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Chapter 8 - Survivors
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed…
Chapter 17. Afrikaner Nationalism and the Workers - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Few people, including most English-speaking South Africans, know anything at all about the Afrikaner people, their history and their national aspirations. Yet…
Chapter 3. The Poor White Problem - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
From the moment I assumed office, I came face-to-face with the "Poor White" problem, one of the major tragedies of South Africa. People abroad believe that…
PlaceNgoye University of Zululand, Richards Bay
"Community Engagement at the University of Zululand is rooted within the African philosophy of Ubuntu which is guided by the principles of reciprocity,…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph At long last 1962 arrived and I could say to myself, "It's THIS year" ”” this year that my bans would end and I…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION On the second day of January 1920, seventy…
Article by Oliver Tambo in World Marxist Review, 06 March 1980
Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory…
Racism in Isolation by O. R. Tambo, World Marxist Review, March 1980
South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system and established…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
Archive’Operation Mayibuye.’ Document found by police at Lilliesleaf Farm, Rivonia, 11 July 1963.
PART 1. The white state has thrown overboard every pretence of rule by democratic process. Armed to the teeth it has presented the people with only one choice…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life. Somehow I managed…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - 1947-Press Reports on the Campaign
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer 1947 Drs Naicker and Dadoo in India, Pakistan and…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I remember well that first meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, when I flew to Johannesburg for the interview…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph On that day in August 1956, I was already fifty-one. I often wonder just how it took me so long to find the road…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris The struggle of tobacco workers in South Africa is a topic…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
ArchiveSouth Africa in World War One, 31 October 2018
In the second of a series of scholarly articles leading up to Armistice Day on 11 November, Martin Plaut, journalist and senior research fellow at the…
ArchiveWhere did all the masks go? by Dewald van Rensburg (22 May 2020)
In the first quarter of this year South Africa’s normally staid and insignificant mask industry exploded. Like its peers across the globe it had orders…
ArticleThe Group Areas Act of 1950
The National Party was elected in 1948 on the policy of Apartheid ('separateness'). This 'separateness' put South Africans of different racial groups on their…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke IN THE LATE SIXTIES the old Missionary Road that had led Dr. Philip, the Rev. Shaw,…
Covert operations
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman Up to this point attention has been focussed on those…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
1994 27 April,South Africa's interim constitution which was adopted in November 1993 came into effect on 27th April 1994 to administer South Africa’s first…
ArticleApartheid Legislation 1850's-1970's
1856-1910 Masters and Servants Acts of 1856 These Acts, which had been passed between 1856 and 1904 in the four territories, remained in force after…
A new total strategy emerges July 1990 -June 1991
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The unbanning of the liberation movements on 2 February…
Chapter III - The world outside
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph While I was living encapsulated in house arrest, the 1960s inexorably became a decade of disgrace, of repressive…
Chapter 13
Zig Zags of opportunism We have considered it necessary in the previous chapter to pause and deal in more detail with certain facets of the situation, the…
ArticleStudent Protests at Tshwane University of Technology - Timeline
As part of the governmental process for transformation of institutions through re-structuring and mergers in Post-Apartheid South Africa, historically White…
Last kicks of a dying horse July 1992 - June 1993
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman The era of destabilisation entered its third year in…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Source-based Questions
Based on the 2012 Grade 10 NSC Exemplar Paper: Grade 10 Past Exam Paper Grade 10 Source Addendum Grade 10 Past Exam Memo Level 1 & 2…
Statement by Olive Tambo at the freedom rally organised by the Irish Anti-Apartheid Movement, 26 January 1979, Dublin
Dear Friends and Comrades, We bring you greetings on behalf of the African National Congress, the cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe (Spear of the Nation), inside…