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ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
The Mfecane - known as the Difaqane or Lifaqane in Sesotho - was a period of profound political, social, and demographic transformation in southern Africa…
EventKing Sekhukhune is defeated by the British in war
The inability of the Zuid-Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR or Transvaal Republic) under President Francois Burgers to score a decided victory in the Sekhukhune War,…
A reply by Albert Luthuli to Mr. Jordan K. Ngubane`s attacks on the African National Congress, 5 June 1956
… his main criticisms. Gross Inaccuracies and Insults In his articles Mr. Ngubane makes a lot of unfounded and inaccurate … of Congress is using me for its own…
The Colors of Resistance in Apartheid South Africa: Black Consciousness Poetry and the Racial Elusiveness of Wopko Jensma
The article analyzes Black Consciousness poetry of the 1970s and 1980s South Africa alongside the protest poetry of white South African poet Wopko Jensma. It…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
… 16 adult novels as well as four children’s books, numerous articles, and produced televised plays. Each of her novels is … lives. Emecheta also authored…
Remembering Sol Plaatje as South Africa’s original public educator (The Conversation), 05 October 2016
… Koranta ea Becoana (1901-1906). These newspapers published articles in English and Setswana, targeting the country’s …
Document 43 - Letter from T. W. Thibedi fo Leon Trotsky, 10 August 1932
… of the left opposition in South Africa. We need a lot of articles on the conditions in South Africa to appear in the …
Banned, but never silenced by Glyn Williams (Editor - The Daily Dispatch), 6 September 2012, Eastern Cape, South Africa
… few months of tension, banning and harassment. There were articles and statements of support by the acting editor Farr …
PlaceLichtenburg, North West
Lichtenburg is a Town situated, in North West Province of South Africa. It is the Administrative Centre of Ditsobotla Local Municipality.The Town was…
PlaceSt-Albans College, Pretoria
The historic private boys school in South Africa run by a famous cricketer for 20 years- ANTON MURRAY"St Alban’s College in Pretoria was brought to life out of…
Article“Fees will Fall, Not Us”: A glance at Stellenbosch University
In Kadzamira Modjadji’s MatieMedia newspaper article about Fees Must Fall he quoted students who described the movement as revolutionary since protests against…
EventOne-fifth of SA's military infected with HIV virus, so HIV positive people are no longer accepted into their ranks
It was announced that at least one-fifth of South Africa's military was infected with the HIV virus that causes AIDS. Therefore on 7 October 2003 the Defence…
ArchiveBiography of Dorothy Nyembe by Thomas Boatman
… Sechaba , released in their August 1969 issue, several articles that displayed Nyembe on the front lines fighting …
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… was recently in the Inprecorr, one of the most astounding articles on South Africa which could only be called a fairy … such. The answer might be "Why don't…
BiographyDr Alfred Bitini Xuma
… not being radical enough, complained one editorial. Other articles published in newspapers between April and June 1947 …
South Africa’s armed struggle: where the ANC’s ineptitude was a virtue by Howard Barrell (The Conversation), 10 July 2016, University of Pretoria
… say this as someone who wrote scores of Aesopian newspaper articles and distributed thousands of ANC underground …
Citation for Saleem Badat by Professor Paul Maylam, 10 April 2015, Rhodes University
… to add to his already extensive research output of books, articles, book chapters, conference papers, keynote addresses …
Le Rona Re Batho by Phyllis Naidoo - Introduction
… at the nursery) and went around and collected various articles and placed them in two sets of scrapbooks original …
ArticleThembisile Chris Hani Timeline 1942 - 2003
… his home village of Sabalele for Cape Town to do his articles at the law firm Schaeffer and Schaeffer. In Cape …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1940-1949
… and the regent agreed to support his studies.Mandela began articles at the law firm Witkin, Sidelsky & Eidelman. Late in …
Dr William Fehr (1892-1968), collector of art as history
… displayed under one roof. My continuing research includes articles for publication as well as the preparation of other …
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… law as the basic, or common, law of the land (Cape Articles of Capitulation, 1806). Although the Natal Code of …
Last of The Gandhians in South Africa
… You are here: home home library articles & documents NANA SITA: LAST OF THE GANDHIANS IN …
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… novel, In the Ditch, was published in 1972 as a series of articles in the magazine The New Statesman. This novel, …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
Jean Clarice Middleton was born in Durban, South Africa on August 30, 1928. She first attended the Durban Girls’ College. She then went on to receive a Master…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 2 (2001-2022)
Following on from Part 1, this article seeks to analyse some of the historical and present dynamics bedevilling ESKOM. Over the past twenty years, ESKOM’s…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… improved agriculture. Author of a book and of chapters and articles on labour issues and history, he supports …
10 YEARS PROJECT
… the first part of its work the Committee discussed the articles for the Atlantic Charter one by one and made certain … cry of all subject races at the…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… press conferences, mining executives, and newspaper articles have now spent several days wringing hands over the …
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…