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ArticleNamibian Timeline
Late Pleistocene (Early and Middle Stone Age) 800 000 years Artefacts in a…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
Inseparable from the photographic images of world-renowned South African photographer David Goldblatt, are values. Values, like waves of light, are in some…
ArchiveNote on sources and footnoting by Howard Barrell
THE EXTREMITY OF CONFLICT in a revolutionary struggle can create a number of difficulties for someone attempting a serious study of such a struggle. Firstly,…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
Hugh Masekela was an up-and-coming trumpeter, all of 20, when he took an overnight train from Johannesburg to Cape Town to meet a pianist everyone was talking…
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
On Thursday August 16, 34 striking miners were shot dead by police at Lonmin’s platinum mine in Rustenburg. It is not yet clear why the police were using live…
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Opening Ceremony of the Second Festival of the Cultures and Civilisations of World Deserts, Dubai: 16 April 2005.
Your Royal Highness, Crown Prince of Dubai and Minister of Defence, Sheikh Mohamed Bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Your Excellency, Patron of the World Deserts…
Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
COSATU is in a no-win situation: We are damned if we do and we are damned if we don't! In preparing for this article, I was reminded of a Se-Sotho saying: Ke…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
Preface In the decade preceding the dramatic February 1990 unbanning of South Africa’s black liberatory movements, many hundreds of concerned South Africans…
Extract from a speech made at Heilbron on 16 August 1968
Adv. Vorster once referred to this speech as his "political confession". 1 It was in his second year as Prime Minister that Adv. Vorster made this now well…
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…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
Gender and deviance in South African industrial schools and reformatories for girls, 1911-1934 by Linda Chisholm
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between 1926 and 1934 waves of 'insubordination', 'defiance' and 'riots'…
ArticleCape Schools Join the Revolt
The school students in Cape Town reacted to the news they heard of events in Soweto. A teacher at one of the Coloured schools was later to write: 'We haven't…
Forward to Mass Action for People's Power! Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 77th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1989
Compatriots, brothers and sisters, Today, January 8th, we observe the 77th anniversary of the people's movement, the African National Congress. I have the…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…
Address at Conference on Southern Africa of the Socialist International and the Socialist Group of the European Parliament with the Frontline States, ANC and SWAPO by O. R. Tambo, Arusha, 4 September 1984
We bring to the distinguished participants of this conference greetings of the African National Congress and those of our membership as a whole. We cannot omit…
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental right to freedom, justice and security. I…
33. Restrictive legislation against Indians not warranted, 1897
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai On 2 July 1897 Abdul Carim Haji Adam and others…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
"South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report, on behalf of the Secretariat, to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party…
Statement by Oliver Tambo at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida, 29 March 1986, Maputo
We have gathered here today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We have convened on…
Statement at the Funeral of Moses Mbheki Mabhida by O. R. Tambo, Maputo, 29 March 1986
We have gathered here today to bid farewell to a warrior. We have converged from all corners of the globe to pay homage to a revolutionary. We have…
A call to the people of South Africa: Oliver Tambo, 02 May 1987
The period we are going through is characterised by a sharpening confrontation between our people and the racist regime. Pretoria has unleashed a desperate…
A short history of Port Elizabeth's famous Campanile
One of the most striking buildings in Port Elizabeth is the famous Campanile. In the article below, Tennyson Smith Bodill reveals the history behind the…
ArchiveUnited Nations Security Council Address on Arusha Peace Process, by Nelson Mandela, 29 September 2000, New York USA
Mr President, Honourable Members of the Security Council We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report to your honourable…
Address to the United Nations Security Council on the Arusha Peace Process 29 September 2000 Mr President Honourable Members of the Security Council
We are honoured by the opportunity of returning to the Security Council to report to your honourable selves and our esteemed world body on progress and the…
Address at the 22nd Congress of the Socialist International, 27 October 2003
Chairperson, Comrades and Friends: As has been indicated, this Panel is scheduled to discuss the topic of a new multilateralism for sustainable development…
The diary of Maria Tholo - November 2 - December 1 by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer Maria's Diary, Wednesday, November 3 There was such a nonsense going on over the Tupperware. It was…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArticleThe Western Cape Farm Workers Strike 2012-2013
According to a study, titled Sleeping giant is stirring: Farmworkers in South Africa, the farmworker population in the Western Cape make up the highest number…