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A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
… Anderson was to build the prison himself in return for an early release. Anderson started work on the jail on the … the condemned. [5] Pretoria Local Prison…
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… were not really revolutionary or that it was only in the early 60s that they began to appreciate the correct strategy? … the accusations by some of our…
ArchiveChapter 7 - Planning for people's war `Blow on the embers and it will catch alight', January 1983 - March 1984 by Howard Barrell
… at the centre of ANC strategy. This chapter examines the early development of the front, the strengthening of its … New Operational Structures - again…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 80th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1992
… convention between British imperialism and the colonial settlers to unite South Africa on the basis of the racial … organisers of the ANC who saw to its…
Interview with Harry Gwala conducted by Tony Karonat, January 1989, Dambuza Pietermaritzburg
… with rags against the frost bite. They used to get up very early in the morning. We didn't have a clock, so I couldn't say what time it was, but I knew it…
ArchiveA story of a memorable photograph, and why it matters by J Brooks Spector, (Daily Maverick), 18 May 2018
… face is contorted in anguish when her brother became the early victim of lethal police action during student protests … have been people like Eli Weinberg…
ArchiveWinnie Madikizela-Mandela: Revolutionary who kept the Spirit of Resistance alive by Shireen Hassim (The Conversation), 3 April 2018
… a bridge between different political factions. In the early 1990s, when Nelson Mandela was urging armed youths to … account, she learnt about the racialised…
Address to the National Council of Provinces, Cape Town 28 October 1999
… delivery to our people. Government needs to establish early warning systems. These would enable all of us to … the Board is not wrong when it says that it…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of the Industrial Council for the Clothing Industry early in 1929 I presented a complaint from the union about … and, the following day, many scabs reported…
ArticleRemembering and Celebrating South Africa’s Iconic LGBTQI+ Women
… as an anti-apartheid activist in the late 1980s and early 90s, particularly concerned with the …
Pridekit - Enoch Sontonga
… The search was complicated by the fact that during the early 1960s that particular section of the cemetery, …
How I have cooperated with the Hawks by Pravin Gordhan (Times Live), 01 September 2016
… – the establishment of the SARS investigating unit and the early retirement and re-appointment of the Deputy …
ArchiveDiana Mitchell obituary by Julia Gallagher (The Guardian), 08 February 2016
… to people from different backgrounds and ideologies began early. She was born in Salisbury to Elliott Coates, an …
ArchiveTribute to Ottilie Schimming Abrahams (2 Sept 1937-1 July 2018) – some notes and memories by Heike Becker
… group of Namibian activists in Cape Town, and then in the early 1960s one of only a handful of Namibian women in exile, …
PlaceForts Around Pretoria
… gunpowder and even more powerful than TNT! However, in the early shells, it was not always possible to achieve complete …
PlaceKwazulu Natal Province
… of the first trading post in Port Natal in 1824 but the early English traders and hunters found themselves unable to …
Address by President Mandela on receiving the freedom of Boksburg Boksburg, 26 June 1997
… where children and teachers go to school late and leave early. We cannot afford to have school property neglected or …
Reflections on the 1973 Durban strikes by Steven Freedman
… country today: as the surveys mentioned earlier show, the early strikers and unionists also built a social movement in …
Nelson Mandela Correspondence around financial problems
… to raise it? I was also anxious to register for law as early as possible and I hope you are experiencing no …
Freedom In Our Life Time - Bibliography
… Ravan Press, 1977. Bruce, Dickson. "Ancient Africa and the Early Black American Historians, 1883-1915." American …
PlaceMozambique
… from Malawi and Zimbabwe and settled in Mozambique in the early 20th century. They worked mainly as migrant laborers . …
Delegations and dialogue between ANC and internal non government groups
… mounting protests and economic and other sanctions in the early 1980s, the fall of apartheid began for the first time … More than a hundred such delegations…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… his mother’s home at Qutubeni. For a long time during his early life, Walter’s mother Alice had to work away from home. … tended cattle, sheep and goats like…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… September 1939 was:  Composition of House of Assembly early September   Participants in the vote of 4 September … may, however, have been few of the…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… won a Pulitzer Prize for his work in South Africa in the early 1990’s, wrote, "In South Africa the violence of the … Badsha commented, "We all have the same…
Biography of Eli Weinberg by Karen Folz
… embodiment of his Jewish identity and his story – his early life in Latvia, move to South Africa, involvement in … When Eli Weinberg was growing up in…
ArticleThe 1956 Women’s March in Pretoria
… populace, manage urbanization, and allot migrant labor. As early as 1893, pass laws originated in the capital of the … The Women’s Movement in Action…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… repression always went hand in hand with resistance. As early as 1902, a political organization called the APO was … of resistance was passive and non…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… based on a non-racial ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no … Despite several setbacks during the…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as early as the 1930s Afrikaans women were regarded as the main …