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Balfour Declaration 1926
… attention was called to such Statutes as the Colonial Laws Validity Act. It was suggested that in future uniformity … The principles embodied in or…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… to secure a conviction against her. Under the Criminal Laws Amendment Act, any person who refuses to answer … nevertheless, that my offence was serious and…
Chapter Three - The Black Republic Question and the Third Period
… free education; freedom of speech and the abolition of the pass laws. Its slogan was Mayibuye iAfrika (Come back Africa). The …
The melody of freedom
… around the means of survival in poverty and from police pass raids. The conditions of the emerging proletariat were … by the government. Under a wide…
Chapter VI - HEAR US!
… wanted us. The conference adopted a programme of anti-pass demonstrations, collection of anti-pass pledges, and signatures for the Freedom Charter, also …
ArchiveSpeech by President Nelson Mandela to the Angolan National Assembly Luanda, 29 April 1998
President of the National Assembly; Your Excellency, President Jose dos Santos; Honourable Members of Parliament, Ladies and Gentlemen, I come to this…
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
Middelburg is a modern Town situated in the Cultural Heartland of the Mpumalanga Province in South Africa. Middelburg serves as the Agricultural, Industrial…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
South Africa: Liberation and Reconciliation Role of International Solidarity, 8 April 2004
… and especially the Campaign of Defiance against Unjust Laws, launched by the African National Congress and the South … In 1952, during the Campaign of…
Extract from a speech by the Honourable the Prime Minister during the Cape National Party Congress at East London on 3 September 1975
… in my capacity as Minister of Justice, 20 I placed certain laws on the statute book in South Africa on the instruction of my colleagues. Those laws make it…
Chapter IX - Triumph of disunity (1)
… They are willing to pay taxes and be subject to the laws of the Colony." Of course we are not deceived by the … take them under its beneficent wing in order…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Debates and Relations with Other Organizations
… The writer cannot sanely deny the fact that if all the laws applied to Africans were applied to other non-Europeans … technicians, engineers, magistrates,…
PlaceBethlehem, Free State
Bethlehem is located on the N5 road to the Free State Province, via Senekal and Winburg to the N1. Other regional roads in the Town are R76 road to Kroonstad …
ArticleuMkhonto weSizwe (MK) Timeline 1961-1990
… Langa Commissioner's Court in Cape Town where thousands of pass law offenders have been sentenced. The blast causes …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the launch of the Public Administration Leadership and Management Academy, 1 August 2008,
… the apartheid legal apparatus with policies, and the laws that, among others prescribe respect for the rights of …
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: The early years (Part 1) by Raymond Suttner, 4 June 2018
… by the customs of my tribe, I was not troubled by the laws of man or God.” Even when he became a student at Fort …
Speech by Nelson Mandela at Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 3 April 1994
… as soon as lawyers discovered a loophole in the oppressive laws, the National Party government took action to close it. …
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Zionist Christian Church Easter Conference Moria, 20th April 1992
… its leadership and its membership, shall sooner break the laws and defy the fanciful wishes of mortal men when we know …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 1 - The Necessity of Utopian Thinking
… a tunnel here and a bridge there, by simplifying divorce laws or legislating against trade unions. But the great core …
NANNA’S LIFE STORY
… have strong relationships with the CPC and ANC. With the pass campaign men thought that women are only talking and … issue that had been oppressing them for…
Archive“A Black Rather Well-Known South African Recently Arrived in London”: Critical Responses to Todd Matshikiza’s Chocolates for My Wife
… a project of interracial collaboration, flouted apartheid laws that aimed to prevent black and white South Africans … Kong rehearsals in Johannesburg; they…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 3 Contextual Overview
While colonialism and slavery flourished in the 18th century, the foundations of modern democracy were also being established. It is important to consider the…
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… the impetus for the 1952 Campaign of Defiance of Unjust Laws when thousands of African, Indian and Coloured people …
Archive2023 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 9 February 2023
… defied the effects of the pandemic to achieve a pass rate of 80 per cent and we congratulate them for that … education journey, we must applaud last year’s…
Zonal Centenary Memorial Lecture on the Life and Times of David Bopape, presented by David Makhura, ANC Gauteng Provincial Secretary, 21 June 2012, Tsakane
… after joining the ANC, he became the Secretary of the Anti-Pass Campaign in 1943-44. He also played a key role in the …
Statement by Malusi Gigaba, ANCYL President, at the funeral of Cde Wanga Sigila, late SASCO Deputy President, Cape Town 23 October 1999
… judgement and premature desperation. The day has come to pass when Wanga was among us in flesh and spirit; when he …
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… curfew for black residents and the removal from the pass (the document every African had – and has – to carry to …
Document 15 - E. R. Roux, Black and White Trade Unionism in South Africa, 28 July 1928
… this. It is often possible to get the T.U.C. executive to pass resolutions (e.g., the resolution endorsing the wage …
Address of the President of the Republic Of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Youth Day celebrations: Absa Stadium, Buffalo City Municipality
… the kind of socio-economic conditions we will inevitably pass on to the next generation. More than ever before, the …
Address to the Assembly of the Republic of Mozambique, 2 May 2002
… on behalf of the South African people, I would like to pass our sincere gratitude to the people of Mozambique for …