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BiographyKim Ludbrook
Born on 9 June 1969, in Masvingo, Zimbabwe, Kim Ludbrook grew up in Kwa-Zulu Natal. After completing his national service he moved to England in 1990 and…
BiographyJameson Gilbert Coka
Jameson Gilbert Coka was born in 1910 on a white farm near Vryheid, Natal, the son of a sharecropper. He won a bursary to Adams College, where he completed his…
From the 1973 Durban strikes to the Marikana massacre and De Doorns conflict: How trade unions acquired their power and what has gone wrong with employment relations in South Africa subsequently by Johann Maree
Forty years ago during January and February 1973 mass strikes by African workers in Durban broke out in protest against low wages. In total 61,000 workers went…
Article1960-1966: The genesis of the armed struggle
… (or 'Homelands') out of the 'Reserve's carved out by the 1913 Land Act. Between 1960 and 1985, approximately 3.5 … established out of the old 'Reserves"…
BiographyDavid Ngwabeni
David Ngwabeni originally a resident at Ngwabeni Location, Victoria East District, [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], had his banishment order issued on 19…
BiographyManiben Sita
Maniben Sita was born on 24 December 1926 in the Asiatic Bazaar, (Marabastad, Pretoria) in Transvaal (now Gauteng), into a highly politically-active family…
BiographyAmina Cachalia
Amina Cachalia (née Asvat) was born on 28 June 1930, Vereeniging, Transvaal (now Gauteng) to Ebrahim Ismail Asvat and Fatima Asvat. She was the ninth child in…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Albert John Luthuli
… segregation of races and protect white minority rule. In 1913, the Land Act prohibited blacks from owning or renting … Act These reserves Principal among…
113 people are killed when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips a building on the end of the runway at Cotonou, Benin and ends up in
113 people are killed when a Beirut-bound Boeing 727 clips a building on the end of the runway at Cotonou, Benin and ends up in the Atlantic Ocean. (Mail &…
ArticleWomen, employment and the changing economic scene, 1920s
… militancy, violence and bloodshed than in Bloemfontein (1913) because international communism had influenced the …
Opening Speech at the International Solidarity Conference, on the Theme "From Apartheid to Peace, Democracy and Development" by O. R. Tambo, Johannesburg, 19 February 1993
Chairperson, Ambassadors and Heads of Diplomatic Missions, Distinguished delegates and special guests from the world anti-apartheid movement, Leaders…
Message from Oliver Tambo to the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid on its 20th anniversary, 02 April 1983
We take the opportunity to extend to the Committee the most cordial fraternal greetings on occasion of the twentieth anniversary of the Special Committee. The…
Speech of the Pan Africanist Congress of Azania at the Euro-Arab Youth Conference (Tripoli-Libya) May 14-19, 1973
The Settler Economies: Studies in the Economic History of Kenya and Southern Rhodesia 1900-1963 (African Studies) by Paul Mosley
Selections From The Smuts Papers: Volume II June 1902 - May 1910 edited by W.K. Hancock and Jean Van Der Poel
Korean War (1950-1953). South African No 2 Squadron, known as Cheetah Squadron, comprising of fifty officers and 157 other rank
Opening Speech by Oliver Tambo at the first conference of the ANC Department of Information and Publicity, Lusaka, 5 July 1983
Address to the nation by ANC President, Nelson R. Mandela, on the assassination of Martin Thembisile (Chris) Hani 10 April 1993
Today, an unforgivable crime has been committed. The calculated, cold-blooded murder of Chris Hani is not just a crime against a dearly beloved son of our…
Statement of the President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Development Congress Washington D.C., 24 September 1993
The Second Polar Year Project (1 August 1932-31 August 1933) starts. The Union Weather Services of South Africa renders valuabl
The Rev. Wilhelm A. Alheit is inducted in the DRC in Colesberg. He and his daughter drowned in 1910 at Kleinmond.
The Life and Death of Dr Abu Baker ‘Hurley’ Asvat, 23 February 1943 to 27 January 1989 by Jon Soske
UDF Poster ‘REMEMBER VICTIMS OF APARTHEID : CHRISTMAS 1984’ by United Democratic Front, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
UDF Poster ‘Don’t vote in apartheid elections! Forward to freedom’ by UDF, 20/08/1983 - 20/08/1991, South Africa
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