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ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… would later be replaced with the policy of apartheid in 1948. The 1913 Land Act set aside 7.5% of the land in South … The Act caused a problem for black…
PlaceRwanda
… a Tutsi pastoralist [xlii] . Usually the system was based on a client giving services to a wealthy patron in exchange … of History in Rwanda”, Africa Today,…
PlaceFordsburg and the Oriental Plaza, Johannesburg
… of the Jeppe and Ford Estate Company, Fordsburg was built on the outskirts of the Johannesburg gold reef to house … flavours and bargains galore. It was once…
PlaceCato Manor Heritage Centre, Durban
… This interactive Museum is a tribute to the spirit of defiance against the Durban System, which led to … of evictions, rebellion, riots and suppression. A…
ArticleAfrica and the Atlantic slave trade - sixteenth to nineteenth centuries
… for food Status position Indigenous the first people on the land Khoikhoi Image source The word ‘Khoikhoi’ means … clan names were Gamtoos, Chainoqua and…
Address of the President of South Africa and the current Chairperson of the G77 and China, Thabo Mbeki at the 61st Session of United Nations General Assembly 19 September 2006, New York
… Secretary-General of the United Nations never lost focus on the imperatives of our time. We thank him for never losing … these people, whose fault is merely…
ArchiveNora
… short CV of Nora Astorga, member of the FSLN, Nicaragua. 1948 - 1988. …
ArchiveNora: guerrillera ... embajadora de la paz y la vida
… black and white poster. Two photographs of Nora Astorga, 1948-1988. Heroina de la Patria. Obituary poster. FSLN poster. …
ArticleCall for submissions: The Politics of Armed Struggle in Southern Africa Conference
… the early 1990s and carrying significant weight in the lives of thousands of people, the armed struggle has proved … The risk is that, as generations of…
Palestine : a homeland denied
… black and white head and shoulders. Years in red numbers 1948 - 1967. …
EventAlan Paton is born
… On 11 January, 1903 Alan Steward Paton, author of Cry, the … the Beloved Country, which was published in February of 1948, during a time in which he studied…
ArticlePlacing the film “Inxeba – The Wound” in Historical Review
… period every year. Vija is married with children. Xolani lives alone. As the complexity of their relationship plays … Film Festival. [5] However, the…
ArticlePeter Henry Abrahams timeline 1919 - 1985
… War II breaks out and Abrahams manages to bribe himself on board a freighter ship in search of a new crew. 1941 After … time his reputation as a writer as…
ArchiveStorm Klockan: Chile: no. 13
… of a man ringing a church bell. No.13 - Stormklockan Dec 1948 in bottom left hand corner. Albin Amelin in bottom right …
BiographyMoosa “Mosie” Moolla
… in the small, (then) western Transvaal town of Christiana on 12 June 1934 where his father ran a successful … was formed for the purposes of writing…
BiographyMakhosi “Tholi” Nyoka
… Makhosi “Tholi” Nyoka was born on 3 April 1957 and grew up in KwaMashu , a township north of … , and community movement, KwaMashu Youth Organisation. On 18…
BiographyNontsikelelo June-Rose Cothoza
… Defence Force (SADF) intensified in the townships and on school premises, attempting to stifle student political … for months. She would never return home. …
EventElectrically powered units replaced Johannesburg's horse-drawn trams
… production. The first electric tram line commenced service on 14 of February 1906. Electric trams had been proven to be … with ease. The trams were to remain…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… mind kept racing back to a momentous event that took place on 19 October 1977. On that day, in one fell swoop, the … Day, when we salute the bravery and…
ArticleHow Lenin and Stalin are remembered today?
… and capitalism. Stalin was viewed as a despot intent on achieving world power and ideological domination. Despite … regime that wished to control the public…
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Deputations
… A.S. Kajee and A.A Mirza left for Mombasa at daybreak on Wednesday by seaplane or the first leg of their journey to … Council and Congress were absorbed in…
EventEban Abba, Israeli statesman is born in Cape Town
… Israeli statesman was born in Cape Town South Africa, on 2 February 1915. He is the son of Abraham and Alida … career as liaison officer to the UN Special…
EventSouth Africa becomes a charter member of the United Nations
… Africa became a charter member of the United Nations (UN) on 7 November 1945. South Africa was one of the original 51 founding members of the UN from its…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1950s
… on 6 April 1952 during the tercentenary celebrations of Jan van Riebeeck's arrival at the Cape. 23 March, Cyprian … go to the polls in the second general…
Extraordinary Life: Zapiro
… extensively about Zapiro and worked with the cartoonist on his book 'The Mandela Files'. Andy tells us what scares … (hint: it’s not a R15-million lawsuit). …
PlaceTsitsikamma National Park, Eastern Cape
… harmony with nature – only taking what they needed to live on from their environment. This high rainfall sustains the … harmony with nature – only taking…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… but government appointed, district councils modelled on the lines of the Glen Grey Act of 1894. The 1936 … Ntabalanga. The slaughter takes 10 minutes and…
ArchiveStaffrider Vol.8 No.3 and No.4 1989
… and Mi Hlatshwayo. STORY: Reminiscences of a Job Seeker, Jan Ceasar Mbele. ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS: Language and Labour … Posters and the Proletariat, A.W…
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… of misery. One pound a day for the builder of mansions who lives in a shack. . . . A minimum wage of one pound a day for … examples of wages (including COLA)…
EventAcclaimed South African poet Sheila Cussons dies
… in Afrikaans, produced in ten volumes. Cussons was born on 9 August 1922 in Moravia, near Piketberg in the Cape … at the HoÁƒÂƒÂ«r Meisieskool Pretoria…