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ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… reached the ANC and PAC from newly-independent African states. The government deployed troops and police to secure … of the 1848 revolutions in Austria,…
Apartheid stakeholders - where are they now?
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman South Africa can heave a collective sigh of relief that…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
Webinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) Convenor: Janet Cherry Has the South African development trajectory over the past…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
… the question of the reincorporation of the TBVC states had also not been resolved. The proposal did reflect … Africans over the age of 18, including those in…
PlaceGovan Mbeki Municipality
Govan Mbeki Local Municipality is situated in the Gert Sibande District Municipality in Mpumalanga Province.Mbeki died in Port Elizabeth on 30 August 2001. He…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
… world-wide empire. We could expect the powerful western states to support apartheid South Africa. One could of course … true of independent Mozambique and…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
… inherently unstable. The case of many independent African states illustrates this. These states tend to lack intermediate institutions between the old … The…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
… Convention. While ANC does not reject the idea, it states that a number of pre-conditions have to be met if such …
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… a minister and schoolteacher who had studied in the United States. Dube was strongly influenced by the American educator …
Article50 Facts on Africa
… at Universities across the continent and in the United States. Mamdani is best known for his masterpiece Citizen …
South Africa in the 1900s (1900-1917)
… A minister and schoolteacher who had studied in the United States, Dube was strongly influenced by the American educator …
ArticleNegotiations and the transition
… to accept these. For instance, in late 1983 the United States of America sent Robert Cabelly, a representative of …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… a minister and schoolteacher who had studied in the United States. Dube was strongly influenced by the American educator …
ArchiveSouth Africa’s Marikana 10 years on: survey shows knowledge of massacre is low, by Benjamin Roberts, Jare Struwig and Steven Gordon (theconversation.com), 16 August 2022
To explore the patterns of collective memory in South Africa after nearly three decades of democracy, we set out to establish how much of the country’s recent…
ArchivePretoria Central Prison execution register entry and prison photograph of Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize, recorded as "Mkhise P", File V963
A photocopied page (numbered 134) from the execution register of the former Pretoria Central Prison. The upper portion is a tabular entry recording, under the…
The trade union movement and the burden of the future by Monique Marks
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Progressive social movement organisations in South Africa, including…
EventVaal Uprising Begins as Sharpeville Residents Resist Rent Increases
On this day, residents of Sharpeville and surrounding Vaal Triangle townships rose up against a R5.90 rent increase imposed by the Lekoa Town Council. The…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… as the discussion document indicates. The Freedom Charter states that the people shall share in the country?s wealth. … United Nations Charter of Economic…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… (VOC) trading company receives a charter from the States General, the highest authority in the Republic of the … average: 35 goals in 16 matches. The Prime…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
On 17 September 1995, the Roman Catholic’s Pope John Paul II celebrated a papal mass in South Africa as he began his six day tour of Africa. His visit to the…
EventSA signs investment incentive agreement with the USA
The signing of the investment incentive agreement between South Africa and the US in 1993 ensured that the two countries would develop cordial relations. Since…
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic battle between invading Italian forces and a strong…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… its cadre presences in other black-ruled independent states adjoining South Africa. 2 Inside South Africa, small … on Vorster. He called off the invasion…
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,…
Archive"Isikhumbuzo" (Memorial): Self-authored obituary by Petros Sipho Mkhize, dedicated to Getruth Ndlovu, written while awaiting execution, Pretoria Central Prison, circa 1967
This is a self-authored obituary written by Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize in isiZulu while he was held at Pretoria Central Prison awaiting execution. He headed…
EventFormer ANC President, Oliver 'OR' Tambo, is born
On 27 October 1917, Oliver Tambo, who would become African National Congress (ANC) President, was born at Bizana, Transkei (now known as Eastern Cape). During…
EventMike Gatting's rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…