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ArchiveMay Day : High profile COSATU speaker
White poster with black lettering. Black and white images of hands holding tools. Notice of May Day meeting at Great Hall on Thursday 28th April.
ArchiveArtwork of a man with handcuffs broken
Black, white, orange, red and yellow poster. Artwork of an African man reaching towards the sun, breaking his handcuffs. Name - Werner - in bottom right hand…
ArchiveMetalworkers unite! : Abolish the wage gap!
Red poster with black lettering. Black and white photos of three workers earning very different wages. Notice of IMF General meetings on 30th April and 14th…
ArchiveChairmans speech: May 29th 1943
Minutes of the 1st Anti-CAD Conference held in Cape Town on 29 May 1943, beginning with a speech delivered by the Chairman. Included are discussions on a…
EventFirst celebration of May Day in South Africa
On 1 May, South Africa will enjoy Worker's Day (effectively a May Day holiday). Worker's Day celebrates the role played by Trade Unions, the Communist Party…
BiographyPetrus Nzima Nyawose
In the 1970s, Petrus Nyawose worked as a bouncer at The Paradise, a popular nightclub in Durban. Nyawose spent most of his working hours at the offices of the…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela to a May Day rally Kimberley, 1 May 1998
SPEECH BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA TO A MAY DAY RALLY Umtata, 1 May 1997
Mau-Mau members murder two schoolboys in the outskirts of Nairobi, Kenya.
Answers to questions by Drum: Albert Luthuli, 6 May 1961
Demonstrations against Proclamation of Republic 6 May 1961 [Drum asked several non-European leaders for answers to three questions concerning the planned…
The French Revolution Activity
… Activity 3: The Radical Stage (1792-1794) Look at the map and answer the questions that follow (the map shows what Europe looked like at the end of the 18th…
Evelyn Ntoko Mase
Little is available in the public to construct a thorough biography of Evelyn Ntoko Mase before and after her relationship with Nelson Mandela. She may have…
ArchiveThe Anti-Apartheid Movement Abroad by Max Rossiter
The Role of London in the Anti-Apartheid movement, specifically in relation to the SACP and the ANCThe international aspect of the anti-apartheid struggle in…
Event”Unknown” White man is hanged in Pretoria
For the first time in the South African criminal history a man was hanged with his name known only by authorities. The 37-year-old White male was accused of…
EventScores of people, including a Chief, are killed in Lari, Kenya, following an attack by Mau Mau freedom fighters
On 26 March 1953, close to 100 people were killed and scores of others injured at Lari in Kiambu region, Kenya, when Mau Mau freedom fighters attacked the area…
Speech by the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, to May Day rally
ArchiveThe Man Who Could Fly
ArchiveMaps showing resettlement sites in the Ciskei
Maps showing resettlement sites in the Ciskei
ArchiveLet us celebrate workers Sunday 1 May 1988
Offset litho; red; Let us celebrate workers Sunday 1 May 1988
ANC statement on Zimbabwe, 26 May 2000
The African National Congress wishes to reiterate its position on Zimbabwe as per the discussions and decisions of its last National Executive Committee (NEC)…
ArchiveTributes paid to a Man of the people
Joseph Mavi the man who led 10,000 Johannesburg municipal workers in a strike for higher pay, was buried on June 26, the 27th anniversary of the Freedom…
South African workers rally around May Day
History of May Day in South Africa. Title in red on white background. Two black and white blocks at bottom showing protestors and police action. Red and white…
Nine Mau Mau prisoners, serving life sentences, escape from Mageta Island, Lake Victoria.
ArchiveConstitutional Guidelines Seminar, 17 May 1989: Report
Report of the Congress of South African Trade Unions Constitutional Guidelines Seminar held in Soweto, 17 May 1989. Objectives were to prepare participants on…
ArchiveEditorial notes: Dictatorship run mad
Archive'Let no man put asunder'
ArchiveMay Day 1985 (Tape III)
Meeting with workers to explain history of MayDay and why workers celebrate. Cultural performances by worker groups.Role-plays reveal real problems facing…
ArchiveMay Day 1985 (Tape II)
Meeting with workers to explain history of MayDay and why workers celebrate. Cultural performances by worker groups.Role-plays reveal real problems facing…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.4 No.4 Mar 1982
Contents and Coontributors Stories: Mama Ndiyalila by Mothobi Mudoatse; Over My Dead Body by Es’kia Mphahlele; The Line is Busy by Michael Manl’aButi…
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