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ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… In 1985 members of MAWU in Mpophomeni created a play, The Long March which highlighted the plight of workers Sarmcol …
Article1973 Durban Strikes – TUCSA – Harriet Bolton
… seemed unwilling to hold to book employers. TUCSA had long paid lip service to the ideal of African unions …
Passage to Natal - The Journey
… workers from India were deplorable. The voyages were long, with the danger of disease breaking out, ever lurking. …
ArticleHistory of the Rape Crisis Trust in Cape Town
… a different system from ours. But because they work very long hours and are forced to live very far from their work, … many of RCCT’s training programmes,…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Source-based Questions
… found himself in debt. So, the Depression had gone on long before the crash of ‘29 took place. One of the ways it … Great Depression. (1x2)(2) ‘… the…
A chronology of meetings between South Africans and the ANC in exile 1983-2000 by Michael Savage
… with exile leaders of these organisations, travelling long distances to hold meetings in Europe or in independent … met with ANC, in Europe. March 1987…
Article2014 South African platinum strike: longest wage strike in South Africa
… a further loss of R10.6 billion in wages. The five month long strike affected both the workers and the mining … mines and two joint ventures because of the…
Article1973 Durban Strikes
… strikes signalled the beginning of a turning point in the long struggle of Black, Coloured and Indian workers to build …
Historical ships and shipwrecks along the South African coast
… vessels could have been lost along the South African shore long before, and after, the arrival of Europeans. In 1487 and …
Learning about history through writing
… milestone for the history of South African rugby which had long been an exclusively “white” sport. Wow! That was an …
Polokwane an Overview
… Limpopo Province was the scene of scores of settlements long before the arrival of the Voortrekkers. The region was …
ArchiveStukkie jols
… block in centre with black and white image of woman with long hair over head in long dress. SRC Orientation Committee. Wits Theatre. February …
BiographyAlfred Milner
… of Swaziland in order to provide the Transvaal with its long desired access to the sea. In response to Milner’s …
ArticleWomen in African Literature: Writing and Representation
… texts have been studied so widely as Mariama Bâ’s So Long a Letter. Born in Senegal in 1929, Mariama Bâ was an … Her novels achieved almost instant…
Article1960's Diaries of Nelson Mandela on his trip through Africa
… held its first democratic elections on 27 April 1994: a long walk and a long road on a journey only just begun. Nelson Mandela headed …
ArticleGrade 12 - Topic 3 - Civil Society protests 1950s to 1990s
… [ Accessed 25 February 2015] Short-term and long-term gains. Case Study: the Black Power Movement Source … [ Accessed 25 February 2015] Short-term and long…
The Hunter-Gatherers of Southern Africa: Summary
… homes of materials that were easily available, such as long grass, thin branches and rocks. TOOLS: Stone Age … bows and arrows. The bow was approximately…
ArticleColonial history of Nelspruit
… just below the great eastern escarpment of the Transvaal. Long before it acquired a European name, the region was home … Kruger took his leave of the…
The girl child
… young rape victims are left with unwanted pregnancies. As long as the rape statistics remain as high as they are and as long as the myths like, sleeping with…
ArticleGandhi and the burning of passes
… Oath, and it marked the beginning of the eight-year-long Satyagraha Campaign and the Birth of the Satyagraha …
Grade 4 Term 2 Timeline: Mahatma Gandhi
… Bar 1893 He travels to South Africa to work under a year-long contract with Dada Abdulla & Co., an Indian firm 1893 …
ArticleThe Order of the Companions of O.R. Tambo
… of solidarity and striving to support and encourage long-term success of the young and growing members of the …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
… Africa for at least 150 000 years. That must be one very long and big family tree! Today we still see evidence of … homes out of materials that were easily…
ArticleOral tradition and indigenous knowledge
… The silver buckles on his shoes flashed in the sun. A long peacock’s feather was stuck in his hatband. People … said Captain Van Hunks. A queer figure this…
PlacePrince Edward Islands
… Edward Island Group consists of; Marion Island (19km long 12 km wide) and Prince Edward Island (10 km long and 6.5km wide). These islands are approximately…
EventPriscah Jeptoo is born in Nandi Kenya
… Long distance runner Priscah Jeptoo is ranked third in the world in long distance running. She only began competing in top …
Opening Address to the ANC’s 48th National Conference by O. R. Tambo, Durban, 2 July 1991
… United Front was formed. Thus began our international crusade to win friends and isolate the racists. Comrades and … Administration fell in line with other…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… in South African working class history. Hull, Lewis and Long who went to the gallows singing the "Red Flag", hurling …
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… addresses the same concerns as my highly personalised long term project on Mr Mulaudzi, namely the importance of …
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… only in the 1700s AD. Technology in Africa was therefore long advanced before the arrival of European colonisers. …