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How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… "These allegations are not new. They have been made before and remain unsubstantiated," he told Reuters in answer … against a move to impeach Zuma following…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years’ imprisonment
… refused the aid of an attorney, on the grounds that the court had no jurisdiction over him because it could not be considered either a court of law or a…
Re-Emergence of Congress Activity 1980s
… on the East Rand. Later in the same month, a Pretoria court sentenced nine men to terms in prison after they were … a bomb exploded in a synagogue in…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
… summaries filled the other part. I really had not had time before to feel the true pinch of the bans, but once the trial … thirty-nine miles from the nearest…
ArticleThe Nelson Mandela Presidency - 1994 to 1999
… of South Africa , 1996, was approved by the Constitutional Court (CC) on 4 December 1996 and took effect on 4 February … was chaired by Judge Seriti, a judge…
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… His mother, Angelina du Plessis, was a 'Cape Coloured'. Before Abrahams was born, his mother, a widow, was married to … as contributing to the Socialist…
BiographyMichael Guthrie Scott
… would attempt what no white man in South Africa had tried before - integrate himself into a squatter settlement. At … attempt to entrench white rule. In…
Resistance Photography and Mobilization of the Resistance, 1946-1976
… Before presenting the history and impact of resistance … of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). During the 1940's and 1950's documentary photography in…
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… already formed associations to represent their interests before Gandhi arrived in South Africa. It was around 1904 … there were about 30,000 indentured…
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… of course ”” not that we had to endure anything like the 1940 blitz ”” but it must have been a huge strain on the … reminded of the differences. I had not…
ArchiveWomen and the Satyagraha Campaign
… Indian women join Gandhi's passive resistance campaign Before union, at the turn of the century, conditions for … and in 1913 a judgment was handed down in…
Chapter Five - The Fighter for Black Unity: 1935 - 1945
… to white workers, but to put the choice starkly before them: either with the black workers or against them. … National Liberation League of South Africa…
3. Charge of assault against an estate manager
… away the stick and ran into the cane. I went to Verulam court on Monday morning and at 9 a.m. I met the Indian … today, come tomorrow, and on Tuesday when I…
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… in Durban following a stroke she suffered two weeks before her death. …
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications by Allison Drew
… & Allied Trades Union (EATUSA) led by Brian Williams before it merged with the Electrical & Allied Workers Union …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Essay Questions
… overview: There was no South Africa (as we know it today) before 1910. Britain had defeated Boer Republics in the …
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
… and we expected it: death. But in a short statement to the court the judge said he was not imposing the maximum … I was his “altar boy.” I had never seen…
III - Black Consciousness
… to achieve. The whole system had to be overhauled before black and white could walk together hand in hand to … of Black Consciousness itself. There were 136…
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…
ArticleChief Albert John Mvumbi Luthuli timeline 1800 - 1967
… his pass. This statement was to have been made to the court before the passing of sentence, after which the Chief had … not guilty and discharged. The three…
ArticleGrade 11 - What were the consequences when pseudo-scientific ideas of Race became integral to government policies and legislation in the 19th and 20th centuries?
… lead to an inferior population. These laws existed even before Apartheid in South Africa. They included the … indigenous people of Australia, who had lived…
EventThe Constitution of the Republic of South Africa is approved by Parliament
… though it still had to be ratified by the Constitutional Court, which held its first hearing in July 1996. The … was rejected during this hearing as the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - In the city by Emilia Potenza
… 22% 17% 12% 15% 1930 14% 17% 15% 15% 1935 14% 21% 15% 14% 1940 12% 23% 18% 14% 1945 12% 14% 20% 14% Manufacturing … involved adding methylated spirits to the…
The Final Prize: My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy
My Life in the anti-apartheid struggle by Norman Levy Norman Levy entered liberation politics during the 1940s, finding his niche in the left wing of the…
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…
EventProf. Raymond Arthur Dart, SA anthropologist and expert on the Taung skull, dies in Sandton, Johannesburg
… skull the Australopithecus africanus, and in the late 1940’s he was vindicated when it was finally accepted in the …
Ernest Cole: Brave photographer who exposed horrors of apartheid from within by Teo Kermeliotis, (cnn.com), 5 January 2015
… in Eersterust, a black freehold township near Pretoria, in 1940. The fourth of six children, he grew up living in the … course from the New York Institute of…
4. Conclusion
… to dissolve itself at a meeting in Cape Town in June 1950 before the Suppression of Communism Act became law. Although …
2007 ANC National Policy Conference: Report of the Commission on Legislatures and Governance, 30 June 2007, Gallagher Estate
… that: 37. A single, integrated, accessible and affordable court system must be established. 38. The Constitutional Court should be the highest (apex) court…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… land where there are wealthy parasites who put profits before patriotism. Fascism means the subjection of the many … of sacrifice" works: Lever Brothers…