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ArchiveSymbols at Little Rock
… ON May 17, 1984, the United States Supreme Court handed down a unanimous … segregation in public schools denies equal protection of the laws and so…
EventCOSAS President is detained
… The Security Police detained the president and six executive members of the recently formed Congress of South African Students (COSAS …
ArchiveDraft reply to commission of enquiry request for oral evidence
… Explanation of the Constitutional nature of the National Union of South African Students, National Student Assembly, the financing and administration of…
ArchiveStatement of General Secretary of South African Council of Churches, Bishop Desmond Tutu, October 11, 1979
… The statement of the General Secretary of the South African Council Of Churches made on October 11, 1979 regarding the serious allegations against SACC made…
Call for peace
… Statement calling for peace as the past years was characterised by the most brutal violence unleashed agaisnt people as all … peace-loving South Africans are…
ArchiveIn combat
… Collection of press articles compiled by the African National Congress, Department of Information and Publicity to reflect reporting by the official press of…
COSATU calendar
… Multicoloured artwork - detail from a NUMSA painting about the first shop stewards council on the East Rand in 1981, showing the struggle against the…
ArchiveLetter from N Z Cindi to Clemens Kapuo
… Letter from N Z Cindi, on behalf of the President, Black Peoples Convention, to Clemens Kapuo inviting him to be the guest speaker at the Annual National…
ArchiveMemorandum from Popo Molefe to United Democra
… Popo Molefe to United Democratic Front's regions regarding the meeting of the National Executive Committee of the United Democratic Front which would take…
ArchiveHeroes day concert
… Yellow, black and white, with artwork of a man playing the guitar. Notice of concert to be held at Tzers on Dec, 15. At the bottom of the poster appears,…
EventKimberly linked by rail to Barkley West
… The railway line from Kimberley reaches Fourteen Streams, Barkley West. The railway line had initially been commissioned by the Cape Government and…
ArchiveCODESA - a gallery of rogues...
… Those of us who, out of a sense of duty and for the sake of accuracy, spent more than 12 hours in front of the television viewing the antics at CODESA, found…
ArchiveResolutions on violence
… Resolutions of the National Executive Meeting of the African National Congress, 18 and 19 September 1990: Resolution on violence and resolution arising from…
ArchiveLagos Declaration against apartheid
… The World Conference for action against apartheid, organised by the United Nations, in co-operation with the Organisation of African Unity and the Federal…
ArchiveUDF Commission report
… Report of the United Democratic Front Commission to the 62nd Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of …
Inkululeko - Freedom
… entitled Inkululeko - Freedom. Political report adopted by the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party in April, 1977,…
EventDetention orders issued to 6 UDF members
… Renewed detention orders were issued to members of the United Democratic Front including its president Archibald Gumede. A month earlier, just before the…
ArchiveOptions for a redefinition of NUSAS structure and functioning
… Paper delivered at the 51st Annual Congress of the National Union of South African Students, University of … July 1974. Discusses various options for a…
ArchiveBrazil: a Workers` Party
… One of the main reasons for the fact that only four percent of Brazil's population voted for the Workers' Party was that the party was a new organisation …
Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007
… student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Soweto Uprising of 1976. The main political influence on him…
PlaceXumabokwe Hill, Queenstown
… The Hill is 1 535 Metres high and is found 26 Kilometres from Lady Frere. The name is said to mean 'jump for joy hill', derived from the Languages of:…
ArchiveNatives (Prohibition of Interdicts) Act, Act No 64 of 1956
… The Act was to prohibit the granting of interdicts or other dilatory orders of court having the effect of staying or suspending the removal or ejectment …
ArchiveNative Labour (Settlement of Disputes) Act, Act No 48 of 1953
… The Act was to provide for the prevention and settlement of native labour disputes and for the regulation of conditions of employment of natives; to amend…
Editorial
… The year 1983 will test the strength of the trade union movement. Our organisation will be attacked … leadership will try and carry workers with them into…
ArchiveFOSATU victorious!
… Victor in a crucial victory in FOSATU's battle against the Government's racial policies, the Natal Supreme Court has ruled that the Registrar and the…
ArchiveDraft transcripts Twilight of legality
… From the declaration of a national state of Emergency on June 12 1986 onwards, the UDF found itself in a period of twilight legality. This culminated with…
ArchiveANC National Conference, July 1991: Notes for commission on violence
… Notes for Commission on Violence for the African National Congress National Conference in Durban, July 1991. Examines the State strategy, unity and diversity…
ArchiveChristopher Pruter and memorial cup soccer tournament: remember June 16
… leg. Notice of a soccer tournament, organised by the Cape Youth Congress - Bonteheuwel. Artwork at the bottom of the poster of a referee, in a circle, and…
EventOuneas Pakes Dikgetsi is born
… Member of the Executive Council (MEC) for Housing and Local government of the Northern Cape Provincial Government and founder member of the United Democratic…
ArchiveLetter from Potlako K Leballo to Oliver Tambo
… K Leballo, Acting President and National Secretary of the Pan Africanist Congress to Oliver Tambo, Acting President of the African National Congress,…