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PlaceHeritage Route of Transvaal, Limpopo and Mpumalanga
The Transvaal, is one of the former Province of South Africa. It occupied the North Eastern part of the Country. The Limpopo River marked its border with…
Chapter 6 - TOWARDS HOME
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 7th Congress, organised in Havana in April 1989, and attended by 49 delegates, was the highest…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 8 - S. P. Bunting,'5 The "Colonial" Labour…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1804 Attainment of freedom of worship 23 By 1804, the number of the Vryezwarten…
Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, “The Opening Address at the Africanist Inaugural Convention”, 4 April 1959 [….]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 58 - Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, "The Opening…
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101st Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 2013
Comrades, Compatriots and friends, We meet 100 years since the promulgation of the 1913 Land Act, which dramatically robbed the indigenous people of our…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 101th Anniversary of the ANC 8 January 2013 Comrades, Compatriots and friends, We…
Lecture by the President of the ANC, President Jacob Zuma, on the occasion of celebrating the life and times of the tenth President of the ANC President Nelson Mandela, 10 July 2012, Limpopo
Mrs Graca Machel and members of the Mandela family; Provincial Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade Cassel Mathale; National Chairperson of the ANC, Comrade…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. -…
ArticleList of people banned under Apartheid
People banned under ApartheidNameAct/Section/Issued up to: (delivery date)Date on which notice expires:Other: (address, occupation etc.)Aba, LickardAct No. 44…
Chapter 6 - Defining the agenda
It had taken nearly two years of talks almost exclusively between the ANC and the NP to address the obstacles preventing multi-party negotiations. The path to…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
Important events and systems in European Societies during the 1600’s Robb Schultz, “Europe leading into the 17th century (1600’s)”Image Source The…
Chapter 5 - TOWARDS PEOPLE’S WAR
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The 1980s were the culmination of the mass popular uprising, which had received its initial spark…
ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
- Soweto and All That, June 1976 - October 1978 Fifteen years after our commitment to armed struggle, we could mount no organised retaliation by armed groups…
ArchiveA despot’s time to face democracy by Niren Tolsi
Contempt. This is what former president Jacob Zuma apparently felt for democratic South Africa’s foundational document, the Constitution, and the vision and…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
Political changes from 1750 to 1820
Britain takes control of the Cape Once revolutionary armies of France invaded Holland in 1795, the British feared that the French would take control of the…
ArticleIndian South Africans timeline 1930-1939
1930 The Durban Municipality was a major employer of Indian labour, employing an average of 2 000 workers through the 1930s and 1940s. Municipal workers…
Chapter 7 - Defining the process
Codesa's first plenary session boosted the chances of a speedy resolution to South Africa's conflict and of substantive negotiation towards democracy. By now,…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New Frame republishes work by historian Shula Marks about Allison…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a programme which still embraces many of the…
Extraordinary ministerial meeting of The Co-ordinating Bereau Of The Non-aligned Countries on the question of Namibia -1985
NEW DELHI: 19 TO 21 APRIL 1985 DRAFT FINAL DOCUMENT IN PURSUANCE of a decision taken by the co-ordinating Bureau of Non-Aligned Countries at its meeting of…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
An Unmistakable Figure In late December 1931, Dorothy Nomzansi Nyembe was born and she would become one of the premier freedom fighters in the…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
Documentary Photography is not encouraged because I think it threatens the core of what this country is about. It’s a very powerful medium, it touches on…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 16) On Trial State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
Women at the start of the 20th centuryIt is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter XI - Completion of military conquest
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke IN THE LATE SIXTIES the old Missionary Road that had led Dr. Philip, the Rev. Shaw,…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner government through…
ArchiveBiography of Dulcie September by Claire Albin
Dulcie September was a fierce and ambitious anti-apartheid activist in South Africa. Her work with various resistance groups throughout her life, particularly…