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PlaceZambia
… Nyanja or Chewa (20%), Tonga (12%) and Lozi (6%). An urban variety of Nyanja (Chewa) is the lingua franca,( which … to pay for medical help suffers a lot…
Chapter 1 - The Victory of the Nationalist Party in 1948
… class. and against Indians and coloureds. The NP policy of apartheid grew out of the policies of national oppression and … held together since 1933-4 began…
PlaceRed Location Museum
… and moved in 1900's, to Red Location, where the first urban Black families settled. It became a site of struggle during the years of Apartheid. Many…
Discovery of the Gold in 1884
… Wits (Knights), Meyer & Charlton, George Goch, Jumpers, City and Suburban, Geldenhuis Estates, Langlaagte, Robinson … drawback: the field was relatively…
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… and to co-opt their Chiefs. Violence erupted around issues such as Chiefs who collaborated with the Apartheid state, the land reclamation programme, the…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… organisation. NUSAS started to be vocal and denounce apartheid and its legalisation. This in turn drew fierce … domination and its failure to act in a…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … took place. Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid
… South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir … as a location for political protests,…
EventThe corner stone of the Union Buildings in Pretoria is laid.
… South African government and is situated in the capital city, Pretoria, now known as Tshwane. It was designed by Sir … as a location for political protests,…
Karen Nieuwoudt
… competition and came 2nd in the category 'play and the city'. I love landscape photography and have gone on … photos onto bags that I have made. I have…
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
… neither capital nor security of tenure in towns or peri-urban areas lived in structures of an impermanent character … right to make representations to the…
"Attack, Advance, Give the Enemy No Quarter!" by O. R. Tambo, Message of the National Executive Committee of the ANC on the 74th Anniversary of the ANC, 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … system of local government. For…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 74th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1986
… immense responsibility that rests on all of us to make the apartheid system of oppression and exploitation, repression … whole system of local government…
ArticleSouth African Coloured People Organisation (SACPO)
… prior to the introduction and institutionalisation of the Apartheid policy by the NP. Legislations that had an … another direction in the 1950s. Before the…
Address to the Swedish Parliament Stockholm, 13 March 1990
… the parties to which you belong, represent the common anti-apartheid and democratic positions of the overwhelming … aligned with regard to the fundamental…
Why protect worker’s rights?
… workers was a feature of life in South Africa for decades. Apartheid thrived on cheap labour: workers had to contend … they argued, the provisions were…
The New Generation
… as diligently as possible to effect change towards a post apartheid society. It urges artists to refuse participation … the implicit political forces that…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles that … regime of the British. [xv] Chieftaincy under…
EventJohannesburg municipal workers strike
… place in Johannesburg, the largest and most industrialised city in South Africa. The strike involved over 10,000 African … strike was centered around the…
Arthur Chaskalson Chief: Justice Emeritus, Constitutional Court of South Africa
… to the African National Congress on constitutional issues (April 1990-April 1994), and served as a member of the Technical Committee on Constitutional Issues…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
… in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a beerhall in Western Native … the JCC to introduce the home-brewing system…
BiographyJohn Jacques William Aitchison
… and analysis of the conflict and helped demystify the apartheid state's propaganda on "black on black" violence. …
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
… Party of South Africa (LPSA). The Liberal Party opposed apartheid and advocated for “one man, one vote”. She joined …
District Six: 3,000 ex-residents on land claims waiting list by Diana Mellow (GroundUp), 23 September 2016
… adding an hour or more to their daily commute into the city centre. Members of interracial families were relocated … an organisation dedicated to helping…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… leadership of Chief Abert Luthuli. During those days the apartheid regime was bent on frustrating African farmers and … rely entirely on agriculture. Gone…
Address delivered at The 9th COSATU Congress, 18 September 2006, Gallagher Estate, Midrand
… of the mass army of revolution that is today shaking the apartheid system to its very foundations. The formation of … Democratic Revolution are achieved…
EventSlave rebellion at the Cape led by Louis of Mauritius. Over 300 slaves and Khoi Khoi servants from outlying farms marched on Cape Town demanding their freedom
… at the Cape, and suggests a deep awareness around issues of abolition and freedom held by slaves and servants … for the insurrectionists at Salt River just…
EventSol Kerzner admits to the Harms Commission, that he has paid R2m for the personal benefit of Chief George Matanzima
… Kerzner, who owns Sun International which runs The Sun City Resort in the North West, was accused of having paid R2 … Kerzner has a reputation of being…
EventSouth Africa’s TRC begins its formal hearings into Human Rights Violations
… Tutu, began its first formal hearings in East London City Hall. The South African TRC was set up by the Government … to help deal with violations of human…
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… equipped leadership and the semi-peasant nature of' the city Bantus joined in many of these struggles. But during the … struggle, a struggle which will draw…