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EventGana Makabeni dies
Gana Makabeni, trade union leader and member of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress (ANC) in the 1940s, died in the Western…
EventDr Stanley Mogoba is born in Polokwane
Dr. Stanley Mogoba, future president of the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) in 1997, was born in Polokwane on this day. He was detained on Robben Island during…
David Goldblatt: oblique apartheid look by Kenneth Baker, 5 December 2012
"South Africa in Apartheid and After: David Goldblatt, Ernest Cole, Billy Monk," which opened at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art last weekend, will…
PlacePageview
Fietas (as the place was popularly known) is one of the oldest communities in the Western suburbs of Johannesburg, and one of the first 'locations' (multi…
PlaceJubileum Building
On President Brand Street Bloemfontein, is the Jubileum building. It was built in the late 1920s by boys from a local orphanage to provide a venue for reading…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Indian Political Resistance in Durban, South Africa 1979 - 1996 - by Kumi Naidoo
Contents Abstract Magdalen College, D. Phil., Michaelmas, 1997 Resistance to the apartheid system, led by the African National Congress (ANC) and its…
ArchiveNUSAS in the 70s. Official opening address at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, July 1970
Official opening address by Mrs Fatima Meer at the 46th Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, Camp Jonathan, Eston, Natal, July 1970…
EventNegotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi
30 March 1990 Negotiations between Nelson Mandela and Mangosutho Buthelezi 30 March 1990 Nelson Mandela of the African National Congress (ANC) and Mangosutho…
Alan Wieder on the Rivonia Raids & South African Non-Violent Struggle
Alan Wieder remembers the Rivonia Raid 50 years after it happened. The South African government in the early 1960s attacked the Rovonia farm, then occupied by…
Biography of Lefifi Tladi by Paul Linck
Abstract: This paper focuses on the life on Lefifi Tladi. Tladi is an artist, poet, and jazz singer that went into exile in South Africa because of apartheid…
1973: Neo-apartheid and the Sleeping the Giant by Mbuso Nkosi
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference 1973: Neo-apartheid and the sleeping the giant. Mbuso Nkosi …
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… First had stimulated his interest in Marxism. By the early 1950s, certainly during the Treason Trial, his youthful …
PlaceSpringbok Park, Hatfield, Pretoria
The Park was formerly known as Grosvenor Square and was conceived in 1905 when the Suburb of Hatfield was laid out. Development only commenced in the 1930s and…
EventDefence minister Mosioua Lekota born
The second Black minister of defence, Mosiuoa Gerard Patrick Lekota is born in Kroonstad, Free State (the former Orange Free State). Lekota is commonly known…
EventAmerican President Ronald Reagan reverses his earlier stance on South Africa and agrees to limited sanctions
During the late 1970 and early 1980s the Ford, Carter and Reagan administrations had tried to influence South African governments by working with them…
Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS in trade unions, 1979-1985 by Noor Nieftagodien
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract Exploring Student-Worker Alliance: the role of COSAS…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
1862 23 August, Canon George Oglivie organizes first recorded rugby match in South Africa at Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape between the Army and the…
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
Patricia Johnson-Castle Patricia Johnson-Castle hails from St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She is a Labrador Inuk and a beneficiary of the…
ArchiveInterview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi
Interview with Ntsizi Elijah Moremi who was a refugee in Kenya in the late 1970s. An adherent of the black consciousness movement, he became involved in…
EventBishop Zulu is born
Alphaeus Hamilton Zulu, Anglican bishop of Zululand and Swaziland was born in Nquthu, Natal. He was the only son of Johannes and Miriam Kolo Zulu and was a…
EventSA poet Sydney Vernon Peterson dies
Sydney Vernon Petersen, one of the prominent South African poets and educationist of the 1940s, died in Germiston. His poetry was translated into English,…
EventChris Hani succeeds Joe Slovo as Chief of MK
Chris Hani, freedom fighter, political activist and at the time Deputy Commander of uMkhonto weSizwe (MK) in Zambia, was appointed as new chief-of-staff of MK…
Event30 000 Blacks fight for Britain in Anglo-Boer War
David Lloyd George stated in the British House of Commons that as many as 30 000 armed Blacks were at that stage employed in the British army during the Second…
ArticleSPEAK Magazine (1982 - 1994)
This article was written by Carly Spagnola and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Since the beginning of the…
ArticleCongress of South African Students (COSAS)
The Congress of South African Students (COSAS) was established in June 1979 as a national organization to represent the interests of Black school students in…
Chapter XV - House arrest
… road. Yet it was one, an important one for me, and in the 1950s my feet were firmly on the road of political struggle, …
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
Apartheid in South Africa is a political system of segregation that perpetuated unequal relationships between Europeans and their descendants and local people…
PlaceFunda Community College
Funda Community College was founded in 1984 in Soweto, Gauteng with the support of private sector funding and built on land which was donated by the Urban…
ArchiveResponses by black women to race and gender dynamics under South Africa apartheid with special reference to the Black Consciousness Movement
Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts at the University of Stellenbosch. Black women's oppression under…
PlaceWagon Museum
This Museum is situated on the same premises as the First 'Raadsaal' in Bloemfontein and houses a collection of historic wagons and carriages such as the…