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ArchiveA Look at America
ArchiveDetention and Evidence
ArchiveFrom Hope to Action
ArchiveBritish Consulate Six Opinion Piece by Paul David, 18 September 2018
Archive'La lutte contre l'Apartheid'
EventDulcie September's 's life commemorated at Athlone High School
Dulcie September was born on 20 August 1935. From her early years of activism she chose the path of resistance against the apartheid regime. She was a member…
EventZuma announces freeze on university fees increase
When the government announced a 10.5% increase in tertiary education fees, due to the high inflation of the South African economy, the news fell on an already…
EventWomen lead Food Raid
In the 1940s, as a result of the Second World War, the economy was in a dire state with the working and lower classes being the most vulnerable. There were…
Event80 Women arrested for anti-pass protest
Passes and measures to control the mobility of the Black population particularly centring on White urban areas, were being implemented all over South Africa…
EventThe SS Mendi began its journey from Cape Town to Plymouth
In 1916, the South African government agreed to recruit Black people to assist the British in World War 1 by providing labour. There were to be 10 000 people…
EventThe 1st troop ship to set sail after the sinking of the SS Mendi
Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troop ship carrying the Fifth Battalion of the South African Native Labour Contingent, the recruitment process for troops…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
C.W. Malan put forth a motion in parliament on this day: “That this House strongly disapproves of sending coloured men and natives from South Africa to Europe…
EventFinal legal note on the SS Mendi
A brief report appeared on the 13th of November in the Times, which was the last of the legal conclusions around the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from…
EventCourt verdict made on the sinking of the SS Mendi
Following the sinking of the SS Mendi troopship, from which 616 South Africans lost their lives, there was an official and legal investigation done into the…
PlaceOld General Post Office, Grand Central, Cape Town
Overlooking the Western side of the Parade is the lofty General Post Office building. It was completed in 1940 on the site of the old Opera House. The exterior…
PlaceOld Post Office, Rissik Street, Johannesburg
Johannesburg has many historic landmarks and the Rissik Street Post Office is one of them. Built in 1897, it’s among the city’s oldest surviving buildings and…
Archive"The Asiatic Menace": Creating Segregation in Durban, 1870-1900 by Maynard W. Swanson
ArchiveThe Democratisation of Art: Cap as an Alternative Art space in South Africa by Eben Lochner, 02 June 2011
ArchiveFoundation of the New South Africa by John Pampallis
ArchivePower in Colonial Africa by Elizabeth A. Eldredge
ArchiveWest African Unity by Philippe Decraene
ArchiveNichts Wird Uns Trennen Nothing Will Seperate Us – South African Photography and Apartheid
ArchiveLetter by Natasha Issa Shivji to Samir Amin, Dar es Salaam, 13 August 2018
ArchiveRoseinnes Daniel Phahle by Allison Drew
Born on 21 March 1936, Roseinnes Phahle grew up in Alexandra Township. From 1950 to 1952 he boarded at St Peter’s School (now St. Martin’s) in Rosettenville,…
ArchiveThe Struggle for National Independence and Socialism in Kampuchea by Samir Amin, October 1981
ArchiveUnequal Development: An Essay on the Social Formations of· Peripheral Capitalism by Samir Amin
PlaceTunisia
Tunisia is bounded by Algeria to the west and southwest, by Libya to the southeast, and by the Mediterranean Sea to the east and north. Used as a Roman, Arab,…
PlaceSudan
There is evidence of human habitation which dates back tens of thousands of Years. From the end of the 4th millennium BCE, Nubia (now northern Sudan)…
PlaceSouth Sudan
Egypt attempted to colonize the region of Southern Sudan by establishing the Province of Equatoria in the 1870s. Islamic Mahdist revolutionaries overran the…
PlaceSouth Africa
Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, Mozambique, Zimbabwe. It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the…