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January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 103th Anniversary of the ANC by Jacob Zuma
… force to address issues in their communities through the establishment of street committees. It is the ANC that must … households, since 1994, than in all…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… ideology. The theme of the congress covers an end to colonial rule and political independence. 1946 18 December, … students are expelled. Tiro eventually…
ArticleDifferences between Capitalism & Communism and why did it start in Russia?
… Please note that this information was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated … regime was overthrown and that the…
PlaceImbali Township, Pietermaritzburg
… and Heritage Site. Imbali Township will recreate its History and will hold annual awards called: ' Qhakaza Awards …
Academia and activism: A unique alliance in working class organisation post 1973 by Vannessa Kruger
… is part of a current research undertaking to document the history of these initiatives and to reflect on factors that …
PlaceMalgas Island, Saldanha Bay
… and fauna found at Malgas Island can be traced to its history. It can be said that Malgas, as well as all the other …
Links & Partnerships
… (and uses) for further research about South African History. Please inform us if links are no longer working or … - This website is a joint project between…
Article1970s: Black Consciousness Movement in South Africa
… according to these categories, it is impossible to write a history of South Africa without using racial labels. The … well-known today but also played an…
Challenges facing workers and unions: The role of the ANC by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… as previous economic analysis has made clear. The enclave colonial economies and the processes of development and … the global system presently. Those…
PlaceHilton College an Independent Boy's Boarding School
… university. But it has taken nearly 150 years for a rustic colonial schoolhouse to evolve into the singular South …
PlaceZambezi River, Zambia and Zimbabwe
… animals, such as buffalo, zebra, giraffe, elephant. The history of the Zambezi River Authority may be said to have … Hydro-Electric Power Act was passed…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Vietnam Institute of International Relations on the occasion of Africa Day celebrations, Hanoi
… at the beginning of the 1990s that this is "the end of history and the last man". Fortunately real history is more dynamic, durable and complex to come to an…
PlacePringle Bay, Cape Overberg
The little seaside village of Pringle Bay is one of the towns set within the natural beauty of the Kogelberg Biosphere, the only reserve in South Africa to be…
EventSA painter Frederick Timpson I'Ons (85) dies
Frederick Timpson l'Ons (85), SA painter of the early life in the Eastern Cape, died in Grahamstown. He was born in Islington, Middlesex, England on 15…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 75th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1987
… 75 years of organised political struggle against colonial and racist oppression in our country have brought … which has already resulted, among other things,…
ArticleSonghai, African Empire, 15-16th Century
… in Songhai Trade significantly influenced the course of history in West Africa. The wealth made through trade was … and for their “middleman” skills in…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… is one of the most extraordinary people in South African history. What is incredible is that he has been almost … much of his life being hounded out of…
PlaceNamibia
… any attack on South West Africa, which they viewed as the colonial territory of a friendly power. The Union Government, … a variety of pretexts. The…
ArticleThe Judicial Commission of Inquiry into Allegations of State Capture, Corruption and Fraud in the Public Sector including Organs of State (The Zondo Commission)
… the NEC resolution and adopted a resolution that the establishment of a commission of inquiry into state capture … discuss his recall – former President…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
… people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham … bitter struggles against the white foreign…
Freedom movement in South Africa: Its International impact by E.S Reddy
… later as the Mahatma to lead the people of the largest colonial country to freedom. If Mahatma Gandhi had a … rejection of the legitimacy of the apartheid…
ArticleThe British Anti-Apartheid Movement
… of the most powerful international solidarity movements in history, a model that has subsequently been used to weaken or … role in the committee, including…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the Special Committee against Apartheid, 12 January 1982
… the fact that a people who lost their independence to a colonial Power in 1884 and who were cast in the fascist grip … stability, peace and progress by…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the meeting of the United Nations Special Committee against apartheid, 12 January 1982
… the fact that a people who lost their independence to a colonial Power in 1884 and who were cast in the fascist grip … stability, peace and progress by…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Where Working people Lived
… Official housing policy From the earliest years of colonial government, it was customary to keep the housing of … powerful force of change was beginning to…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… Spencer Tlhole, and Victor Vuysine Vinjike, observed by colonial intelligence agents. Security reports at the time … them as mostly “obscure” and rather …
EventBelgium annexes the Congo Free State
… and Portuguese had been relatively successful in their colonial expeditions. Belgium, on the other hand, had been …
PlaceOld Drostdy Museum, Rawson Street, Pearston
… and heemraden when they were abolished by the British colonial government. In 1846 the government sold the Drostdy …
PlaceBaxter Theatre, Rondebosch- Cape Town
… of Cape Town in order to support the arts through the establishment of this theatre as it had always been his …
PlaceState Theatre, Pretoria
… saw the birth of, and was the driving force behind, the establishment of the Performing Arts, in all spheres in South …