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ArchiveObituary of Benita Parry (1931—2020) by Professor David Johnson
… and Discoveries: India in the British Imagination, 1880—1930 (1972) and Conrad and Imperialism: Ideological …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Themes to Think About
From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Themes to Think About This Feature has shown how working…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Source-based Questions
QUESTION 1: HOW WAS AFRIKANER NATIONALISM PROMOTED IN SOUTH AFRICA DURING THE 1930s TO 1940s? Study Sources 1A, 1B, 1C and 1D and answer the questions that…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Essay Questions
… who were held in orphanages and other institutions between 1930 and 1970. [22] Conclusion Racial ideologies were not …
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… (ICU), from the Rand and A. W. G. Champion from Natal. 1930 The Industrial and Commercial Union's (ICU) split into a …
ArticleHistory of the ‘Indian Opinion’ newspaper
The Significance of Indian Opinion by Uma Dhupelia-Mesthrie Department of History, University of the Western Cape Address to Conference on the Alternate…
ArticleTimeline of Land Dispossession and Segregation in South Africa 1900-1947
… and analysis. However, little progress is made until 1930. Hertzog tables four bills in Parliament, the …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie…
ArticleWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s South Africa by Cait Chapman
This article was written by Cait Chapman and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership projectWomen’s Workplace Oppression in 1970s…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… contracts, if they lived in one place — the location. In 1930, the Act was amended to tighten control over the … Native Township. A total of 2 625 houses had…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
… of Pretoria became a fully fledged University in 1930. The name 'Tuks'- for the University of Pretoria- …
The Story of PR Pather, the grand old man of Indian politics in South Africa: Chapter One - By Riashnee Pather
… formerly merged under the NIC structure and name. 24 The 1930's closed with a number of broader political forces … The intensification of Afrikaner…
ArticleA Short History of ESKOM, Part 1 (1923-2001)
This short history of Electrical Supply Commission (ESKOM) aims to provide an overview of the history of the power utility over its first seventy-eight years…
PlaceSimon's Town, Cape Peninsula
… Nuisance', who is a legend in these parts. Enlisted in the 1930's, ' Just Nuisance' is the most famous dog in naval …
Chapter 5. A Rebel’s Daughter - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… read an English book in the presence of my father. In 1930, at the age of twenty-two, I came to Johannesburg look …
Chapter 4. From The Poverty of the Platteland to the Slums of the City: Farm Girls Turned Into Factory Hands
… were many and seemed insuperable. The depression of 1930 was approaching and employment was not easy to find for …
3. The Communist Party of South Africa and the Communist International
… policy would have a disruptive impact on the CPSA. In 1930 the Comintern adopted the 'New Line', which argued that … Because Mofutsanyana was in…
EventWalter Sisulu celebrates 90th birthday
… expired towards the end of 1929. At the beginning of 1930 together with his age-mates, he underwent the … very seriously. He returned to Johannesburg in mid…
Devout domesticity? A century of African women's Christianity in South Africa by Deborah Gaitskell
… day after day and kill myself washing (quoted in Phillips, 1930:136). The long entrenched use of Thursday afternoons for … ministry. However, there were…
ArticleThe Youth Struggle
… The end of the First World War and the great depression of 1930 made matters worse. There was no sign that school …
Pedi
[baPedi – People and sePedi – Language] The four major ethnic divisions among Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho-Tswana, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda…
Article50 Facts on Africa
… by the Kenyan government in the 1970s. Chinua Achebe (1930-2013) One of Nigeria’s great intellectuals and writers, …
Indian education in Natal
… to1928, on Government and Aided schools, only £22,843.00. 1930 Provision was made for bursaries for Indian students …
ArticleApartheid and reactions to it
In 1948, the National Party (NP), representing Afrikaners, won the national election on a platform of racism and segregation under the slogan of 'apartheid’…
A brief history on South African prisons and prisoners
Introduction In 1948 the National government was voted into power and instituted apartheid. This lead to an increase in the number of people being…
ArticleThe history of Migrant Labour in South Africa
Introduction The migrant labour system marks a period in which African men were integrated into wage labour. Black men changed from being farmers in their…
Nelson Mandela’s address to rally in Durban 25 February 1990
… Nkosi, who, with three others, was brutally murdered in 1930, when he led a march into Durban to protest against the … Isaka Seme, ANC founder member and its…
Pan-Africanism was Peter Abrahams’ Country by Tyler Flemming (Africa is a Country), 13 February 2017
On January 18, the world lost an icon. Only much of the world did not know it. South African-Jamaican writer Peter Abrahams died at 97 in Jamaica, where he has…
PlaceWindermere
Situated beside Kensington, Windermere was a settlement situated on the N1 highway in Cape Town near the Ysterplaat airbase. The Group Areas Act of 1950…
Speech of the Deputy President of the ANC, Nelson Mandela, at the rally to relaunch the SACP Johannesburg, 29 July 1990
Comrade Chairman, Comrades and friends. This is an important day in the political history of our country. It is a day which should give comfort and hope to…