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Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos
Introduction Chapter 1 - Change to Wage Labour Chapter 2 - The Early Years Chapter 3 - Where Working People Lived Chapter 4 - Protest and Resistance …
List of organisations which support and are affiliates of the Regional UDF
List of all the organisations which supports the United Democratic Front who are also the affiliates of the regional United Democratic Front from different…
Letter from Neville Curtis, President, NUSAS, to SRC Presidents and National Executive
General circular letter from the President of the National Union of Students, Neville Curtis, quoting from a letter from C.D.T. Sibisi informing him that the…
EventThe Conservative Party decides on talks with National Party and expel a member
The Conservative Party (CP) caucus agreed to hold talks with the National Party (NP) on setting up a White state (volkstaat). The caucus expelled a Member of…
A tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy
Sports and the Liberation Struggle: a Tribute to Sam Ramsamy and others who fought apartheid sport by E.S. Reddy (Former Director, United Nations Centre…
EventWalter Sisulu, co-founder of the ANCYL and Umkhonto we Sizwe, is born
Political leader, Walter Ulyate Sisulu was born in the Engcobo area in the Transkei on 18 May 1912. Sisulu worked as a miner, baker's assistant, domestic…
ArticleThe role of traditional leaders during Apartheid
… leaders roles included: judicial functions, allocation of land held in trust (the ownership of the land is hold by the traditional leader for the benefits of…
BiographySicelo Shiceka
Sicelo Shiceka was born on 8 June 1966 in the village of Ingquza Hill, near Flagstaff, Lusikisiki in the Eastern Province (now Eastern Cape) His greatest…
BiographyRuth Naomi Leon
The youngest of nine children, Ruth Naomi Leon (who later started calling herself Tania) was born in a small town called Wellington in the Cape Province (now…
BiographyDorothy Cleminshaw
Dorothy Cleminshaw (nee Mullany) was born in Cape Town on the 15th of September 1922. She went to Ellersie College in Sea Point and matriculated with a full…
BiographySibongile Susan Mkhabela
The youngest child of Mozambican immigrants, Sibongile (Bongi) Susan Mkhabela (nèe Mthembu) grew up in Zola, one of the poorest areas in Soweto, Transvaal…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… a full-length exposé of the injustice of the Natives Land Act (1913), a work on Setswana proverbs, translations … cast. Five months they sojourn’d in that…
EventAt a summit SA Trade Unions resolve to defy apartheid and labour laws
Location: back to this day in history search archive During the summit conference organised by non-racial labour unions at Langa, Cape Town, Trade Union…
A collection of articles, speeches and letter pertaining to Dr James Sebe Moroka
Article in the Indian Opinon by Jordaan K Ngubane on James Moroka, 28 November 1952 (pdf) Article of the British Weekly, 18 September 1952 (pdf) Dr James…
EventSA rugby team plays and wins the first test match against Ireland
On 30 May 1981, South Africa played its first rugby test match against Ireland at Newlands stadium in Cape Town. This game was particularly significant, as…
ArticleThe Dutch Settlement
… by expanding the Dutch influence by taking possession of land, expanding trade routes and establishing trade outposts. … That same year the VOC granted men…
BiographyMafika Pascal Gwala
… across the continent. By affiliating Blackness with the land of Africa as well as other regions on the continent, he …
PlaceHelderberg, Somerset West
… Cape! This Reserve protects over 6.43 square kilometres of land, under the National Environmental Management: Protected …
Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve
The Cape West Coast Biosphere Reserve is situated in the coastal zone, North of Cape Town. Located in the Cape Floristic Kingdom, this Biosphere Reserve is…
PlaceHuguenot Monument, Franschoek
… had expert skills. Farmers would be provided with as much land, as they could cultivate. Their perilous journeys over …
Summary Minutes of exploratory discussions held in London on 3 May and 4 May 1988 between a South African Delegation and an Angolan Delegation, facilitated by a Delegation from the United States
Meeting between representatives from South Africa, Angola, Cuba and United States to negotiate a peaceful solution for southern Africa and to develop political…
ArticleDistrict Six is Declared a ‘White Area’
… Six’. The dominant view of Zonnebloem as 'tainted' land ensured the failure of the Cape Town Municipality to re-develop a large part of the land. In 1987 the…
The Liberation Struggle in South Africa
… Related South African World Heritage Sites Land dispossession history of South Africa 19th century … Front is formed. Fietas, Johannesburg:…
Collaboration and Debate in the ‘Durban Moment’: Steve Biko, Richard Turner and the politics of Black Consciousness, 1970-1974 by Ian Macqueen, University of the Witwatersrand
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