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Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education In1652, three ships belonging to the Dutch East…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VII - “The Missionary Charter”
From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke Treaty or no Treaty, the control was in the hands of the military and at this stage…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
ArchiveSoldiers without reward- Africans in South Africa's wars
Military History Journal Vol 10 No 1 - June 1995 (incorporating Museum Review) SOLDIERS WITHOUT REWARD Africans in South Africa's Wars by J S Mohlamme …
Daily reflections by Virginia MacKenny, September 2002
Day 1 Arrive in Kassel by train from Frankfurt and get off at the Wilhelmstrohebahnhof bestrewn with Documenta banners. There is a welcome desk for Documenta…
Brief Detention Diary by Michael Hathorn (an excerpt)
Michael Hathorn was detained in Durban Central Prison in 1960, for his role in the struggle. Recorded below is an extract from the prison diary that he kept…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa These are the indisputed facts concerning the treatment of Mr. Biko. Mr. Biko was…
The diary of Maria Tholo - October 18 - November 1 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Tuesday, October 19 What a beautifully quiet weekend it was. Our lives are no longer…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
1806 Sir John Barrow indicates on a map that gold is to be found in the approximate vicinity of either the Witwatersrand or the Magaliesberge. 1852 Gold…
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
Verwoerd's Grim Plot By NELSON MANDELA No.36, May 1959 South Africa belongs to all who live in if, black and white." - The Freedom Charter. "All…
XII - Unanswered Questions
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Despite limitations of method and purpose, the inquest had in some respects assumed…
Dream of Total Liberation of Africa is in Sight - Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 72nd Anniversary of ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades, Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 72th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1984
Dear Compatriots, Brothers and Sisters in the Struggle, Comrades Today, the 8th January, your organisation, the African National Congress, is 72 years…
PlaceNamibia
Namibia, a former German colony, is situated towards the north west of South Africa. It is predominately covered by the Namib Desert. The Orange River marks…
The first Bram Fischer Memorial lecture, delivered by President Nelson R. Mandela Market Theatre, Johannesburg, 9 June 1995
We here present and many thousands elsewhere are grateful to the Legal Resources Centre for taking the initiative in establishing a Bram Fischer Memorial…
Chapter I - Learning to live a half life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The 1950s had been a decade of protest, from the Defiance Campaign at the beginning to the Treason Trial victory…
Some remarkable women who helped Gandhiji in South Africa by E. S. Reddy
Gandhiji led a seven-year long struggle in South Africa from 1907 to 1914 for the security and dignity of the Indian settlers in that country who were…
Chapter 8
December Conference- 1943 When the All African Convention held its Conference in Bloemfontein, on the 16th and 17th December, 1943, the pivotal point round…
52 STEPS TO HEAVEN
The condemned MK activist arrived at Pretoria Central prison on Tuesday at nine o'clock in the morning. A number of white warders at the prison immediately…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
1903 William Edward Durghardt Du Bois publishes The Souls of Black Folk rejecting the notion that Black people need western values be to accepted as citizens…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Much of the research for this contribution has been…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph One of the special joys of being unbanned was that although banned people could still not communicate with me,…
ArchiveThe Snape Building Political Demonstration at the University of Cape Town in 1966 by Andrew M. Colman
In the late afternoon of Wednesday, 21 September 1966, I took part in a small political demonstration on the campus of the University of Cape Town (UCT). It…
Chapter XIII - Journey to the banished
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph At long last 1962 arrived and I could say to myself, "It's THIS year" ”” this year that my bans would end and I…
Chapter 5 - Who would deliver us from oppression? Gumede and African politics in South Africa,1921-1927
‘After being a man of the world, I have discovered there is no Zulu, Xhosa, Mosotho or Coloured, but all are and must be known henceforth as Africans’, JT…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
Mr. Chairman, I wish once again to thank you and this Committee for this opportunity. In South Africa, since the earliest days of white rule, our…
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…