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Chapter 25. A Reichstag Fire Trial Replete With A Van Der Lubbe
In the general election of May 1948, the Nationalist Party polled 400,453 votes and its ally, the Afrikaner Party, 41,885, a total of 442,338 votes. On the…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Introducing by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer The riots broke out in Soweto on June 16, 1976 when police fired on a group of school children…
Archive2020 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 13 February 2020
Speaker of the National Assembly (NA), Ms Thandi Modise, Chairperson of the National Council of Provinces (NCOP), Mr Amos Masondo, Deputy President David…
The melody of freedom
A reflection on music Riot policeman Erasmus shot seventeen-year-old Mngcini 'Big Boy' Mginywa from Grahamstown at a funeral because, he told the judge, the…
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
From the book: Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism commissioned by The Department of Education Asa cultural and political phenomenon, a…
Chapter IV - Becoming an activist
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph I remember well that first meeting with the redoubtable Solly Sachs, when I flew to Johannesburg for the interview…
Chapter 3
The Formation of the All-African Convention: The Background In 1935 the Union Government confronted the country with what were called the Three "Native"Bills,…
‘Just say yes, Mr President’: Mbeki and AIDS by Anthony Brink A PROSPECTUS
‘”¦ when historians assess the democratic credentials of Thabo Mbeki’s government in future, it is likely that their most critical attentions will focus on its…
Political Overview By The ANC Gauteng Provincial Chairperson, Comrade Paul Mashatile On The Occasion Of The Special Provincial General Council, Turffontein Racecourse, Johannesburg, 24 February 2013
Programme Director, Deputy Chairperson, Comrade Gwen Ramokgopa Secretary General, Comrade Gwede Mantashe NEC Deployees here present Provincial Secretary,…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to Parliament National Assembly, Cape Town, 5 February 1999
Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable Chairperson and Deputy Chairpersons of the National Council of Provinces; Honourable…
Archive1999 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 5 February 1999 (Before National Elections)
ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT NELSON MANDELA AT THE OPENING OF PARLIAMENT, 5 February 1999 Madame Speaker and Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly; Honourable…
Indian Community in Lenasia
From the very beginning, settlement in Lenasia was a contentious issue, driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to apartheid…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
I now turn to examine select aspects of SASO's organisation and its activities related to student and popular mobilisation and collective action. However,…
Archive"Racism, Apartheid and a New World Order": Speech in Acceptance of the Third World Prize on Behalf of Nelson and Winnie Mandela by O. R. Tambo, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, 5 May 1986
The most senior leaders of the oppressed people of South Africa have been in prison for almost a quarter of a century now. They, who would have…
ArchiveGoldblatt: I'm after a particular sense of stillness by Ivan Vladislavic, 27 September 2013
Vladislavic: What work are you showing at the Art Fair?Goldblatt: I've chosen 30 pictures, both old and new. It's a rather disparate collection of work that I…
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
Mr President, Your Excellencies, Distinguished guests and delegates, In the evolution of mankind, humanity came to realise that life for each one of us…
The 1994 South African Election by Phyllis Jordan
Tomorrow, April 26, 1994, an historic event will take place in South Africa, 18 year old and over, men and women, black and white, will go to the polls to…
ArchiveIntroduction by Howard Barrell
ENEMIES DEPEND UPON EACH OTHER to sustain their wars and, if neither is a clear-cut winner in that process, no less so if they make peace. This was so on…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
June 12, 1964 was the day for sentencing in the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum sentence – and we expected it: death. But in a…
Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 12 - Blind alley of guerrillaism After the May 1961 stay-at-home, Mandela wrote: "Of all…
Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism - Chapter 3 - What is Your Name, Age, and Whose Slave are You? by Rayda Jacobs
From the book: Book 2: The Impact and Limitations of Colonialism commissioned by The Department of Education In1652, three ships belonging to the Dutch East…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
Serving the orders upon me at the union office was the first of a series of blunders on Swart's part. For many months the committee had been discussing what…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
The Nile river and its influence on settlement The tomb of Tutankhamen Way of life in ancient Egypt The spread of Egypt’s knowledge Together we will learn…
ArchiveChapter 15 The World is my Oyster Life Number 7 1985-1994 by Denis Goldberg
When I returned to London after six weeks Esmé was not very pleased with me for being away so long. For both of us we were faced with shaping our new life…
ArchiveCHAPTER SEVEN: Resistance Politics In Retreat: Cablism, The ANC Underground And Gandhi, 1985-1989 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
Testimony by Moosa Muhammed Moolla before the Ad Hoc Working Group of the Commission on Human Rights, Dar es Salaam, 22 June 1967
[Note: The questions of the members of the Working Group are briefly indicated in italics. The members were: Ibrahima Boye, Procureur-general, Senegal,…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson The existence of a large number of unskilled and unemployed …
ArchiveConclusion by Howard Barrell
Operation Vula, with whose destruction I began this dissertation and with whose genesis I have just ended the tenth and final chapter, is the climax of our…
To fully reconcile The Boer War is to fully understand the ‘Black’ Concentration Camps by Peter Dickens (The Observation Post),
Two different current Narratives refugeesTo many Afrikaans speaking white people in South Africa the narrative of what in South Africa is called ‘The 2nd…
Chapter 3 - THE MOROGORO AFTERMATH
From: The South African Communist Party In Exile 1963 - 1990 The end of the 1960s was another important phase in the history of the exiled liberation movement…