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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…
ArticleConstructing heritage and heritage resources
… Constructing Heritage and Heritage Resources Heritage – our past, and where we come … to sustain a large population. It was a trading centre. Gold was mined…
EventThe 4 x 100m men's relay team win the gold medal for SA at the Olympic Games in Athens
… squad of Roland Schoeman, Lyndon Ferns, Darian Townsend and Ryk Neethling clocked 3 minutes and 13.17 seconds to … the US team (3rd). The triumph was South…
ArticleThe Azania Liberation Support Committee and its publications
… was formed in London around 1983 by Roseinnes Phahle and other individuals of various broadly leftist political tendencies. The ALSC launched Azania Worker…
BiographyGana Makabeni
… in the Transkei. He attended a Communist night school and joined the Communist Party of South Africa (SACP) as a young worker in the 1920s. In 1926 he was…
BiographyThomas Selema Masekela
… attended the Lutheran Mogabane mission station school and passed Standard III. In 1921 Masekela\'s father became an evangelist and the family moved to…
BiographyJan Gerritze Bantjes
… On occasion he acted as Clerk to the Natal Volksraad, and on being appointed secretary to Comdt.-Gen. Andries … is the manuscript of the treaty between Piet…
BiographyMfanasekaya Pearce Linda Gqobose
… Gqobose joined the South African Military Service in 1941, and served in South Africa, Egypt, Libya and Italy from 1942 to 1946. He left the army with the…
BiographyJerry Dibanhlele Khumalo
… in 1922, Jerry Dibanhlele Khumalo was a clothing designer and cutter. He served prison sentences as a volunteer in the 1952 Defiance Campaign in Germiston…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… the Cape Province, the Orange Free State, the Transvaal, and Natal. In 1961 the Union of South Africa became … break out, and this time the Boers would lose…
Nganani Enos John Mabuza, Chief Executive Councillor of KaNgwane, 1977, is born at Sheba Gold Mine, Barberton.
… Executive Councillor of KaNgwane, 1977, is born at Sheba Gold Mine, Barberton. …
Kip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 minutes 34.9 seconds.
… Kip Keino of Kenya wins the Olympic gold medal for 1,500 metres in 3 minutes 34.9 seconds. …
It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg.
… It is announced that 15 000 applications per week for gold mining permits are received in Johannesburg. …
Our Annual Conference — An Inspiring Gathering by The South African Worker, 13 January 1929, South Africa
… Conference — An Inspiring Gathering by The South African Worker, 13 January 1929, South Africa …
Document 94 - “The United Front in South Africa: A Reply to S. B.”, South African Worker, 13 June 1936
… Front in South Africa: A Reply to S. B.”, South African Worker, 13 June 1936 …
BiographyWalter Ulyate Sisulu
… assistant magistrate. He was raised by his grandmother and uncle and only moved in with his mother when he was six … returning to Johannesburg in 1929 where…
BiographyPenny Heyns
… Gauteng Province. She attended the local primary school and later Amanzimtoti High School in Kwa Zulu Natal where she … accomplished in Atlanta and became…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… 1919 The Industrial and Commercial Union (ICU) is formed in Cape Town after World … Commercial Union (ICU) absorbs a number of other nascent worker…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… of Indians into the Transvaal. Every Indian man, woman and child older than 8 years had to register with the Registrar of Asiatics. Indians and Chinese who…
The Story of PR Panther, the gold man of Indian politics in South Africa: Introduction - By Riashnee Pather
… applicable to the history of the Indians in South Africa and in the case of this thesis to PR Pather and to a lesser extent his son Masla. It is pitiable…
BiographyHannah Margaret Stanton
… to visit her brother, Fr Tom Stanton CR, in South Africa and decided to stay behind and work. She worked at the Tumelong Anglican mission in Lady ……
BiographyMzwakhe Mbuli
… parents were Roselinah Msuthukazi Mbuli, a Xhosa woman, and Elijah Katali, a Zulu man who was employed as a … receiving his charge for armed robbery, Mbuli…
BiographyFlorence Barbara Ribeiro
… Born on the 3rd November 1933, community worker Florence Barbara Ribeiro was the fourth of five … was 12 years old, leaving her mother, Kate, to raise her…
BiographyMoses Mauane Kotane
… but became an insatiable reader. Later as a young worker he enrolled in the Communist-run night school in … a photographer's assistant, domestic servant,…
ArticleArts and Crafts and reconstruction by Jillian Carman
… of 1899 to 1902. The women, Florence Phillips (1863-1940) and Emily Hobhouse (1860-1925), could not have been more … common threads running through what they…
BiographySir. Julius Jeppe
… Mecklenburg- Schwerin, Germany in July 1859. Jeppe and his family immigrated to South Africa in 1870, and settled in Pretoria. Jeppe began his career as a…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… but with the need for a more sustainable source of meat and vegetable supply more land was required. Land was seized from the Khoikhoi, and later the San, to…
BiographyCynthia Shange
… Durban, in Kwazulu Natal. She started modeling in 1970 and went on to win several titles. In 1972 she won the title … queens. Shange won the Miss Black South…
BiographyMax Yergan
… the grandson of a slave, he studied at Shaw University and Springfield College. From about 1920 to 1936 he lived in … All African Convention. He had a…
BiographyLeslie Massina
… Johannesburg, Massina left school to become a factory worker. He was the son of Luke Masssina,a police detective … a successful strike of several thousand…