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40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
… The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting … was…
Document 8 - Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G. Strijdom
… with the ANC. I am a loyal and disciplined member of the ANC, my political loyalty is owed primarily, if not … and from where affairs are directed. In the…
Closing address by President Neslon Mandela at the 49th National conferenceof the ANC Bloemfontein, 22 December 1994
… ANC has held many national conferences in its history. One of these was the 1949 Conference, which was held here in Bloemfontein. That Conference was the…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… Branches as may be formed and established in other parts of Africa. In it alone is vested authority to establish … all matters affecting the well-being or…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 22 July 1992
… POM I remember one of the main points, Archie, that you made two years ago when … upon their followers to not fight with each other and out of the wider…
Chapter 4: Public Response to Vigilantism and Political Violence in Kwazulu-Natal
… 4.1 The Role of the media The media played a significant role in highlighting the activities of vigilantes and political violence in KwaZulu-Natal in the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Before the mineral discoveries by Emilia Potenza
… Potenza Life in Southern Africa changed greatly because of the discovery of diamonds (1867) and gold (1886). As with the Industrial … Revolution in Britain,…
PlaceHangberg, Hout Bay
… between Hout Bay Harbour and The Sentinel Peak and many of the residents are employed in the fishing or other … categorized as Coloured during the apartheid…
Call for United Front by Albert Luthuli, 5 November 1961
… The result of the General Election has brought about no real change. If … White South Africa has once again rejected the hand of friendship that has been…
PlaceDwarsvlei, near Pretoria
… The Farm Dwarsvlei is situated 15 kilometres North of Krugersdorp, on the road to Hekpoort, past Sterkfontein of Archaeological fame. It is still Owned and…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
… M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938 The Spark Organ of the Workers Party of South Africa … letter. You will remember that there has been a great deal…
Chapter 1 - The House at Lower Seoli
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, … Supper is a painful story in Christian circles…
Introduction
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … 'free' or 'passenger' Indians. The former came as a result of a…
Education for Service
… We, the duly authorised representatives of political parties, political organisations, … African Government, coming together at this first meeting of the…
PlaceSea Point
… years prior to European settlement, Sea Point formed part of the Gorachoqua and Goringhaiqua grazing paths, which … Sea Point was later so named in 1776 when…
PlaceCabo Verde
… archipelago in the Atlantic Ocean, just off the West coast of Guinea-Bissau. The first permanent settlers of the island chain were Portuguese explorers who…
Document 89 “People’s Front and the Cry for Unity in South Africa”, The Spark, 2, 4, April 1936
… for Unity in the working class and for the establishment of a broad "People's Front" to stop fascism and war, proclaimed by the Seventh Congress of the…
14. Suicide among indentured
… By far the largest number of Indians (152 184 in all by 1911) who came to South Africa … faced them, and apparently the most serious and persistent of all,…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 3
… Indian Community by C. H. Calpin Mr. A.B. Moosa, partner of "A.I." in Avalon Associated Cinemas and one of the honorary secretaries of the SAIC in 1940,…
ArchiveCommittee report: Education charter campaign
… Report of the Education Charter Campaign, a joint campaign of the Azanian Students Organisation, the Congress of South African Students and the National…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Public lecture by Hermann Giliomee in honour of Richard Elphick given at Wesleyan University, Middletown, … Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders:…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
… From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Two of our most loved women leaders, Mary Moodley and Lilian Ngoyi, died at the end of the 1970s. They had both…
PlaceKing Edward VII High School, Houghton Estate, Johannesburg
… In 1902, the end of the Second Anglo-Boer War was in sight. Plans were being … . These had virtually ceased to exist on the outbreak of war in October 1899…
PlaceGqeberha was Port Elizabeth, Nelson Mandela Bay
… government in 2021 and is an Xhosa name, the language of the local people. Gqeberha was the original name for the … and Walmer Township in the area. The name…
PlaceWindybrow, Pietersen Street, Parktown, Johannesburg
… Plaque was unveiled at Windybrow. 2017, saw the reopening of Windybrow as an Arts Centre under the auspices of the Market Theatre Foundation. In the last two…
We are a Force - Speech at Solomon Mahlangu Freedom College by O. R. Tambo, Mazimbu, Tanzania, May 1984
… Comrade Chezi, Representative of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania, Comrade Director and members of the …
ANC statement on more lies inside the Cape Town story, 14 May 2011
… and unlawful conduct displayed by the DA since the start of this election campaign as well as the many revelations, … so-called the Cape Town Story`, bear…
Press Conference in Addis Ababal: Oliver Tambo, 02 July 1987
… The first question the President of the ANC was asked is whether he was satisfied, or the ANC satisfied about the level of support that is emanating from the…
Pravin Gordhan on a leash by Daniel Silke (Politics Web), 16 May 2016
… the status quo. How apt therefore that the current saga of Finance Minister Pravin Gordhan fits so well into this … Africa is being treated to an unedifying…
PlaceMossel Bay, (400 km From Cape Town)
… maritime achievement, if one considered the small size of his Carvel, a replica of which is housed in the museum at Mossel Bay . Of the original 170 men only…