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EventJudgement is handed down in a landmark case
… Board (ERAB), granting him the right to permanent urban status. The ruling was likely to affect about 150, 000 Black contract workers in urban areas, who…
PlaceWindhoek, Capital City of Namibia
… for the respite it offers from the rigours of life on the African road facing off against those who find it a little … at present mostly due to a lack of…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… Act tightened influx control, making it an offence for any African (including women) to be in any urban area for more than 72 hours unless in possession of…
BiographySolomon David Lion
Solomon David Lion’s father, Edward Lion, was expelled from Basutoland to the Union after his religious sect was banned. The Sechaba-sa-Batung community…
BiographyDeseni Soobben
… years accompanying him and Fred Khumalo, covering vast areas of KwaZulu-Natal . She would go on to lecture at DUT … Durban University of Technology since…
BiographyCharles W H Kohler
… farmers and their dependants. At the end of the South African War in 1902, the large incidental markets for Cape … of, on condition that it was never sold…
Address to the Annual Conference of the Natal, 23 November 1951
… under D.F. Malan. In it Lutuli calls for unity among the African people and pleads for co-operation among all people … conditions and ignorance of hygiene…
How a mysterious ghost ship brought cosmic disco to Cape Verde: A new compilation documents the strange history of the African country’s groove-laden sound, formed following the discovery of a boatload of synths(The Guardian), 24 May 2016
… folk dances morna and coladeira, as well as funaná – an African style previously outlawed by the Portuguese – by … he explains. “People are starting to…
Eventold Indian flower seller is fined for trading in a racially restricted area
… South Africa by the apartheid government, including Group Areas Act, Immorality Act, Pass Laws and many others. Under the provisions of the Group Areas Act,…
BiographyAlfred Milner
… Milner travelled throughout the Cape and the southern African region from August 1897 to May 1898, familiarising … expensive to make gold mining profitable…
Prehistory of the Polokwane/Pietersburg area
… to replenish their rain medicines and repair their work areas. Their working areas were often called ‘rain kraals’ … for example, spread rain medicines on…
ArchiveOmar Badsha: an ordinary South African whose struggles and triumphs offer insights into broader social movements—Sean Jacobs reviews Available Light by Daniel Magaziner
… Jacobs, S. (2025). Omar Badsha: an ordinary South African whose struggles and triumphs offer insights into … Omar Badsha: an ordinary South African whose…
ArchiveNational Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
… Conference on the role of Blacks in the Anglo-Boer South African War - 1899 - 1902, 29 - 31 August 2000, Durban, … Conference on the role of Blacks in the…
ArticleEastern Cape Wars of Dispossession 1779-1878
… 1809 to send Lt-Col Richard Collins to tour the frontier areas. After touring the areas he recommended that the Xhosa … In 1834 the British government…
EventWinnie Mandela at Johannesburg Magistrate’s court
… empowered women through education in both rural and urban areas and initiated health classes, literacy and nutrition … later became the national executive…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 2: The first farmers in Southern Africa
… The classroom will focus on: when, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa. The first … crops could grow, but sometimes they had…
Article16 June 1976 - Soweto Uprising
… Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the formation of South African Students Organisation (SASO) raised the political … of the overall apartheid system…
BiographyAbel Ntwana
Kaizer Matanzima, chief of the Thembu people, was keen to banish Abel Ntwana, claiming that his presence at Manzimale Location, Xhalanga District, [Eastern…
Speech by President Nelson Mandela at the launch of the Siyakha Project, Groutville, 17 June 1995
… initiative we aim to develop infrastructure in rural areas which are home to 45 000 small-scale farmers in the … public works programme. The participation of…
ArticleA decade by decade events account of the women’s struggle in South Africa
… a Kimberley schoolteacher, becomes the first South African Black woman to receive a Bachelor's degree. While on … is so as to decrease prostitution and…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… legislation placed by it on the statute books of the South African parliament. Repressive legislation The Internal … purposes, without access to the courts,…
“India’s Step Most Timely”: Joint Statement By Dr G. M. Naicker And Dr Y. M. Dadoo On The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations General Assembly, July 1948
… The Decision Of The Government Of India To Raise The South African Indian Question Again Before The United Nations … Decision Of The Government Of India To…
ArticleThe Roots of Segregation: 1860-1910
… By the 1860s, subjugation of African people in the immediate vicinity of the Cape had been … through legislation and force, or the threat of such. Areas of…
George Botha
… while being struck by it. Dr W Cooper, counsel for the family, described Mr Botha as a healthy man and said only the … Behind Closed Doors. By Shireen Motala…
BiographyTholakele Madala
Tholakele Madala was born in Kokstad on 13 July 1937. He matriculated at St John's College in Umtata before obtaining a BA degree at the University of Fort…
82. The President’s Council
… reproduced here. Throughout, he insists that he is a South African and wishes to play his rightful role as a full … of a glib-talking British 'coolie-catcher…
PlaceDurbanville
… 'Pampoen Kraal' . On 2 September 1836 it was renamed; "D'Urban" in honour of Sir Benjamin D'Urban, Governor of the … formed the Old Eversdal Estate, donated…
BiographyAbdullah Abdurahman
… the University of Cape Town.Abdurahman's father took the family to England to educate Abdurahman's younger brothers. It was, as president of the African…
To mark his 10th year in office, the South African Prime Minister, Mr. John Vorster, as interviewed on SABC-TV by Chris Rencken. Here are extracts from that interview
… To mark his 10th year in office, the South African Prime Minister, Mr. John Vorster, as interviewed on …
Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on the question of South Africa; Harare, Zimbabwe (The Harare Declaration) Sections 14-24
… Document 13 - Declaration of the Organization of African Unity (OAU) ad hoc committee on southern Africa on …