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ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… from Mozambique . It was founded in 1962 and formed a part of the Mozambican liberation movement, eventually winning … by 1960 political organisations like…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
… With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to … and Oliver Tambo and groups like the African National Congress and Transvaal Indian…
Document 40 - Anti-CAD, Why You Should Not Vote [1958]
… to fight the Coloured Advisory Council and the beginnings of a Coloured Affairs Department. The Anti-C.A.D. gnashed the C.A.C. by using the boycott weapon:…
PlaceCrossroads Township
… in Cape Town in the Wynberg district, some 12 km east of Athlone in the Western Cape Province. Crossroads emerged … shelter. There were only a few houses. A…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.11 No.1, No.2, No.3 and No.4 1993
… Munsaka; The Jungle Peacemaker, Blessing Museki; The Story of how the Tortoise Shell Became Patterned, Lackson Chibanga; The Return of the dead One Suleimen…
Document 24 - De Klerk’s reply to Nelson Mandela
… in the constitution. 3. There should be no entrenchment of apartheid education through the back door. 4. Provinces … should not be given powers that will…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education The1950s and 1960s in South Africa were marked … in South Africa ”” namely the African…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at a press conference in Addis Ababa, 11 July 1973
… Prisoners of apartheid July 11, 1973, marked the passage of ten years … African freedom fighters in Zimbabwe. The African National Congress, therefore, calls…
66. G.M. Naicker: We will not colloborate
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian…
66. G. M. Naicker: we will not collaborate
… the 'Ghetto' Act in the next document). The Natal Indian Congress rejected it and launched a passive resistance … Dr. G. M. (Monty) Naicker's presidential…
Speech by Oliver Tambo at the World Conference on Sanctions Against Racist South Africa: Victory is within our grasp, 16 June 1986, Unesco House, Paris
… Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou Diouf, … the cause for which they perished,…
Victory is Within our Grasp: Statement at the World Conference on Sanctions against Racist South Africa by O. R. Tambo, UNESCO House, Paris, 16 June 1986
… Your Excellency Mr. Perez de Cuellar, Secretary-General of the United Nations, Your Excellency President Abdou … the cause for which they perished, the…
John Vorster Square revisited as Timol inquest reopened by Ernest Mabuza (Timeslive.co.za), 27 June 2017
… The reopened inquest into the death of anti-apartheid activist Ahmed Timol on Tuesday afternoon visited the scene of his death in October 1971 - John Vorster…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… [Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist … of our deep-rooted alliance with the African National Congress and the armed…
74. The Freedom Charter, 1955
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai There were some 2 844 delegates present at the Congress…
ArticlePolitical executions in South Africa by the apartheid government 1961 - 1989
… On 9 June 1983, three members of the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK), were executed at the … Massacre on 21 March…
EventClements Kadalie dies
… 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…
Work In Progress
… The context in which the first issue of Work In Progress appeared was one in which the embryonic … that 16 June 1976 had given to the African National…
ArchivePostscript Ante by Howard Barrell
… local house. An informer had tipped them off about a group of externally trained ANC cadres giving military training to … no reason to believe they were…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC … Worker and Azania Frontline as publications…
How the “Long walk to Freedom” began by E.S. Reddy
… In March 1939, Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru wrote a series of eight articles which were reprinted in a pamphlet and later included in his book The Unity of India …
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… Xhosa community The pre-1994 apartheid system of homelands or 'Bantusans' denied Xhosa people South African … to confine them to the nominally self-governing…
ArchiveThe South African Choir’s pathbreaking tour: 1891 – 1893 by Martin Plaut, 6 January 2017
… United States played an important part in the development of the South African intelligentia. They found in America currents of thought that they could learn…
PlaceGugulethu Township
… 15 km away from Cape Town. The name is a contraction of igugu lethu, which is Xhosa for 'Our Pride'. This township … 1960's. The Group Areas Act (1950)…
Document 29 - Letter from S. P. Bunting to E. R. Roux, 5 December 1928
… blood. Woltons and La Guma17 versus all the rest, but some of the rest also versus Thibedi; the branches also bewildered at this excess of partisanship at…
ArticleDr. Abu Baker Asvat timeline 1943 - 2012
… medical studies. 1964 Ebrahim and Abu, along with a group of likeminded students in Karachi, establish the Azania Youth … after he makes a complaint about…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… Association] Bulletin, 1, 2. (July 1944). On the 9TH of April the inaugural meeting of the African Youth League working under the auspices of the African…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
… I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we … shoe industry we were campaigning for the…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
… Cape Town in 1909 there was much hope for the improvement of worker rights. In Durban the ICU branch was established in … 1925 and it appealed to many Zulu…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
… It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to … Delegates committed themselves to convene an all-party congress as…