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Paper prepared at the request of the United Nations Special Committee Against Apartheid by Oliver Tambo, 1 June 1968, Stockholm
… the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thus the year 1948 witnessed the crystallisation of two opposing forces: … South African life. Basic freedoms, few…
Paper prepared at the request of the Special Committee against Apartheid, June 1968
… the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Thus the year 1948 witnessed the crystallisation of two opposing forces: … South African life. Basic freedoms, few…
His Life and Legacy - Oliver Tambo
… every key moment in the history of the movement, until his death. Oliver Tambo is a founder member and secretary of the … from 1977 until 1990; then National…
ArchiveI Write What I Like: Selected Writings
… First published in 1978 - the year following Biko's death in police detention - the book was subsequently …
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
… weapon of war, the atomic bomb. Estimates of the death toll attributable to the war for military and civilian …
ArticleWomen and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
… both in the Eastern Cape and in national campaigns. In 1948 when Alexander came to Port Elizabeth to expand the … Portraits of Women’s Lives in the Western …
ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… Working under gruelling conditions, paid a pittance for death-defying work, fed ‘like dogs’, housed in barren … compound gate. A crush took place at the…
Article“The Dark and Heavy Shadow”: Gender Based Violence and Anti-Gender-Based-Violence Campaigns in South Africa
… justice with slogans such as “Enough is enough” and “Death penalty” (for the accused). What was even more …
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… Train Apartheid Resistance Committee was formed (August 18,1948). The TARC was an ad hoc Committee. The Anti-CAD and the …
ArticleGandhi and the Passive Resistance Campaign 1907-1914
… They were poorly paid, lived in squalid conditions and death rates were high. Working conditions were better in coal … that he would be the first to be…
Document 22 - Report of the first National Conference of Women held in the Trades Hall, Johannesburg, South Africa, 17 April 1954
… rights, no right to elect or be elected on the governing bodies of the country. The Government of our country … 1) The right to vote and to be elected to all…
The values of David Goldblatt by Zachary Rosen,13 June 2017
… of his career, Goldblatt has produced many significant bodies of work that depict uniquely South African social …
Address by President Nelson Mandela on Accepting the Deutscher Medienpreis Baden-Baden, 28 January 1999
… make of the United Nations and other multilateral bodies, organs that can effectively serve the interests of …
Everyone must take responsibility, 21 August, 2012 - Sahra Ryklief
… demonstrate a systematic attack on strikers, with dead bodies strewn on the field while police continued to fire. In …
Chapter 12 - Certification of the final constitution
… and the Constitutional Assembly as well as of the other bodies or persons were afforded a right of audience. In …
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… of provision of higher education for blacks prior to 1948. The second is the analysis of the organisational … certain sections of the white dominant classes…
ArchiveThe 1957 Alexandra Bus Boycott and its unsung heroes by Roseinnes Phahle, June 2019
… Jewish family and had inherited money on her father’s death. But when they went abroad they squandered this by … as well as behind-the-scene consultations by…
ArchiveWhy The EFF Is A Fascist Political Party by Gareth van Onselen, 26 March 2018
… This cult of heroism is strictly linked with the cult of death." There is much to be said about the EFF's obsession with death, Malema's too, on a…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… access to ‘mainstream Afrikaans cultural life’. [185] In 1948, the National Party came to power. [186] Between 1948 and 1953, most Apartheid laws were…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 96th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2008
… of the ANC Youth League Policy Statement, adopted in 1948, which enunciated its stance on radical African … of Rick Turner by agents of the apartheid state,…
Biography of Heinz Klug by Ashley Rogers
… activists who died in detention with the various causes of death the apartheid regime claimed to be factual. [xiv] … the university faculty and students in…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… tale about Mother Moon’s message to man about life after death, and how the Hare’s lip was split. ‘Mother Full Moon … all men carry a stone in their hearts,…
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: A Reflection of the Chasm Between Constitutional Rights and the Lived Experience in South Africa by Rhiain Moses
… as the depiction of a brief and suspicious report of the death of a prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6), places the novel … regarding activist Stephen Biko’s…
Shared Cultural Trauma: Inarticulacy as Social Disability in South African Literature by Hannah Pagan
… as the depiction of a brief and suspicious report of the death of a prisoner (Coetzee, 1997, p. 6), places the novel … regarding activist Stephen Biko’s…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
… in the electoral victory of the National Party later in 1948. In addition to the NP, the Broederbond (Afrikaner …
Timeline: All-Africa Convention (AAC)
… place as initially arranged by the Executive of the AAC. 1948 Wycliffe Tsotsi replaces Professor Davidson Don Tengo …
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… the system of racial segregation in the 1940s. In May 1948 the National Party (NP) led by DF Malan in alliance with …
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… in the electoral victory of the National Party later in 1948. In addition to the NP, the Broederbond (Afrikaner …
The ANC Women’s League in the Struggle for Women’s Rights in South Africa by Meghan Knapp
… to be members of the organisation and consequently in 1948 the African National Congress Women’s League was …
ArchiveThe boundless energy of Paul Grendon; artist, painter, activist and documentary photographer by Chris Ledochowski
It is with great difficulty that I find myself writing about a friend so recently deceased and who was so much part of my life for over forty years. He was a…