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… From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The Party, as an organisation, underwent a number of changes during the exile period, some of which were revisited after the …

… history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The All-African Convention came into being as an answer by the Native People to the Government's unjust Native Bills. It was born from the …

… Bogus Unities The method of open frontal attack on the part of the Congress die-hards did not work and they found it …

… This groundbreaking work was the first of its type to present the entire history of the African continent. The collection sheds light on the …

… Within a few decades Grahamstown was the most important city in the Cape Colony after Cape Town. In 2018 the city changed its name to Makhanda. Makhanda was a Xhosa …

… Mr President, Distinguished Members of the Security Council, Your Excellency, Dr Boutrous Boutrous Ghali, Secretary General of the United Nations, Ministers and Ambassadors, Ladies and … First of all, we would like to express our appreciation to the Security Council for agreeing to convene on the question …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans … others from Durban sent a petition to Joseph Chamberlain, the Colonial Secretary. The petition discussed four Bills: those dealing with …

… The original building is the first recorded public Hindu temple to have been erected on the African continent. Built in 1875, . It was declared a …

… 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church Jeppestown and the DR Church Johannesburg East , Irene. The new congregation …

… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 10 - Sharpeville and its aftermath In the early months of 1960 the PAC leadership launched a campaign against the pass laws. …

… From the book:  A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Indian Congress was formed in 1923 to fight the 'principle of segregation' embodied in the Class Areas …

… On 7 August 1993, Eugene Terreblanche, the leader of the Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) , had just been given the freedom of the White section of the Town, … History, Johannesburg: Heinemann.|Moichela, Z. (1993). The Relevance of Oral Tradition in Local History: A Case …

… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism After the May 1961 stay-at-home, Mandela wrote: "Of all the observations made on the strike, none has brought so much …

… out as beacons guiding and inspiring peoples all over the world and for generations.  Such was the great freedom movement of Ireland, and I believe the movement in my own country, India.  Such, indeed, is the …

… Racism in Isolation South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system …

… South Africa has for decades been the only country in the world which has codified the doctrine of racial superiority into a statutory system …

… From the book:  Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The 1946 Passive Resistance against the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Acts …

… is an Area in Hout Bay , Cape Town. It is situated on the Mountain slopes between Hout Bay Harbour and The Sentinel Peak and many of the residents are employed in the fishing or other … Buhler, Andreas. 2014. Smiling in the face of Precarity:  Housing and Eviction in Hangberg, …

… Principal Town of the Magisterial District and Division of George, on the Garden Route - 439 km from Cape Town , 1252 km from Durban and 1213 km from Johannesburg . It is on the Railway Line from Cape Town to Port Elizabeth , 51 km …

… One pound a day for the factory worker who today cannot buy what he makes. One pound a day for the miner who earns his phthisis and goes home broken and to die. One pound a day for the farm labourer who today ploughs the bitter furrow of …

… Is the Southern most Country of Africa. It is bordered by … , Zimbabwe . It is also bordered by two Seas, namely the Atlantic Ocean and the warmer, Indian ocean . The national flag was designed by …

… It has come to our notice that the issue of the Johannesburg Sunday Times of November 4, 1979, carries an … been a secret meeting in London between representatives of the African National Congress and Inkatha. There has been no …

… The Voortrekker Monument is located just South of Pretoria, … located on a Hilltop, and was Built to commemorate the Voortrekkers who left the Cape Colony between 1835 and 1854. The idea to Build a …

… Monument under old NMC legislation on 1 April 1977.   The Historic Machine Building, "Staatsartillerie" Stables and Western portion of the Main Building. all situated at Defence Headquarters, Pretoria. Stables and they were Erected in the 1890 by the Government of the Zuid-Afrikaansche …

… From the book:  Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of …

… to six months' imprisonment each for their leadership of the Passive Resistance Movement. The following is the report on Dr. Dadoo's speech at a meeting in Johannesburg …

… Umsebenzi, 23 May 1936 We have dealt last week with the effects and possibilities of the united front in European countries and now we must analyse the methods and chances of a united front here. The position …

… From the book:  Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular … people continued to arrive in a steady stream. From 1914, the population of newcomers to the Rand increased even more rapidly. With their different …

… The Significance of the All-African Convention Notwithstanding the temporary vicissitudes, which overtook the Convention, the indubitable fact remains that the …

… 1946 Salvation lies in Non-European Front — M.D. Naidoo The salvation of the Indian people in this country lay in a united front of … to be free by their own internal strength, however much the outside world might help them. The Indian people should, …