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EventHilda Bernstein passes away
… passes away on the 9th September 2006 in Cape Town at the age of 91 from an aneurysm. In 1932 Bernstein and her mother …
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… and class relations, industrial sociology, family and old age. Introduction Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible …
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… students at Fort Hare boycott the appointment of their new principal, JM de Wet. The ’ringleaders were identified … Aubrey Mokoape, J Goolam and Strini…
ArticleLegacy: A Timeline of HIV/AIDS by Carlos Motta
… for Disease Control (CDC) with Kaposi sarcoma. 1981 The New York Times publishes its first article about HIV/AIDS. … as the name of the retrovirus that…
Archive‘It’s Dangerous and Difficult’: Artist William Kentridge on the Challenges for Young Artists Facing Quick Fame and Market Speculation by Devorah Lauter (news.artnet.com), October 20, 2021
… Are you letting things go now in your work—are you taking new directions? I wish I was taking more new directions. There are always new drawings and there…
Patric Tariq “de Goede” Mellet
… income was a pittance. We lived a meagre existence. At the age of 18 months I was severely burnt when a pot of boiling … Cape Town’s ‘Red September’ 1976…
PlaceAugrabies Fall National Park, Northern Cape
… area surrounding the Orange River since the Early Stone Age . During this time, there is evidence that early man had … sources like the Orange River. During…
Address on The African Renaissance to the Ghana-South Africa Friendship Association, Accra 5 October 2000
… you remember to tell your listeners of what time, what age you rushed so fast to speak? Or did you leave the … abandoned to suppose your story belonged to…
ArticleUniversity Christian Movement (UCM)
… and the ideological orientation was influenced by new ideas derived from the Black Theology of James Cone and … the discourse of Liberation Theology, and…
References and links: Transport through time
… Society and Environment Teachers, Book, (2001), (New South Wales), pp. 18-32 Spengle, K.T., (2011), An … Dorling Kindersley visual timeline of transportation…
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… to youth. But much of this is disappearing within the New South Africa. I have been working off and on for almost … wall were two posters; one explaining the…
EventThe father of South African Jazz Hugh Masekela dies
… Province. He started to sing and play the piano at a young age. At the age of 14 after seeing a film of a ‘young man with a horn’, …
The Pioneers
… in a variety of crafts, and the urban centres, where a new educated elite began exploring western approaches to art. … of three broad concepts: changes in…
ArticleBolt (1970-1975)
… Paton and Fiona Morphet and George Brendon. Reviews of new books by Wally Serote; James Fenton. Bolt was succeeded …
Cape Performing Arts Board (CAPAB)
… of the play was the survival of theatre. In 2001, the new organisation named Artscape , set to replace CAPAB, was …
ArticleThe 52nd ANC National Conference - Polokwane 2007
… the conference: “The key resolutions - some of them not so new - that were taken at the National Conference included … 41 ↵ [5] Jan Hofmeyr, ‘Post-Polokwane…
ArticleAnti-Indian Legislation
… consisting of L. Mason and H.Binns to India to negotiate a new agreement for the conditions of indenture to Natal. As a … immigration to the Colony which…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… The Black Consciousness Movement, led by Steve Biko, was a new source of resistance that had arisen in the late 1960s … the revived Natal Indian Congress )…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1916
… appoints Field Marshall Paul von Hindenburg as Germany’s new Chief of General Staff. Germany’s economy is placed under the Hindenburg Plan which grants the…
ArchiveANC 2019 Election Manifesto
… treatment has doubled while the overall rate of new infections is decreasing. Over 17,5 million of our most … the next chapter in our country’s history. A…
Biography of Baleka Mbete-Kgositsile by Brianna T. Hogg
… lived with her grandmother and attended pre-school. At the age of nine, her family made the decision to move to Fort … in a 2010 empowerment deal. [19] On…
ArchiveHow colonial violence came home: the ugly truth of the first world war by Pankaj Mishra (The Guardian), 10 November 2018
… physical proximity to their non-white subjects – their “new-caught sullen peoples”, as Kipling called colonised … In many books and films, the prewar years…
EventThe founding member of United Democratic Front and struggle activist Johnny Issel dies
… 2011, John James Issel also known as Johnny died at the age of 64, after he had suffered renal failure at the Groote … growing area in Worcester and worked…
EventQueen Elizabeth ascends to the throne
… Elizabeth I died on 24 March 1603 at Richmond Palace at an age 69. References: Britroyals.com (2011). ‘Queen Elizabeth …
EventMinister announces compulsory education for Black children
… until they passed Std 5 (now Grade 7) or reached the age of sixteen years. About 45 000 children were affected at …
EventEnforcement of military conscription for all white males in SA
… compulsory for all White men in South Africa over the age of 16. Deferment to complete schooling or a university …
EventPolitical activist, Professor ZK Matthews is born
… later opened a cafe. Though exposed to politics at a young age - his father was a Cape voter and his cousin, Sol … Verwey, E.J. (ed)(1995). New Dictionary of…
EventHaile Selassie, deposed Ethiopian emperor, dies
… that will unify the African Diaspora and lead them into an age of peace and prosperity. Rastafarianism has a following …
ArchiveThe Final Prize: Family - chapter 1
… Prize by Norman Levy I literally fell into politics at the age of fourteen, a happening that set my life on a path to …
George Hugo
… photographic competitions and art awards including Sasol New Signatures, Sanlam Vuleka and Fujifilm Professional …