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Address on disturbances in Bloemfontein location, by I. J. Nthatisi, March 4, 1919
… At the request of the leaders of the location, the Resident Magistrate, Mr. J. Ashburnham, and the Mayor of Bloemfontein Mr. D. A. Thomson, motored out to…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
… Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had received its initial … in the 1970s. These developments,…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy labourers of the Denver Engineering Works went back to work knowing ……
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson … years. From its inception in March 1919, the Congress of…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven, 4.Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be … are the peacemakers: for they shall…
PlaceNamaqualand
… With a Magisterial District of 47 962 sq km, in the North-Western Cape . This region is … in South-West Africa. 'Namaqua' is the plural form of Nama, the…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… and final Constitution fixed a milestone beside the road of South African history, and marked the way for a new … order. The Constitution was also the birth…
Chapter 13 - The public participation process
… so directly, knowing that people out there want to be part of the process and will be responding, because in the end the drafting of the constitution must…
Address at the Commonwealth Business Forum, Johannesburg 9 November 1999
… Chairperson of the Forum, the Rt Hon the Earl Cairns, Vice Chairperson, Mr Cyril Ramaphosa, Secretary General of the Commonwealth, Chief Emeka Anyaoku, Your…
Indian Slaves in South Africa: Notes for monograph, 26 June 1995
… has been hardly any research in India on the transport of Indians to South Africa as slaves during the Dutch settlement in the Cape of Good Hope in the…
PlaceSt Andrew’s Presbyterian Church, Odendal Street, Germiston
… congregation was established in 1890 and the cornerstone of the present church building, designed in a neo-Gothic … NMC legislation on 19 September 1980. The…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … Pachai For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of…
Press Conference In London by O. R. Tambo, 21 March 1984
… Ladies and gentlemen, May I begin by expressing the thanks of the African National Congress and of my own self to the Greater London Council (GLC), the…
PlaceSomalia
… most Country on mainland Africa, situated at the tip of the Horn of Africa. It extends from just south of the Equator northward to the Gulf of Aden and…
XIII - The Courts
… exist they tend to play a significant role in the system of domination. They normally claim a monopoly of the right to sanction the use of force, and they…
EventNicolaas Johannes Diederichs, South Africa’s fourth state president, is born
… After studying for his doctoral degree at the University of Leyden in Germany, Diederichs returned to South Africa and was appointed professor of Political…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… Question : On the night of the 12th/13th of August, a unit of the People`s Army shelled Voortrekkerhoogte, the …
Article by Oliver Tambo - In the observer, 10 November 1985, London
… ago, it was in the hope that by pushing the ugly reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the minds of the …
Botha's British Allies by O. R. Tambo(Observer), London, 10 November 1985
… ago, it was in the hope that by pushing the ugly reality of apartheid violence out of sight, the issue of South Africa would drift out of the minds of the …
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… The name of the Observatory refers to W.J. Hussey and a good friend of his, R.P. Lamont. Hussey and Lamont were University … results meant that he was…
Chapter 8 - Negotiating an end to the deadlock
… compromise proposal it had tabled in the closing moments of CODESA II. This was followed by a National Policy … reached at CODESA and provided guidelines for…
Memorandum by Ben Turok before the ANC`s Morogoro Conference and a "Reply" by Joe Matthews, 5 April 1969, Morogoro
… be content with the present situation; all must be aware of a deepgoing malaise such as we have never known before. . . . Theoretical. . . . one must point…
Extracts from Mandela’s speeches by Sapa, 6 December 2013
… made many powerful speeches. Here are extracts from some of them FROM HIS ADDRESS to the conference of the Pan-African Freedom Movement of East and Central…
I have written it by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - International Support: UNO - 1947
… From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 NIC … for Round Table Conference Perturbed by…
Chapter 19. The Dutch Reformed Churches - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… Before the rise of Nazism, the ministers of the Dutch Reformed churches did not interfere with the … South Africa began to play a leading part in the…
ArchiveGarment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… forced him to relinquish his general Secretary, the name of E. Sachs still lives in people's minds with the Garment Workers' Union of South Africa. It is no…
'Native life' 100 after Sol Plaatje published it by Janet Remmington, Brian Willan, Bhekizizwe Peterson (Mail and Guardian), 30 September 2016
… Brian Willan and Bhekizizwe Peterson are the editors of a new scholarly work on Plaatje’s book, Sol Plaatje’s … (Wits University Press), from which this…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… aligned to the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM), leader of the Natal Women’s Organization (NOW) and former Deputy Minister of Defence and of Health. A…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
… Cape Town, 1st April, 1929 1 There are times when leaders of people, especially political leaders, should endeavour to divest themselves of that party…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…