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ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… Power: Work and Inequality in the Shadow of the Digital Age (2023, Bristol University Press). He also continued to … of South Africa’s transition to…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… this, Maharaj tried to adapt as best as she could to this new culture. She attended the Maidavale Grammar School to … Marriage Zarina Maharaj married the…
Event13 year-old South African Native mineworker is published in a newspaper
… it was an offence to employ a Native in a mine under the age of 18 years. This act was amended by the Natives Laws …
EventPalaeontologist Mary Leakey discovers one of the oldest hominid skulls in Tanzania
… was later renamed 'Australopithecus boisei'. The estimated age of the skull was 1.75 million years old. Leaky, who …
EventJournalist and anti-apartheid activist M.P. Naicker dies
… Mission, Marimuthu Pragalathan Naicker (M.P.) died at the age of 56 from a suspected heart failure en route on a flight … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New…
EventPhotographer, Abdul Shariff, is murdered in Katlehong
… Natal and began fighting against apartheid from an early age. He was involved in the student political movement at …
EventKenyan independence hero Bildad Kaggia dies after a long illness
… over land policies. He died on 7 March 2005 at the age of 82. …
EventPaul Adams, former South African cricket player, is born
… Park, Cape Town. He began playing cricket at a very young age. Although he became famous as a bowler, as a young boy he …
Article2016 in Review
… halls, at home and worldwide. We also published three new books during this past year and have a dedicated team who … we send our gratitude and wish you all…
ArticleWomen in the schizophrenic 1940s - World War II and its aftermath
… industrial economy with the development of many new secondary industries in its aftermath. By this time the … previous decade) and the CYL began to set the…
ArticleDrum Magazine
… the dynamic changes that were taking place among the new urban Black South African – African, Indian and Coloured … The magazine became an important platform…
Remembering the Artistry of Photojournalist Ranjith Kally by Kalim Rajab (Daily Maverick) 21 June 2017
… tears. Ranjith died after a short illness at the ripe old age of 91. At that age, death can hardly be unexpected, so the tears were not … a father. I engaged…
BiographyBheki Cele
… cleanest in the class. The teachers asked me if I had a new shirt for every day, and were amazed when I told them I …
PlaceDonkin Mount, Port Elizabeth
… General. Sir Rufane Donkin Joined the army at the age of five under his father's command and later served in … he received the rank of Captain, 1776 Major…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Statistical analysis of Resisters
… served imprisonment, 1 476 are between 18 and 30 years of age; (b) that the overwhelming majority of those who went to … Natal Transvaal Cape Basutoland 117…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… the PAC, NEUM and APDUSA as inconsequential. When new attempts were made to infiltrate cadres into South Africa … however limited, to provide support…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… rush that began in the late 1860s in and around the new city of Kimberley started processes that had a profound … of labour needed for the mines, the…
Thupelo (1985)
… in the first Triangle Network artists’ workshop in New York in 1982 and based Thupelo on a similar approach of … provided an opportunity for artists to…
EventLaurie Bloomfield takes picture of rioting in Cato Manor, Durban
… Press Picture of the Year award in 1959. He died at the age of 74 from cancer. …
EventMining Magnate Oppenheimer dies
… Anglo American Corporation, died in Johannesburg at the age of 77. Oppenheimer was credited with the creation of a …
EventMaria Groesbeek is hanged for the murder of her husband, Christian Buys
… 1969, Groesbeek was executed on 13 November 1970 at the age of 33. …
EventSA sugar magnate Sir Hulett is born
… born in England and came to South Africa in 1857 at the age of 19. Hulett pioneered the country's sugar industry when …
EventMarais Steyn dies
… politician Marais Steyn, died of heart failure at the age of 83 in Stellenbosch. His political career started in …
EventBhambatha becomes chief
… the throne after the death of his father and uncle, at the age of 25. He quickly established himself as a popular chief …
EventJan van Riebeeck, the first Dutch governor of the Cape Colony, dies
… “Jan” van Riebeeck died on 18 January 1677 at the age of 57 in Batavia, now Jakarta, Indonesia, in the former …
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1960-1969
… Anglican Church. January, Bram Fischer is served with a new banning order for another five years. 23 January, The … announces its existence through a press…
ArticleThe co-optation of the African National Congress: South Africa’s original ‘State Capture’, Sampie Terreblanche
… trade. Promises were made to the ANC that as soon as the new government had implemented this model, conditions would … and create a genuine democratic South…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… of community life and gave the African working classes a new sense of identity. This is how Wilson "King Force" … through to Sunday evening. Music was…
Christianity
… is the Old Testament and the second part is called the New Testament. The Old Testament is made up of the same books … online, listen to some of it in class,…
ArticleA history of the South African Constitution 1910-1996
… The New Constitution was negotiated between May 1994 and October … for a democratic constitutional dispensation was not new, and was in fact as old as South…