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ArticleHow the Group Areas Act shaped spaces, memories and identities in Cape Town
… with the exclusive rights and enjoyment of prime property in the country. [ii] To achieve this aim, some four million … Hanover Park and the like. [vi] For…
ArchiveSA Air Force operation, And here is the (restricted) news, The Star, 24 May 19983
… SA Air Force operation, And here is the (restricted) news, …
EventGrace Naledi Mandisa Pandor, SA minister of education since 2004, is born in Durban
… Grace Naledi Mandisa Pandor was born in Durban on 7 December 1953. Her father, Joe Matthews, was a … Regina Thelma, was a teacher. Following her family's…
EventThe Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the Ingwavuma region
… The Durban Supreme Court cancels the SA government's announcement concerning reclamation of the …
EventThe 4 x 100m men's relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… fourth gold medal since re-admission to the Olympics in Barcelona 1992, adding to the two won by swimmer Penny Heyns in Atlanta and the marathon gold by…
EventThe Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) is founded after the government banned a host of BCM organisations in October 1977.
… In the aftermath of the 16 June 1976 Uprising, in Soweto, … government banned all the organisations under the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) banner. The…
ArchiveJ.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg by Henry Dee
… J.S. Scott, black artists and the cultural politics of 1920s Johannesburg …
ArchiveFacts about the current situation in South Africa and what is to be done
… African National Congress report on the current situation in South Africa and how to respond. Examines the South African regime, the Black Consciousness…
EventA resolution against the use of Afrikaans is taken during SASM conference in Roodepoort
… South African Student Movement (SASM) held a conference in Roodepoort. During the conference Aubrey Mokoena, a member of the Black People's Convention (BPC)…
ArchiveApartheid in practice: jobs and wages in South Africa
… Yellow, black and red poster. Photograph of South African farm … Description of inequality between blacks and whites in South Africa. Issued by the Anti…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
… know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often … in the same accident, that his daughter would…
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 … (TUC) began to engage much more…
Work in progress
… White, grey, black and red poster. Work in Progress 65. Artwork of demonstrators and riot police. … Work in progress …
ArchiveEducation in crisis
… Silkscreened; black and blue; Education in crisis: Meeting with Michael Gardiner (Head of Eng. … Education in crisis …
ArchiveChurch in protest
… Title in white letters on red background. Yellow poster with black lettering. Multicoloured photo of clerics outside … Church in protest …
BiographyVejaynand ‘Vejay’ Indurjith Ramlakan
… Ramlakan, more popularly known as 'Vejay', was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal), South Africa in 1957. He matriculated at Naidoo Memorial High in…
Mafika Gwala speaks to Andrea Meeson about not living in the shadows
… press release from the Poetry Africa festival, which ended in Durban last night, touted the presence of Mafika Gwala as the “exciting re-emergence of the…
ArticleEuropean missionaries in southern Africa: the role of the missionaries
… and twentieth centuries played a strangely ambiguous role in the history and affairs of the region. On the one hand … equipped to understand. The first…
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…
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…
Four important figures in the South African Film Industry
… Isadore W. Schlesinger made his home in South Africa after the Boer war, and founded several insurance companies. He pioneered the mass media in this country…
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 Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… This essay discusses the rise of female unionisation in South Africa in the early and mid twentieth century. In … workers. Also, it was not racially biased,…
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…
O. R. Tambo interviewed in Luanda after Summit Meeting of Presidents of Frontline States and Southern African Liberation Movements, 1977
… of concern what positions the Frontline States are taking in this matter. On Zimbabwe it is more the position taken by … majority of the people of South…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
… Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University … worker controlled unions. On the other hand…
EventBarry Hough, SA literary critic and successful author of mainly teenage books is found dead
… and author of Afrikaans teenage fiction. He was born in Johannesburg in 1953. He obtained a BA Communications degree from the Rand Afrikaans University (now…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the SA freedom day celebrations Pretoria, 27 April 1996
… to come, the abiding image of a patient citizenry in long voting queues on 27 April 1994, will remain deeply etched in the collective memory of the nation…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… Mafika Pascal Gwala was born on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second … out against the injustice of apartheid. He…