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… the mining industry used to employ only unskilled blacks from rural areas. Because of the Group Areas Act mine workers … and unflappability", writes Gevisser, is that it came from his policeman father. "Sergeant Ramaphosa brought his … maybe some way to university or perhaps even a bit later, 1976. Ideologically since moving across that boundary between …

… This chapter comes from the book …

… From the book:  History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … * advising Muslim businessmen in commerce and economics from the Shari 'ah point of view; * resolving disputes to … to become chairman of the Company until his retirement in 1976, having served the Company for 49 years. In 1955 A M …

… Asian slaves is promulgated. Dlamini chiefdoms move south from Delagoa Bay and settle on land north of the Phongolo … attacks AmaXhosa for cattle. They lift cattle from Khoi-Khoi instead. This attack is the first recorded … Governor, the Chaplain and the Landdrost (magistrate) from their posts and all the land in possession of company …

… Depression Bram begins "devilling" (taking on assignments from senior advocates to gain experience for little or no … a member of the Communist Party of South Africa (CPSA) (from account given during his speech from the dock after his arrest in 1965, though it is not …

… in South Africa. The magazine brought together women from different communities facing the same issues to realize … In a letter written to the editors of SPEAK , a woman from the Philippines says that the magazine shares ‘the real … what women needed in order to demand a change was support from those who were fighting for the same rights around the …

… Ismail Mohamed as presiding judges. About 228 delegates from nineteen political parties attended and pledged their … Chris Hani, SACP Helen Suzman Nelson Mandela, ANC   Absent from the Convention was the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) which had withdrawn from negotiations a few days earlier. The PAC believed that …

… Alfred Milner engendered considerable resistance from Black people and led to the formation and growth of new … forgotten pages of South Africa's rich worker history from 1903 to 1921. It includes socio-historical analysis of … in Natal and the Transvaal (they were legally prohibited from living in or entering the Orange Free State) in …

… and Howard Ngcobo, a PAC executive committee member from Durban, drove to Cape Province to assess the state of … were to prepare themselves, he said, to receive the call from national headquarters. When the call came, all were to … water outside; instead, the PAC aimed at "closing the tap from which all this vile legislation flows, and it would not …

… months for a few hours a day, ended up working for years from 8 A.M. to 4 P.M. When one first arrived in prison they … women friends were hurt more by the punishment or words from another woman interrogating them because ‘I felt like I … women’ (Russell 1989; 36). They felt a sort of a betrayal from the White women because they saw the monsters inside …

… From 10 to 31 October 2011, South Africa will be conducting … For example, South Africa’s white population declined from 4.27 million in 1992 to 4.24 million in 2003 (a 0.7 per … indicative of the types of information that can be gleaned from censuses. Click here for more statistical data compiled …

… by black women under apartheid. The organisation emerged from AZAPO's recognition that women's oppression required … within the broader liberation struggle. Drawing its name from the Nguni tradition of carrying a child on one's back, … Foundations Imbeleko draws its ideological inspiration from the Black Consciousness Movement philosophies developed …

… when a magistrate called A.W. Leslie went to collect taxes from the Hlongwa and Cele clans in the Silverstream district. … imprisonment and 25 lashes. On 20 January a white farmer from Camperdown was murdered after he took his labourers to … by harbouring Bambatha and his family. On his return from Zululand, accompanied by Chakijana kaGezindaba, Bambatha …

… of the tailors and dressmakers in South Africa had come from Eastern Europe.  They had brought with them a militant … Afrikaans-speaking girls who had come to the Witwatersrand from the rural areas looking for work during the Depression.  …

… schools. Most families needed their children to find work from as early an age as possible in order to bring in much … older they would join gangs. Children in Sophiatown learnt from an early age that to survive in the city was indeed a …

… objects are called artefacts. The word artefact comes from the Latin words arte meaning skill and facere meaning to … follow. Remember that sometimes we cannot tell everything from the artefacts left behind. Ariel’s toy box   Source:  …

… of liberty binds us to the pursuit of the goals of freedom from want, freedom from hunger, freedom from deprivation, freedom from ignorance, freedom from …

… into a new era of action and multi-party interaction. From this era a new breed of female leadership emerged, … they worked hard to form valuable alliances with women from the trade unions and other political organisations even … the ANC and were run in part by teachers who had resigned from their jobs in protest against Bantu Education. …

… The First Expedition The Portuguese expedition set off from the Tagus River on 8 July 1497 with a crew of 148 men in … of a long and mutually profitable alliance. India From Malindi the ships sailed for Calicut in India and … narrowly escaped death. The Portuguese squadron sailed from India on 20 September 1498, but on the return voyage, …

… Arnoldus Pannevis, when he studied at the Paarl Gymnasium from 1867. Earlier, in 1873, educationist CP Hoogenhout had … Pannevis the linguist considered Dutch too far removed from the experience of the ordinary Afrikaner to serve as an … circulation reached 3700. Published as a monthly from January 1876, it became a weekly in January 1877, with …

… discussions. In 1909, a group of Black delegates from the four provinces attended the South African Native … as it was the first joint meeting of Black representatives from all four self-governing British colonies and indicated … in South Africa, its formation marked a clear break from the past as the focus of Black politics previously …

… Conciliation Amendment Act in 1956 to prohibit Africans from joining registered unions. Nevertheless, Sactu’s … become registered for the first time since 1956. The years from 1973 to 1985 saw a surge of unionism unprecedented in … and unity talks began as early as 1979, and accelerated from 1981 to 1985. The first serious deliberations took place …

… points of embarkation. The area indentured Indians came from, their caste, employers and places of employment, … as passenger Indians then their records may be traceable from the Who's Who or from family records and correspondences. The Home Affairs …

… is a collection of timelines of Indians in South Africa  from 1654 until 2008. …

… in it. There were, moreover, no streams that we could turn from their course to help in various works, and especially to … towns and a few smaller villages, scarcely separated from each other. The mission premises, comprising a house and … accommodated printing apparatus, etc. The pupils varied from sixty to seventy. In 1840 the Rev Willian Shaw visited …

… 1899 Herman Tobiansky purchases land from the Johannesburg Municipality to develop as a … Duration of the destruction and removal of the community from Sophiatown to Soweto.  …

… represented in the accompanying cut. It derives its name from a gentleman, formerly resident in India, who contributed … Mission at this place, which had long been abandoned, and from a warm and copious spring which rises among some granite rocks, a few hundred yards from the residence of the Missionary. The settlement …

… demographics of the University have altered fundamentally from an exclusively White (Caucasian) Afrikaans population to … students led by UPrising, which comprised of individuals from a number of political organisations on campus and … January 2016 with student registration, students primarily from the EFFSC and UP workers protested outsourscing of …

… in Cape Town. Received National Diploma in Photography from Cape Peninsula University of Technology. …

… his people settle to the west of the Fish River, an area from which the Dutch colonial administration had driven the … of Commissioner-General in order to receive the colony from Britain. He is also instructed to establish a new system … problems integrating into the Cape colonial society trek from the Cape and settle at Klaarwater north of the Orange …