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Chapter 10 - A framework for negotiating the final constitution
THE GENERAL ELECTION ON 27 APRIL 1994 was the product of negotiated agreements to bring an end to conflict and usher in a new process of negotiation towards…
Chapter 1 - The Promise of the Impossible Revolution: The Cape Town Industrial Socialist League, 1918 - 1921
From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 by Evangelos A. Mantzaris South African social scientists have severely neglected the…
PlaceCity of Matlosana Local Municipality
The City of Matlosana Local Municipality is located in the Dr Kenneth Kaunda District of North West Province, South Africa. Only two hours away from the…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Abstract The history of the African working class is symbiotic…
PlaceMkumeni Location, Flagstaff
The Ingquza Hill Local Municipality (previously the Qaukeni Local Municipality) is a Category B Municipality located within the OR Tambo District in the…
PlaceNazareth House, Durban
The official reopening of Nazareth House in Durban took place on Saturday, June 8, 2019. Members of the public had been invited to tour the facility and meet…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
9th September 2019 marks the 55th anniversary of the death in police detention of Suliman “Babla” Saloojee (aged 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the…
PlaceKimberley Airport
Kimberley Airport based in The Northern Cape provides regular domestic flights in South Africa between Cape Town Airport and O.R Tambo Airport in Johannesburg…
PlaceSlanghoek Cellar, Western Cape
Established in 1951, Slanghoek Cellar is situated in the picturesque Slanghoek Valley, 800 m above sea level, surrounded by the majestic Slanghoek Mountains…
PlaceMthatha, Eastern Cape- previously known as Umtata
Mthatha, founded in 1879, was declared the Capital of the Transkei, the homeland of the Xhosa during the Apartheid era. The former Transkei is now part of the…
EventThe reburial of Flora
On 6 April 1991, the reburial of a slave named Flora took place at Vergelegen Wine Estate, Somerset West. This came about after the discovery of her remains in…
EventGermany signs an unconditional surrender which ends World War II
In the early hours of 7 May 1945, the Chief-of-Staff of the German Armed Forces High Command, General Alfred Jodl, signed unconditional surrender documents to…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
Tutankhamun was pharaoh during the Egyptian period of the New Kingdom. Descending from the eighteenth dynasty, he became pharaoh at the age of nine and his…
PlaceHerold, Route 62
The little Hamlet lies right on the Montagu Pass cradled by some of the most majestic Mountain scenery in the country on the R 62, (Route 62) one of South…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
All of this week, my mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the apartheid government…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
The region of the Western Cape which includes the Table Bay area (where the modern city of Cape Town is located) was inhabited by Khoikhoi pastoralists who…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
Introduction Since independence, English has been Namibia’s only official language. This was a controversial policy and remains contested. This timeline…
EventProtest against gender- based violence throughout South Africa
On 4 September 2019, people gathered outside parliament in Cape Town to address gender- based violence in South Africa. They carried posters on which was…
Archive2022 - President Ramaphosa, State of the Nation Address, 10 February 2022
STATE OF THE NATION ADDRESS BY PRESIDENT CYRIL RAMAPHOSA CAPE TOWN CITY HALL 10 FEBRUARY 2022 Speaker of the National Assembly, Ms Nosiviwe Mapisa…
PlaceAugrabies Fall National Park, Northern Cape
Augrabies is a small Town in the Northern Cape Province of South Africa, situated on the South bank of the Orange River about 100 kilometres downstream from…
EventRonald Harwood , Oscar winning screenwriter, is born in Cape Town, South Africa
Born Ronald Horwitz in in 1934, he moved to from South Africa to London in 1951 to pursue a career in the theater. He changed his name to Harwood after an…
PlaceScottish War Memorial, Johannesburg
The Sculpture shows a soldier in kilt and Scottish regalia. It fits in most dramatically with its position on a rising site on the triangular ground where St…
13. Wife lays bigamy charge
From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai Amirtham charged her husband, Seeniwasa…
Archive2010 - President Zuma, Response to the State of the Nation Address, 16 February 2010
Response to the State of the Nation debate by His Excellency Mr JG Zuma, President of the Republic of South Africa; National Assembly 16 February 2010 …
Keynote address on the launch of Mafika Gwala’s Collected Poems Howard College, UKZN, 6 October 2016 by Mandla Langa
“The ‘baasskap’ cookie must crumble” Mafika Pascal Gwala and the quest for a humane society If Mafika Pascal Gwala, the combative, quiet, loud, tender,…
ArchiveBiography of Buchi Emecheta by Alphonce Baraza
Life Florence Onyebuchi “Buchi” Emecheta was born on July 21, 1944 in Yaba near Lagos, Nigeria, to Igbo parents, Jeremy Nwabundinke and Alice Okuekwuhe…
13 notable women in Cape Town’s history, 6 August 2015
Strike a woman, strike a rock, as we all know. Yet some rocks who have also played crucial roles in making Cape Town the city it is today are so often…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
From the book: Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer Royal Visit 1947 King gave consent to the "Ghetto"…
Address to the Parliament of Ghana, Accra 06 October 2000
Speaker of Parliament President Jerry Rawlings Members of the Executive Honourable members of Parliamentarians Members of the Diplomatic Corps Ladies and…
Group Areas Act and Its Effects on Indian People in Natal, May 1956 by Dr Gangathura Mohambry (Monty) Naicker
Paper On The Group Areas Act And Its Effects On The Indian People Of Natal, May 195649 A: HISTORY AND AIMS OF THE ACT 1. The Group Areas Act enacted by…