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ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought … in the late nineteenth century--diamonds in…
BiographyJoseph Mathunjwa
… Army, the Christian church known for charitable work and evangelic fervour. He worked as the laboratory assistant … He also forced management to take…
Joseph Zenzele Mavi
… in 1938,Mavi matriculated at St John's High School and moved to Johannesburg in 1957,taking a series of semi-skilled jobs and gaining political experience…
BiographyRaymond (Ray) Chikapa Enock Phiri
… (now Mpumalanga ). He grew up with a passion for music, and started playing the guitar at a very tender age, inspired … play a variety of music instruments,…
BiographyJabulani “Mzala” Nxumalo
… 1955, in Dundee, Northern Natal. His parents Benjamin and Elsie were both teachers. From an early age, they inculcated in Mzala a love for books and a…
Growth of African Nationalism and Defiance
… Afrikaner nationalism. The ANC which was weak in the 1920 and 1930s was consolidated under the leadership of Alfred … in 1944 which demanded freedom from…
BiographyAyesha Bibi “Asa” Dawood
… Province on the 31 January, 1927 to an Indian Merchant and a Malay woman. As a young girl, Asa (as she was called) used to read the newspaper to her father…
BiographyRafique (Rafs) Mayet
… Natal (now Kwazulu-Natal). Mayet matriculated in Durban and worked at various jobs since completing school, including … local shipyards, as a computer…
Soweto and mounting pressure on the apartheid state, 1970s
… © Bailey's African History Archives During the 1970s, and particularly in the late 1970s after the Soweto uprising … of 1976, there was increasing pressure,…
Worker Culture: It’s Emergence, Gains and the Implications of Decline by Frank Meintjies
… Celebrating 50 Years Conference The first shoots of worker culture emerged in the early eighties with the first … experiments in workshopped worker theatre…
Omar Badsha – Political Activist and Cultural Worker
… Omar Badsha – Political Activist and Cultural Worker …