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PlaceLions Head, Mt.
Lions Head is between Table Mountain and Signal Hill, adjacent too the Twelve Apostles Mountain Range, in Cape town. The best thing about the Lion’s Head hike…
EventZulu army defeat British Army at the Isandlwana Mountain
On 22 January 1879, the British Army suffered its greatest defeat in Africa when 24,000 Zulu soldiers overran a British camp of 1 800 near Isandlwana Mountain…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… newly opened mining camps on the Rand, Mzuzephi used the cover of Johannesburg to slip the settler shackles which …
ArchiveGeneral political situation East Rand Report
Report from African National Congress East Rand underground and covers Westville Youth League, civics organisation and August 1984 elections.
ArchiveThe Voice of the All-African Convention
Newsletter of the All African Convention, Issue 17. Covers the African National Congress and the boycott of the elections.
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.7, March 1992. Covers period of negotiations. Reports on Government's acceptance of the demand for an interim Government.
Extract of an address given to the Transvaal United African Teachers Association by CF Beyers Naude during May, 1997
This article covers two issues, wide ranging influence of christianity in the history of South Africa and christianity in South Africa.
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… those like Mobutu's Zaire, which were merely as a cover for dictatorship. We also saw evidence of the abuse of … the words 'Africa. The Hopeless Continent'…
PlaceNelson Mandela Bay Municipality, Eastern Cape
Nelson Mandela Bay Municipality includes: 'Port Elizabeth now Gqeberha; Uitenhage; Despatch and Colchester'. Named after; Nelson Mandela, who is South Africa's…
PlaceMontagu, Route 62
Montagu, founded in 1851 on the farm: 'Uitvlucht' and named after Colonial Secretary John Montagu, is a Western Cape small town gem. Nestled amid the Langeberg…
ArchiveWars of resistance
Paper by Jack Simons on wars of resistance. Covers the Khoikhoi and San resistance, the Xhosa wars against dispossession, the Zulu opposition.
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.5, December 1991. Covers period of negotiations. Report of the All-Party Congress preparatory meeting, held 29-30 November 1991.
ArchiveSouth Africa: the Party faithful
Article in , v.31(1), 12 January 1990, which covers the history of the SACP and lists most key leaders and members of the Party.
ArchiveIndoctrination for surbordination
A paper presented at the April 1972 National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) seminar which covers some of the many aspects of indoctrination.
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.10, May 1992. Covers period of negotiations. Reports on Codesa II where no agreements were reached. Examines the way forward.
ArchiveChurch service in support of restrictees
Programme for a church service in support of restrictees. It covers the purpose of the service and announcements, presentation and introduction of restrictees,…
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiation Bulletin, No.6, January 1992. Covers period of negotiations. Reports on the first meeting of Codesa, where a Declaration of Intent was adopted…
ArchivePlanning for peoples war discussion document
Discussion document on planning for a peoples war. Covers the armed struggle, people's revolutionary violence, uprisings in the Bantustans, the enemy armed…
ArchivePopulism without Robin Hood? Forms of ownership and control in a post-apartheid South Africa: Summary and some proposals
Paper by Ben Fine on ownership and control in post-apartheid South Africa. Covers the economy and privatisation, public ownership and the state and private…
EventCall for a stay-away in Black townships
A stay-away by Black workers in the industrial areas of the Witwatersrand and the Vaal Triangle is called by Black unions and civic groups in protest over…
EventDinizulu succeeds his father, Cetshwayo, as King of the Zulus.
King Dinizulu was the son of Chief Cetshwayo who reigned over Zululand, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) from 1872. Dinizulu was recognized as the legitimate heir and…
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.33, July 1993. Covers period of negotiations. Focus on the Draft Constitution. Includes graphic representation of Interim…
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.4, November 1991. Covers period of negotiations. Explanation of why the preparatory meeting for the All-Party Congress was not…
ArchiveMemorandum of the African National Congress ot the UN Special Committee on Colonialism
Memorandum of the African National Congress ot the UN Special Committee on Colonialism, compiled by Tennyson Makiwane. Covers South Africa's colonialist policy…
ArchiveANC statement at Lisbon Conference
Statement of the African National Congress at a 1977 conference of the African Liberation Movement. Statement covers the South African liberation movement and…
ArchiveNotes on political relations in Robben Island
Handwritten notes sent from Robben Island on Pan-Africanist Congress and African National Congress relations. Covers the PAC hostility towards the ANC and…
ANC Negotiations Bulletin
ANC Negotiations Bulletin, No.34, August 1993. Covers period of negotiations. Focus on proposed regions and examines criteria for boundaries, national concerns…
ArchiveMemorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN Decolonisation Committee
Memorandum submitted by the African National Congress of South Africa to the UN Decolonisation Committee. Covers the atrocities of apartheid and calls for…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
1946 Passive Resistance CampaignIntroduction ↵An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian Government to send its citizens to…
ArticleSouth African General Timeline 1976
January 1976, a group of people with Mosima Sexwale are taken by two cars a Fiat and a Soviet-origin vehicle to Dar es Salaam Airport where they flew in a…