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Subbiah Moodley
… the African National Congress (ANC), recruits. He was born in Umgeni Road in 1944, Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal). His grandparents … to vote in South…
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… Bopalamo tracks the history of the Rustenburg area in a remarkable fashion. From humble beginnings, she climbed … to become a teacher and eventually an…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… has an uneasy relationship with depictions of the city in tourist publications as an inclusive world of adventuring, … Slavery is a history which until the…
ArticleThe Cape Minstrels: Origins and Evolution of Tweede Nuwe Jaar (Second New Year) in the Cape
… Introduction In the years following 1994, South Africa has become well … construe their environment and also their lives (Shell, 1994:404). It is argued that…
ArticleSona Patterns - Revisiting the Contributions of the People in Sub-Saharan Africa to Modern Mathematics
… category of ‘ethnomathematics’, as if mathematics here was in some way linked to tribalism. The contribution of African … graphs, which forms part of modern…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the SA-USA Business and Finance Forum, Roosevelt Hotel, New York, 23 September 1999
… reaffirmed their commitment to democracy by turning out in their millions to cast their votes. They voted for the … annual level since 1972. GDP growth…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 4: Turning points in modern South African History since 1948
… of South African History. These key turning points in South African history are a depiction of the conflict … conference of the African National Congress …
ArticleWomen’s resistance in the 1960s - Sharpeville and its aftermath
… Suddenly the country was rocked by the events of 21 March in Sharpeville where people had gathered to show the police … did not have their passes – and thus…
ArticleTeachers League of South Africa (TLSA) conference in 1925
… Africa (TLSA) emerged out of increasing racial segregation in the Cape. While segregation had been established early in the history of the Cape, during the…
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… Allison Drew Document 45 - Ray Alexander, "Trade Unionism in South Africa", Discussion, 1 6,1952 [....] The first Trade … Engineering Union is still a part…
EventProposal made to stop sending Black troops to assist in WW1
… C.W. Malan put forth a motion in parliament on this day: “That this House strongly … and natives from South Africa to Europe for any service in connection…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… 1980s saw escalating state repression and mass detentions. In a frenzy of desperate reaction, the government declared a … of back-to-back states of emergency…
ArticleRole of Black people in the South African War
… fought to determine which white authority had real power in South Africa but other populations groups like the Zulu, … Xhosa, Swazis and Basotho and Sothos…
ArticleThe Crackdown on the Black Consciousness Movement in 1973
… (PAC), especially after the Rivonia Trial , saw a lull in anti-apartheid politics that only ended with the emergence … of the South African Students…
ArticleThe Establishment of the Afrikaner Broederbond in May 1918.
… In May 1918 a group of fourteen railway clerks, clergymen and … speaking section of the White population found themselves in the period after the First World…
ArticleHistory of slavery and early colonisation in South Africa
… With colonialism, which began in South Africa in 1652, came the Slavery and Forced Labour Model. This was the original model of colonialism brought by the…
Early struggles, contact and conflict in the Cape Colony
… ‘discovery’ of the Cape by European sailors resulted in the increasing use of the Cape coast as a trading area. … and European sailors increased tensions and…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a … have a secret sexual relationship…
EventBarend Strydom kills 8 People in Pretoria
… and stopped by Simon Mukondoleli, a taxi driver working in the legislative capital. Strydom claimed to be the head of … punishment, Strydom escaped the death…
ArticleSan hunter-gatherer society in the Later Stone Age
… Lived off the environment The earliest hunter-gatherers in southern Africa were the San people. They mostly survived … arrow. The San invented their own type…
Art lost in a time of struggle by Mary Corrigall
… that it forces you to question the methods entailed in rewriting or reclaiming history. Mnyele and the cultural … he was allied to, the Medu Art Ensemble,…
BiographyLucas Manyane Mangope
… of a local chief,Mangope graduated from St Peter's School in Johannesburg in 1946.After working for several years in the Department of … with the independent…
ArticleTimeline of the History of Rugby in South Africa
… Canon George Oglivie organizes first recorded rugby match in South Africa at Green Point, Cape Town, Western Cape … Founding of the first two Whites-only…
ArticleConference: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa
… on the history and politics of the armed struggle in southern Africa. The conference is being funded by the … of South Africa (IFAS). Download the CONFERENCE…
The British Government, The Trade Union Congress, and Black South African Trade Unionism, 1973 to 1994 by Dan Feather
… to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference In the aftermath of the Durban Strikes (1973) the British … more closely with the emerging Black…
To All Fathers and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa. Flyer in English and Sesotho by the Soweto Students’ Representative Council, 15 October 1976
… and Mothers, Brothers and Sisters, Friends and Workers, in All Cities, Towns and Villages in the Republic of South Africa." Flyer in English and … KAOFELA…
BiographyManilal Gandhi
… Manilal Gandhi was born on 28 October 1892 in Rajkot, India, the second son of Kasturba and Mohandas … three brothers, with whom he first came to South…
ArticleKey People in the June 16 Soweto Youth Uprising
… Many people were involved in the historic turning point that 16 June 1976 became. These … parents, activists, government employees, and others were in Soweto…
BiographyDullah Mohamed Omar
… Dullah Mohamed Omar was born in Observatory, Cape Town on 26 May 1934 and grew up in District Six. He attended the Kipling Street Muslim … Rights Commission…
BiographyTrevor Andrew Manuel
… Trevor Manuel was born 31 January,1956 in Kensington, Cape Town. His father, Abraham Manuel, worked … attended Harold Cressy High School and matriculated in…