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Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Communist League (B-L) to the Communist League of South Africa and the Workers Party of South Africa, 24 July 1935
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 54 - Letter from the International Secretariat…
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi to Leon…
EventHistory of December 16
December 16 looms large in the history of South Africa; it is celebrated as the Day of Reconciliation. First celebrated as ‘Dingane’s Day,’ when the…
Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane, Flagstaff, 15 September 1938
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 73 - Letter from The Spark to M.S. Njisane,…
For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated February 23, 1934.
South African Communist Party 1934 For Africanisation of the Party Letter from Moses M Kotane in Cradock to Johannesburg District Party Committee dated…
Archaeology - A way of discovering the past
How do we find out about the past? For recent events where there was personal involvement, memory can be relied on. To know about events earlier than this,…
PlaceMali
Mali, landlocked country of western Africa, mostly in the Saharan and Sahelian regions. Mali is bounded on the north by Algeria, on the east by Niger and…
Archive2019 - Cyril Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 7 February 2019
Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Baleka Mbete, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Ms Thandi Modise, Deputy Speaker of the National…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
From the book: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du PlessisThere will be many readers who would like to have a sense of…
Tribute by Comrade David Makhura delivered at the funeral service of Comrade Chilly Magagula, 16 October 2010
Programme Director, Cde Mondli Gungubele; Bishop Msibi, Senior Pastor Ntlhoro and other Pastors of Church of Warriors of Christ; Our dear sister Kgatiso, the…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
Windhoek is the capital and largest city of the Republic of Namibia. If Namibia is Africa for beginners, then Windhoek is very much its capital in more than…
ArchiveWhat lost photos of Blue Notes say about South Africa’s jazz history by Lindelwa Dalamba , 14 October 2019
In 1964 a young South African student and photography enthusiast, Norman Owen-Smith, took his Leica camera along to a jazz concert at the then University of…
PlaceWellington, Western Cape
The picturesque town of Wellington is a scenic 45-minute drive from Cape Town. The train station is built on land donated to the Town Council in 1863, as part…
PlaceCape Winelands Airport, Fisantekraal
Nestled beautifully in the Western Cape winelands, Cape Winelands Airport (formerly Fisantekraal Airfield) is an ex-South African Airforce airfield now…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the opening of the Congress of the South African Agricultural Union (SAAU) Cape Town, 18 October 1994
Mr. President, Honoured Delegates, Distinguished Guests, The honour you have bestowed on me of opening your Congress is all the greater because this is…
A Brief History of Niger - Part 2 by US Department of State
From Military Chairman to President of the Republic: After dissolving the national electoral committee, Ibrahim Baré Maïnassara organized and won a flawed…
New Book | Apartheid Israel: The Politics of an Analogy edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs
Apartheid Israel The Politics of an Analogy Edited by Jon Soske and Sean Jacobs Foreword by Achille Mbembe …
PlacePretoria National Zoological Gardens.
Situated at 323 Boom Street, the zoo is the largest in South Africa and rated as one of the top zoos in the world and is run by the National Research…
EventSteve Tshwete is born
Steve Tshwete (1938 - 2002) was born in Springs on 12 November. He spent his childhood in the village of Peelton, and later in King William's Town and East…
PlacePeddie
Peddie is a small town in the Amathole district of the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. Peddie is a historic little town which lies 50 km South-West of…
PlaceOld Presidency
This building served as the official residence of the presidents of the former Republic of the Orange Free State, it was declared a National Monument under old…
PlaceLadysmith
Ladysmith is one of the most important industrial and commercial centres of the South African province of KwaZulu-Natal. Furthermore, it is also a town with a…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969
Yusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1960 - 1969 1960 March 16, The Boycott Movement, in London, is renamed the Anti-Apartheid Movement (AAM). Tennyson Makiwane, Vella…
Mission Stations - T-Z
Mission Stations - T TABA MOSEGU, Transvaal: Bn 1880 TABASE, Umtata, Cape: Mor 1873; MorG 1914 TABLE MOUNTAIN, Pietermaritzburg, Natal: ABCFM c1851 …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
PlaceTouwsrivier
Touwsrivier is a community of approximately 8000 people and is also home to the World's largest: 'CPV Solar Plants'. Located 13 km outside of Touwsrivier,…
From Durban Falkirk to Defy: Changing sources of workers’ power in the metal industry by Andries Bezuidenhout and Edward Webster
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Conference on Fifty years since the 1973 Durban strikes Durban…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with…
ArchiveChapter 7 Arrest at Liliesleaf by Denis Goldberg
On 11 July 1963 I was sitting in the living-room of theLiliesleaf farm-house reading Robert Junk’s Brighter than a Thousand Suns, the story of the first atomic…