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63. Colonisation scheme: the colonial-born Indians respond - From the book "A Documentary History of Indian South Africans" edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai There had long been a feeling among some,…
BiographyAnton Ndoda Xaba
… National Congress (ANC) in 1953 at Emsizini in Durban at a meeting that was addressed by the then ANC President, Chief Albert John Luthuli . He played a…
EventSAIC Executive meets in Cape Town
… of Natal and the Transvaal. SAIC also decided to send a delegation to New York to assist in the preparation of the … http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages…
BiographyJohnson Phillip Mlambo
… with others, Mlambo was then transported at the back of a truck en route to Robben Island . The truck stopped at … placed with common-law prisoners.His…
BiographySimon van der Stel
… of the Coromondel, who is also known as Monica van Goa, a former slave woman of Indian descent. At the time it was … lasted five years, the family remained…
BiographyDavid Joseph Webster
… belt mines of Northern Rhodesia where his father was a miner. His family later immigrated to South Africa, where David chose to pursue a career in…
BiographyGuy Tillim
… Tillim was born in Johannesburg in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South…
ArticleCapitalism in the USA 1900 to 1940
… How did the Great Depression in the USA bring about a crisis of capitalism? Background and focus It is important … USA. We study the crisis of capitalism…
BiographyStephen Joel Chifunyise
… in Chitomborwizi, Chinhoyi, where he completed sub A to standard I. In 1960 he moved to Mumbwa, Zambia where he … complete high school. The following year he…
BiographySurinarayan ‘Sonny’ Kala Venkatrathnam
… (Grade 12) he registered at Natal University for a BA degree (now University of KwaZulu-Natal -UKZN). At the … from eight o’clock, off-campus. The students…
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… Albert John Luthuli . Although she never became as public a figure as her husband was, she was significant in her own right and made a considerable…
BiographyJulius Sello Malema
… born on 3 March 1981, in Seshego, Limpopo, and raised by a single mother who worked as a domestic worker in Seshego Township. He went to Mohlakaneng … School…
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… who had been dispossessed of land after 19 June 1913 as a result of racially discriminatory laws or practices the … Act 200 of 1993 for that purpose. The Act…
BiographyBheki Cele
… away, leaving him in the care of his father. His father, a senior “Induna” (Chief) at the then South African Railways, … the cleanest in the class. The…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
… at Rhodes University in Grahamstown that soon became a nation-wide movement which spread to various campuses. [2] … located in the Western Cape, which…
BiographyMohamed Farouk Asvat
… "Prisoner of Conscience" during this period. He was denied a passport until 1986 when he was issued with a highly restricted document; being granted limited…
BiographyIsaac Williams Wauchope
… “Rev Isaac Wauchope was truly handsome in appearance, a broad-faced man, in height a little more than five feet, of light brown complexion, … His sources…
BiographyMakhanda Nxele
… Campbell, who met Makhanda, described him: “We found Lynx a fine figure of a man, measuring six feet two inches in height… He had many … would have been…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a period of the male Xhosa initiation, which is referred to … assisting their initiates during…
The Hawks letter to Pravin Gordhan by Berning Ntlemeza (Politics Web), 28 February 2016
… recruit even before funding approval is granted for such a capability to exist? 7. Kindly share with us or provide a copy of the Agreement between NIA and…
List of deaths in detention
… the government used to quell resistance. As detention was a legal weapon that could see an individual, a group or even an entire community silenced it became…
ArchiveIndia’s African Sufis - Demystified! by Blanche Michael
… between 35,000 – 70,000 in present-day India itself, a significant percentage of whom live in the coastal region … Gujarat in western India [3] . The siddis…
The Battle of Square Hill
… led members of the ‘Cape Coloured Community’ to make a special representation to the Imperial Army Council via the … Government. This was adopted on 20…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… 59) William Hartley (1859 - 60) Alexander McArthur (1860 - 63) Hugh Gillespie (1863 - 65) John Hunt and RW Tyzack (1865 … (1922 - 24) TM Wadley (1924 - 26)…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 1: Student Activism
… of electricity needed in the country, and this was causing a high risk of “the whole national power system” having to … and finances pledged to resolve the…
ArticleCaste - meaning, profession, religion
… Achari, Achary, Archary - Sometimes the last name of a person. Caste of the craftsman -architects, goldsmiths. … root aham, which, in Tamil, has many…
PlaceVictoria and Alfred Waterfront, Cape Town
… It started off with a small Jetty, built by Jan van Riebeeck in 1654 as part of his task to establish a Refreshment Station at the Foot of Africa for the…
Grade 8 - Topic 2 - The Mineral Revolution in South Africa
… Key Terms Annexation : the act of taking control of a country, region, etc, especially by force Compound : an area surrounded by a fence or wall in which a…
PUBLIC RESPONSE TO SAHO WEBSITE
… received numerous responses from the public, good and bad. A selection are reprinted below: ----- Original Message ----- … Hi I am very happy to see that at…
EventJudge Essa Moosa passes away
… in District Six, Cape Town on 8 February 1936.[i] He was a judge in the Supreme Court of South Africa. Moosa was a former human rights lawyer who defended…