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Part 3: Ahmed Kathrada and Arun Gandhi - Gandhi Satyagraha Tour SA
Provenance and AttributionThis recording was produced and first published by Catalyst House. Video shoot and edit by Lynnea Bylund…
Part 2: Ahmed Kathy Kathrada Addresses Gandhi Satyagraha Tour Delegates
Provenance and AttributionThis recording was produced and first published by Catalyst House. Video shoot and edit by Lynnea Bylund…
ArticleXenophobia in South Africa: Reflections, Narratives and Recommendations by Hussein Solomon and Hitomi Kosaka
Xenophobia, simply put, is the fear or hatred of foreigners or strangers; it is embodied in discriminatory attitudes and behaviour, and…
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, White S. African Reporter Pleads Guilty to Treason, Associated Press, 3 November 1986
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, South Africa: Confessions of a Guerrilla, Time, 17 November 1986
Say It out Loud - The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari The 1939 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 11th April, 1939 1 The age of chivalry,…
Say It out Loud - Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901
From the book: Say It out Loud by Mohamed Adhikari Equal Rights: The treatment of Coloured People in the North, 1901 1 Mr. Chairman and…
Report of the National Executive Committee of the PAC, Submitted to the Annual Conference, December 19-20, 1959
Sons and Daughters of Afrika! The Pan Africanist Congress was successfully launched as the liberation movement of the African people at a…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
Extract from Karis & Carter 1. NAME The name of the organisation shall be the Pan Africanist Congress, hereinafter referred to as…
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
Quoted in Luckhardt, K. & Wall, B. (1980). Organize or Starve! The History of the South African Congress of Trade Unions, New York:…
Deployment of Racism in South Africa by Rooha Variava
Contents Chapter 1: Theoretical Debates and Methodological Controversies Chapter 2: Questions Method Chapter 3: The Constitution of…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
Contents Economic Development and the Expansion of the African Working Class The Quiescence of Political Organisation in the 1930s Mass…
Document 10 - Letter from Nelson Mandela to Sir de Villiers Graaff, leader of the United Party
Sir de Villiers Graaff, Leader of the Opposition, House of Assembly, CAPE TOWN Sir, In one week's time, the Verwoerd Government…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 9 - Postscript - South Africa: The Present as History
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner I have shown in The Eye of the Needle that a participatory socialist democracy is…
Eye of the Needle - Preface by Richard Turner
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner What is it that fascinates us so about South Africa? One thing, we would suggest,…
The Democratic Party (DP)
The Democratic Party (DP) was formed on 8 April 1989, when the former Progressive Federal Party, Independent Party and National Democratic…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 1 - The Transition in Context by Christopher Saunders
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education The transition from apartheid to…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education Much of the research for this…
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 2 - Explaining the Miracle by Max du Preez
From the book: Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom commissioned by The Department of Education We, the people of South Africa,…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 1 - State Formation in Nineteenth-century South Africa by Yonah Seleti
The nineteenth century in South Africa is noted for the revolutionary processes that resulted in the formation of new states. State…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education This…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
From the book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education …
III - Black Consciousness
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa What had Steve Biko done to be so persecuted by the police? Why…
II - The Life of Steve Biko
From the book: No.46 - Steve Biko by Hilda Bernstein, 1978, South Africa Stephen Bantu Biko was born in King William's Town, in the Cape…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bound to strike back by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaThis feature has explored the devastating changes that industrialisation brought for the…
ArchiveAll That Glitters - ’The rock on which the future will be built’ by Emilia Potenza
From the book: All That Glitters by Emilia PotenzaUp to the 1860s the economy of South Africa was based on agriculture and trade. Then the…
Chapter One - From Abbotsdale to Kimberley
From the book: Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson South African history can legitimately be…
Online bookGarment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
Five years after the Government forced him to relinquish his general Secretary, the name of E. Sachs still lives in people's minds with the…
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 7 - Participatory Democracy for South Africa
From the book: The Eye of the Needle by Richard Turner South Africa is an unequal society. The inequalities are the result of the skilful…
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…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
One pound a day for the factory worker who today cannot buy what he makes. One pound a day for the miner who earns his phthisis and goes…
The Defiance Campaign, 1952: Social struggle or party stratagem?
Soweto Students Representative Council
The circular issued by the Soweto Students' Representative Council calls upon students and parents to resist the take over of community…
Statement by Seth Sandila Mazibuku
This is a press release about the death of Steve Biko and the detention of black leaders.
ArticleTeaching South African History in the Digital Age - Collaboration, Pedagogy, and Popularizing History by Jill E. Kelly & Omar Badsha
Abstract: The digitisation of African materials has made it easier than ever for students to engage with primary source documentation and…
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, The making of a traitor, by Sarah Sussens, The Sunday Star, 9 November 1986
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, Sprag given 25, Sowetan, 7 November 1986
ArticlePolice station operations, 1986, South African white arrested in blasts, by Alan Cowell, New York Times, 10 March 1986
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, Sprag gets 25 years, Argus, 6 November 1986
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, Sprag guilty of treason, Argus, 3 November 1986
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, Judge: Abundantly clear Marion Sprag is guilty, Citizen, 4 November 1986
Oral history"Isikhumbuzo" (Memorial): Self-authored obituary by Petros Sipho Mkhize, dedicated to Getruth Ndlovu, written while awaiting execution, Pretoria Central Prison, circa 1967
Private family collection
LettersLetter to Petros Sipho Mkhize from his father in Macambini, KwaZulu-Natal
A two-page handwritten letter in isiZulu on green paper, headed with the address of Mathubesizwe Secondary School, Nyoni (Macambini), with …
LettersPrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to Zondi, Soweto, addressed to Miss Jumaima Mbele
A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M. Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria."
LettersPrison letter from Petros Sipho Mkhize to his parents-in-law at Zondi, Soweto
A handwritten letter in isiZulu on prison notepaper, sent from "V963 Petros M'Khize, Central Prison, Private Bag 45, Pretoria."
ArchivePretoria Central Prison execution register entry and prison photograph of Petros Sipho Sibusiso Mkhize, recorded as "Mkhise P", File V963
A photocopied page (numbered 134) from the execution register of the former Pretoria Central Prison.
ArticleStruggle and archive
The formerly exiled ANC activist and later judge, Albie Sachs, is archiving his life, including a new film that forms part of a larger…
ArticleBiography: Robert Cedric Wilcox
Newspaper clippingsPolice station operations, 1986, Former journalist guilty of treason, The Cape Times, 4 November 1986
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