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The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
Steve Biko was not alone in forging the Black Consciousness Movement, he was nevertheless its most prominent leader, who with others guided the movement of…
ArchiveChapter 17 Affairs of the heart and Community H.E.A.R.T.
Nelson Mandela was sworn in as President on 10 May 1994. All over the world the ANC closed the offices of its Representatives and new Ambassadors replaced…
International Boycott of Apartheid Sport by Mary Corrigall
With special reference to the campaigns in Britain by the Anti-Apartheid Movement Paper prepared for the United Nations Unit on Apartheid in 1971 1 The…
ANC NGC 2015 Resolutions on International Relations
1. Introduction The important task of our National Democratic Revolution (NDR) is to grapple with the complex and ever-changing world order. The balance of…
The Great Trek Was Not Over Abolition by Ron (Republican Trekker Volk), 30 October 2008
Certain historians have erroneously asserted the the Great Trek was motivated over the issue of the abolition of slavery but the fact of the matter is that…
PlaceMaynardville Open Air Theatre
The Maynardville Open Air Theatre is a popular and central part of Cape Town’s art scene – chiefly known for its Shakespeare performances and its ballet nights…
Obituary: Dr Hastings Banda by Richard Dowden (Independent), 27 November 1997
Kamuzu Banda (Hastings Kamuzu Banda), medical practitioner and politician: born 14 May 1898; Minister of Natural Resources and Local Government, Nyasaland 1961…
The curious case of the missing ANC members – and the crisis plan to win them back by Ranjeni Munusamy (Daily Maverick),14 October 2015, South Africa
Remember when President Jacob Zuma got booed at Nelson Mandela’s memorial service? The ANC claimed those were not ANC members. Could it be that they were among…
Address by President of the Republic of South Africa, Nelson Mandela, at the World Economic Forum, Southern Africa summit Cape Town, 9 June 1994
Your Excellencies; President Sam Nujoma of Namibia President Robert Mugabe of Zimbabwe President Hassan Mwinyi of Tanzania Visiting Cabinet Ministers …
Constitution of the ANC
29a. Constitution of the ANC 1. NAME: The name of the organisation shall be the African National Congress. 2. OBJECTS: The aims of the Congress shall be: (a)…
Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, “Boycott as a Political Weapon”, Liberation, 23, February 1957
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 39 - “Walter Sisulu, "Boycott as a Political…
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
In 1931 a strike started in a factory over the dismissal of a number of workers. The workers were divided and about one-third refused to strike. The strikers,…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
European ‘Discovery’ of the Americas Where and what is America? 'America' has more than one meaning. It is usually taken to mean the United States of America…
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
Speech by Joe Slovo, Chairman of the South African Communist Party When South African communists met in Cape Town 65 years ago they planted the first seed…
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid by Dr Peter Alegi
Sport, Race, and Liberation Before Apartheid: A Preliminary Study of Albert Luthuli, 1920s-1952s Dr Peter Alegi, Department of History, Michigan State…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson…
Chapter 6 - No more suppers for my comrades
From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 Maseru Massacre) by Phyllis Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 The raid into Lesotho, not only killed 12…
X - Counsel’s Submission on behalf of the Biko Family
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa These are the indisputed facts concerning the treatment of Mr. Biko. Mr. Biko was…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase By 1957 any relative lull in the mass…
Archive'Colonialism had never really ended': my life in the shadow of Cecil Rhodes by Simukai Chigudu
There was no single moment when I began to sense the long shadow that Cecil John Rhodes has cast over my life, or over the university where I am a professor,…
PlaceThulamela Local Municipality
This Municipality is dedicated to the Local People and providing a better life for their people. There motto being: "WE SERVE WITH DEDICATION". Mission: …
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In July 1993, the date for South Africa's first non…
56. The Cape Town Agreement is welcomed
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress had several…
Chapter XI - Witness for freedom
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph When I began to give evidence, my knees were actually trembling for the first time in my life. Somehow I managed…
Chapter XIV - End of an era
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I drove back alone to Johannesburg, to my comfortable home in a white suburb, to my comfortable white life; my…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
Response to the State of the Nation debate by His Excellency Mr JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; National Assembly 16 February 2010 …
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Celebration the 50th Anniversary of the Freedom Charter, Kliptown, Johannesburg, 26 June 2005
Director of Ceremonies, Veteran volunteer organisers of the Congress of the People, Deputy President of the Republic, Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka, Our dear…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1903 - 1923 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1903 South African Moslem Association 62 The South African Moslem Association was…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1932 Subsidies for Cape Muslim Primary Schools Du Plessis maintains that in 1931…
PlaceDutch and British Coastal Fortifications at the Cape of Good Hope (1665 to 1829)
The Cape Peninsula is surrounded by oceans on three sides and has three natural harbours: Table Bay and Hout Bay on the Atlantic coast and False Bay on the…