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Document 58 - Letter from the Communist League of South Africa to the Workers’ Party of South Africa, 18 February 1936
… from against the Native Bills and the Italo-Abyssinian War. As you are aware, we have several times approached you …
EventIt is widely reported that British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher criticised the ANC, calling it a terrorist organisation
… "white regime" in the immediate context of a coup or civil war, as the context of the original question suggested, but …
EventMore than a dozen people are killed, including seven children, in Kwamakhutha Massacre
… carrying all the characteristics of an undeclared civil war. The Massacre On 21 January 1987 several men armed with …
EventPresident Thabo Mbeki leads a government delegation to the funeral of former state president, P.W. Botha
… the anti-communist group, UNITA during the Angolan Civil War as well as the secret nuclear collaboration with Israel, …
Document 95 - “Welcome The All-African National Convention! African National Convention Must Mark Beginning of National Liberation Movement”, South African Worker, 27 June 1936
… with the Workers and Peoples United Front to fight against War and Fascism. …
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… completed in 1945, after being delayed by the Second World War. A 230ha tract of Foreshore Land was created in the …
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… four. I also had my fighting general on the model of the Boer vecht generaal. The administration of justice was … in the hills of Johannesburg several years…
PlaceKing Williams Town, Amatola
Founded as a Missionary Station in 1826, King William’s Town later (after 1835) served as a military headquarters for British Kaffraria and as a centre for…
EventPiet Retief's Great Trek manifesto is completed
Piet Retief completes the manifesto that sets out the reasons why the Voortrekkers are leaving the Cape Colony. It is published in English in the Graham's Town…
ArchiveChanging focus: The art and activism of Omar by Bongani Kona (Mail and Guardian), 4 June 2015
… like Omar’s, or an orientation towards the European and Anglo-American marketplace.” “What people forget,” Badsha …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of the Brickfields Housing Development, at the Newtown Cultural Precinct, Johannesburg, on 12 August 2005.
… Group, Steve Booysen, Chief Executive Officer, Anglo American South Africa, Lazarus Zim, Distinguished …
PlaceBotswana
… Beers Diamond Consortium. Today 85% per cent is owned by Anglo American and 15 per cent by the Government of the …
PlaceNamibia
… In 1907, the death of Marengo brought about the end of the war of resistance. Many of the surviving Nama and Herero were … in order to develop the colony…
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… placed in Section 9, known as the 'Negro Section', of the Anglo-American Sector. They participated in either a … SPLITTING PARTY TOP BOTTOM IN FACE [OF]…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Christian Missions and the Bantu
… Boers, or the injustice perpetrated on the Natives by the Boer farmers, this fact stands out today in bold relief that … your absence." The attitude of…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… movement which will not bow the knee to British and Boer imperialism, but will lead the oppressed slaves of … 1940s trade unions remained by far the best …
We Shall Win. Joint Statement by Leaders of Liberation Movements at the fifth Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the Organisation of African Unity by O. R. Tambo, Algiers, 13 – 16 September 1968
… been achieved to the chagrin of our enemies. We are at War! The liberation movements and over thirty million oppressed Africans that they represent are at…
Statement submitted to the United Nations Special Committee against Apartheid, on the occasion of the Day of Solidarity with South African Political Prisoners, 11 October 1979
… prisoners is the question of granting prisoner-of-war status to the gallant freedom fighters of our country. … fighters like these should be treated as…
BiographyJacob Gedleyihlekisa Zuma
… Zuma. His brother had been a soldier in World War II and later became a trade union activist and a member …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… beerhalls experienced mixed fortunes. First the price war started by private shebeens undermined the JCCs beerhalls. In 1964 the JCC joined the price war and…
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
… the South African Post Office and SAA. Ramaphosa led “the war room”. Neither SAA not the Post Office have survived the government’s ineptitude. The war room…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… and capitalist exploitation are doing. Black men are no index of equity for Black women. They do equally dreary jobs …
Chapter eight - Conclusion
… This alliance took form of the Congress Alliance after the war. As an organic intellectual of the working class, one … work. Trade unions were to him by far…
ArticleTransition to Armed Struggle by Norman Levy
… use of weapons and learning the lessons of the Algerian war. He was then able to spend three days in Oujda in … inmate of Van den Bergh’s at Koffiefontein,…
PlacePinelands
… schedule of non-stop site-seeing. The suburb is post-war, hence the English influence, and local businessmen …
PlaceKleinmond, Western Cape
… to have been abandoned by a British garrison after World War II and roam the flats and river estuary as they please. A …
Balfour Declaration 1926
… PROCEEDINGS AND MEMORANDA E (I.R./26) Series (WITH SUBJECT INDEX) [This Document is the Property of His Britannic … nevertheless, recall that by Resolution…
Chapter 1 - Introduction
… of negotiations between political parties that were at war with each other not long before. It is also a political …
EventThe recommendations of the Riekert Commission (to investigate the employment conditions of Black workers) are tabled
… been facing its deepest recession since the Second World War. Consequently, the regime was trying to find ways of …
EventB.J Vorster steps down as Prime Minster
… group that supported pro-Nazi activities during World War II. He was also a member of the Nederduitse Gereformeerde …