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EventSouth African Library Week is held from 22 - 27 March 2010 to make people aware of the value of libraries
In 1997 the Library and Information Association of South Africa (LIASA) was formed. LIASA has worked diligently to centralise libraries and information related…
PlaceCompany Gardens in Cape Town
Company's Garden is a large Public Park and Botanical Garden, set in the heart of Cape Town. This Garden features: a Rose Garden; Japanese Garden; Fish Pond…
PlaceMiddleburg, Mpumalanga
… First stop is the Botshabelo Historical Village and craft markets. This area boasts rich cultural significance and is …
PlacePort Elizabeth and the City Hall
The Port Elizabeth City Hall, which is located in Market Square, was built between 1858 and 1862. The attractive clock tower was only added in 1883. The City…
Archive2000 - President Mbeki, State of the Nation Address, 4 February 2000
… that South Africa is one of the most attractive emerging markets." Our Government fully shares this confidence, which …
Document 48 - Lenin Club, Draft Thesis: The Native Question (Majority) (1934)
… of world industry and the consuming capacity of world markets is tending to lower the rate of profits. Capitalism, …
Statement at the Ninth Extraordinary Session of the Council of Ministers of the Organisation of African Unity, Dar Es Salaam by O. R. Tambo, 7 – 10 April 1975
… its economic problems by isolating it from the extended markets required for its expanding economy. Vorster was, …
Address to the Joint Session of the houses of Congress of the U.S.A. Washington, D.C., June 26, 1990
… all-round expertise, your enterprising spirit and your markets. This relationship should, however, be one from which …
Document 23 - S. P. Bunting, Statement presented at the Sixth Comintern Congress, 23 July 1928
… how we have been driven off the land, onto the industrial markets, how we are deprived of family life, of property, of …
A New Era for Africa in a Globalizing World, Unesco, Paris, 19 November 2003
… to produce these commodities; and, preserving the African markets as exclusively as possible for products from the …
ArticleGrade 11 - Apartheid South Africa 1940s to 1960s
The global pervasiveness of racism and segregation in the 1920s and 1930s During the 1920s and 1930s, there were discriminatory policies in different parts…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
Following the wave of independence which swept the African continent in the 1960s, integration schemes became an increasingly important tool for facilitating…
EventMadagascar adopts its second constitution
Madagascar came under the colonial French Protectorate in 1890. By the late 1940's, the Malagasy had started to demand independence. A national uprising took…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the…
ArticleGhallywood: An Evolution of Ghana’s Film Industry
Early Beginnings of the African Film Industry: During the British colonial rule over Kenya, Uganda, Northern Rhodesia, Nyasaland and the Gold Coast in the late…
Speech by Nelson Mandela at the Banquet help in honour of President Bakili Muluzi of Malawi Cape Town, 2 June 1998
President Muluzi;Excellencies;Ladies and Gentlemen. It gives me great pleasure to welcome you and your delegation to South Africa. May you feel the same…
A history of Volkskas and the Absa Banking group
Volkskas was one of the four largest banking conglomerates in South Africa, and one of the three biggest Afrikaner monopolies. It was established to harness…
Displacing Hierarchies: Nation and Universities in India and Africa by Amrita Pande, Faisal Garba and Ruchi Chaturvedi
We are academics raised and educated in various parts of the world, and now living and working in South Africa. The predicaments of its higher education…
The Afrikaner Bond
… with suitable tariff policies, rail links to and from markets, scientific farming and the development of an …
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…
Citizenship and Justice: rethinking Political Theory and Political Philosophy
A project of the Centre for Humanities Research, the Dept. of Political Studies and the Dept. of Philosophy, UWC invites you to a Reading Group and Seminar on…
Known as Black Tuesday’, the New York Stock exchange collapsed sending economic shockwaves throughout the world and throwing the global economy into depression
Tuesday, 29th October 1929, saw the world's economy go into recession as the New York Stock Exchange collapsed and saw shocked investors withdraw their…
EventFree, compulsory education for Black children
The government announces that its aim, is to provide all Black children with free and compulsory education as soon as possible. Teachers and scholars rejected…
EventGeneral Louis Botha wins elections
On 15 September 1910, General Louis Botha and Hertzog's South African Party (SAP) won the majority number of seats in the House Assembly forming the first…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 2 - Imperialism and the Union in South Africa by Timothy Keegan
… expansion of European power across the globe in pursuit of markets, investment opportunities and places where Europeans … integration, especially in terms of…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter VIII - “Christianity and Civilization”
… than we? Who in fairness ought to reap the profits of the markets, which we make and render secure, than ourselves?" … agents into Africa, Asia and India in…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… products were developed and exported to new buyers in new markets. Therefore, the rivalry and competition added to … no. 2 (1992): 209-237. [35] Mariotti,…
PlaceDiepkloof, Soweto
Diepkloof covers an Area of approximately 2,50218 square kilometres and houses a Population of approximately 104 098 persons (2001 Census). It is located on…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
The Little or Klein Karoo, which is a long valley bordered by; the Swartberg and the Langeberg Mountains, in the Western Cape. It falls under the domain of the…
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
This Historic Town, is a living Museum with a vibrant 'Street Culture'. The Town has a variety of soils and locations ideally suited to flourishing of a wide…