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ArticleThe African Mine workers strike of 1946
… recruited a core of members and formed AMWU late in 1930 and early 1931. From the start they were confronted by …
ArchiveThe Life of Trevor Huddleston, Makhalipile (the Dauntless One) by Victoria Vandiver, 3 May 2018
… time at Oxford coincided with the Great Depression of the 1930’s. He witnessed Hunger Marches where the disparity …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 6
… combined. A question that was continually arising between 1930 and 1940 was the manner in which Indians, who, at the …
Chapter 2 - Jewish Trade Unions in Cape Town 1903-1907: A Socio-Historical Study
… Assault on Low Wages in the Cape Town Clothing Industry 1930 - 1931," Belinda Bozzoli, ed.. Class, Community and …
ArchiveA death warrant for Afrikaans by Hermann Giliomee, 11 November 2019
Introduction The Constitutional Court’s ruling that Afrikaans as a language of instruction has to be content with a marginal place at Stellenbosch…
Women’s liberation by Zanele Dhlamini (Mbeki)
… to crush them. "By the Women's Enfranchisement Act of 1930, which gave the vote to white women only (despite the …
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
June 12, 1964 was the day for sentencing in the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum sentence – and we expected it: death. But in a…
”On the Organisations of the African People”, from I. B. Tabata to Nelson Mandela, June 16, 1948
80 Harrington Street, Cape Town. 16th June, 1948 My dear Mandela, Now to the discussion on the question of organisation, which is every day assuming greater…
Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Chapter 9 - Division weakens the movement During the 1950s Congress activists had built, if not…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - Native Unrest
… motto: Ama Melika ayeza (The Americans are coming). In 1930 the immediate causes of unrest were starvation, low …
Chapter 13. General Strike, 1932
… No. 27 of 1914 as amended by section One of Act No. 19 of 1930, you are hereby notified that WHEREAS I find that you …
Interview with Dr Vanitha Chetty by Ms Rajes Pillay,University of Durban Westville,13 June 2002
… there, and then you must remember this was in the early 1930’s when life was so different. And England on its own is … South Africa, at that stage, when we…
ArchiveKora: A Lost Khoisan Language Chapter 3: The Sounds of Kora
… of Cape Town.) Meinhof, whose work on Kora appeared in 1930, mentioned [90] the customary three tones, namely High, … Zeitschrift für Eingeborenen-Sprachen) …
Document 45 - Ray Alexander, “Trade Unionism in South Africa”, Discussion, 1, 6, 1952
… organisation. By the onset of the big depression in 1930, it had virtually ceased to function. Sections of the …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 3 - It’s a Mystery. Or is it? by Amanda Esterhuysen
… ornaments had been stolen from the ruins. Between 1905 and 1930, however, two archaeologists who had previously worked …
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… 1929] * Muir Street Moslem Primary School [established 1930] * Schotsch Kloof Moslem Primary School [established …
The Polly Street Era
It is evident, through the examples of the art of John Koenakeefe Mohl, Ernest Mancoba and Gerard Sekoto, that the foundations of a fine art by black South…
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 2
… internal dissatisfactions which appeared between 1927 and 1930, as the high hopes of the Agreement fell away. There was …
ArticleNon-European Unity Movement (NEUM)
This article was written by Baruch Hirson A Short history of the Non-European Unity – An insider's view Where is the Non-European Unity Movement? The Non…
ArticleNamibian Timeline
… to Black African Writing 1300-1973. [28] He was born in 1930 in Windhoek. Pieterse’s status as a Namibian author is …
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1950-1959
… 90. 7 June, Pixely ka Isaka Seme president of the ANC from 1930 to 1937 dies in Johannesburg. His funeral is attended by …
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
Within 37 African countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage Sites within the continent…
ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
The 1940s were characterised by changes that had a profound effect on the political landscape in South Africa. There was closer cooperation between the CPSA…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… in Umsebenzi , paper of the CPSA, of 12 September 1930. There is little information on Lopes (or his brother), …
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… the fictitious Ishmaelia (read Ethiopia/Abyssinia) in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a book on …
Chapter I - Twenty thousand strong we marched
From the book: Side by Side by Helen Joseph We shall not rest until we have won for our children their fundamental right to freedom, justice and security. I…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
This article was taken from the book The Final Prize by Norman Levy (Chapter 6) A Spiral of Trials In the arrests, indictments and trials that occurred from…
Johannesburg Timeline 1800-1991
… Council appoints a Committee to deal with Native Affairs. 1930 The number of houses built at Western and Eastern …
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… the question of so-called black people and sport. In the 1930’s South Africa contemplated to apply to host the Empire …
ArticleHIV/Aids in South Africa timeline 1940s-2009
1940s 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…