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ArchiveCHAPTER 4 - A turn to masses by Howard Barrell
… - The Quest for a Political Base, October 1978 - August 1979 [I]f our own … in the recent period, it was that our efforts would reach a dead end unless they…
Chapter 3: The Role of the Police and the Government in Vigilante Activities
… alleged support of right-wing vigilantes in KwaZulu-Natal. A lot has been written about how the SAP and the Government … fear of the law. Vigilantism and…
ArticleOn Trial: State versus Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others by Norman Levy
… Abram Fischer and Thirteen Others The change from being a 90-day detainee under solitary confinement to an awaiting … section of the prison were constructed…
ArchiveCHAPTER 9 - Tactics of talks, Tactics of confrontation, The Road to Vula, July 1985 - December 1986 Insurrection cannot be led from afar. by Howard Barrell
… Maharaj 1 Introduction From about July 1985, the ANC faced a fundamental strategic choice. Its one option was revolutionary confrontation; the other was a…
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris INTRODUCTION Labour is a neglected aspect in published accounts of the history of … in…
The Detention Weapon
… From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman A number of observers and students of repression…
ArticleCape Town Timeline 1300-1997
… Photograph of a Khoisan lady. Source: unknown 1300-1599 c.1300-c.1500 The … of the Portuguese Royal House and merchants eager to find a sea-route to India…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… bank, there is no doubt some justification for this pride. A country which in 1981 had a gross national product of approximately R70,000 million, a ……
African National Congress Women's League Constitution
… historic task of the women, South Africa has emerged as a leading force in the struggle for national liberation and … reconstruction and development of South…
Chapter 1 - Striking a balance between Tribalism and Christianity
… history, however, does not start there. It dates back to a historical period in the history of the Zulu nation which … and the battle of Mbholompho in the…
ArchiveState of the Nation Address by President Cyril Ramaphosa, Cape Town City Hall, 8 February 2024
… Geingob, the President of Namibia. President Geingob was a dear friend of the South African people and a comrade in arms in the struggle for our freedom. He…
National General Council 2005: Consolidated Report on Sectoral Strategies, 3 July 2005
… to be encouraged to systematically review whether a hierarchy of recourse avenues Exist for dissatisfied … effectively at all levels of government and in all…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… of political analysts and commentators is that a government based on an ethnic, racial or religious group … unless it is defeated militarily or has run out…
Conservative Revolutionaries - Anti-Apartheid Activism at the University of Cape Town 1963-1973 by Robert Erbmann, Oxford University, 2005
… Introduction The 1960s are often described as a unique period of activism, in which students were to find … reshaping their various societies. They have been…
Desmond Tutu interviewed by John Carlin
… without necessarily finding resolution, but there must be a new way of representing difference that does not entail the … cannot account for experience. Non…
Chapter 6 - Reform, Repression and Mass Resistance
… The uprising of 1976-77 marked a watershed in political relations between the apartheid … state and the dominated social groups. Henceforth, a combination of…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
… ... A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of … class of capitalists and the whole class of workers.... A strike, moreover, opens the eyes…
PlaceZimbabwe
… , Rozvi and Ndebele . In the 1880s the country became a British Colony, called Southern Rhodesia , which lasted … Rhodesia. In 1980 the Country gained…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… movement fought simultaneously on four fronts against a new wave of fascist measures that restricted education, … parents were faced with the cruel dilemma…
ArticleThe Freedom Charter by Norman Levy
… book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 10) Time for a Chartist Movement The idea of the Freedom Charter and the … the Congress of the People “as of…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… 15 May, The proclamation of the settlement of Durban into a Borough. The European population stands at 1,204. 1858 The … October, Mr. Fisher is appointed…
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 … Plessis There will be many readers who would like to have a sense of how…
ArticleTimeline of the Group Areas Act and Selected Related Pieces Legislation
… men to own and (Root Wachira, 2009: 668). It also imposed a labour tax of ten shillings a year on owning land for Africans, unless they could prove … 1983:…
Into the Fifties: Defiance by Norman Levy
… most destructive assaults on the movement. Together with a state of emergency, police raids and arrests – and new, … culture: “Yes, your worship”, “no, my…
An evening with FW de Klerk – the full event by Alec Hogg (Biznews London Forum), 15 September 2017, (interview transcript)
… won against Barend du Plessis. Has Barend du Plessis got a home on Lake Geneva? Not that I know of. It’s one of those … life and ours because as South…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 95th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2007
… whose life will soon have spanned ten decades, have a deep and profound responsibility to ensure that the … all its offshoots. During 2007 we will also…
Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… being used for the most arduous and least skilled tasks in a forced labour system as Indians they were regarded as … with suspicion and resentment. Rather…
4. The ANC underground between Rivonia and 1976
… historian commented in similar vein that ‘for at least a decade after 1964 the ANC virtually ceased to exist in … more remote than ever.’ 2 The same…
Chapter VIII - The Mandela’s – family extraordinary
… the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph The main street in a small country town in the Orange Free State, some 360 miles from Johannesburg; a few shops, a…
Chapter 4 - ‘SASO on the Attack’ : Organisation, Mobilisation and Collective Action
… with in the first section can be considered to be equally a form of collective action like the education protests and … activities, this is fairly specific…