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EventDe Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. is founded to exercise control over diamond production in South Africa
… internationally with the help of the Central Selling Organisation (CSO), which had also been created by Rhodes as …
EventSA wins top awards from the International Rugby Board
South Africa enjoyed a clean sweep of the International Rugby Board (IRB) awards in 2004. The awards were held on 29 November 2004 in London's Royal Lancaster…
EventThe Women's National Coalition Conference starts
The inter-racial Women's National Coalition (WNC) Conference (25-27 February 1994), started in the World Trade Centre, Kempton Park. The conference focused…
Eulogy by President Jacob Zuma at the funeral of Mme Ruth Mompati, Vryburg, North-West Province 23 May 2015
… on women. In 1956 Mme Ruth became very central in the organisation of what would become an enduring landmark in the … played a very critical role in the re…
Presidential Address to the Eleventh Annual Conference of the Natal Indian Congress, Durban, November 21, 1958
… South Africans could be proud. It is the oldest national organisation in the country and the philosophy of its founder … the freedom movement in South Africa…
Constitution of the ANC Youth League, 1944
… NAME: The name of the Organisation shall be "African National Congress Youth … Secretary, Vice-Secretary, Treasurer and Officer of Organisation and…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Introduction
… he will dismantle apartheid. Let him unban the people’s organisation, the African National Congress. Let him free all … in prison as the representative of…
ArchiveSonia Bunting: Continuous Compassion and Adamant Activism by Jack Lucas
Innate resilience in conjunction with unmatched passion forms a characteristic that proves to be unstoppable, yet the rarity of this combination stems from the…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… first name. The other main group, the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa (a pretentious name), was open, … workers most severely. [8] This led…
EventPresident Cyril Ramaphosa calls for national lockdown for 21 days in South Africa
On 23 March 2020, President Cyril Ramaphosa declared a national state of disaster in terms of section 27 of the Disaster Management Act. This was an urgent…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
Introduction The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men changed from being farmers in their…
ArticleCOVID-19: The Whens and Whats of the Deadly Virus
COVID-19 versus the Corona virus: What is COVID-19 Exactly? COVID-19 is an infectious respiratory disease that developed from a type of Corona virus. [1…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
… provides an opportunity to reflect on the character of the organisation. In discussing the critical topic of … all have a responsibility to maintain the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… Afrikaners in the1930s and 1940s belonged to a secret organisation called the Afrikaner Broederbond , which worked … organisational expressions of Afrikaner…
Chapter 9
… where the scheme was first applied, opposed it. The organisation of the people there linked up their opposition … They held meetings in the hills under their…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… of the moment, and to outline the tasks that the organisation must necessarily undertake to advance the … Mbeki and the National Executive Committee that led…
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… advanced to understand the principles of Trade Union organisation. Native mine employees as a class are, as you … East Rand – in Brakpan, Benoni and Springs,…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1960-1969
… (NIYC), Dr Alam Baboolal of the Combined Indian Ratepayers Organisation, Thumba Pillay of the SRC of the University of … at a Congress meeting. Nair told him…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… South Africa (1986) Mbalo and Sols set up an independent organisation called, Phosdoc, while continuing to contribute … Paul Weinberg , and the bulk of the…
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
July 2021 marks the centenary of the birth of the South African Communist Party (SACP): one of the first Marxist-Leninist parties on the continent, and among…
Document 51 - Leon Trotsky, Remarks on the Draft Theses of the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 20 April 1935
… important conditions for the success of a revolutionary organisation. The example of our South African friends again … the retention of full and complete…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 85th Anniversary of the ANC- 8 January 1997
… one makes mistakes or not, but rather whether, as an organisation, we are prepared to admit mistakes, and above … to different posts is a natural part of any…
PlaceKenya
… recognition of African rights. The first significant organisation that pursued this aim was the East African … of an independent Kenya. The EAA was intended…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1940-1949
… Branch of the Communist Party of South Africa is the first organisation, to protest against the Pretoria Agreement and … as members, thereby endeavouring to…
ArchiveA Speech to Displease All Parties by Imraan Coovadia, 11 October 2021
… were interested in individual responsibility and community organisation, decentralisation rather than state-dominated … and black self reliance. But what…
Tribute to DR Nthatho Motlana by ANC President Jacob Zuma, 6 December 2008, University of The Witwatersrand, Johannesburg
… from his loyalty to his country and his people and his organisation, the ANC. The passing on of Dr Motlana indicates … General of the League in the 1940s. We…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… African Trade Unions, the South African National Civics Organisation, and the mass democratic movement. In response … he inspires our nation and the world…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Matomela by Maximiliano Rubio
Her collegue in the anti-apartheid struggle, Hilda Bernstein, describes Florence Matomela as ‘a woman who gave out warmth and life like the African sun, full…
ANNOUNCEMENT OF ANC CANDIDATE PREMIERS, 23 April 1999
… in the 1980s. An executive member of the Azanian Students Organisation while at Fort Hare, Manne became a regional … I have endeavoured to serve the South…
PlacePort Edward, South Coast
Umtamvuna River Bridge / CH Mitchell Bridge (comment from FACEBOOK)"Driving down the South Coast of Kwazulu-Natal the last town before the Eastern Cape is Port…