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ArticleElections in post Apartheid South Africa
… the interests of specific groups in civil society. One of these was the Women’s Rights Peace Party. Others seem …
ArticleThe history of labour movements in Namibia
… Luderitz, a harbour town in southwest Namibia lying on one of the least hospitable coasts in Africa, was an …
ArticleHistory of Africa Day - 25 May
… were held in January 1960 in Tunisia followed by another one in Egypt in March 1961. As more African countries became …
ArticleInternational Rugby World Cup Timeline 1983-2011
… for the first time that all matches would be played in one country. South Africa participates in the tournament for …
ArticleAfrikaner Broederbond
… to the Afrikaner Broederbond (AB). The organisation had one main aim: to further Afrikaner nationalism in South …
The oldest forms of human communication
… communication through ages, click here to view Drums were one way to send signals to neighbouring tribes and groups. …
ArticlePrehistory of the Port Elizabeth area
… White settlers at the Fish River in the 17th century as one group moved south and the other north. Archaeological …
Insurrections III: The Storming
… at the Homecoming Centre have generated two CDs. The first one with the eponymous title Insurrections was released in 2013 in Delhi and Cape Town. The second…
PlaceKommetjie, Cape Town
… childhood sweetheart, Ines Mattiello, and rapidly became one of Cape Town's largest building contractors Kommetjie is … to participate democratically. Most…
PlaceRondebosch Common, Camp Ground Road, Rondebosch.
… people of Cape Town. It is also a National Monument and one of the best-known Landmarks in the Southern Suburbs of Cape Town. It Conserves one of the only…
PlaceThe Struben Mine Shafts, Kloofendal, Roodepoort
… Guided or Self guided walks: Walks can be self guided or one can join one of the excellent trails lead by a qualified Field Guide. …
Document 19 - Communist Party of South Africa, Memo on S.A.F.N.T.U. (1930)
… Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 19 - Communist … at Feneira Street Johannesburg) were…
EventAdolf Hitler opens the 11th Olympic Games in Berlin
… vision. Owens on the other hand was an African America, one of ten in the US team. Lang and Owens had become friends … around Owen's neck. Owens' gold medal…
EventJosiah Gumede is succeeded by Pixley ka Isaka Seme as ANC president
… African National Congress (ANC) in 1923, in Bloemfontein. One hundred delegates attended its inaugural meeting, where Seme was the keynote speaker, and…
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
… the ANC underground in South Africa. 1983: Elected as one of the Vice-Presidents of the United Democratic Front in … by remaining in South Africa in order to…
14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… reproduced (a) a medical report by Richmond R. Alien on one Ramaiya, (b) report by the employer, Mr. A. C. McEwan, … the thumb of each hand. He had evidently…
Closing speech by ANC President Jacob Zuma by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… I must confess I never thought that the two of us would one day compete for the same position in the ANC! however, … to be anxiety regarding the existence of…
14. Suicide among indentured
… reproduced (a) a medical report by Richmond R. Alien on one Ramaiya, (b) report by the employer, Mr. A. C. McEwan, … the thumb of each hand. He had evidently…
Chapter 8 - Survivors
… Naidoo, South Africa, 1992 In the accounts that follow no one was killed. They were told to me at the time and I place … girl. If my memory serves me well,…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… of work to be made up at home. But firstly there was no one to enforce the Act and secondly, like all South African … the entire wage registers in the…
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the murder of Griffiths Mxenge, 01 November 1981
… of apartheid. As a lawyer, Griffiths played his full part in defending many patriots brought before the racist …
PlaceSophiatown
… in Sophiatown were moved to Meadowlands, which formed a part of Soweto, where the NP established a housing area based …
Statement at the Eighth Conference of Heads of State or Government of Non-Aligned Countries by O. R. Tambo, Harare, 1 - 6 September 1986
… of all other people. Accordingly, we feel completely at one with the Non-Aligned Movement in its resolve vigorously … limitation on the very possibility of…
PlaceGroote Schuur Hospital, Cape Town
… Groote Schuur is one of Cape Town's premier tertiary Academic Hospitals and …
EventThe town of Bethlehem, Free State, is founded
… in the Maluti Mountains in the Free State Province and is one of the towns that grew rapidly after it was founded. The …
EventA.W.G. Champion, outspoken opponent of apartheid dies
… was elected to the Native Representative Council (NRC) - one of the most outspoken members against apartheid in the …
EventMozambique gains independence
… the country to independent in 1975. Machel established one-party state form of government. …
EventANC promulgates its constitutional proposals
… by the South African Communist Party (SACP). During Phase One an all-party interim government council would be …
EventPotgieter barters land from Chief Makwana
… Commandant Andries Hendrik Potgieter, one of the leaders of the Voortrekkers, obtained the …
EventSchalk Burger wins two International Awards
… The twenty-one year old South African rugby flanker, Schalk Burger, …