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ArchiveCHAPTER 3 - Unprepared by Howard Barrell
… This as-yet inchoate strategic perspective would, in the 1980s, crystallise into one side in a long and enervating …
ArchivePetrus Mashishi
Petrus Mashishi, President of the South African Municipal Workers Union (SAMWU) from its founding in 1987 until 2009, was both a man of his times and a giant…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Glossary
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education acolyte– an assistant or follower ad hoc– formed only…
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
The consequences of capitalism on the lives of working class people extend beyond the workplace per se. Although workers sell their labour power for only a…
Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 3 - The Rise of the ANC When the mass movement recovered at the end of the 1940s, the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
Until the photographer Ranjith Kally held his first exhibition at the Goodman Gallery in Jo’burg in 2004, I knew hardly anything about the man and his work…
PlaceDefence Force HQ, Pretoria- Artillery Barracks
The first annexation of the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek by Sir Theophilus Shepstone in 1877 led to the establishment of a military camp on the present premises…
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
- The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 [I]f our own independent efforts had taught us anything in the recent period, it was that our…
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
The National Theatre Organisation (NTO) was a state funded institution, which was founded to promote and produce Afrikaans and English theatre in South Africa…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1970-1979
By the 1970s a number of leading figures in the ANC were in prison while others were in exile. Those that remained inside South Africa faced arrest, detention…
PlaceMooivallei, Dairy Farm
Mooivallei Suiwel is a cheese and butter producer based at Bonnievale, a town in the Breede River Valley in the Western Cape. Its name is Afrikaans for …
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…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
During the 1930s there were attempts by African workers to organise and reconstruct all fragmented African trade unions into a large federation of non-racial…
PlaceRooigrond
Rooigrond was a Rural Community 16km of Mafikeng and 25km South-West of Ottoshoop, in the former fomeland of Bophuthatswana, (now the North West Province). The…
The Founder: An Ambiguous Figure by Chris Saunders
More than anyone else, Pixley ka Isaka Seme (1881-1951) was the founder of the ANC. It was he who, on his return from long years of study in the United States…
Opening Address to the Conference on "Whites in A Changing South Africa", Convened by the Five Freedoms Forum and the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 1 July 1989
… We are entering the second half of the final year of the 1980s. After forty years of apartheid rule South Africa is a …
ArchiveAn Interview With F.W. De Klerk, the Last Apartheid President of South Africa by Nicolas Rossier
… ended it. The national party had already accepted by the 1980s that there was an absolute need for fundamental change …
GANDHI THE PRISONER
… Prison conditions changed dramatically only in the 1980s, despite the pressures exerted at the beginning of the …
ArticleThe Cordoned Heart
South Africa: The Cordoned Heart is considered as one of the seminal photographic exhibitions and books of the 1980’s. The exhibition and book was a product of…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaUp to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the discovery of…
ArticleThe Drafting and Acceptance of the Constitution
On 2 February 1990, the National Party government unbanned political parties, released many political prisoners and detainees, and unbanned many people,…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
… many graphic and surrealist experiments in the 1970s and 1980s. In addition, his book, African Image , is also …
Thupelo (1985)
The Thupelo workshops were initiated in 1985 in Johannesburg by the South African artist, David Nthubu Koloane, together with William ‘Bill’ Ainslee and a…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Introduction
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede On Easter Sunday 1944 a group of young political activists gathered at the Bantu Men's…
Reclaim the humanism of Socialism, The 2017 Strini Moodley Memorial Lecture, UKZN, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, by Mphutlane Wa Bofelo, Pambazuka News, 19 July 2017
… the American Philosophical Association, starting in the 1980s. Thus, the name does not refer to a particular … Nikita Khrushchev in the 1950s. It was not…
PlaceLeliefontein
The pretty, Historic Village of Leliefontein is located in; the Kamiesberg Mountain Range. The turn off the Road, between Kamieskroon and Garies in the Namakwa…
ArticleAfrican Nationalism
Introduction Nationalism refers to an ideology, a form of culture, or a social movement that focuses on the nation. It emphasises the collective of a…
ArchiveA Place In The City - The Rand On The Eve Of Apartheid by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Tomorrow awaits you, long way to walk. It’s no use talking, to gold-propped ears When the National Party won the 1948 election, white…
Chapter 9 - Conclusion
Josiah Gumede, 1867-1946: An Historical Assessment"Gumede and John Dube are the pioneers who were the inspiration and foundation upon which the new leaders…