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Chapter 23. How the United Party Betrayed South Africa - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The Nationalist Party, though always claiming to have no association with Nazism, had staked everything on a Nazi victory. Hitler's defeat, therefore, weakened…
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society 30 March 2007 Introduction The 52nd National Conference of the ANC will provide an important…
PlaceSea Point
Early HistoryFor years prior to European settlement, Sea Point formed part of the Gorachoqua and Goringhaiqua grazing paths, which stretched out to Hout Bay…
Chronology
1935 May, Joint Select Committee of Parliament tables the Representation of Natives Bill and the Native Trust and Land Bill October, Italy attacks Ethiopia…
Extract from a speech made in the House of Assembly on 21 May 1962 during the second reading of the General Law Amendment Bill
When South Africa became a Republic, subversive elements intensified their attack on South Africa and her peoples. At this time Adv. Vorster perÂformed a…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - The linguistic classification of Kora
From: Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis Introduction. This chapter [1] begins within an overview of the…
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - 1. The linguistic classification of Kora
Introduction. This chapter [1] begins within an overview of the Khoisan languages in general, and briefly describes the three or four main families that…
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…
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 around…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
Of all the projects that the administrations of presidents Thabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma and now Cyril Ramaphosa have undertaken over almost 30 years of democracy,…
Nelson Mandela’s leadership: his ‘obstinacy and stubbornness’ (Part 2) by Raymond Suttner, 11 June 2018
An unusual, apparently contradictory set of personality traits combined to make Nelson Mandela the leader that he became. One of these was notorious…
Address at The Official Opening of The Cape Town International Convention Centre, Cape Town, 28 June 2003
Chairperson of Convenco, Ebrahim Rasool, Premier of the Western Cape, Marthinus van Schalkwyk, Your Worship, Mayor Nomaindia Mfeketo, Distinguished guests, …
The Soul Of The ANC Under Attack by Frank Chikane
… 'OR Tambo ANC'). The OR Tambo ANC stretched from the mid-1950s when he became the Secretary General (1955-1958), and …
“Caught in the toils of our own selfishness”: Paton’s exploration of causes of, and responses to, societal failings in Cry, The Beloved Country by Eleanor Evans
… Narratives of the South African City of the Late 1940s and 1950s in Film and Literature.” South African History Journal. …
Coetzee as Contractarian: Disgrace as Political Theory by Joshua Richman
Abstract Despite John Maxwell Coetzee’s Disgrace being the most critically engaged with novel in the South African canon, there remains an…
Biography of Lionel Ngakane by Rod Reyna
Abstract Lionel Ngakane was a filmmaker, a writer, a director, an advocate and a political activist. Ngakane served South Africa during the apartheid era…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions Timeline 1919-1997
1919 Formation of the Industrial and Commercial Workers Union of Africa (ICU). 1924 Introduction of Industrial Conciliation Act. 1941 Formation of…
ArticleFootball in South Africa Timeline 1862-2012
1862 The first documented football matches in South Africa are played in Cape Town and Port Elizabeth (between White civil servants and soldiers). 1879 …
Biography of Abdullah Ibrahim by Chance Overby
Figure 1 Image source Abdullah Ibrahim is a profoundly influential South African jazz musician who was frequently oppressed by the apartheid regime in South…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
Address by the Chancellor of the University of Zululand, Mr Jacob Zuma, at the Gala Dinner of the First International Co-Operatives Conference, Kwazulu Natal, 24 February 2009, Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, Durban
The Premier of Kwa Zulu-Natal Mr. Sibusiso Ndebele MEC for Finance and Economic Development, Dr. Zweli Mkhize University of Zululand Vice-chancellor Prof…
Address by Deputy President Jacob Zuma at the 40th Anniversary of the Execution of Vuyisile Mini and five others, 6 November 2004
Programme Director, The Premier of the Eastern Cape, Nosimo Balindlela, Members of Parliament and the Provincial Legislature, The Honourable Executive Mayor of…
Document 91 - John Gomas, “The Native Representation Bill is Passed: What Must be Done Now?” Umsebenzi, 25 April 1936
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 91 - John Gomas, "The Native Representation…
Document 134 - The Impending Strike of African Miners: A statement by the African Mineworkers’ Union, 7 August 1946
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Rosenberg Arcade, 58, Market Street, Johannesburg. …
A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
2012 ANC National Policy Conference: Opening Address by President Jacob Zuma, Midrand, 26 June 2012
National Chairperson, Deputy President Comrade Kgalema Motlanthe, ANC Officials and Members of the National Executive Committee, ANC leadership of all…
Address by Nelson Mandela to the National Consultative Conference, 14 December 1990
Comrade President, Comrades, members of the National Executive Committee of the ANC, Comrades leaders of the South African Communist Party, COSATU and the…
PlaceNamibia
Namibia, a former German colony, is situated towards the north west of South Africa. It is predominately covered by the Namib Desert. The Orange River marks…
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
State of the Nation Address by His Excellency Jacob G Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa on the occasion of the Joint Sitting of Parliament 09…
Interview with Oliver Tambo to New Times, 05 January 1980, Moscow
Question: How do you assess the situation in southern Africa after the Zimbabwe Patriotic Front has signed the ceasefire agreement? TAMBO: The liberation war…