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ArchiveInterview with Chris Hani
An interview with Chris Hani on post-1990 situation, following extended NEC meeting held on 18th January - 20 January 1990
Community Arts Project (CAP)
The Community Arts Project (CAP) was established in Cape Town in 1977. Originally located at 17 Main Road, Mowbray, the facility moved to the old St. Philips…
ArticleSouth Africa’s electoral history timeline 1910-2009
1910 First general election that followed the establishment of the Union of South Africa. Only White males had the right to vote. 1915 Second general…
ArticleCongress of the People and the Freedom Charter
As the struggle for freedom reached a new intensity in the early fifties, the ANC saw the need for a clear statement on the future of South Africa. The idea of…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
This list is listed in chronological order, listing mayors of Durban, starting from 1854 to date. George Cato (1854 - 56) Edward Snell and Savery Pinsent…
Draft constitution of the ANC
Report of the working group under paragraph three of the Pretoria Minute 1. The Working Group was established under paragraph 3 of the Pretoria Minute, which…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial constraints. During this period, the party attempted to…
Chapter 8 - ‘Creative Organisers’ rather than ‘Powerful Speakers’: Education as a Site of Struggle
Having analysed SANSCO's ideology and politics, I now examine particular aspects of its organisation. Specifically, I focus on its structure and membership,…
ArchivePhoto of Nelson Mandela
Coloured photograph of Nelson Mandela. Words Saamstaan Maart 1990. Reverse side of folder 2110-P001. Release of Nelson Mandela. Included is the United Nations…
ArchiveResolutions on violence
Resolutions of the National Executive Meeting of the African National Congress, 18 and 19 September 1990: Resolution on violence and resolution arising from…
EventMike Gatting’s rebel cricket tour is curtailed
Negotiations between the National Sports Council (NSC) and the white South African Cricket Union (SACU) on the rebel cricket tour by Mike Gatting's England…
Mandela video clips
First interview – 1961 Treason trial speech – 1961 Release from prison – 1990 First speech following release – 1990 Presidential inauguration –…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
The history of the Young Communist League (YCL) dates back to 1921, although the organisation observes 25 May 1922 as the date of its official formation…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
The clippings collection built up by the Southern Africa Labour & Development Research Unit (Saldru) in the School of Economics at the University of Cape Town…
PlaceJutten Island, Saldanha Bay
This Dutch East 'Indiaman', was outbound when she tried to put; 'Merenstein' into Saldanha Bay to alleviate rampant scurvy on board the ship. On April 3, 1702…
ArticleThe South African general elections: 1994
In September 1993, the South African legislature approved the setting up of a multiparty Transitional Executive Council (TEC) to manage South Africa’s…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
… Francis Fukuyama boldly proclaimed at the beginning of the 1990s that this is "the end of history and the last man". …
The Black Homeland Citizenship Act of 1970
During Apartheid, starting from the late 1950s the South African Government attempted to divide South Africa into a number of separate states, called homelands…
ArchiveAppendix 2 The Political Landscape of Cape Town, by Dr Z. Pallo Jordan
Table Mountain and the curved spine of hills associated with it define the city of Cape Town. The prevailing summer and winter winds, from the south east and…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans…
ArticlePeter Magubane Timeline 1932-
1932 Born in Vrededorp, South Africa. Matriculates from Western Native Township High School. 1954 Worked as a photojournalist for Drum Magazine, South…
ArticlePan Africanist Congress (PAC)
The Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) is a political party whose presence in the South African political landscape spans just over half a century. The PAC’s…
Post-detention weapons
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman As we have seen in Chapter 3, detention without trial,…
EventSACP is legally re-launched
On 29 July 1990 the South African Communist Party(SACP), which had been unbanned in February 1990, was formally re-launched as a legal organisation at a mass…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… legitimately claim his mantle, was to endure into the 1990s. Gandhi as historic figure has featured prominently in …
EventFirst ANC Conference in SA in three decades
The African National Congress (ANC) held its first Consultative Conference in South Africa after thirty-one years from 14-16 December 1990. It was considered…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
… the re-discovery of a few elderly speakers in the 1990s. [15] Fig. 1.3. The JU and TUU (!Ui-Taa) groups os … began working with the surviving ?Khomani San in…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
… the re-discovery of a few elderly speakers in the 1990s. [15] The two groups identified as JU and TUU are in … began working with the surviving ?Khomani San…
A Brief History of Mali by US Department of State updated 01 October 2015
A Grand Heritage: Malians express great pride in their ancestry. Mali is the cultural heir to the succession of ancient African empires – Ghana, Malinké, and…