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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…
EventCastro decides to send troops to Angola to fight South Africa
… The president of Cuba Fidel Castro decides to send Cuban troops to Angola in response to South Africa's invasion of the country. After attaining its…
EventThe Bisho Massacre occurs
… As many as 80,000 protesters gathered outside of Bisho, the capital city of Ciskei, and demanded an end to the military government of … The protest was led…
EventFormer Vaal policeman Gerhardus Peens admits his role in the Boipatong Massacre
… that he was in the Vaal Triangle (now Gauteng) township of Boipatong on 17 June 1992 when several people were killed … the Boipatong massacre . An estimated…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… Nyasaland, now Malawi . After being educated at the Church of Scotland mission station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he went to South African in…
EventBantu Women’s League protests against pass laws
… resistance on 7 January 1919 against the application of pass laws to women. What precipitated the 1919 protest was … Bantu Women's League (BWL) was formed in…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… and for generations. Such was the great freedom movement of Ireland, and I believe the movement in my own country, … – were among the founders of the…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… between the Natal Government and the Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of … 1919; leading to the formation of the South…
EventA car bomb explodes in Durban, killing five and injuring 27 people
… Reconciliation Commission (TRC) by Rayman Lalla, a member of the African National Congress (ANC) and a senior officer in Umkhonto we Sizwe … Durban area,…
EventDr. Federik Van Zyl Slabbert leads delegation to meet ANC
… On 6 July 1987, Dr. Federik van Zyl Slabbert led a group of fifty-two mainly Afrikaans-speaking intellectuals, to meet with the then-banned African National…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - Introduction by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… Baard and Barbie Schreiner This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade … and the federation of trade unions, the…
Introduction - My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
… This book tells the story of Frances Baard, a black South African woman who was a trade … and the federation of trade unions, the South African Congress of…
EventZulu King Zwelithini threatens to establish a separate Zulu state
… the KwaZulu homeland and Natal province as an act of insubordination against the government and African National Congress (ANC). The ANC replied claiming…
EventPolitical activist Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack is assassinated.
… The African National Congress (ANC) activist, Mziwonke 'Pro' Jack was gunned down … he was murdered. The escalating violence after the death of Jack…
Links & Partnerships
… All of the below links are to websites that SAHO recommends (and … to discover! A Country Study: South Africa - Library of Congress - Good site that covers…
10 YEARS PROJECT
… 1943 (Including 'The Atlantic Charter from the Standpoint of Africans within the Union of South Africa' and 'Bill of … booklet. The Annual Conference of the…
ANC NEC meets (30th November, - 2 December 2001), 29 November 2001
… The African National Congress National Executive Committee Meeting will take place … from Friday, the 30th November until Sunday, the 2nd of December, 2001…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
… Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of … crowning achievements: President of…
ArchiveInterview with Lybon Tiyani Mabasa
… in the Azanian People's Organisation (AZAPO) at the time of this interview, was born in 1952 and graduated from … School in Soweto in 1971. He studied at the…
”The African Mine Workers’ Strike-A National Struggle.”flyer issued by the ANC Youth League, August 1946
… against the most brutal, callous and inhuman exploitation of man by man in the history of mankind. Their struggle is a challenge to the whole … serfdom…
EventNelson Rolihlahla Mandela passed away
… The 5th of December marks the anniversary of the death of revolutionary anti-Apartheid liberation … Imprisoned in 1964 for his role in the African National…
EventAlbert Luthuli is elected as an ANC President
… The African National Congress (ANC) was founded as the SANCC in 1912. John Dube … and the well known writer and poet, Sol Plaatje, was one of its founding…
EventCol. Muammar Gaddafi seizes power in Libya
… power in Libya after a coup d'etat. Gaddafi, the leader of the Free Unionist Officers movement, overthrew the monarchical rule of King Idris, who had ruled…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - White Students and Black Students
… will have just cause for gratitude over the consummation of this first All-Student Congress held under the auspices of the National Union of S. … regard to…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of a white supremacist group called the ‘Wit Wolwe’ (White … that the organisation did not exist…
EventMK’s Luthuli Detachment and ZAPU in a joint operation
… in Wankie (now Hwange) Game Reserve, near the border of Zambia and Botswana. The operation became know as the … give added military impetus to both the…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… had links throughout Southern Africa and an understanding of the social linkages between struggles particularly in … 1953 George was a founding member of the…
Land mine kills 6 in South Africa by Sheila Rule (New York Times), 16 December 1985
… army spokesman in Pretoria said those killed were members of two families, including a mother and two children. The … to be ''terrorists'' from the outlawed…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa-Nqakula, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President Paul ……
EventVanessa Brereton, former human rights lawyer, admits that she was an Apartheid spy
… under the Apartheid regime. When the African National Congress (ANC) was unbanned in 1990, she was unanimously … her involvement, but in 2003, Bulelani…