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15. My son Gyapershad was decoyed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Gopinath Pandey, a headmaster of the village…
Apartheid power in crisis
… racially discriminatory laws are still on the statute books and which administrative structures still exist to … by the knowledge that the Act is still on…
ArchiveJordan Ngubane – forgotten founding member of the Congress Youth League by Sbonelo Radebe (Mail and Guardian), 10 January 2023
When the story of the founding of the Congress Youth League (CYL) — the forerunner of the ANC Youth League — is told, usually it is only Anton Lembede, AP Mda…
ArchiveSteve Mokone: the striker who broke the apartheid barrier
The first black South African footballer to play in Europe, was told whenever he scored it would be in the cause of independence. Jonathan Wilson tells of a…
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…
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy “Everyone has a story”, Sephiwe, the librarian at the Robben Island Mayibuye Archive, said to me as he handed me…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede When I reflect on my memories of Lembede, two things stick out in my mind ”” his…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - B.M. Kies "The Background of Segregation",…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
… the sale of slaves in addition to muslins, rice and books By the time of Britain’s colonial rule at the Cape in …
ArticleThe 1st Johannesburg Biennale
In an attempt to restore artistic exchange and dialogue after the Cultural Boycotts of the Isolation Years, the first Johannesburg Biennale titled Africus,…
PlaceUniversity of Fort Hare, Alice- Eastern Cape
Parliament, Thursday, 9 October 2025 – The Select Committee on Education, Sciences and the Creative Industries has noted with sadness the violent protests at…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
Insurrections III: The Storming
The Insurrections Ensemble returns to the Homecoming Centre at District Six for two performances on the 25th and 26th of September. For those of you who…
EventSupreme Court changes ruling on forced removals, traditionally
From 1960 to 1983, the apartheid Government forcibly moved 3.5 million Black South Africans in one of the largest mass removals of people in modern history…
Documentry on the Life and Death of Ahmed Timol Premieres on SABC3, on 1 February 2015.
Indians Can¹t Flywill screen for the first time on 1 February, at 19H30. The 48-minute television documentary tells the story of Ahmed Timol, a 29-year…
58. Congress has sold our rights
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Moonsamy Naidoo charged that the South African…
21. Pariah constables pollute Hindus
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Some 29 people submitted the following complaint…
4. Complaint of ill-treatment on an estate
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There were many estates on which working…
25. ‘Free State’ implies equality, declare traders
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Aboobaker Amod and three others submitted the…
ArchiveResisting apartheid through pen and paper by Richard Rive, 05 March 2018
… 2006). Richard Rive’s will granted all autographed books and his personal library to the Magdalen College …
ArticleIndian Indentured Labour in Natal 1860-1911
The majority of Indian South Africans are the descendants of indentured workers brought to Natal between 1860 and 1911 to develop the sugar industry in this…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
… they wanted the key of the boot. They found a batch of books, the New Knowledge series, the ones I'd been given from … him. When she got to the station they…
ArchiveThe world's only privately owned Catholic Church
Durban - It is understandable that while meandering through Van Reenen’s pass, negotiating its dangerous terrain, a traveller is likely to miss a most superbly…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The AmaXhosa OF ALL THE functions of the missions, that of divide and rule is the…
The ANC and the Women’s League
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner One day when I got up to go to work it was very cold, and it was raining outside…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
1912 18 May, Walter Ulyate Max Sisulu is born in Engcobo District in the Transkei, in the same year, the ANC was formed. 1920 Walter returns from his…
Message by Oliver Tambo to Nelson Mandela an International Tribute for a Free South Africa, 16 April 1990, Wembley Stadium, London
The "International Tribute - For a Free South Africa" is an historic and unique event. Artists from across the world are gathering in Wembley Stadium to greet…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years Artefacts in a…
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…
Helen Zille and the myth of the White Saviour by Panashe Chigumadzi, (Sunday Times), 19 March 2017
Wilbur Smith, that great chronicler of the White Man's Burden in Africa, was arguably at his finest in his 1972 novel, The Sunbird. In it, he narrates the…