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The Lessons of the Transition Era, Inequality and the Politics of Universal Health Care: Re-visiting the Proposals of the Macro-Economic Research Group (MERG) and the Reconstruction and Development Programme by Robert Van Niekerk
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference The paper offers a reflection on the macro-economic policy debates…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
On the night of the 19th of November in the South African city of Durban, agents of the Pretoria regime brutally assassinated Griffiths Mxenge. Using knives,…
ANC Statement on the 40th anniversary of Chief Albert Luthuli`s death, 20 July 2007
To mark the 40th anniversary of the death of former ANC President Chief Albert Luthuli tomorrow, 21 July 2007, the ANC is publishing a special edition of the…
PlaceKuboes, Northern Cape
Regarded by the local people as the heartland of the Nama Culture, the little Town of Kuboes lies nestled between the Mountains of Ku Boesberg to the North,…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
Born Ronald Horwitz in in 1934, he moved to from South Africa to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater. He changed his name to Harwood after an…
EventSouth Africa Freedom Day - 26 June 1950
In 1950, the apartheid government introduced the Unlawful Organisations Act and the Suppression of Communism Act. In March 1950, the African National Congress …
The Centenary Celebration of the February Revolution 8-12 March 2017
In 1917 ordinary workers and rank and file soldiers overthrew the Tsarist autocracy that had been in power in Russia since the late 1400s. This became known as…
Why protect worker’s rights?
The exploitation of workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend with the migrant…
Article”People’s Power!”, 1986
In January 1986, the UDF met the African National Congress (ANC) for talks in Stockholm. It was at these talks that the position and future role of the UDF…
ArticlePoqo
Poqo was formed as an armed wing to the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) during the 1960's and was known for its aggressively violent sabotage campaign. Unlike…
EventArchibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan, Xhosa writer and linguist, dies
Archibald Campbell Mzoliza Jordan Xhosa writer and linguist died in the United State of America in Madison Wisconsin. Jordan was born on 30 October 1906 at the…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Bibliography
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education Bibliography Caton-Thompson, Gertrude. Mixed…
PlaceCape Peninsula University of Technology
The Cape Peninsula University of Technology was established on 1 January 2005, when the Cape Technikon and Peninsula Technikon merged. This merger was part of…
ArchiveAfrican 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 was being forged between racially…
Now You Have Touched the Women - 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 was being forged between racially…
ArticleThe Impact of Colonialism
From voyages of trade and discovery to colonisation: This section of the grade 10 curriculum was developed in 2009. While much of the content is still…
The Road to Durban: Workers’ struggles, student movements, and the resurgence of resistance politics in Namibia and South Africa by Heike Becker
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference My proposed paper looks into connections between radical politics in…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
The Democratic Alliance (DA), previously named the Democratic Party (DP), was formed on 8 April 1989, when the former Progressive Federal Party, Independent…
EventVergelegen Wine Estate Owner Samuel Kerr Dies
Samuel Kerr,an Irishman, wastheowner of the Vergelegen Wine Estate, Somerset West from 1901-1917. He acquired the estate on 29 March 1901 at a price of £11,404…
PlaceKoelfontein Wine Farm
Koelfontein has been the proud heritage of seven generations of the Conradie Family. Every person who has been fortunate enough to lay down roots on this farm…
Hastings Banda, the early years by Angela Thompsell updated 01 March 2016
Hastings Banda was one of the more enigmatic “Big Men” of the post-independence era in Africa. He was Malawi’s first President and ruled the country for 30…
PlaceKatlehong
Katlehong is a township located 35km East of Johannesburg and South of Germiston between two other townships — Thokoza and Vosloorus, and is next to the N3…
PlaceWooden Bridge over Lagoon, Milnerton, Cape Town
The Bridge was Built in 1901 using Jarrah Wood by the Royal Engineers to provide an Entrance to a Cannon Trench. Since its Erection it was in constant use…
PlaceTokai Manor House, Tokai Road, Tokai.
The farm was originally granted to Johan Rauch in 1792, Within two months, had sold it on to Andries Teubes, who probably built the manor in 1795-96 according…
PlaceThe Mead and Meadway, Pinelands-Cape Town
The land was granted to the Garden Cities Trust in 1919 and was capitalised in part by a member of the trust, namely Richard Stuttaford of Stuttaford’s fame…
PlaceUnion Buildings and Raadsaal, Church Square, Pretoria
The discovery of the Witwatersrand Goldfields provided in 1886, the funds necessary to construct this building that was able to house the first Volksraad…
EventSolomon Popoli Linda, singer and composer, dies
On 8 October 1962, Solomon Linda, the singer and composer of Mbube, which became the pop hit as 'The Lion Sleeps Tonight', died without receiving royalties for…
EventApartheid becomes official policy
On 26 May 1948, the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunified National Party) took power from Jan Smuts' United Party (UP) by 5 seats. The HNP came to power in…
EventSA’s Fifa membership reinstated
Thirty-one years after being expelled, South Africa had its membership of the Football International Federation Association (Fifa) reinstated on 3 July 1992…
PlaceSprings
The Town of Springs, East of Johannesburg, is on the East Rand, or what is now known as the Metropolitan area of Ekurhuleni, in the Gauteng Province. It was…