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… thrust of this chapter concerns the struggles within Black politics over methods used to oppose the momentum … to militant strikes, Shembe-ite Christianising sects in Natal to socialism and communism in Southern Africa. How … GUMEDE AND THE COMING OF UNION Gumede's political consciousness had reached new heights before the …

… San Francisco, USA. Michael Edwards, in his book 'Future Positive', captures the essence of the … both time and space, so that a village health worker in Uganda could perform some of the most difficult medical … procedures with the assistance of a surgeon sitting in her office in San Francisco. To be able to do this, it …

… Red, black and white poster. Artwork of men protesting holding a … Keine intervention in Nicaragua! …

… Black, white, green and yellow poster. Photographs of various … Women unite in struggle …

…   Susanna Helena Kok was born in 1911 in the Free State. She studied medicine at the Universities … became a missionary for the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC). In 1936, she began to work with leprosy patients in Zambia, … Susanna Kok, SA medical missionary whose work led to the effective …

… Karamchand Gandhi was born into a Hindu Modh family in Porbandar, India. In 1893 he accepted a year-long contract from an Indian law firm work in Natal, South Africa. His time in South Africa was a … M K Gandhi, pioneer of the SA Passive Resistance movement and leader who led India to …

… his father represented a Glasgow-based family engaged in tea blending. Kerr attended the Mearns Street Primary … year of his retirement. Kerr's influence in the sphere of black education was not confined to his college or even to South Africa. In 1922 he embarked on a study tour of black col­leges in the United States of America at the …

… Red, white and black poster. Notice of events to take place from Tuesday … Workers in South Africa …

… Black and white photo of woman outside law court facing … South Africa in conflict …

… of a drama, disco festival at Huhudi Hall. Green, red and black poster. Logo for International Youth Year - … Two in one show …

… Africans witnessed the election of a national government in which it had no say; this was to be the last all-white election in South Africa. This election took place under a State of Emergency which had been in force for over 3 years; which prohibited freedom of …

… poster. One person - one vote. Brown background with black lettering. List of attractions. Notice of concert at … Concert in the dark! …

… Black poster with red and white lettering. Venue - Ellis Park … Concert in the park …

… Zaccheus Richard Mahabane was born in Thaba Nchu, Orange Free State (now Free Stae Province), on … of the organization. Mahabane increasingly tried to attain Black unity. With the Coloured leader Dr A. Abdurahman  he … end of the 1920s Mahabane was anxious about the growing black following of the communist ideology and the …

… (WITS), and later appointed to a teaching post in the Marico district of the North West Province (then … Transvaal). On 18 July 1926, while home on vacation in Johannesburg, he became involved in an argument with his stepbrother, David Russell, and shot … The SA author and journalist, Herman Charles Bosman, shoots and …

… Side by Helen Joseph Soon after my return to South Africa in 1955, I had a brief personal link with the Black Sash, an activist organisation of women voters, which therefore excluded black women since they had no vote. It seemed a little ironic … Chapter II - Partners in protest …

… of the Northern Cape Provincial Legislature, is born in Kimberley. Emsley Manne Dipico was the first premier of … of Arts degree. While at university he got involved in politics. In 1991, he was elected regional secretary of … of the ANC and Chair of Nuclear Energy Corporation of SA. …

… by these fatal circumstances,...." Rosa Luxemburg wrote in 1918 about the Bolsheviks. Could that admonition not also … held the view that the contradiction between the colonised Black majority (Africans, Coloureds and Indians) and the … create the material conditions for the birth to a national consciousness. This emergent national consciousness was …

… poster. Artwork of an aeroplane on a red background and black and white artwork of hands holding a machine gun. … Guatemala in Central America …

… on anything editorial, has for months now found comfort in apartheid policies to muzzle the truth in favour of sunshine news that projects South Africa as a … the same rule that was used against liberation movements in the past... the same attitude adopted by the National …

… Kgositsile (popularly known as Bra Willie) was born in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng). He attended … about the American jazz scene. He also founded the Black Arts Theatre in Harlem. In 1974 he was a founder member … over, not much had changed.  He constantly criticised Black leaders and the ANC government. His poem collection, …

… Offset litho; Black and yellow; Work in Progress 56/57 : 1988. On sale now. A poster advertising an issue of the journal Work in Progress. … Work in Progress 56/57 …

… was part of our old 'history classroom content' written in 2003, we have updated is slightly to meet the needs of the new curriculum but further updates will be made in 2010. Differences between Capitalism and Communism … class Focus is on the individual and his/her own progress in life Communism System of government is totalitarian …

… In democratic South Africa, the government allows citizens to … strikes when disputes with their employers arise. As often in industrial actions, the conflict primarily concerns wages – here with the mineworkers demanding an increase in their wages, often twice what they are earning. On 23 …

… by his wife and son, Jan van Riebeeck set off from Texel in The Netherlands for the Cape of Good Hope. Van Riebeeck … 82 men and 8 women. When Van Riebeeck left The Netherlands in 1651, the Council of Policy, a bureaucratic governing … Riebeeck and his crew was extremely harsh, as they lived in wooden huts and their gardens were washed away by the …

… Paper by I B Tabata on industrial unrest and strikes by Black workers in South Africa. Provides a brief history of the rise of capitalism in South Africa and a perspective on the South African … Industrial unrest in South Africa …

… In a telephonic interview Brigadier Gabriel Ramushwana of the … the White government for thirty years, and armies of three Black homelands. It was originally due to complete its … Major-General Bantu Holomisa, ruler of the Transkei Black homeland, said Ramushwana's admission meant South …

… when the Boers tried to settle on Khoikhoi land. Later, in the East, they met up with the Xhosa, who also fought … territory. Most of the land into which they moved is in the Karoo. This large region has soil that is not very … source Conflicts happened as white settlement increased. In the 1730s, the Trek Boers and Khoikhoi clashed in the …

… Black poster. White and yellow lettering. Number 54 in yellow letters in top right hand corner. Image of a miner, wearing a hard … Work in progress: COSATU congress …

… Diana Bishop was born in Cape Town . She made her first political statement at age … married in 1975, her husband, Brian introduced her to the Black Sash movement. In the Black Sash she was involved in monitoring the Langa Pass Law …