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May Day
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
EventInternational celebration of ‘May Day’
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
South African cricketers walk out in protest against apartheid after just one ball is bowled by Arunabha Sengupta, 3 April 2013
April 3, 1971. In a trend-setting protest against the Apartheid policies of the Government, players of the two South African teams walked out after just one…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Industrialisationand rural change were key…
PlaceCentral African Republic
Diamond prospectors in the Central African Republic have found polished flint and quartz tools that are at least 8,000 years old. About 2,500 years ago local…
ArchiveConcentration camps in the South African War? Here are the real facts by Fransjohan Pretorius, (The Conversation), February 18, 2019
One of the Boer concentration camps. Photographical Collection Anglo-Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein SA Image source More than a century after 48 000 people…
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Wednesday, September 29 I thought things might calm down after the stayaway, but no…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1950 - 1959 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1950 Jamiatul Ulama Natal, Durban 82 The Jamiatul Ulama Natal was founded in 1950…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
Political freedom from foreign rule, essential as it is, is not freedom.1One freedom is essential. That is the freedom for an individual to develop to his/ her…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: The SACP and Early Socialist Traditions. Convenor: Natasha Erlank
From Garvey to Lenin, via Kadalie: The ICU’s “Ginger” Faction and the Transformation of Interwar Black Radicalism Henry Dee International Studies Group,…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
Lamu Island is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
Contents Chapter 1: Theoretical Debates and Methodological Controversies Chapter 2: Questions Method Chapter 3: The Constitution of Black as ‘Other’ …
ArticleKey sites
Cafes A number of notable restaurants arose in the Grey Street area. These included Simon’s Cafe, Goodwill Lounge, owned and run by Pompie Naidoo who brought…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the…
The people armed, 1984-1990
Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
1984-1990:- The people armedIntroductionNumerous factors characterised the intensification of the freedom struggle against the National Party government in the…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
MY YEARS ON THE ISLAND Part One: The University behind locked doors April 1980. The Susan Kruger, a tiny Prisons Service boat, ploughed the Atlantic in the…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
GANDHI THE PRISONER
A comparison of prison experiences and conditions of Mahatma Gandhi and Nelson Mandela in South Africa1 by Nelson Mandela Gandhi threatened the South…
Address by I. B. Tabata, AAC Conference, December 16,1941
I must admit at the outset that when we first met in this hall six years ago, we and our people, who looked spell-bound at Convention, were full of great…
Chapter 16. Coloured and Indian Members - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
In the Cape and Natal, the overwhelming majority of garment workers have always been Coloured, Indian and Malay, while in the Transvaal, until the Second World…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October 1996 in the country's first democratically elected convention, the Constitutional Assembly…
38. The Natal Franchise Bill, 1894: Do not make our sons pariahs
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The Franchise Law Amendment Bill of 1894 sought…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental right to freedom, justice and security. I…
My Spirit Is Not Banned - PART 1 by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner My childhood My father, Herman Maswabi, was a well-educated man. He came from…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
‘After being a man of the world, I have discovered there is no Zulu, Xhosa, Mosotho or Coloured, but all are and must be known henceforth as Africans’, JT…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the apartheid government who…
Chapter 8
December Conference- 1943 When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th and 17th December, 1943, the pivotal point round…