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Sep 26, 2017

First & Second River Temple's

The First River Temple, built the banks of the Umbilo River, near Bayhead Durban, in 1875. This is the first Hindu Templ...

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Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
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Sep 21, 2017

Placing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review

Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the...

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Grade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town
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Sep 21, 2017

Grade 4 - Learning about local history through pictures: Cape Town

How to find out about the present or the history of a local area? When investigating our past, we need to look at vari...

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Afrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
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Sep 20, 2017

Afrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent

IntroductionAfrikaans, one of the official languages, together with English, during South Africa’s Apartheid era, often ...

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Sep 20, 2017

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...

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Fanakalo: the language of mining culture
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Sep 19, 2017

Fanakalo: the language of mining culture

Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and multinational settings on South Afr...

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Sep 19, 2017

How Zweli ‘misled’ Khwezi, 17 September 2017

A new book reveals how ANC presidential hopeful Zweli Mkhize tried to manipulate President Jacob Zuma’s rape accuser int...

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Sep 19, 2017

Zweli Mkhize denies Redi Tlhabi’s book allegations, says he hasn’t read it, 18 - September - 2017

The presidential contender says he saw Jacob Zuma as an older brother and treated Khwezi as he would a daughter. Presid...

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Sep 19, 2017

Zweli Mkhize slams Zuma in hard-hitting statement, 01 April 2017

Cape Town - ANC treasurer general, Zweli Mkhize, says the ANC leadership should have been consulted on President Jacob Z...

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Sep 19, 2017

Roseberry Sonto interviewed by David Bailey, Cape Town, 2007

Rose Sonto describes student organizing in his high school in Malteno, in the Eastern Cape, in 1969, well before the Sow...

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Sep 19, 2017

Black Power by Richard (Rick) Turner

This paper is an attempt to work out what seems to me to be some of the implications of the concept "Black Power". It co...

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Sep 19, 2017

Migrant Labour in Southern Africa: 1910-1970’s

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Sep 18, 2017

Mapungubwe

Iron Age archaeological site in the Limpopo Province on the border between South Africa, Zimbabwe and Botswana, 75 km fr...

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Sep 15, 2017

African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt

Introduction The decade of the 1950s was a decade of turmoil in South Africa. In the urban areas, a strong alliance wa...

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Sep 15, 2017

African National Congress President, Comrade Jacob Zuma, delivers the Peter Mokaba Memorial Lecture, Mankweng Village, Polokwane, Limpopo, 6 June 2010

Programme Director, The Family of Comrade Peter Mokaba, ANC Youth League President, Cde Julius Malema, National Execu...

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