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ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane, Vella…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
Names: Mellet, Patric Tariq. Date of Birth: 1956 Place of Birth: …
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
When South Africa became a Republic, subversive elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a…
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…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
As I have indicated the appropriate framework for the analysis of SASO and SANSCO is not a given and by no means obvious. Hence, it is necessary to make…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
The early Cape was settled not only by ex-VOC workers who became free burghers and the Huguenots but also by slaves who lost their freedom and was brought to…
GEAR and Neo-Liberalism (Part 1) by Thabo Mbeki, 21 March, 2016
[Last year, I wrote to a comrade to engage him on an article he had written in one of the local newspapers to engage him on one of the issues he raised, i.e…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
Much has been written about how much the so-called international community expected the new South Africa born in 1994 to lead the campaign for respect of human…
South Africa’s policy towards Zimbabwe: synopsis by Thabo Mbeki 22 February 2016
Historically, with regard to the Zimbabwe liberation struggle, the ANC had good relations with ZAPU and none with ZANU when it broke away from ZAPU. This was a…
ArchiveAppendix 1: Time Line of South African history by Denis Goldberg
In pre-colonial times South Africa was occupied by Khoisan people in the west and Bantu speaking people in the east. 1652 Jan van Riebeeck landed at the Cape…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic Towns People Between 1886 and 1914 people…
Document Center at UKZN. “Burning of the Passes” from the collection of Ela Gandhi, MP. Assention no. 1889-23
On 14 August Gandhiji wrote to Smuts that he was approaching him "on the eve of what promises for Indians to be an interminable struggle". He said: On Sunday …
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress had several…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life. Somehow I managed…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white suburb, to my comfortable white life; my…
ArchiveBiography of Mariama Bâ by Lauren Daugherty
Context In the 1960s, Senegal was a new, independent nation. It had previously been ruled in succession by the Portuguese, the Dutch and finally the French,…
Pretoria Socialist Society
The Honourable the Prime Minister, Union of South Africa, House of Assembly CAPE TOWN Honourable Sir, At a time when in many respects our country is passing…
ArticleGertrude Fester Biography by Nehal Patel
This article was written by Nehal Patel and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project Gertrude Fester Biography Abstract …
Polokwane the Segregated city
Contents The Segregated City, 1910-1948 The Apartheid City A decade of Turbulence, 1976-86 Ructions within Afrikaner Politics Forced removals in the…
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert: Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by Rupert Taylor and Adam Habib, 24 March 1998, Johannesburg
Frederik Van Zyl Slabbert 24/3/98, Johannesburg Former Leader of the Opposition in the Whites-Only Parliament, and co-founder of Idasa interviewed by…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
William Kentridge can’t tell you what the title of his current show in Paris, “Finally Memory Yields,” is about. He doesn’t know. That’s why he chose it. …
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the Occasion of the 107th Anniversary of the African National Congress presented by ANC president Cyril Ramaphosa, 12 January 2019
Comrades and Friends Fellow South Africans, This year, the African National Congress celebrates 107 years of exist-ence. We celebrate this momentous…
Cyril Ramaphosa: Can ‘Mr Nice’ Be A Decisive President? Some say he lacks decisiveness, also in pursuit of his own interests by Liesl Pretorius (Huff Post), 21 August 2017
At first, James Motlatsi was wary of Cyril Ramaphosa. He wasn't sure if the young lawyer, who grew up in Soweto, was genuine when he wanted to organise the…
Say It out Loud - The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1913 Presidential Address, Kimberley, Cape, 11th October, 1913 Presidential address by Dr. A…
Chapter VII - The 1980’s
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph Two of our most loved women leaders, Mary Moodley and Lilian Ngoyi, died at the end of the 1970s. They had both…
Chapter II - More of the same
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph After almost five years of house arrest, I was eagerly but anxiously looking forward to 31 October 1967, when the…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
The area between the Orange and Vaal rivers, originally known as Transoranje, with its abundance of permanent water sources, was the hunting grounds of the San…
ArticleThe Natives Land Act of 1913
Introduction The history of White colonial land dispossession did not begin with the passing of the Native Land Act in 1913, it spans back to the expansion…