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National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW)
… National Union of Textile Workers (NUTW) …
ArticleA History of Umteteli Wabantu - 1920-1956
… A History of Umteteli Wabantu - 1920-1956 …
Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa - Mapungubwe
… Glossary: Kingdoms of southern Africa - Mapungubwe …
ArticleBonani Africa 2010 Festival of Photography
… Bonani Africa 2010 Festival of Photography …
Bonani Africa 2002 Festival of Photography
… Bonani Africa 2002 Festival of Photography …
Key Members of United Democratic Front
… Key Members of United Democratic Front …
BiographyKing Sekhukhune
… Sekhukhune was King of the Marota people (commonly called Bapedi) who originated from the Bakgatla of the Western Transvaal. Sekhukhune, like Moshoeshoe …
BiographyGuy Tillim
… in 1962. After completing a B.Comm at the University of Cape Town in 1983, Tillim joined Afrapix, a collective of South African photographers, in 1986, and…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest … our master photo-grapher has stubbornly traipsed the landscape to look,…
ArticleResponses in South Africa to the outbreak of WWI: The Formation of the International Socialist League (ISL)
… The out break of the First World War had profound consequences for the development of socialist labour politics in South Africa. Before the war, … Cresswell…
ArticleSouth African Constitution: The Bill of Rights
… celebrates Human Rights Day. This day is a commemoration of the 1960 Sharpeville Massacre and how far the nation has come in the protection of fundamental…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… together with architectural students from the University of Pretoria, conducted a survey of its architecture. Their subsequent home at KwaMsiza proved … a…
Why protect rights of gays and lesbians?
… the world to prohibit unfair discrimination on the grounds of sexual orientation. It thereby guarantees equality for gay … Africa's past, sexual orientation…
ArticleThe Congress of the People, Kliptown 1955
… The adoption of the Freedom Charter by the Congress of the People was widely recognised both in South Africa and internationally as an event of major…
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
… The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. … and individuals who resisted state…
Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike
… home home library articles & documents A Distant clap of thunder: Fortieth Anniversary of the 1946 Mine Strike A Salute by the South African … dead. More…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… < Menu page < 3. Formation of the NIA | 5. Convulsions in Natal > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 4. War Issue In…
ArticleA History of Lückhoff High School, 1932-1969
… secondary school for the town’s ‘Coloured’ population of Stellenbosch. To date no publication exists that focuses solely on the history of the school. The…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… operated on the understanding that prisons were places of punishment which was mainly executed through forced prison labour. By the late 1800s, the idea of…
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… known as South West Africa). However, there were a number of workers’ strikes during this period. Poor wages, bad … and the contract system had been a…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… The history of the Young Communist League (YCL) dates back to 1921, … although the organisation observes 25 May 1922 as the date of its official formation…
ArticleMusic and culture as forms of resistance
… Music Music was a central feature of the urban culture that developed in Johannesburg and in … Early beginnings In the 1920s and 1930s the urban culture of…
ArticleNational Union of South African Students (NUSAS)
… In 1924 the National Union of South African Students (NUSAS) was founded aimed at representing and promoting the interests of university and college students…
ArticleA History of Abantu-Batho Newspaper 1912-1931
… alternative space to articulate their views. The emergence of a number of publications in the late nineteenth and early twentieth … founded in 1884 by John…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… > CHAPTER IV The Struggle for Power: The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946 7. Events leading up to Passive … Interim Report, which called for a Round Table…
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… home home library articles & documents NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN SOUTH AFRICA (2) Among those who kept the spirit of Mahatma Gandhi alive in…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… Women at the start of the 20th century It is only over the last three or four decades that women's role in the history of South Africa has, belatedly, been…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… is among the Dutch settlers as they encounter a number of different groups of black people who are occupying the land. 1658 28 March, … the Dutch ship The…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… fragmented African trade unions into a large federation of non-racial trade unions. There was a need for solid trade unions after the failure of the African…
Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO)
… The Federation of South African Cultural Organisations (FOSACO) was … at a consultative conference held in Johannesburg. The aim of FOSACO was to establish a…