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Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
… period, Abrahams also published the novels Song of the City (1943), Mine Boy (1946), which became a classic, The … South Africa with new eyes. He saw…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… cheaper to employ than men with their families living in urban areas. Between the wars, conditions in the Reserves … Forced removals and rigid influx…
73. The Congress of the People, June 1955
… of South Africa were confronted with a number of specific issues such as Western Areas removal and Bantu Education, … overwhelming majority of the delegates…
PlaceTranskei
… east of the Keiskamma River and on 10 May Governor D'Urban extended the colonial boundaries to the Great Kei … to establish segregated districts before the…
Baleka Mbete: In The Centre Of The Maelstrom by Greg Nicolson (Daily Maverick), 17 February 2015, South Africa
… South Africa's issues of governance, a rise in opposition rhetoric, and a … outrageous, if it weren't so dangerous. Already in Mogale City, cases have been…
PlaceWits School of Arts (WSOA)
… that engage in transformative ways within our contemporary urban, African and global contexts.” Notable graduates and …
EventBevil Rudd, the Olympic gold, silver and bronze medalist
… Bevil Gordon d’Urban Rudd was born on 5 October 1894 in Kimberley, Northern …
PlacePiquetberg
… later, in 1835, the Governor of the Cape, Sir Benjamin D'Urban, made it a grant of the government farm Grootfontein …
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… of young Africans not liable for poll tax, from working in urban areas unless their parents live there. The proposals …
ArticleTimeline of the Bulhoek Massacre
… or belongings. The police withdrawal causes certain issues to arise: Stories are spreading that the police had … criticising the Israelites. 21 May, Colonel…
ArticleColonial history of Bloemfontein
… F.W Reitz, 1889-1895: 'n Kultuurhistoriese Studie. City Development Industrial growth Industry in Bloemfontein … water supply hampered the progress of…
Biographical contribution on Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge
… her fervent struggle for women’s rights since the years of apartheid. Nozizwe Charlotte Madlala-Routledge, “mother of … had a profound influence on her…
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… In Angola in the spring of 1988 the armed forces of apartheid South Africa and the US-backed mercenaries of Jonas … Africa. It is always necessary to bear in…
PlaceFalse Bay
… If you leave the "Mother City" of South Africa and follow the M3 towards Muizenberg , … Good Hope . Cape Town is famous for its penguins, but the city and…
EventSouth Africa abandons the Gold Standard, sparking a period of economic expansion
… from providing housing for residents of the cities inner city slum yards that had been earmarked for removal for … the first group of families were removed…
PlaceSiyathemba Township, Balfour
… to be enjoyed in this municipality. The three major urban nodes in the area are Balfour/Siyathemba, …
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
… and propagating working-class solidarity amongst the urban proletariat; and, secondly, because it was the first … ISL-CT), their joint ventures were well…
Documents, speeches, Awards, and articles relating to Desmond Tutu
… Tutu, world renowned preacher and strident voice against apartheid, first Black Secretary General of the South African … award recognised his unifying role…
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… ethos, and revolutionary Cuba was an early opponent of apartheid and racial segregation. It is no surprise to read … liberation was of a different sort from…
PlaceRoodepoort, Johannesburg
… Roodepoort is actually a City of its own, although it has now merged with the Suburbs … - Gardens , formerly the Wits Botanical Gardens and the City’s most…
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… about the exploitation of workers and the role of race in apartheid I saw to be absolutely true. I also discovered that … an entire wall. We also showed…
PlaceNoordhoek, Cape Town- Southern Peninsula
… Noordhoek was for many years cut off from the main Urban development of the Southern Peninsula. Since the Ou … however, the Valley has not been spared the…
South African Youth Revolutionary Council (SAYRCO)
… momentum and organise further campaigns to undermine the apartheid government’s authority. He began by addressing mass … by the fact that they had succeeded…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Foreword by A. P. Mda
… used to invite me to take part in discussing some of the issues raised by the philosophers. Very often we took … read to me, and I would read myself. Then we…
ArticleTruth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC)
… court-like body assembled in South Africa after the end of Apartheid. Anybody who felt they had been a victim of … to grant amnesty to those charged with…
PlaceOld Durban Brook Street Cemetery
… its significance as one of the oldest Cemeteries in the City, is its function as a communal burial place for Muslim, … at Brook Street Cemetery include…
PlaceSol Plaatje University
… first of two new universities to be established in post-apartheid South Africa . It is also the first university to … on water-stressed conditions . SPU has…
PlaceYMCA-Cape Town and later Athlone, as well
… in Africa and has been based in a couple of places in the City over the years. Namely: Hout Street; 44 Long Street; … YMCA'. On the 11 of July 1914, (during…
WE HAVE THE KEY TO FREEDOM NOT THE OPPRESSOR, December 16, 1957
… Party that has plagued our country since 1948 with apartheid, a most deadly policy. Is it too much to hope that … of the crown against people and…
PlaceTable Mountain, Cape Town
… Harbour and it is the most distinguishing feature of the City. On a clear day it is visible for many Kilometers out to … years was the principal source of…