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Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… last. It was organised by the National Liberation League of South Africa and supported by the S.A. Indian Congress, … Coloured, Native, Indian, Malay and…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Introduction
… wa Thiong Today, just over a century after the discovery of gold on the Rand, the nature of South Africa’s future is in the balance. But the future … the…
PlacePacaltsdorp
… (prior to 1910) The settlement of Hooge Kraal was established in 1813 as a station of the London Missionary Society (LMS) . In 1818, its name was changed to…
Regional Formation Schools.” Report in SASO Newsletter, September 1970
… African National Action Council was established in terms of a resolution adopted at a conference held at … your Government, after receiving a mandate from a…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African National Congress Activities
… The African National Congress is a fundamental feature of a stage in the evolutionary process of the African people ”” a stage when the Africans have become…
Farewell To His Comrades: Message, September 19, 1983
… [Message to a meeting of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, written and signed … deep sorrow and great personal regret that I inform…
Address on Freedom Day, 27 April 2003
… Traditional Leaders, Distinguished Guests, People of the North West, Fellow South Africans: Today, we celebrate the 9th anniversary of our freedom, a year…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
… In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on … roughly forty in Johannesburg and the rest…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
… behave with simple courtesy and tolerance towards people of other races, young people, again with some striking … ways. The exceptions where overt racism…
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 History, Michigan State University…
A lighthouse for African womanhood': Inanda Seminary, 1869-19451 by Heather Hughes
… Missionaries, Inanda Seminary was the first establishment of its kind in southern Africa, embodying a new concept of educational work among young African…
Introduction - The anti-Apartheid Movements: a 40-year perspective
… Africa. Speakers included Julius Nyerere, future President of Tanzania and long-time fighter against apartheid, K.Chiume, press secretary of the Nyasaland…
PlaceKenilworth
… Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens , between the suburbs of Claremont and Wynberg . A leafy suburb, upper Kenilworth is a well established part of Cape Town and…
PlaceMalay Quarter, Cape Town
… The area, known as the Malay Quarter of Cape Town, nestles against the steep slopes of Signal Hill. It formerly covered a much larger piece of land but this…
PlaceOliewenhuis Art Museum
… Museum is committed to collect, conserve and exhibit works of art which represent the heritage of South African art on behalf of and to the advantage and…
PlaceNamibia
… a former German colony, is situated towards the north west of South Africa. It is predominately covered by the Namib … the Portuguese explorer Diogo Cão, who…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 3 - Politics and Consciousness in Cape Town Communities, 1980-1985 by Sean Field
… Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Anti-dangerous work. This organisation happened in the context of people living in their…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… after it there was an outcry against the expansion of Indians, and to meet this outcry the Prime Minister, General Smuts, appointed the Lange Commission of…
Chapter 12
… Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it necessary to change their tune again…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 11
… in his own community. He was faced with a rising storm of opposition from he anti-segregationalists led by Dr. … group around Kajee, which included men like…
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma to National Worker`s Day Rally, 1 May 2011, Athlone Stadium, Cape Town
… President of COSATU, comrade Sdumo Dlamini, ANC chairperson, Comrade Marius Fransman, General Secretary of the SACP, Comrade Blade Nzimande, Leadership of…
Document 104 - Boycott the Elections! The Spark, 3,4, April 1937
… has been working very busily. This so-called press" is, of course, simply the press agency of the ruling classes to spread their propaganda among the … and…
ArchiveGetting to know Omar from the inside out by Robyn Sassen, February 19, 2019
… populated. All eyes are focused on the speaker, who is out of your line of sight. In this 1989 photograph of a trade union meeting at the University of Cape…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
… sportspersons and administrators were in the vanguard of this front of the anti-apartheid struggle. I would like to extend my … to Sam (Samba) Ramsamy - the…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, ANC leadership of all structures, Our Alliance partners and other…
African History Books
… During the month of May we celebrate Africa Month as a way to commemorate the creation of the Organisation of African Unity (OUA) in 1963.. As a way to value…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… near Windhoek, and the book presents a sociological study of the black migrant labour force on the mine: in the words of the author, his motivation was " t o…
PlaceBarton Keep, Jacob Mare Street, Pretoria
… in 1888 by EF Bourke, who later became the first mayor of Pretoria. It is one of the last remaining examples of the kind of elegant mansions which…
Call For Renewed Struggle Against Ghetto Act: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo, December 1947
… December 1947 16 The Joint Passive Resistance Council of the Natal and Transvaal Indian Congresses, having given … present political situation affecting the…
Edwin Mofutsanyana the oldest Communist in Africa: Flyer for briefing by Edwin Mofutsanyana. August, 1991
… Introduction 1. The Declaration of intent which we adopted at Codesa 1 committed us to the established of a ‘democratic South Africa’. On the basis of this…