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Document 35 - Constitutional principles Schedule 4 of the Interim Constitution
COSATU is in a no-win situation: We are damned if we do and we are damned if we don't! In preparing for this article, I was reminded of a Se-Sotho saying: Ke…
22. Natal sirdars regarded in India as pariah
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai By 1911, the public outcry in India against the…
60. Congress and the Non-European Co-operation Conference, 1927
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Even though the South African Indian Congress…
48. Breach of the compromise
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai A mass meeting was held in Johannesburg on 24…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Epilogue by Carol Hermer
From the book: The Diary of Maria Tholo by Carol Hermer It's two and a half years since Maria said those words. Things stayed tense but quiet in Cape Town…
ArticleThe Early Cape Slave Trade
The year 1658 marks the beginning of the slave trade at the Cape colony. During the first four years of the Dutch East India Company (VOC) settlement at the…
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 themselves at the cutting edge of social…
Interview with Archibald Gumede 6 April 1996
POM So let me start. AG I wonder whether we shouldn't get over the part we have already dealt with just to see what was said at that time that applies…
Chapter 1 - Interpreting the Character, Role and Significance of SASO AND SANSCO
As I have indicated the appropriate framework for the analysis of SASO and SANSCO is not a given and by no means obvious. Hence, it is necessary to make…
STRIKES AND INDUSTRIAL ACTIONS
... A strike teaches workers to understand what the strength of the employers and what the strength of the workers consist in: it teaches them not to think of…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
The Kairos document preface The KAIROS document is a Christian, biblical and theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa today. It is an…
10 YEARS PROJECT
close Document 8 Letter on the current situation and suggesting a multi-racial convention, from Chief Albert J. Luthuli to Prime Minister J.G…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
Zwelidumile Geelboi Mgxaji Mslaba “Dumile” Feni was born on 21 May 1942 in the small town of Withuis in Worcester, Cape Province. While his date of birth…
ArticleCongress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa
The Congress of Traditional Leaders of South Africa is a political lobby group which represents many traditional leaders and chiefs in South Africa. It seeks…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
The student protest that broke out on 16 June 1976 was organised and directed by the Soweto Students Representative Council (SSRC). Recent accounts of the…
Liberation organisations
UDF The United Democratic Front (UDF) was a non-racial alliance of about 400 national, regional and local organisations. It was launched in Cape Town in 1983,…
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens Rachel Fenton ‘Politics and the Novel’ January 2015 …
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 …
Executive summary of the statement of the National Executive Committee of the ANC delivered by President Jacob Zuma at the 100th anniversary of the ANC, Mangaung 8 January 2012
Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade Thabo Mbeki, Former Heads of…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 100th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2012
Mangaung 8 January 2012 Your Excellencies Heads of States and Government, Former Presidents of the ANC, Isithwalandwe Nelson Mandela at home and Comrade…
Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The Conquest of Power in South Africa [1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 77 - Yu Chi Chan Club , Pamphlet No. II: The…
Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 8 - The politics of Congress in the late 1950s Writing in Liberation (June 1956), Nelson…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 2 - Human Models: Christianity and Capitalism
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner Our first step in theorizing must be to examine briefly the "imperatives of human nature" and the …
76. The Indian people are an integral and permanent part of South Africa
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai The South African Institute of Race Relations…
Statement by Oliver Tambo accepting the Simon Bolivar award on behalf of Nelson Mandela, 24 July 1983, Caracas, Venezuela
The time comes in the life of all oppressed peoples that some among them should, as rebels, lay down their lives to affirm the very humanity of the oppressed…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
Our Vision is a Democratic Society (Speech at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats in Johannesburg in 1958 to hear the…
Passive Resistance in South Africa by O. R. Tambo - Extract from "Southern Africa in Transition by Davis, John A. and James K. Baker"(Pall Mall Press), London, 1966
Oppressed people in South Africa have always associated the history of the United States with the great name of Abraham Lincoln. There was an issue…
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…
Chief Albert Luthuli Centenary Lecture by President Jacob Zuma, 7 September 2012, Kimberley, Northern Cape
ANC National Chairperson, ANC Provincial Chairperson and provincial leadership, ANC NEC Members, Leaders of the Tripartite Alliance, The Luthuli Family…
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…