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ArticleA Land Dispossession History 1600s-1990s
… there is still attachment to the soil, differs greatly from that of the Free State and the Cape countryside where, … on commercial farms. These in turn are…
ArticleThe Linton Panel & the San language
… pages of hand-written testimony taken down word-for-word from some of the last /Xam speakers in the 1860s and 1870s. … Context of the Human Figure in the…
ArticleStalinism and how Stalin used his power to change Marxism-Leninism
… and his mother a domestic servant. He was expelled from school for neglecting his studies and found work at the … Lenin and Trotsky who dared to challenge…
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… in the eastern Elliotdale district trace their descent from shipwreck survivors. During the apartheid era, it was a … its contribution to Stone Age research…
Afrikaans community 1820-1899
… Afrikaner trekboer (migratory farmer) J.N. Brits trekked from the Cape Colony, crossed the Orange River and settled … town On 23 February 1854, the British…
ArticleCouncil of Non-European trade unions (CNETU)
… and tobacco. Large and small trade unions, mainly from the Rand, also affiliated to CNETU. At the time, CNETU claimed to be have about 37,000 members from 25…
The Triumph of the Radicals, 1939-1946
… into a coalition to deal with the economic problemsarising from the depression and to settle finally the question of the … Smuts formed a new Ministry, which…
Local Government
… When disaffected groups of Dutch farmers from the Cape reached the Trans-Gariep region, they brought … it was unable to raise the necessary funds it needed…
ArticleSita’s story
… on my grandfather’s farm, which was fifteen miles away from the city, and in those days around us were plantations … was the beginning of his and later our…
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… by the powerful or privileged within the country. Viewed from the heights of the cabinet room, the company boardroom, … compounds see F.A. Johnstone, Class,…
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… apartheid, the non-racial Congress Alliance, (2) formed from previously organised racially-based and worker groups, … role of women in the liberation…
15th Anniversary of 1922 Rand Strike - South African Worker, 27 February 1937
… memory of the past, but to commemorate in a fitting manner from time to time. In particular does this apply to the Great … that gave up their lives in the…
ArticleThe New Group
… of young South African artists who, upon their return from study in Europe in 1937 began to question and oppose the … In this way they exposed the public to…
Petros Mulaudzi of Nthabalala village
… create these elements have been traditionally passed on from elders to youth. But much of this is disappearing within … as medium of language (English),…
ArticleWages Commission
… workers’ strike at Currie’s Fountain, three students from the Durban campus of the University of Natal –David … with organising Indian workers, but their…
Iron Age Kingdoms of Southern Africa
… Trade routes were established and ivory and gold from Africa was traded for cloth, glass beads and other luxury products from afar. The new age The Iron Age…
ArticleThe Anti-Pass Campaigns 1960
… provincial congress, some Africanists were excluded from the hall. Rather than cause confrontation, they decided … between the ANC and the PAC as they both…
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
… The oldest Human Immunodeficiency Virus-2 (HIV-2) jumps from animals to humans, according to a Washington-based study … in May 2003. Some sources say that…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… the Sekhukhuneland region. Elleck Nchabaleng was released from Robben Island in 1984, having undergone an intensive … Sekhukhuneland Youth Party was formed,…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
… we are separate and unequal. ’(South Africa). This quote from Dr. Boesak would later become the call to arms for the … to ‘ prevent a black who does not now…
ArticleYoung Communist League of South Africa (YCLSA)
… on was a campaign to save men who were sentenced to death from the gallows. Four men had already been executed. Three … the time had its headquarters in…
Insurrections: The Storming
… we wanted to. Biographies AHSAN ALI (Sarangi) Ahsan Ali is from the seventh generation of musicians from a traditional musical family of the Kirana Gharana…
ArticleThe Storming: Insurrections Ensemble
… we wanted to. Biographies AHSAN ALI (Sarangi) Ahsan Ali is from the seventh generation of musicians from a traditional musical family of the Kirana Gharana…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… labour movement. It developed as a response to pressure from the Congress Alliance for unions to formally adopt the … the Freedom Charter that caused much of…
ArticleThe Wragg Commission (1885-1887)
… was considered illegal as it led to crime and absenteeism from work. Bilharzia was common in certain areas and leprosy … in drunkenness in Natal. Pollution:…
Background to the Freedom Charter 1955
… and regulations of the National Volunteer Corps framed from time to time. It shall be my duty to keep myself … of unity), cries of “Afrika!” and “Mayibuye!”…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… apartheid, the non-racial Congress Alliance, (2) formed from previously organised racially-based and worker groups, … role of women in the liberation…
ArticleGrade 12 - The impact of the Cold War in forming the world as it was in the 1960s
… the communist Soviet Union, and their respective allies. From the end of World War II until the early 1990s, world … Please note, there may be minor changes…
ArticleSouthern African Development Community (SADC)
… communications, energy, mining, and industrial production. From 1992 when the organisation became SADC its aims … became a member after democratisation. SADC…
S.A shipwrecks and the National Heritage Resources Act
… disturb” any wreck or wreck site without a permit from SAHRA. It is also illegal to trade in, sell for private gain” any objects or materials from wrecks…