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ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often occupies a politicised space as the …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1800s
1799-1802 Khoi-San rise up in an unsuccessful but protracted rebellion in the eastern districts of the Cape in what becomes known as the Third War of…
ArticleTransport on land
The first form of transport on land was, of course, WALKING! Content Animals Carts, wagons and coaches The bicycle The steam engine and the train …
Balfour Declaration 1926
SECRET 12 IMPERIAL CONFERENCE 1926 INTER-IMPERIAL RELATIONS COMMITTEE REPORT, PROCEEDINGS AND MEMORANDA E (I.R./26) Series (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This Document…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
From the book: Freedom In Our Life Time by Anton Muziwakhe Lembede 6. "congress youth league manifesto," Issued by the Provisional Committee of the Congress…
Address by President Jacob Zuma at the official opening of the National House of Traditional Leaders, 23 February 2010, Old Assembly, Parliament, Cape Town
The Chairperson of the National House of Traditional Leaders, Khosi Kutama, Honourable chairperson of the National Council of Provinces, Honourable Speaker…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, 08 January 1987, Lusaka
Comrade President, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, a most eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and Namibia, an unrelenting…
Press Conference in Lusaka: Oliver Tambo, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? …
Press Conference by O. R. Tambo, Lusaka, 25 June 1985
Question: The ANC lays great emphasis on unity. How do you see the question of unity with such groups as PAC and other small groupings inside South Africa? …
Message to the People of South Africa on the 67th Anniversary of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
Black ViewPoint - The New Black by Bennie A. Khoapa
From the book: Black ViewPoint by Ndebele, Ndamse, Buthelezi, Khoapa Bennie A. khoapa is an experienced social worker and currently the Director of the Black…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the 75th anniversary meeting of the African National Congress, Lusaka, 8 January 1987
January 8th Statement Comrade President, Dr. Kenneth David Kaunda, a most eloquent exponent and defender of the cause of liberation in South Africa and…
PlaceGhana
Before March 1957 Ghana was called the Gold Coast. The Portuguese who came to Ghana in the 15th century found so much gold between the rivers Ankobra and the…
Address to the Commonwealth Club, World Affairs Council and US/SA Business Council Conference, 24 May 2000
San Francisco, USA. Michael Edwards, in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the dilemmas of the current economic relations between the rich and…
Chapter 5 - The Freedom Charter
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984Chapter 5 - The Freedom CharterThe Freedom Charter, a programme which still embraces many of the…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 67th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1979
Fellow countrymen, Militants of the African National Congress and of the struggle for liberation in our country, Cadres of Umkhonto we Sizwe inside South…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the High Diamond Council, Antwerp, Belgium: 15th November 2004
Chairperson, Distinguished Guests, Ladies and Gentlemen: Thank you very much for giving me the possibility to make a brief address to this important meeting…
Nelson Mandela ‘Release Us or Treat Us as Political Prisoners’, 22 April 1969
Letter addressed to the Minister of Justice from Robben Island Prison Dated 22 April 1969; Published by the ANC in 1978 Dear Sir, My colleagues have…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Bantu and the Gospel
From the book: The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers by D.D.T Jabavu There are two current platitudes which have been an obsession with the great masses of…
79. Indian Parliament: separate can’t be equal
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai In 1977 the Government proposed a new constitutional…
Chapter 27. The Police State in Action
The triumphs of the anti-communist crusaders have been made possible only by the tacit support, cowardice and confusion of large sections of people who, at…
ArchiveChapter 10 Problems of imprisonment by Denis Goldberg
To cover 22 years of imprisonment in chronological order is too difficult - and I think it would be boring to read about that life within a life in such detail…
ArchiveCHAPTER 8 - Leading from behind Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 by Howard Barrell
- Virtue and necessity, April 1984-June 1985 Victory is the sum total of the resolution of a whole succession of problems, a whole succession of factors. So …
Has Socialism Failed? by Joe Slovo South African Communist Party
1. Introduction Socialism is undoubtedly in the throes of a crisis greater than at any time since 1917. The last half of 1989 saw the dramatic collapse of…
The Bill of Rights
The original numbering, as it appears in the South African Constitution, has been retained here, hence it begins at Article 7. 7. RIGHTS 1. This Bill…
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1980-1989
1980 25 January, Three MK cadres, on their way to carry out a sabotage mission, take refuge in the Silverton branch of Volkskas Bank after realising they were…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 2: The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
Britain, Diamond mining and increasing labour control and land expansion Before South Africa's vast mineral wealth was discovered in the late nineteenth…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker By at least the turn of the century, African churchwomen across the…
Chapter 4 - In search of Justice; Gumede in England, 1919-21
‘The laws of Queen Victoria had been hidden. Natives should fight to regain them’. Gumede - Harris, 8 November 1923. INTRODUCTION The mission with which…