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ArticleSouth Africa’s Foreign Relations during Apartheid, 1948
The position of South Africa in international affairs remained important throughout apartheid. The South African government needed to rely on the external…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
IntroductionThe resistance against the government’s constitutional restructuring was one of the most important campaigns waged by South Africa’s liberation…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of Peelton, and later in King William's Town and East…
PlaceSlave Lodge, Cape Colony
28 March 1652, the Dutch Merchantman, the 'Amersfoort', anchored at the Cape with a cargo of 174 Slaves. The Amersfoort's arrival in Table Bay, with Slaves in…
PlaceAmandelboom, Town in Northern Cape
Original name being 'Willston', Afrikaans name for 'Almond tree'. These trees were found near the Rhenish Mission Station from which the Town developed. The…
PlaceAlberton, Germiston
Town 6 km West of Germiston and 11 km South of Johannesburg. It was laid out on the Farm, Elandsfontein in 1904. Named after General Hendrick Abraham Alberts,…
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official and legal investigation done into the…
PlaceKamastone and Bulhoek
The Cape government established the settlement of Kamastone in the Queenstown area, in 1854. In 1874 the government received complaints from Black residents…
EventThe South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC) introduces its first national news service
The history of broadcasting in South Africa can be traced back to 1923, when the first wireless broadcast was made in Johannesburg. By April 1927, an hour of…
PlaceFreedom Park
The site of Freedom Park was carefully chosen, a 52 hectare undeveloped hill overlooking the city of Pretoria. It was here that the nation’s heroes would be…
PlaceAlbert Jackson School, Port Elizabeth
Declared a National Monument under old NMC legislation on 4 January 1963. Greenwood Primary School had its origin in the Albert Jackson Primary School which…
PlaceGod’s Window
A famous vantage point on the Drakensberg escarpment God's Window stands at an altitude of 1,829m/6,000ft extending northward over the Blyde River Canyon,…
PlacePinetown and its Museum
About half an hour’s drive from Durban is a thriving industrial and commercial town named after Sir Benjamin Pine, Governor of Natal (1873-75). At the heart of…
EventFreedom Day is celebrated in South Africa
27 April commemorates the day in 1994 when the first democratic election was held in South Africa. Today, South Africa celebrates Freedom Day to mark the…
An extract of the speech delivered by Albertina Sisulu on the first anniversary of the UDF
Sons and daughters of AfricaTo me today I’m a great big mother For today our multiracial baby is bornFor today our baby that will rule this South Africa in …
ArchiveMoses Mbheki Mncane Mabhida
Typescript autobiography of Moses Mabhida stating his personal background, and insights into his political life.
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
uMkhonto weSizwe (Spear of the Nation or MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), was jointly formed by leading members of the banned ANC…
Chapter 3: The Pitfalls of National Consciousness by Frantz Fanon, 1961
HISTORY teaches us clearly that the battle against colonialism does not run straight away along the lines of nationalism. For a very long time the native…
ArchiveDialogue
Multicoloured poster. Photograph of a child speaking into a microphone in a township. UNICEF South Africa poster and logo.
ArchiveArtwork of footprints stepping on a family photograph
Grey, black and white poster. Artwork of a drunken man walking into the distance after stamping over a family photograph.
ArchiveState Theatre - peoples property
Grey, black and white poster. ANC and COSATU Logos. Poster divided into four blocks with thin black lines.
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
"Today on the Western Front,” the German sociologist Max Weber wrote in September 1917, there “stands a dross of African and Asiatic savages and all the world…
ArchiveECC Peace Festival 93
Notice of a festival by End Conscription Campaign in 1993. Artwork of grey and black bricks being built into a wall.
ArchiveSupport NUM : put a tin in a bin
White poster with red lettering. Red images of tins and money going into hat. Wits ad hoc Support Committee.
ArchiveManifesto of the Communist Party
Communist Party pamphlet sent into South Africa illegally. False cover with the title What animal is it, by R Bikale. (incomplete)
ArchiveLetter bomb and car checks
ANC circular on precautions for cadres. Lists precautions to take when opening letters and parcels and when getting into vehicles.
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The Griqua Nation THE CONFLICT between Black and White in the north and north-east…
ArchiveRelease Nelson Mandela and all political prisoners of South Africa and Namibia!.
Black and white poster with image of jail cell with tops of bars merging into lit candles. Nelson Mandela behind bars.
Statement by Oliver Tambo on 16 June 1984
The month of June, like no other month, carries a galaxy of dates each of which records and bears witness to the heroic content of our struggle, the supreme…