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Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a programme which still embraces many of the…
Chapter 8. Capitalists without Money
In 1928 the clothing industry presented a picture of primitive capitalism. There were about fifty factories on the Rand, roughly forty in Johannesburg and the…
PlaceJohannesburg, Gauteng Province
"Johannesburg, renowned for its thunderstorms and is ironically the Economic powerhouse of Africa!"'Joburg' as it is called by locals, was founded in the…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
F. D. Tothill Even now, almost half a century after it collapsed, any conclusions about the working of Fusion and its chances of long-term success if…
The Colonial Photographic Discourse and Censorship – Challenges for Resistance Photographers
For each individual photographer, there was the struggle to overcome the blind spots resulting from an internalised apartheid ideology. To see what had not…
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela
State of the nation address by the President of South Africa, Nelson Mandela Houses of Parliament, Cape Town, 24 May 1994 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
Analysis of the role of the SACP in formulating the development policies of the ANC: The case of the National Development Plan (NPD) Co-Authors: Lolonga…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Strategic Debates, the ANC - SACP alliance and the Soviet Union. Convenor: Tshepo Moloi.
The role and influence of the South African Communist Party in the armed struggle by Patrick Mangashe UFH [email protected] Abstract The Communist…
ArchiveFrom the Archive | The workers’ struggle by Joe Foster (New Frame),28 Feb 2019
In April 1982 Joe Foster, the General Secretary of the Federation of South African Trade Unions (Fosatu), gave the keynote address at the second Fosatu…
Archive2006 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 3 February 2006
State of the Nation Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki: Joint Sitting of Parliament 3 February 2006 CHECK AGAINST DELIVERY Madame…
Turning Adwa into a global heritage site of Pan-African struggle by Mammo Muchie (Pambazuka News), 02 March 2016
March 1 marks the 120th anniversary of the Battle of Adwa, a decisive victory of Ethiopia over Italian colonialism. This great victory has been a source of…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
New introduction to thesis 2019 by David Hemson Hemson, David (1979) Class consciousness and migrant workers: dock workers of Durban. PhD thesis, University…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the Joint Session of the Parliament of Namibia, Windhoek, Namibia, 30 October 2007
Honourable Presiding Officers of the National Assembly and the National Council Your Excellency, President Hifikepunye Pohamba Honourable Prime Minister and…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
A Report of the CASA Conference and Festival We want the world to know We have come a long way now We are not like spotless white shirts We are khaki…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
In an essay entitled “The 16th of December in the context of Nationalistic thinking in colonial- and apartheid-South Africa” Wolfram Kistner [1975] makes an…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
From the book: The Final Prize by Norman Levy Chapter 8 Into the Fifties: Defiance Mass trials and mass action characterised the next two decades. The …
Whither Palestine? by Ronnie Kasrils, 19 May 2015, London
WHITHER PALESTINE ? Ronnie Kasrils, Middle East Monitor, London 19 May, 2015. 1. INTRODUCTION: It is an honour to have been invited to present this…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
The Mughals were a powerful Turkic-Mongol tribe that originated from Central Asia.[1] The Mughal Empire controlled most of Northern India from the 16th to the…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
My concerns in this chapter are two-fold. The first is to sketch the formation of SANSCO in late 1979. The second is to analyse SANSCO's ideology and politics…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Closing Statement by Jacob Zuma, 30 September 2002
This National Policy Conference of the ANC, held over the four days of September 27th to 30th was attended by 687 delegates from ANC national, provincial,…
Margaret Thatcher's role in SA's transformation by FW de Klerk, 5 December 2016
Speech by Former President FW de Klerk to the Margaret Thatcher Centre It is a great pleasure for me to be able to address the Margaret Thatcher Centre Gala…
Address by President Jacob Zuma, at the James Sebe Moroka Lecture, Northwest Province, 22 August 2012
ANC provincial chairperson Comrade Supra Mahumapelo, ANC national chairperson Comrade Baleka Mbethe and all ANC Officials, NEC members and provincial…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the 40th anniversary of Inkosi Albert Luthuli`s passing away, 4 November 2007, Thembeni, Ilembe District Municipality, Kwazulu-Natal
Programme Director, The Family of Nkosi Albert Luthuli, Minister of Arts and Culture, Pallo Jordan, Premier of KwaZulu-Natal, Sbu Ndebele, The Mayor of…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a…
ArchiveChapter 6 Underground in Joburg by Denis Goldberg
In the early 1960s, following the sharpeville massacre and the state of emergency, there were more than 100 sabotage attacks across the country. The government…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Towns People Between 1886 and 1914 people…
Address to the Opening of South Africa Day CEO Conference, London (via video link-up), 21 November 2002
Master of Ceremonies, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for giving me this opportunity to talk about the South African economy to this important…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! The Pan Africanist Congress was successfully launched as the liberation movement of the African people at a Convention held at…
Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and usher in a new process of negotiation towards…