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ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
… President of the National Assembly; Your Excellency, President Jose dos Santos; Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to this…
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… The homeland of KwaZulu (or place of the Zulu) was granted self-government under apartheid on 1 … Party. He also distanced himself from the African National…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with the … form and voice in the mid eighties after…
PlaceBethal
… seeds, sorghum and rye. There is also a large amount of mining activity in and around Bethal, with 20 coal mines … October 1880 and was then named after the…
Nelson Mandela Letter to the United Party, 23 May 1961
… by Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, Leader of the White Opposition United Party, 23 May 1961. Sir De Villiers Graaff, Leader of the Opposition,…
Chapter 3 - Historical Lesotho
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 By December 1982, the government of Lesotho…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
… SCENE We are living today. Sons and Daughters of the Soil, fighters in the cause of African freedom, in an … the Party's closer ties with the national…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… Commitee, CPSA, 20 June 1931 (extracts) Document 5 Report of A. Nzula to ECCI on Situation in CPSA, 5 August 1931 … 13 November 1932 Document 20 Speech of A…
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among the first generation of Namibian students who pursued post-secondary education in … Ottilie Schimming Abrahams was among…
Address by President Nelson Mandela North West stadium Welkom, 27 August 1995
… 1. Introduction - The Launch of the Manifesto 1.1 It is with great pleasure that I stand … today during this important phase in the democratisation of South…
ArchiveHugh Lewin obituary by Peter Hain (www.theguardian.com), 21 January 2019
… political party in the country, with the banning in 1960 of Nelson Mandela’s African National Congress. Frustrated at the ruthless police state … entire…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
… to South Africa's crisis unless the African National Congress, its foe for 30 years, was a partner in that search. De Klerk announced at the opening of South…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Address by President Jacob Zuma, Gallagher Estates, 29 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, Leadership of the … week in our history. On the 26th of June the…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… Act, not for treason, so he was imposing a sentence of life imprisonment for each of the charges on which we were … in the liberation politics of the African…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… in Johannesburg Central Business District Within months of its establishment, Johannesburg experienced a surge of … felt fully during the 1950s, once the…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist … to a Tobacco Workers' Union appeal,…
ArchiveCHAPTER 5 - Armed Propaganda and Non-Colaborattion, Rationalising weakness, August 1979 - December 1980 by Howard Barell
… in 1979 that it had to take one step back in the conduct of armed operations if it was eventually to be able to mount … our freedom could be attained was the…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArchivePik Botha: sympathetic obits fail to recognise that he protected apartheid by Alet Pretorius, 23 October 2018
… The death of Roelof Frederik “Pik” Botha, South Africa’s apartheid era … foreign minister from 1977 to 1994, has produced a range of appraisals of his life…
Document 21 - ANC National Consultative Conference: resolutions for the coming year
… On December 2 this year, thousands of workers will gather in Durban, the birth place of COSATU, to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the … was jointly…
PlaceEswatini (formerly Swaziland)
… probably moved there before the sixteenth Century as part of the Bantu migration. Archaeologists have found human … in KwaZulu Natal in the nineteenth…
ANC Gauteng Centenary Month to celebrate Oliver Tambo, 18 October 2012
… November 2012. The ANC will celebrate the life and legacy of the ANC President O. R Tambo. As we celebrate President O.R Tambos contribution to the struggle…
ANC President Nelson Mandela’s press statement on the Bisho Massacre King William’s Town - 8 September 1992
… The tragic events in Bisho are yet another grim reminder of the profound illness that afflicts our country. South Africa is a country traumatised by…
Women’s Resistance Against the Pass Laws
… During its long history of struggle, the ANC has always been in the vanguard of the … Women, which was formed in 1954, and the African National Congress…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for Indian families were very … but soon daughters and wives, who had to…
Message from President Jacob Zuma
… first executive committee elected in 1912, which consisted of the Reverend John Dube as President, Solomon Plaatje as … racism, paternalism, patriarchy,…
PlaceUniversity of KwaZulu Natal (UKZN)
… University College', in Pietermaritzburg . The University of Natal was granted independent University status only in, … growth in numbers. This University…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
… 1A The source below describes the reasons for the rise of Afrikaner Nationalism. It was resentment (anger) over the … a discussion between the ANC and the…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book … More specifically, it is a book about…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
… South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of … A Revolutionary Council, with…