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Document 105 - John Gomas, “Cape Town: Liberation League Activities”, South African Worker, 17 April 1937
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew 2 000 Protest against Discriminatory …
Notes for address by President Nelson Mandela at a breakfast of the Raadzaal Rotary Club 17 September 1994
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 79 - "What is the Communist …
Document 98 - “The All African Convention”, Umlilo Mollo /The Flame, 1, 2, October 1936
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew At the beginning of October 1936 the …
Indian Community in Lenasia
… The first step was the passing of the Group Areas Act in 1950. Indians had been living in various suburbs in and …
Oliver Tambo interview to Sechaba, 01 March 1976
… to Sa Da Bandeira, now known as Lubango, on Friday, March 26, the United Nations Security Council was debating the …
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
… this time government workers and others supported it. On 26 March 1991, after 4 days of intense anti-government …
Racists Humiliated - O. R. Tambo Interviewed by Michael Wolfers, Sechaba, March 1976
… to Sa Da Bandeira, now known as Lubango, on Friday, March 26, the United Nations Security Council was debating the …
SEME by Richard Rive and Tim Couzens
… to forward to Seme, with the promise of more to come later.26 In New York he was now a jaunty, talkative young man full … to Cutler, September 5, 1898. 13…
Biography of Caiphus Semenya
… [Accessed October 26, 2016]. Ingalls, L. 1961. African Musical Sets London …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1930-1939
… and/or purchasing land outside the stipulated reserves. 26 September, Winnie Madikizela-Mandela , lifetime opponent …
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… since Mr. Sisulu was imprisoned on Robin Island for 26 years, Albertina made it her life goal to continue to …
Call for papers: 100 years of the SACP
… South Africa until its banning by the apartheid regime in 1950, played a major role in South Africa’s liberation …
South African and World leaders
South African leaders South Africa has a long and very rich history. Many different cultures and communities live side by side and even together in South…
ArticleThe Black Sash: A History of Transformation
This article was written by Ashley Schumacher and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project During the year of 1955 in…
Testimony of Bruno Mtolo, Johannesburg (Rivonia Trial), 15 January, 1964
… Berrange: How many sentences have you served? Mtolo: In 1950 there were several charges that were taken as one. I am … Mtolo: Yes. Berrange: That was in…
ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… work aimed at constructing a popular revolutionary base. 26 The main means for developing this base should be … Secretary of the All-in African National…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… (although the Communist Party was declared illegal in 1950). Interestingly, Sisulu was ahead of his comrades in …
Chapter X - Final word
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Right up to the morning of 1 July, I did not know what to expect. Even before the bans were due to expire I was…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
It was a struggle to survive in the city. Workers' wages did not keep pace with the cost of subsistence, and most black families lived below the bread line. …
ArticleFatima Meer Timeline 1928-2010
… the resistance, Doctors Dadoo, GM Naicker and Dr. Goonum. 1950 Was one of the keynote speakers at a mass meeting held …
The genesis of the armed struggle, 1960-1966
Introduction Sharpeville shortly after the shootings © Museum Africa. The 1960s marked an important watershed in South Africa's struggle against apartheid…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… Mandela addressed with some acclaim. It was held on 25 and 26 March 1961 and attended by nearly 1 400 delegates, … security constraints under which the…
Remembering Nadine Gordimer (The Conversation), 15 July 2014
The passing of Nadine Gordimer is a tremendous loss, both to South Africa and to the literary world. For me, and others who knew her, it will also be an…
Curry and the South African Revolution by E. S. Reddy
Dr. Yusuf Dadoo once told me that Nelson Mandela had Indian friends in college and used to visit Indian homes. He would not accept the food they offered until…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
On the advice of the State Librarian one fine day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to…
Albie Sachs: From freedom fighter to justice on South Africa’s Constitutional Court by Morris Arvoy
Albie Sachs, an internationally known human rights activist and top judge in South Africa, suffered solitary confinement and exile and survived a bomb attack…
4. Conclusion
… voted to dissolve itself at a meeting in Cape Town in June 1950 before the Suppression of Communism Act became law. …
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… for trade was the Baltic Sea during the Middle Ages. [26] The Baltic Sea enabled Europeans to travel and trade with … from the Dawn of Civilisation to the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 The Mughal Empire
… to India by a famous Persian painter named Mir Sayid Ali. [26] Shortly after Humayun’s death, under the reign of … (Accessed: 22 June 2020). [26] Author…
Document 7 - The Freedom Charter
… as Christians in 1911 constituting just over a quarter (26,2 per cent) of the African population whereas by 1946, … self-confident African Christian…