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EventMapungubwe is ‘discovered’
… the academic value of the site; he contacted the head of History Department at the University of Pretoria, Professor … ,[Accessed:02 December 2013]| rebirth,…
EventSouth Africa is told by IAEA to open all nuclear plants to international inspection
… 'From peaceful research to building the bomb' This day in history Archive: '16 September 1991 - SA signs Safeguards …
EventSlavery is abolished at the Cape
… settlers to leave the Cape Colony. Further reading list: A history of prison labour in South Africa Indenture: A new … Africa. Cape Town: NASOU. v. 9, p. 659…
EventHundreds of thousands of Hutus flee to Zaire
… Congo, DRC) in one of the largest migrations of people in history. Thousands of Hutus died of dysentery and cholera in …
PlacePhoenix Settlement and Gandhi Trail
… he moved the entire press to Phoenix Settlement. The early history of Phoenix Settlement records three important …
65. Letter from the Natal Indian Congress to Smuts, 1945
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and …
EventThe full citizenship of Coloured people is called for
… Coloured people, throughout the course of South African history, have been regarded as neither white nor black, and … E. & Andor, L.E. (eds) (1999), Southern…
ArticleTransport on land
… bicycle, it was invented by John Kemp Starley. He made history when he produced ‘The Rover’ safety bicycle. It … stands for 'train of great speed'). A video…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… partly based on the trajectory of worker culture in the post-1994 period, worker culture did not become a lasting and …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Debating Socialist Lineages. Convenors Shahid Vawda and Lungisile Ntsebeza
… policy, comparative education, educational change, public history and popular culture include four books, four edited … Currently a fellow in the History…
Freedom In Our Life Time - African Nationalism
… balanced Africans. The speaker touched on South African history to focus the attention of the audience upon the … American writer Thompson: "The…
Why General Smuts won on 4 September 1939
… three first elected as United Party Members in post-Fusion by-elections up to 1938, eighteen who were first … deep footprints in the sand of the country's…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… it by blowing up railways, power lines, telephones and post offices. Hertzog and Malan put their faith in the white … that the electioneering had been …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter Three - By Riashnee Pather
… This is part due to the fact that of all the events in the history of Indians in South Africa it is probably the best … and Christopher Saunders (ed) Readers…
The Gandhi You May not Know by Rajmohan Gandhi
… when he was returning to India by ship, he maintained a diary, which began thus: I could not make myself believe that … teach English for an hour a day,…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… The multi-ethnic suburb has a fascinating and turbulent history. “Fordsburg was always a working class suburb,” Rich in History and bearing the scars of its…
PlaceCairo, Capital City of Egypt
… Cities! On the Nile River, Cairo is famous for its own history, preserved in the fabulous medieval Islamic city and … was built on a hill by the caliph- …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… combination, form a mosaic of a large slab of a people's history of South Africa. The 200th anniversary of the birth … the lifespan being celebrated. I don't…
Black ViewPoint - The New Day by C.M.C. Ndamse
… immersed in the stream of time. As day succeeds day and history bears us onward over its cataracts of change, we … epochs. One may believe that a momentous…
Say It out Loud - The 1910 Presidential Address, Port Elizabeth, Cape
… The African Political Organisation has throughout its history been truly South African. Its sphere as regards … is necessary for me to make a little…
Vasco da Gama’s Voyage of ‘Discovery’ 1497
… the land. For an unpacking of this mystification of the history of exploration. The First Expedition The Portuguese … Prehistory to the year 2000 ,…
ArticleThe Arrival of Jan Van Riebeeck in the Cape - 6 April 1652
… high school in the centre of Cape Town. Read more on the history of Cape Town . … Aartsma, H (2008). ‘ Early history of the Cape Colony, South Africa ’ from…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… had become the longest and most costly in South African history. After the strike, Anglo American Platinum, Amplats, …
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The history of the African working class is symbiotic with …
The Student Wages Commissions, the 1973 Durban Strikes, and the Politics of Statistics by Grace Davie
… end of the 1970s. Grace Davie is Associate Professor of History at Queens College, City University of New York. She … the author of Poverty Knowledge in…
PlaceMiddleburg, Eastern Cape
… the old section. It dates back to the Anglo-Boer War . The History of Grootfontein dates back to 1781 when a certain … in South Africa, it has a proud…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… was relatively unknown to historians of ancient history until his tomb was discovered in the twentieth … could all be used to provide greater insight into…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
… the Komatiepoort police from the phone of a mission post. He requested the Komatiepoort police to contact …
ArticleWorld War I and the South African Native Labour Contingent
… George V. We gave our letter to one of the soldiers to post for us, since we were not allowed to go outside the … Labour Contingent, 1916-1918’ in The…
Origins: Formation, Sharpeville and banning, 1959-1960
… and was sentenced to 15 years in prison. In the post-Soweto period the PAC attempted to build itself up …