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A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 5
… days and nights his personal clerk put into the political struggle, and realised that he could never have done what he …
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
Story Synopsis Inxeba is essentially an intersectional story about three Xhosa men that is told in the setting of the mountains of the Eastern Cape during a…
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
Africa has produced a number of female authors who were, and still are, able to assert themselves as writers, both on a national and international scale…
ArticleGrade 9 - Term 1: World War II (1939 - 1945)
World War II (1939 to 1945) was the most devastating war in history, accounting for between 50 million to 80 million deaths. What made the war significant was…
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
The Mfecane (a Zulu word which translates to “the crushing”) or Difiqane (a Sotho word which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… empire, Note and his immediate followers recommenced their struggle with a vengeance. In December of the same year, … over thirty years ago, and despite the…
‘African Gandhi’: The South African War and the Limits of Imperial Identity by Goolam Vahed
… came into being in 1910. When he became embroiled in the struggle for redress in the Transvaal during the post-war …
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
New introduction to thesis 2019 by David Hemson Hemson, David (1979) Class consciousness and migrant workers: dock workers of Durban. PhD thesis, University…
ArticleJohannesburg the Segregated city
… (MK) the subsequent year marked the beginnings of an armed struggle against White oppression which continued until 1994. …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… introduces the ‘red ribbon' logo, which implies a new struggle in the fight against HIV/AIDS. HIV/Aids in South …
Kora: A Lost Khoisan Language of the early Cape and the Gariep by Menán du Plessis - Introduction
… ‘went’. ↵ [17] Tim Keegan, Dr Philip’s Empire: One Man’s Struggle for Justice in Nineteenth-Century South Africa (Cape … 105–182. ↵ [60] Tim Keegan, Dr…
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… who wanted to know about the history of our liberation struggle and about world history such as the Cold War, saw … without definite end. The sense of…
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Article1910-1924: African nationalism and working-class and popular protests
Introduction General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African…
ArticleThe banning of the South African Students Organisation (SASO) and student politics in the 1980s
In September and October 1977, the apartheid government stiffened its resolve to end the nationwide student unrest that broke out in Soweto in June 1976…
Zulu Community
Late nineteenth century postcard of Zulu Warriors. Note the Europeans in the background. Source: Frescura Collection The pre-1994 apartheid system of…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
The 1940s saw a growth of African nationalism that positioned itself to challenge the rising Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
General Louis Botha headed the first government of the new Union of South Africa, with General Jan Smuts as his deputy. Their South African National Party,…
Archive2003 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 14 February 2003
… the year in which we lost that indomitable giant of our struggle, Oliver Tambo, and the people's hero, Chris Hani. To …
Archive2016 - President Zuma: State of the Nation Address, 11 February 2016
… Dr Frene Ginwala, Invited guests, Veterans of the struggle for liberation, Members of the diplomatic corps, …
Archive2012 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 09 February 2012
… to single out the former presidents of the ANC who led our struggle for liberation and of creating a better life across …
Archive2009 - President Zuma, State of the Nation Address, 3 June 2009 (After National Elections)
… preventable disease; For as long as there are workers who struggle to feed their families and who battle to find work; …
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency: National Assembly, 12th June 2007
… government structures can contribute to the all-round struggle to defeat poverty and underdevelopment in our …
BUT NOT FOR BREAD ALONE
… and a strengthening of the Congress Alliance in its struggle for total liberation from national oppression and …
Archive2009 - President Motlanthe, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 2009 (Before National Elections)
… spirit of hope and resilience that infused the democratic struggle even when everything looked bleak; to underscore the …
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
The study of armed forces in Africa tend focus on the contemporary peculiarities with little understanding of or regarding for the history of the nations,…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
Introduction In a democratic society, the observance of chieftaincy faces many problems. One of the key issues relates to chieftaincy operating on principles…
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace by Charley-Ann Pearson
Prejudice, Politics and Patriarchy: The Social Decline and Changing Identity of David Lurie in J. M. Coetzee’s Disgrace Charley-Ann Pearson Politics and…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…