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A Chronological look (1943 to 1986) at the Life and Times of Mr George Ponnen
GANGEN-GEORGE PONNEN - SPEAKS OF HIS LIFE AND INVOLVEMENT IN THE TRADE UNION, POLITICAL AND NATIONAL LIBERATION MOVEMENTS IN HIS COUNTRY, SOUTH AFRICA. I was…
Chapter 1: The 1971 Art South Africa Today Exhibition: Towards a Language of protest art
Overt socio-political protest in South African art, as I have suggested, first made a substantial appearance, in 1971, at the national and biennial Art South…
Chapter 11 - Negotiating the final constitution
The adoption of the final Constitution concluded some of the most successful negotiations in recent constitutional and political history. The most striking and…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… kings who ruled the Kingdom of Dahomey between 1625 and 1900. All but one king built their palace within the area. …
40 years after: Understanding the Soweto Uprising by Motsoko Pheko (Pambazuka News), 30 June 2016
The Soweto Uprising of June 16, 1976 did not just drop from the sky. The Black students of South Africa did not wake up one day and begin resisting Bantu…
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 2 - The Beginnings of Globalisation by Jeff Guy
From the book: Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade commissioned by The Department of Education Turning points in history are not fixed. We decide…
PlaceRwanda
Rwanda is a land-locked Country located in the Eastern part of Africa. People began settling in the area as early as 10.000BCE[i]. After several successive…
Checkmate for apartheid? July 199 1 - June 1992
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman In Chapter 8 we examined the emergence of a strategy of…
ArticleA Spiral of Trials by Norman Levy
… remained at three pounds per month, the same as it was in 1900.30 The union’s tone was tense, not so much for the …
Doing Oral History
Edited by Dr Johan Wassermann (2002) This publication is a product of an Oral History workshop organised by the Department of Education and the facilitator…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner government through…
Challenge to the church: A Theological Comment on the Political Crisis in South Africa | The Kairos Document, 1985
The Kairos document preface The KAIROS document is a Christian, biblical and theological comment on the political crisis in South Africa today. It is an…
ArchiveChapter 18 New Life Number 9 2002- 2009 by Denis Goldberg
It helped enormously that I had a post to go to. Ronnie Kasrils was meticulous in requiring me to provide real information showing that I could indeed handle…
The melody of freedom
… that tithe Malay slaves and the colonizers themselves. By 1900, African slums and shanty towns, built particularly …
A.I. Kajee His Work for the Southern African Indian Community - Chapter 1
… from Durban is never far from railway and the sea. In 1900 it was a sandy earth road, baked in winter and seldom …
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San people moved into the interior of South Africa from the Cape (what is today the…
ArchiveThe 16th of December in South Africa by Wolfram Kistner
… Milner ordered – during the Anglo-Boer War in 1900 – the heap of stones, piled up at Paardekraal and … special significance was the celebration of December…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1804 - 1899 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… donations and gifts by the congregation. Between 1866 and 1900, over twenty cases pertaining to masajid in the Cape … Durban where they founded a small…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… during the 1870s. In the early twentieth century (from 1900 to 1930), Afrikaner nationalism became a more serious …
Say It out Loud - The Education Bill, 1906
… further, there are 20.9 per cent of European and .05 per cent of Coloured children above Standard V (Cries of " …
Stuart Commission Report
1984 COMMISSION OF INQUIRY INTO RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN THE PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF ANGOLA March 14, 1984 Lusaka CONTENTS PART ONE INTRODUCTION Per its…
Man-made women: Gender, class and the ideology of the volksmoeder by Elsabe Brink
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker IDEALISED WOMANHOOD One of the means by which men in male-dominated…
ArticleTimeline 20 years of Democracy 1994 to 2014
… billion to assist with several energy projects, with $3.05 billion allocated for completion of the Medupi Power …
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… W. Kendall, The Revolutionary Movement in England, 1900 -1921, London, 1969, pp. 35 - 45 and 55 - 60. and B. …
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… is established under the Superindendent of Education. 1900 Natal's African student numbers rise to 10 618. 1904 …
ArticleThe Grey Street Mosque, 1880-1930
… another in Grey Street, and a third in Pine Street in 1900. Coovadia’s Hoosen Cassim & Co. was one of the largest …
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… Verwoerd, 26 June 1961. [10] Lodge, Mandela , pp.104-05. [11] Mandela, Long Walk to Freedom , p.260. [12] …
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… op. cit. pp. 177-78 Ibid., pp. 201, 203 Ibid., pp. 204-05 Ibid., p. 176 Ibid., p. 349 Wall, op. cit., p. 53 Ibid.,p. …
Political report by Oliver Tambo on the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the African National Congress, 17 June 1985, Kabwe, Zambia
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the history…
Political Report of the National Executive Committee to the National Consultative Conference of the ANC by O. R. Tambo, Kabwe, Zambia, June 1985
Comrade Chairman, Comrades, Delegates, This day, the opening of the National Consultative Conference of the ANC, is a great and moving moment in the…