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ArticleHow do we find out about the history of a local area?
… Gcina comes from a mixed family and was born in KwaZulu Natal. Her father was Zulu and her mother Xhosa. This means … honoured by the University of London…
The purpose of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture by Sehlare Makgetlaneng (Pambazuka News), 31 March, 2016
… Dani Wadada Nabudere who, upon my request, gave a keynote address at the launch of the Archie Mafeje Annual Memorial Lecture on 11 March 2010. His address…
ArchiveNothing groundbreaking in Mandela debate by Steven Friedman, 09 December 2015
… equivalent. The key economic question then was how to address poverty and inequality without damaging the economy. …
Call for papers - “Ukutshona kukaMendi”/ "Ukuzika kukaMendi": The Mendi Centenary Conference
… from students. Artists and poets are invited to address the gathering through poetry, artistic work or … abstracts or proposals by 30 September 2016 to the…
Countdown to the elections July 1993 – April 1994
… levels as the elections came and went. The pattern for Natal, while also reflecting an immediate increase in the … of people and pressed charges in court…
ArchiveA Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and Bridglal Pachai
… writes to his brother in India 11. A Brahman seeks work in Natal 12. The pickled money-order receipt 13. Wife lays … Gyapershad was decoyed 16. Advice to a…
Liberation organisations
… . The UDF was supported by the African National Congress (ANC) in exile. The End Conscription Campaign The South … Civics were organised from the bottom up,…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… place every Wednesday. At political tensions grew in Natal in the 1980s, members of MAWU meeting at the church had …
ArticleHarriet Bolton and the Garment Workers Industrial Union
… than 24 000 workers walked out of clothing factories in Natal, effectively halting the industry for the day. In doing …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… basis. These unions, including the parallel to the Natal garment union, battled to survive. By the late 1980s, …
Institute for Industrial Education (IIE)
… Schlemmer, Director of the Institute of Social Research at Natal University, was its chairperson. Others associated with …
PlaceOld House Museum, 31 Diakonia Street, Durban
… This museum is also known as the Natal Settlers Museum. The property originally extended from … George Robinson in 1858. Robinson was the publisher of the…
ArticleGrade 12 - Civil Resistance in South Africa 1970s to 1980
… countries these included the African National Congress (ANC). Hector Peterson carried by Mbuyisa Makhubo, besides … meetings with the then exiled African…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… not accepted as members of the African National Congress (ANC) when it was formed in 1912. This acceptance only came in … claim to represent the will of the…
ArticleDemocratic Alliance (DA)
… 1990. With the unbanning of the African National Congress (ANC) , Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) and other liberation … the first in which all South Africans…
Interview with Oliver Tambo by Mayibuye,1 September 1981
… on this day, 14 years ago, a combined force of ZAPU and ANC (Umkhonto we Sizwe) guerrillas, known as the Luthuli … South African racist troops in Wankie,…
Nelson Mandela Letter to F.W. de Klerk, 9 July 1992
… "the fundamental difference between the approach of the ANC and that of the government regarding the purpose of … as soon as possible; and on the other hand,…
Keeping a cool head amid flying bullets: A tribute to Juda Ngwenya by Joseph Oesi (City Press), 26 October 2016
… de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold their hands high as they address the people after the inauguration ceremony in front … de Klerk and Nelson Mandela hold…
ArticleAnti-South African Indian Council (SAIC) Campaign
… were never taken seriously by the Nats. The newly revived Natal Indian Congress (NIC) and the South African Indian … been growing within the anti-apartheid…
ArchiveCHAPTER SIX: The Politics Of Non-Collaboration: The Campaign To Boycott The Tricameral Elections by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The Politics of non-Collaboration: The Campaign to Boycott the Tricameral Elections
… This chapter focuses on the NIC campaign across Natal and the popularisation of its anti-election message. We … NIC structures represented a concerted effort…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… with which the administration of Mbeki and the governing ANC was well acquainted. Factional battles with what was at … generating capacity was when Jeff…
PlaceUmlazi
… 1845 when British settlers forcibly occupied what was then Natal (now KwaZulu Natal ) and created a number of ‘Native locations’ for the Zulus in the Natal…
ArticleThe Ndebele in history
… or M'pogga. Although most Ndebele today find this form of address derogatory, many South Africans sadly still persist with this form of address. Almost from…
Letter to U Thant, Secretary-General of the United Nations by O. R. Tambo, 29 June 1968
… In the course of my address to the session of the Special Committee on Apartheid …
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.7 No.2 1988
… Censorship and the Artist. Nadine Gordimer; This Past Must Address its Present by Wole Soyinka; Popular Music and the …
EventThe railway line between Durban and Pietermaritzburg is completed
… constructed as result of a mounting need for transport, as Natal had to hold its own in the advance of commerce and the … progress in South Africa. The…
EventDr. Nico Diederichs is inaugurated as South Africa’s third State President
… to the Grand Parade where he delivered his inaugural address. His term of office was of short duration as he died …
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… on 5 October 1946 in Verulam, north of Durban, KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his … He matriculated in Inkamana High School in…
A Society for the “Advancement of Art”
… their friendly relations. This was the case with the Natal Society of Artists (NSA), led by its President Leo … early 1900s, Burg Street and St George's…