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ArchiveAddress to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School
Speech made by Jack Simons to the staff and students of the Lenin Party School at the closing ceremony of the 1981-1982 academic year and in celebration of the…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 29 July 1990
… this branch, the local branch. POM What area does that cover? VCG It's Ward 7 of Inanda New Township. POM …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
BackgroundWhat is today referred to as the “Ancient Olympic Games”, was a sports festival celebrated in honour of the Greek god Zeus in the town of Olympia. As…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South…
ArchiveForeign African labour in South Africa
African National Congress paper on foreign African labour in South Africa. Covers control of foreign labour, recruitment of foreign labour in the mining…
ArchiveMemorandum on political prisoners
Memorandum on political prisoners submitted by Alfred Ngokong on behalf of the ANC to the Ad Hoc Working Group of Experts of the United Nations Commission on…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
CONTENT West Africa before the European slave trade A map depicting the three most well-known West African Kingdoms. Image source The peoples of West…
EventBanyana Banyana player, Eudy Simelane, is found raped and murdered
On 28 April 2008, Banyana Banyana midfielder Eudy Simelane was found in a ditch in the outskirts of her home township KwaThema, Gauteng. She had been raped,…
PlaceKoeberg Nuclear Power Station, Cape Town
Construction of Koeberg began in 1976 and Unit 1 was synchronized to the grid on 4 April 1984, with Unit 2 following suit on 25 July 1985. It is situated at…
EventSA author, Nadine Gordimer, is born
South African author and winner of the 1991 Nobel Prize for Literature, Nadine Gordimer, was born in Springs, Transvaal (now known as Gauteng).One of South…
Cable to the United Nations Opposing Incorporation of South-West Africa, by Dr. A.B. Xuma, January 1946
"Protest against [proposed] incorporation South West Africa into Union" The Chairman General Assembly United Nations Organisation West Minister London…
ArticleMahatma Karamchand Gandhi Timeline 1900-1909
1900 - 1909 1900 January 7, Ambulance corps is reformed and stationed at Estcourt. January 21, Corps in action at Spionkop. Bearer's carry wounded through…
Khoisan Identity
In his State of the Nation address on 9th February 2012, President Zuma uttered a promise that provisions would be made ‘for the recognition of the Khoi-San…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between White civil servants and soldiers). 1879 …
ArchivePolitical Report
Precis of a political report by Jacob Zuma on the socio-economic and political situation in South Africa. Covers the crisis of international capitalism, the…
ArchiveInternational Bulletin, No 20, December 1988
Bulletin, No 20, December 1988, produced by the South African Communist Party. Issue covers an SACP delegation to Scandanavia, a letter sent to comrade Meir…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
Sotho (South Sotho or Basotho) people are concentrated in the Free State, Gauteng and Eastern Cape Provinces, with small groups in Namibia and Zambia. While…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
This feature celebrates Samora Machel and examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death and acknowledges the contribution that he made to…
ArticleAzanian People’s Organization (AZAPO)
In aftermath of the June 16 Uprising, the government cracked down on student activists and organisations alike. On 19 October 1977 the Black Consciousness…
ArchiveProgramme of action for the ANC
Programme of action for the ANC. Lists upcoming campaigns: Violence, Constituent Assembly, Land and Housing, Building organs of people's power, Gangsterism,…
ArchiveANC National Conference: Building the ANC
Report by the African National Congress Commission on Building Organisation for the ANC National Conference in July 1991 in Durban. Covers who builds the ANC,…
ArchiveRecommendations of Consultative Conference
Recommendations of the South African Communist Party Consultative Conference. Recommends transforming the party, that there should be internal democracy and…
ArchiveNegotiations, armed struggle and the ANC
Paper by Ian Phillips, presented at the Stanger Meeting on Thursday, 19 July 1990. On negotiations, the armed struggle and the African National Congress…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
The 1940s were characterised by changes that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA…
ArticleThe Destruction of Sophiatown
Apartheid's Truimph Over Non-Racialism The destruction of Sophiatown is widely documented, considered as the Nationalist Party (NP) government's model for its…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi pastoralists who…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
ArticlePoqo
Poqo was formed as an armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and was known for its aggressively violent sabotage campaign. Unlike…
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… those like Mobutu's Zaire, which were merely as a cover for dictatorship. We also saw evidence of the abuse of … the words 'Africa. The Hopeless Continent'…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
South Africa's issues of governance, a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a president and ANC under fire have all coalesced in the National Assembly. Speaker…