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ArchiveA history of the beer brewing war
… A history of the beer brewing war …
BiographyDorothy Nomzansi Nyembe
… The beer halls were perceived to destroy traditional beer brewing, the only viable source of income for women in the …
BiographyBongani Mnguni
… his cameras, sensing that there was something unbecoming brewing.He had heard previously that the pupils were planning …
BiographyDavid Wilcox Bopape
… the municipality’s criminalizing of traditional beer brewing in the township, and their creation of beer-halls. …
BiographyMiriam Makeba
… worker, was imprisoned for six months for illegally brewing beer to help make ends meet, and Miriam went to …
BiographyFred Khumalo
Fred Khumalo was born on 4 August 1966 in Chesterville, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), and grew up in Mpumalanga Township close to the industrial area of…
ArticleA Culture of Survival
… sector. These included the sharing of resources, beer-brewing and the running of shebeens. It was largely black … class culture developed in the townships,…
ArticleSweet Food and Allied Workers Union (SFAWU)
… organised in the sugar, milling, biscuit, baking, dairy, brewing, sweet and chocolate industries. SFAWU had expanded …
Books and further reading links relating to Right to Organise
… Life Factories, Townships and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940, Brewing A place in the city, The struggle for a place in the …
ArticleSophiatown in Literature
… music, crime and gangsters and the hazards of beer brewing, they were reflecting their own experiences. In many …
National Theatre Organisation (1947)
… theatre failed to materialise. The NTO saw its demise when brewing tensions between local government in the Northern and …
Zulu Community
… in Durban till the end of apartheid’ (PDF) paper. The Beer Brewing Culture Towards the end of the 19th century growing … was soon a thriving industry…
BiographySindiso Mfenyana
… an invitation to joined the armed resistance that was brewing within the ANCYL at the time. With his father’s …
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… as the women were harassed and prosecuted for illicit beer brewing, along with their clients, the boycott petered out. … Boards have been urging the JCC to…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
… and a rich culture based on shebeens, mbaqanga music, beer-brewing developed. People remember Sophiatown fondly. …
EventStudents protest at the University of Fort Hare
… erupted on the campus on 28 August. Fort Hare had been a brewing cauldron for student political activities during the …
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… in Langa without the Superintendent’s permission. The brewing of sorghum beer ( utshwala ) which was integral to … with traditional custom. Despite the…
EventInternational Labour Organisation and UN meet over apartheid in SA
… what action they needed to take in order to halt what was brewing in South Africa. …
Desirable or undesirable Basotho women?' Liquor, prostitution and the migration of Basotho women to the Rand, 1920-1945' by P. L. Bonner
… resources it had at its disposal, to control the illegal brewing beer and the massive inflow of its principal … 8-27). So alarming did it consider the scale…
EventThe Liquor Laws Amendment Bill comes into effect
… this lead to illegal enterprises such as shebeens and beer brewing by women, although the government often raided …
ArticleThe Berlin Conference
… and French statesmen. Hoping to quickly soothe this brewing conflict, King Leopold II was able to convince France …
A growing urban African population
… attracted to Newclare as opposed to Sophiatown, where beer brewing became a lucrative trade. During World War II …
EventPower Struggle in Zulu hierarchy
… fears for his personal safety. Realising that tension was brewing within the Royal family, Zwelithini was transported …
PlaceRosebank, Cape Town
… in South Africa and considered the ‘cradle of clear-beer brewing’ in South Africa. It lies on the Liesbeek River and …
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… the people living in the slumyards. It was centred on beer-brewing and shebeens. The marabi dance parties became centres …
ArticleAnti-pass campaigns, 1910s
… means of employment such as laundry work, illegal beer brewing and prostitution. Each month, when renewing her …
EventBambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata
… to represent him. Among the first indications of a brewing rebellion, was the killing of a farmer, Henry Smith, …
BiographyAdrian Leftwich
Adrian Leftwich grew up in Cape Town, Western Province (now Western Cape), in 1940 in a liberal Jewish family. His father was a doctor, and his mother gave…
PlaceCato Manor, Durban
… new settlers and the authorities ran high and illegal beer brewing, which became a source of livelihood for many, was a major factor for the friction…
Mines, Masters and Migrants - Life in a Namibian Compound by R. J. Gordon, (Ravan Press), Johannesburg 1977, reviewed by Philip Schemer
… common way of making business money In the compound is by brewing traditional beer. Although most of the book is …