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Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe
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Mar 01, 2021

Visualizing the Realm of a Rain-Queen by Patricia Davidson and George Mahashe

In the 1930s social anthropologists Eileen Jensen Krige and Jacob Daniell (Jack) Krige undertook intensive fieldwork amo...

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Article
Feb 25, 2021

Women’s Food Committees in Cape Town during the 1940s

The political importance of women’s food committees in Cape Town during the 1940s has been emphasised by both Cheryl Wal...

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Women and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union
Article
Feb 25, 2021

Women and The Food and Canning Workers’ Union

The fruit-canning industry in South Africa can be traced to the late nineteenth century, when the first jam factories op...

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Mendi Memorial, Eastern Cape
Place
Feb 25, 2021

Mendi Memorial, Eastern Cape

The actual wreck lies off The Isle of Wight, in the English Channel. In Britain the story of the SS Mendi is almost unkn...

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Mandela in Chicago
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Feb 24, 2021

Mandela in Chicago

Before the Black Lives Matter Movement, there was the Free South Africa Movement. Chicago activists played a major role ...

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Report to the Minister of Justice, Honourable Tshililo Michael Masutha, in the Matter of Dr. Vervoerd's Assassination by Harris Dousemetzis
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Feb 24, 2021

Report to the Minister of Justice, Honourable Tshililo Michael Masutha, in the Matter of Dr. Vervoerd's Assassination by Harris Dousemetzis

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Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers
Biography
Feb 22, 2021

Anna Johanna Dorothea De Villiers

Linguist, writer, and educator

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Bertha Solomon
Biography
Feb 22, 2021

Bertha Solomon

South African lawyer, politician, author, one of the country's early advocates for women's rights, one of the first wome...

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Oppermansgronde, Free State Province
Place
Feb 22, 2021

Oppermansgronde, Free State Province

The socio-economic growth of the Municipality is centered on Agriculture. The municipal Area also has mining activities,...

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Potchefstroom
Place
Feb 19, 2021

Potchefstroom

The name comes from the word: 'Potscherf'- (meaning broken pot), Due to the cracks that appear in the soil of the Mooi R...

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Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury
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Feb 15, 2021

Introduction: Relocating the African Photographic Archive by Christopher Morton and Darren Newbury

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Jessie Duarte confirms ruling party’s idea of governance is incompatible with the Constitution by Professor Balthazar
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Feb 12, 2021

Jessie Duarte confirms ruling party’s idea of governance is incompatible with the Constitution by Professor Balthazar

What turned the country into a rent-seeking concoction was not the Constitution, but the intensity of State Capture that...

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Carl Niehaus against the world by Rebecca Davis
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Feb 12, 2021

Carl Niehaus against the world by Rebecca Davis

This week, in February 2021, Carl Niehaus led a group of supporters to former president Jacob Zuma's home. But within th...

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2021 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2021
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Feb 12, 2021

2021 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2021

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The Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard
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Feb 11, 2021

The Struggle for the Tramway Union 1930-1945 by Chris Giffard

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