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BiographyDr. Frene Noshir Ginwala
… Province). Her politics would be influenced by where and how she grew up. Johannesburg was a growing city in the 1930s. The discovery of gold on the…
EventErfdeel farm in Orange Free State becomes SA's richest gold deposit
… The Essayists revealed that, based on the test, the gold ore under Erfdeel farm might be worth as much as $18,000 … no shares soared as rapidly as those of…
BiographyBobby Hendricks
… Sound. In the early 1980s his first record was released, and in the next two decades he had five gold albums. In 1999 Hendricks died in Cape Town from…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… the future leaders of the world could meet in peace and get to know and respect each other.His original idea was … in the marathon in St Louis. South Africa…
BiographyJosiah Thugwane
… the first Black South African athlete to win an Olympic gold medal. He was born on 22 April 1971 in the small town … much education while he was growing up…
BiographyC. J. Mayekiso
… in 1913 in Idutywa in the Transkei, Mayekiso was a textile worker and later became president of the African Textile Workers' Union. He was a trade unionist…
BiographyVera Gow (Adams)
… (A.M.E.) In Evaton, Gow was immersed in an ethos of music and culture, and sang at church and at community weddings. She was … the Nico Malan Theatre. Gow…
BiographyBuchi Emecheta
… Lagos on 21 July in 1944 to Jeremy Nwabudinke, a railway worker and Alice (nee Okwuekwuhe). Her Igbo parents were from the … she spent most of her childhood…
BiographyThelma Gutsche
… was born in 1915 in Somerset West , Cape Province to Dr. And Mrs. J Gutsche. Gutsche did not attend formal schooling … Woman – The Life and Times of Florence…
BiographyBrigalia Bam
… Eastern Cape . She was formally educated in South Africa and abroad specializing in teaching, social work, communications and management. She is a qualified…
South Africa’s richest gold deposit is discovered near the farm Erfdeel in the Orange Free State.
… South Africa’s richest gold deposit is discovered near the farm Erfdeel in the …
Karl Gottlieb Mauch, the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten, Wurtemberg.
… Karl Gottlieb Mauch, the first man to discover gold in SA, is born in Stetten, Wurtemberg. …
John Akii-bua, 400-metre hurdler who won Olympics-gold in 1972, is born in Uganda.
… John Akii-bua, 400-metre hurdler who won Olympics-gold in 1972, is born in Uganda. …
Colonial conquest and resistance, Pre 1900
… conquest, land dispossession, economic impoverishment, and exclusion from citizenship of Africans. Part one … of the first Boer Republic in Natal. The…
BiographyDerrick Vusimusi Nxumalo
… He worked as a waiter in a private hotel in Scottburgh and as a gardener on the Berea in Durban. He first went to … he started a two-year contract as a miner…
An evolution of Worker Education in South Africa since 1973 and its impact on Worker Movement by John Mhandu
… seeks to contribute to the development of new history on worker education and trade union movement in South Africa. The initial part of … thought, adoption…
James E. Kwegyir Aggrey
… in 1875 into a family of chiefs. A Ghanaian-born educator and clergyman, and one of the most eminent Africans of his day, he was a … in 1921. Aggrey received…
BiographyTamsanqa Tasque Tshume
… in the 1950s. He was born in 1925 in Port Elizabeth, and inherited the political inclinations of his two uncles, Gladstone and Ben, both of whom were ANC…
BiographyHyacinth Joseph Bill Bhengu
… distric in Natal.He attended school in Catholic mission and then he went to study private to finish his matriculation exams.He was a farm worker,domestic…
Labour and Mining Revolution 1886-1940s
… on a farm in the British controlled Cape Colony in 1867 and of gold in the Afrikaner “Boer” controlled Transvaal Republic … segregated White-controlled…
BiographyArthur Albert Hugh Adams
… Albert Adams was born At the Crown Gold Mine near Johannesburg on 23 June 1929. Adams was a child of Indian and Cape Coloured parents. His father had…
BiographyHein du Plessis
… from 1986-1989. In 1990-1991 he was self-employed and part time junior lecturer at the UFS before he started as … 2001 Technikon Free State Vice-Chancellors…
ArchiveThe Workers Herald, 1927, April 6
ArchiveIndustrial Workers 1993 - 1998
ArchiveWorker's Voice. The Politics of Negotiation
… Worker's Voice. The Politics of Negotiation …
Natal workers' theatre scripts
Natal workers' theatre scripts
BiographyEric Ngcobo
… from 1953 to 1954. He worked as a teacher at Glencoe and Loram Secondary School in Durban, as well as at Isibonelo High School and Mzuvele Secondary School,…
BiographyCecil John Rhodes
… England. He was the fifth son of Francis William Rhodes and his second wife, Louisa Peacock. A priest of the Church … but also to investigate the prospects…
BiographyMax Gordon
… where he worked to revive the faltering African Laundry Worker's Union.In May 1940,before the Soviet Union entered … for a year on the pretext that he was…