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ArticleSlave Resistance
… mixed group of people such as a slave tailor named Louis from Mauritius, two Irishmen, James Hooper and Michael Kelly; … slave and two Khoi men. This group…
List of Laws on Land Dispossession and Segregation
… the British and the Afrikaner republics were dislodged from the land. African, Coloured and Indian and other Asiatic we segregated and banned from owning…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Union Timeline 1919-1989
… Union (ICU), invites Selby Msimang, the congress leader from Bloemfontein, who had been involved in a wages campaign … is called off, as the strikers do no…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
… fleet on their way to East and/or on their return trips from Batavia (i.e. present day Java as part of Indonesia). … of these, Abraham, was a stowaway who,…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 1). Convenor: Janet Cherry
… entity that is embedded in addressing sentimental issues from the major challenges that the South African society is … non-sexist, and prosperous society…
ArticleInsurrections Ensemble
… collective poetry text between Ari Sitas and Pitika Ntuli from South Africa and Sabitha T.P and Vivek Narayanan from India. The music happened in three…
ArticleSASO Bannings
… SASO came under increasing attack from the Government. In March 1973, eight Black Consciousness … nine SASO members were sentenced to prison terms ranging…
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 2: The Transatlantic slave trade
… items such as gold, ivory and spices, particularly pepper. From their first contacts, European traders kidnapped and … 12 million Africans were forcibly…
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… number of African countries gained independence from European colonial powers. Ghana became the first African … Furthermore, the conference became a…
Address at the Opening Session of the ANC Conference "Peoples Of The World United Against Apartheid, For A Democratic South Africa" by O. R. Tambo, Arusha,1 December 1987
… of people cannot be certain that they will not die from bombs and bullets. There is no guarantee that … meaning, constitutes our guide to action and a…
Address by Oliver Tambo at the opening session of the ANC Conference, Arusha, 1 December 1987
… of people cannot be certain that they will not die from bombs and bullets. There is no guarantee that … meaning, constitutes our guide to action and a…
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… From: Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages … structures before 1915. We do know, however, that from 1915 the International Socialist League …
BiographyVincent Mbamama Hlamandana
… Mbamama Hlamandana, Magade Madapu and William Tyabashe, from Tsolo District [Eastern Province, now Eastern Cape], … by Professor S. Badat, Rhodes University,…
BiographyPumzile Mayapi
… to Angola. Here he underwent a basic commander course from December 1981 to the end of 1982. Thereafter the ANC …
Robert Mokxotho Matji
… to attend gatherings for two years, and ordered to resign from the ANC. He escaped arrest for treason in 1956 by … Gerhart G.M and Karis T. (ed)(1977). From…
ArticleBatavian Republic 1803-1806
… set salaries and were no longer dependent on incomes from fines. This eliminated most malpractices in the … there was a growing demand for agricultural…
BiographyRay Harmel (nee Adler)
… workers into the union. Sachs was ultimately ejected from the Communist Party for that policy. Ray, utterly … the groundwork for future generations of women…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… today. But there are! All over the world, in every country from Brazil to Australia, you will still find people living … for approximately 11 000 years. The…
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… Travelling conditions on the ships transporting workers from India were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the … disease breaking out, ever lurking. The…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… In the 1930s various trade unions from different backgrounds ranging from conservative craft unions, white racist industrial … government, which will…
ArticleAfrica Timeline
… 100 000 BC Humans begin to migrate from Africa to other parts of the world 8500 BC – 6500 BC In … Intermediate Period of Egypt occurs. The period spanned…
ArticlePrehistory of the Cape Town area
… as probate records in conjunction with archaeological data from such places as wells and cellars to understand domestic life in early Cape Town. They study…
ArticleZulu
… Nguni (the Xhosa-speaking peoples), the Swazi people from Swaziland and adjacent areas, and the Ndebele people of … that were the ancestors of the Nguni,…
First National Consultative Conference - Morogoro, 26 April 1969
… Conference of the ANC was held at Morogoro, Tanzania, from 25 April to 1 May 1969. The conference has become known … order to our leaders; to all of us. The…
ArticleGeneral Factory Workers Benefit fund (GFWBF)
… GFWBF had an executive of 20 members who mostly were from the Clothing and Furniture industries and a staff of 11 from both Pietermaritzburg and Durban. In…
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… no longer entitled to land in rural areas without approval from the Governor-General. 1920s Non-whites move into the … City Council to remove all Africans…
ArticleWay of life in ancient Egypt
… - the children of the pharaohs and bureaucrats were exempt from manual work and succeeded to their parent's position … control. In this way planning and…
ArticleHeritage and identity of Provinces
… In 1961 the Union of South Africa became independent from Britain. This means that it was not a British colony … Lesotho. These also became self ruling and…
ArticleA History of the Bulhoek Massacre
… , a lay preacher and independent evangelist, broke away from the Wesleyan Methodist Church and joined the Church of … South Africa. The call led to a…
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 3: An ancient African society: Egypt
… The development of the Egyptian civilization is traced from the beginning of the settlement at the Nile river … that country, and the Nile different in the…