban areas. The Council was now compelled to take action on the housing of the African population of the city. …
Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… the determination of the musicians to take further action against the Trust. In the first stage the strike faced … as the mass demonstration in Adderly…
Chapter 4 - Another Victory for Trade Unionism: The 1918 Cape Town Musicians’ Strike
… the determination of the musicians to take further action against the Trust. In the first stage the strike faced … as the mass demonstration in Adderly…
ArchiveKeynote Address at National General Council Meeting, by President Thabo Mbeki, 12 July 2000, Port Elizabeth
… to act to advance their interests and ourselves engage in action with these masses, drawing in all other community … ensure that, at all times, we have…
My Body Was Dying by Edwin Cameron (The Con), 10 March 2016
… even for a judge at the point) and the Treatment Action Campaign’s ”principled, energetic, furious assault” … my own brush with death, Zackie founded the…
Say It out Loud - The 1912 Presidential Address, Johannesburg, Transvaal, 1st January, 1912
… the Coloured races, state in precise terms what line of action they will pursue in the future. Such action on their part, whether they have the right to ……
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the snap debate on the Shell House incident National Assembly, Cape Town, 7 June 1995
… powers-that-be forced it, when all avenues the peaceful action were closed, to adopt armed struggle in defence of the …
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution, and the vision and…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 2: The Nuclear Age and the Cold War
… they termed "the Southern Resource Area." This course of action meant war with the United States. World War 2 in … entire world. Was it justified? The idea…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… June anniversary. In October 1986, a Campaign for National Action was called for by COSATU, the UDF, the NECC and the … The UDF and its affiliates called for…
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Gertrude Shope said the ANC Women’s League had taken action when these abuses were brought to its attention. For … certain abuses were taking place behind…
Chapter Two - The year with the ICU: 1921 - 1926
… words were organisation, solidarity unity and above all action. He would be the first to be arrested, he promised, … in the ICU, of which Gomas was a…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in London, 21 March 1984
… escalate their offensive using all means, including armed action, for the overthrow of the criminal apartheid regime …
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… escalate their offensive using all means, including armed action, for the overthrow of the criminal apartheid regime …
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki's most stirring speeches
"I am an African. I owe my being to the hills and the valleys, the mountains and the glades, the rivers, the deserts, the trees, the flowers, the seas and the…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
… upon, thus they fail to realise their ultimate destiny ”” action. . . . We must be action-minded. The philosophy of action must be the corner stone of our…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… activities. They also persisted in calling for direct action until Max Gordon, the most outstanding organiser in … of the black trade unions with minimum…
Article2016 in Review
… pull out of the ICC. This follows Burundi taking similar action on the 19th and was followed by Gambia doing the same …
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… before a shocked opposition. Pelser justified his action by arguing that he was preventing SASO from spreading …
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… for their rights, 1906-1914” from Global Nonviolent Action Database [online] Available at …
ArticleDrum Magazine
… and 'realistic' means with which to document protest action, and appeal to a largely illiterate readership. Drum's …
Indian South Africans timeline 1970-1979
… Bugwandeen, and Dr Y. Variawa, chairman of the Transvaal Action Committee, also addressed the meeting. Members of the …
ArticleLiberal Party of South Africa (LPSA)
… Firstly, the LPSA had to find its own programme of action that would distinguish it from other political …
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
… the ANC during the 1940s, and produced a programme of action that was adopted by the movement in 1949, influencing the mass action that characterised the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
… the ANC during the 1940s, and produced a programme of action that was adopted by the movement in 1949, influencing the mass action that characterised the…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… of HIV/AIDS studies and experiments. 1998 The Treatment Action Campaign (TAC) is founded by Zackie Achmat to campaign …
ArticlePass Laws in South Africa
The Pass Laws was a system used to control the movement of Black, Indian and Coloured people in South Africa. The pass said which areas a person was allowed to…
The Detention Weapon
… South West Africa (Namibia), a response to SWAPO guerrilla action. Within a year it was put to use in charging South … and frequently place constraints on…
ArticleThe International Defence and Aid Fund (IDAF)
… Collins, who headed the organisation called Christian Action, assured Reeves that he would raise money for the … Defence and Aid Fund, under the umbrella of…