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SACTU AND THE CONGRESS ALLIANCE
PlaceRainbow Restaurant and Jazz Club, Durban
The Rainbow Restaurant opened its doors for trade on Thursday 17 December 1981. It was the first such establishment of its kind in KwaZulu Natal, located in a…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… his labour to some white master. In 1913, the Native Land Act was passed, which divided the entire country into … and "white" areas. Europeans were…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education acolyte– an assistant or follower ad hoc– formed only…
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…
BiographyNjinga Ana de Sousa
… with the Kingdom of Ndongo in an effort to conquer more land and acquire more slaves [7] . In the early 1600s the …
Names of Slaves and Free Blacks
The following list is taken from Frank R. Bradlow and Margaret Cairns, The Early Cape Muslims, appendix II. A note by the authors says that the list of names…
PlaceOld Crown Mines Headquarters, 5 Press Lane, Selby, Johannesburg
The building was designed by Herbert Baker after the amalgamation of eight mining companies in April 1909, when Crown Mines Ltd was founded. The office complex…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Introduction
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Chris Hani The most talked-about turning point in…
Nelson Mandela Regrets, Nostalgia and Dreams:
Introduction Nelson's letters reflect the volumes that remain unsaid because of the censorship rules that prescribe and proscribe the thoughts of a prisoner…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
The uprising of 1976-77 marked a watershed in political relations between the apartheid state and the dominated social groups. Henceforth, a combination of…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… mandated leaders about what the most basic law in the land should be. In a sense, the Constitution represents a … Many of these struggles also revolved…
Chapter 6 -The making of a black Bolshevik: Gumede and the League Against Imperialism, 1927
… failures to resist dispossession of their lands. “All the land was taken from us in the name of the Crown of Great … in 1912. He pointed out the hardships…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… Karoo occupies the Northern part thereof. This is the land of succulents - their thick, fleshy diversity … at first glance, the appearance of arid, dry and…
Growing social unrest: Community mobilisation, strikes and student protests in the Western Cape in the 1980s
The late 1970s witnessed increased labour unrest in the region of the Western Cape. For instance, the Fattis and Monis strike and boycott, Saldanha Bay fish…
A total of 1 004 persons consisting of 849 burghers and boys, 152 women and girls, two Coloureds and one Black man, cross the b
ArchiveBiko, the State and the SA Medical and Dental Council (SAMDC) and now the Medical Association of South Africa (MASA): Editorial comment
Kenyans dominate the 106th Boston Marathon, winning both men’s and women’s titles and capturing the four top spots and six of t
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
… the local Khoi from their traditional grazing areas. The land along the lower reaches of the Liesbeeck River to the … indigenous cattle of the Khoi-Khoi to…
BiographyReggie Vandeyar
… the 1946 Passive Resistance Campaign (against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act). By the age of 17 …
EventRand Daily Mail publishes exposé of conditions in Homelands
The English-language opposition paper, The Rand Daily Mail, covered a feature article dealing with the appalling conditions in one of the government’s Bantu…
"Strategy and Tactics" - Statement adopted by the ANC at the Morogoro Conference, April-May 1969 (abridged)
… to have meaning without a return of the wealth of the land to the people as a whole. It is therefore a fundamental … of the oppressed people. But one thing…
ArchiveCommission for Justice and Reconciliation: economic measures against apartheid and the challenge to the church
Pamphlet of the Commission for Justice and Reconciliation regarding economic measures such as sanctions, trade embargoes and disinvestment against apartheid…
EventBlack, Coloured and Indian churches issues a statement on Immorality Act and the Mixed Marriages Act
Black, Coloured and Indian churches issued statement stating that the Churches had no objection in principle if the authorities thought that circumstances…
The ANC and the Women’s League
From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and Barbie Schreiner One day when I got up to go to work it was very cold, and it was raining outside…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
Contents and Contributors CONTENTS Comment Frank Meintjies and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS:…
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…