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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 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984
Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions of ordinary people in townships, factories and rural areas. The insurrection of the 1980s was…
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 4 - The Township Uprising, September-November 1984 by Noor Nieftagodien
From the book: Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid commissioned by The Department of Education Apartheid was brought to an end by the struggles of millions…
Chapter IV - A meaningful life
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph June 1971 had brought me freedom from all the frustrations of house arrest and the other onerous mutilations of my…
ArchiveChapter 16 Tee Shirts, Music and More Solidarity by Denis Goldberg
… during the Trial that followed the arrests at Rivonia, and 26 years in prison in the years thereafter. In the weeks … each other, and I had become older and…
"United Nations must take Action to Destroy Apartheid": Statement at the Meeting of the Special Political Committee of the United Nations General Assembly by O. T. Tambo, New York, 29 October, 1963
… (1901-66). Minister of Native Affairs of South Africa, 1950-58; Prime Minister, 1958-66. Assassinated in 1966. [8] … by the Congress of the People, held in…
Chapter 7 - SANSCO:The Ideology and Politics of Non-Racialism, the Freedom Charter and National Liberation
… history of the Congress movement and the struggles of the 1950's, and in the programme and policies of the ANC. The … was convened at Wilgespruit, near…
SAHO Timeline and Milestones
… Celebrating 50 years of the Freedom Charter: June 26 1955 - June 26 2005 Compiled by the SAHO staff (publication for schools) …
ArticleKey sites
… Shiraz The Rajab brothers opened their second cinema on 26 April 1968, the Shiraz which was housed in the new Rajab …
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… known as the Cape Riflemen, arrived in Bloemfontein on 26 March 1846 and Warden followed shortly after. He was …
Alfred Nzo Lecture in memory of Comrade Alfred Baphethuxolo Nzo delivered on 28 June 2014 by Dr Zwelini Mkhize Treasurer General of the ANC in Mount Ayliff ; Alfred Nzo District in Eastern Cape Province
The ANC appreciates the fact that the people of the Eastern Cape decided to honour this hero of our struggle by naming this municipality in his memory. It is…
Statement by Albert Luthuli to the council of the Institute of Race Relations, 19 December 1960
… it was abolished by the Nationalist Party Government about 1950. No serious-minded African grieved over its abolition. …
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
The President of Cosatu, Comrade Willie Madisha, General Secretary, Comrade Zwelinzima Vavi and all members of the Central Executive Committee, The Secretary…
Document 127 - 6 Point Communist Programme f c. 7 941)
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew The people of the world are on the …
Document 38 - “How to Build o Revolutionary Mass Party in South Africa: A letter from the Executive Committee of the Communist International, “Umsebenzi, 12 December 1930
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 38 - "How to Build o … South Africa's Radical Tradition: 1907-1950 v. 1: A…
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement … Radical Tradition a Documentary History…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, to the 118th Inter-Parliamentary Union Assembly: Cape Town, 13 April 2008
… of the European Union. This Policy has, since the 1950's, offered subsidies to farmers and guaranteed prices …
Document 12 - Notes prepared by Nelson Mandela for his meeting with P. W. Botha
Viva COSATU, Viva! Viva SACP, Viva! Viva ANC, Viva! Viva the Alliance, Viva! Comrades, it falls to me to say a few words to bring this Special Congress to a…
Document 18 - The Pretoria Minute
The South African state saw in the campaign for the Congress of the People and the Freedom Charter an act of treason. Consequently, on the early morning of 5…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 1 - Rural Change and the Future of South Africa by Rachidi R. Molapo
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Thedevelopment of an industrialised…
Chapter 4 - Poor, yet generous Lesotho
… and banned under the Suppression of Communism Act of 1950. Some were banished away from their homes to the …
Chapter 7. An Afrikaner Working Mother
… Anna Sophia Swanepoel (Told in 1950) I was born on 2nd April 1893, on Tapfontein Farm, …
Address by ANC President Jacob Zuma at the celebration of the 90th birthday of former President Nelson Mandela, 2 August 2008
… in just a few words. In a press statement you issued on 26 June 1961, you made it clear that despite persecution, you …
Article1960s: The Civil Rights and Black Power movements
Introduction It is important to note that South African events do not occur in a vacuum, as we are part of a large continent and a much larger world…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
… have been nettles in the regime's thin skin, but since the 1950 enactment of the Suppression of Communism Act the … of the objects of communism . . ." But …
ArchiveChief Albert Luthuli Lecture, Africa and Freedom, delivered by the patron of the TMF, Thabo Mbeki, 10 December 2021
… the United Nations General Assembly took the decision in 1950 to proclaim this Day to honour that vitally important … years are as follows: In 2008 it was 21…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… what appears to be a rigid education system in the UK. [26] Here education is flexible & there should be no problem … order to be where he could make a…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
… or associates of the ANC and/or SACP underground in Natal. 26 Whatever the propaganda value of their refuge, their … was that inflation rose from 10% in…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… by 1790 Freetown was established. [lii] Between February 26 and March 9, 1792, a total of 1,190 people arrived in … Protectorate (London: International…
The people armed, 1984-1990
Introduction 1985, Desmond Tutu, armed only with the bible under his arm, confronts the SA forces during their attempts to break up a demonstration…