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Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
This chapter grounds the analysis of the emergence, ideology and politics, organisation and collective actions of SASO which are examined in the next three…
Class, Consciousness and Organisation: Conclusion by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Lecture by President Thabo Mbeki delivered on the occasion of the 30th Anniversary of the death of Stephen Bantu Biko, 12 September 2007, Cape Town
We meet here today to commemorate the death of an outstanding young South African patriot, Stephen Bantu Biko. The bloody decade of the 1970s in our country,…
Say It out Loud - The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1929 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 1st April, 1929 1 There are times when leaders of people,…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide…
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…
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new…
America, Spanish conquest
All the content in this America section was developed from 2003 lessons, namely; – America in the 1500s – The Slave TradeThe content below has been modified…
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1940-1949 1940 January, A meeting is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArchiveLong live Ruth First by Gavin Williams, 17 August 2019
The great South African writer and activist, Ruth First, was assassinated by a letter bomb sent by the South African Security Police in Maputo, Mozambique on…
THE LIBERATION STRUGGLE IS ON IN EARNEST, Durban, 12 December 1959
Presidential Address to the 47th Annual Conference of the African National Congress Durban, 12 December 1959 The Annual Report of the Secretary-General and…
ArchiveChapter 19 Last thoughts – for now by Denis Goldberg
Great gains have been made since Nelson Mandela became President in 1994. The first is that the old guard racists have in general come to realize that there is…
ArchiveBiography of Nawal El Saadawi by Sierra Hussey
Nawal el-Saadawi has been creative her entire life. As a young girl, she imagined becoming a singer or a dancer. Her dreams of becoming an artist were opposed…
A Marxist critique of the Freedom Charter
A Marxist critique of the Freedom CharterThe first fundamental flaw of the Freedom Charter is that it is based on the assumption that in the current period…
Address of the President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the Inaugural session of the Twelth Conference of Heads of State or Government of the Movement of Non-Aligned Countries Durban, 2 September 1998
Chairperson Your Majesties and Your royal Highnesses Distinguished Secretaries General of the OAU and the United Nations Honourable Ministers and…
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, to the OAU Ad Hoc Committee for Southern Africa Arusha, 28 April 1992
Mr. President, The Honourable Heads of State Your Excellencies Honourable Ministers Allow me to express my great appreciation to you for affording me the …
Address by Comrade President Nelson R Mandela to the International Federation of Newspaper Publishers Conference Prague, 26 May 1992
Mr. Chairperson, Your Excellency, Distinguished Publishers and Proprietors, Ladies and Gentlemen. Permit me to express my profound appreciation of the…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
Text in italics indicates where the address was delivered in Zulu. Friends, comrades, and the people of Natal, I greet you all. I do so in the name of peace,…
Excerpts from Chief Luthuli’s evidence at the treason trial dealing with his understanding of a non-violent liberation struggle
Have you ever expressed any views yourself in regard to the advantages or disadvantages of a non-violent struggle? Well, I have spoken about it... Would you…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of…
Address at the French National Assembly Paris, 18 November 2003
Distinguished President of the National Assembly, Honourable Representatives of the People of the French Republic: I am certain that you, the esteemed Members…
ArchiveApartheid - a vigilant witness
A reflection on photography I intended this book as a documentary to show what life is really like for Africans. The government will probably ban this book…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
Introduction In the previous section, we have learnt about the origins of capitalism, however, we paid cursory attention to the racial character of that…
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
- Prioritising armed struggle, January 1974 - June 1976 A struggle is made up of failures essentially. It’s true. You only win once, and that’s at the end. -…
Dr Mamphela Ramphele interviewed by Rupert Taylor, 16 April 1998, Cape Town
Dr Mamphela Ramphele 16/4/98, Cape Town interviewed by Rupert Taylor Taylor: What is the nature of the conflict? Ramphele: I’ll take issue with the…
Interview with Swami Gounden by Vino Reddy, 29 May 2002
VR: Good morning. I am Vino Reddy from the Documentation Centre of the University of Durban-Westville. This morning we are talking to …