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ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… between the two communist parties. In South Africa, by 1960 political organisations like the African National … Communism Act (1950) and the Unlawful…
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
… and Jonathan Jackson. I remember our reading about the massacre of black prisoners after the Attica riot broke out …
70. The Durban riots, 1949
… were the real causes of the convulsion, why the senseless massacre of the poor Indians living side by side with the …
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… stepped in, including members of the Liberal Party, Ambrose Reeves (Bishop of Johannesburg), and ex-ANC leaders. …
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… used in Natal's sugar growing areas for cutting cane. Rev. John Langalibelele Dube, first President of the ANC. …
ArchiveBiography of Flora Nwapa by Emily Coolidge
… independence, and modernization. From 1950 to 1960, a long struggle for independence from Britain grew … all across the country until independence was…
ArchivePhotographer Ernest Cole: Of bondage and freedom – Discovery of trove of negatives a game changer by Ivor Powell (Daily Maverick), 30 November 2017
By the age of 25, when Ernest Cole fled South Africa for exile in New York, he had already cut the template for the way the experience of apartheid would be…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… oppression, migrant labour, and the dock labour pool, 1960-1969 p382 CHAPTER 7 Forced labour, strikes, and …
Ahmed Kathrada pays tribute to Nelson Mandela, 6 December 2013
… frequent. During the Treason Trial, and specifically in 1960, there was dramatic change in the status of Flat 13. …
Rick Turner: Thirty Years On by Jann Turner
… read and thoughtful young man who registered at UCT in 1960 for a BA in Engineering. Against Jane’s wishes he … of Paris and the emergence of the new left in…
Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, delivered by Mr. Tambo, at the funeral of Dr. Yusuf M. Dadoo, 01 September 1983, London
… Following the ban of the African National Congress in 1960 and the increased onslaught of the regime on the …
Mines of the beloved country: Through the mind of a photographer and essayist by J Brooks Spector (Daily Maverick), 5 November 2012
Back in the mid-1970s, when the writer was still feeling his way along the dark moral landscape that was South Africa, a South African colleague insisted we…
How Zuma, the smiling spy, controls South Africa by Joe Brock and Ed Cropley (World News), 04 May 2016, Johannesburg
… in his 2012 book, "External Mission: The ANC in Exile 1960-1990", Zuma's time in Lusaka shaped the rest of his …
Appendix II: About Dr. Dadoo, delivered by Oliver Tambo
… Following the ban of the African National Congress in 1960 and the increased onslaught of the regime on the …
80. Local affairs committees: a means to an end
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The system of management committees, or local…
ArchiveClass, Consciousness and Organisation: Introduction by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Political assassinations 1974 - 1994
… official Shot and killed while driving his car. 9 March Sharpeville, PWV 'Doctor' Mkopidi Motsisi Witness to killing …
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… gap. The generations of the old Defiance Campaign, of Sharpeville, of Soweto ‘76, and the angry new generation of …
ArticleSita’s story
… so then I stayed with a close friend of the family, Rev. Sundrum and I was happy there as he had a daughter … age and other elder children who went to the…
The Life and Politics of Steve Biko by Yunus Momoniat, November 2014
… their lessons. Steve passed Standard Six in 1959 and in 1960 he went on to Forbes Grant, a school through which many … was elected to drive the organisation…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… Alternative Press: Voices of Protest and Resistance, 1880-1960, ed. Les Switzer (Pretoria: HAUM Opvoedkundige …
"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
… in a number of countries by various organisations. In 1960, at the Addis Ababa Conference, [4] another delegation … African situation is approaching a…
ArticleThe Angolan Civil War (1975-2002): A Brief History
The overthrow of Portugal’s Prime Minister, Marcello Caetano, on 25 April 1974 hailed a watershed moment for the former Portuguese colonies of Mozambique,…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… civic leaders and parliamentarians. 3 The arrival of Rev. J. Robinowitz which led to the reorganization of the … workers disturbed the Progressive party,…
PlaceNamibia
… a seven-nation committee to investigate conditions. In 1960 Liberia and Ethiopia applied to the International Court … the South West Africa People's…
Chapter 8- Gumede walks the ANC and SACP tightrope, 1930–46‘
… conference in connection with the latest Native Bills. The Rev. Mahabane condemned the autocratic action of the … hard for Gumede’s re-election. Gumede, Seme…
PlaceWestern Sahara
… newly independent Mauritania’s claims to the province in 1960, and in 1963 huge phosphate deposits were discovered at …
ArchiveRemembering the Blue Notes: South Africa’s first generation of free jazz by Gwen Ansell, 11 September 2017
“We were all kind of rebels,” drummer Louis Tebogo Moholo-Moholo recalls, “so, like birds of a feather, [we] flocked together.” He’s talking about the Blue…
ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
One of the founding figures of Postcolonial Studies, Benita Parry, died after a short illness on 19 January 2020. In a series of brilliant essays written in…
ANC Today Volume 10 No.1, 15 - 21 January 2010
… while the year also marks the 50th Anniversary of the Sharpeville Massacre. We shall also celebrate the 25th Anniversary of the …