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14. Suicide among indentured labourers
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South … wooden partition wall, the corpse could be seen suspended from the roof inside. I broke open the door…
This item by Oliver Tambo was published as the introduction to the book "No Easy Walk to Freedom" by Ruth First, 01 June 1965
… in Johannesburg in a shabby building across the street from the Magistrates` Court. Chancellor House in Fox Street … I ran the gauntlet of patient queues of…
PlaceGansbaai, Overberg
… Great White Sharks and “game-viewing” of the Marine Big 5 from land, sea and air, the greater Gansbaai area offers a … the highest density of Great White…
Chapter 7 - 1957-58: The Movement in a Crucial Phase
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 … This reflected itself partly in a rise of strike action, from the low point of the decade in…
Document 121 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Colour Bar and the National Struggle for Full Democratic Rights”, Workers’ Voice, 1, 2, November 1944
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary … intern theoretical development, but something brought in from outside, imposed from above by the…
Edendale and the birth of the ANC, 06 January 2012
… ancient times African families derived their surnames from the behavioural tendencies of its people. The Msimang surname is derived from the Zulu word…
Umberto Eco on the Merits of Studying History (and the Terrors of Losing It) by Charles Chu (The Polymath Project), 24 September 2017
… WWII. Here’s a small sample of what they were capable of, from Wikipedia: “Physiologist Yoshimura Hisato conducted … allowing the limb to freeze. Once frozen…
Address by President Nelson Mandela to the ANC National Conference on Reconstruction and Strategy NASREC, Johannesburg, 21 January 1994
… of history which summons us to achieve our own freedom from tyranny, from injustice, from hunger, from deprivation and from the indignity and …
PlaceWestern Cape Province
… Cape was the first place in the country where people from Europe settled . The Europeans brought slaves from Malay to serve them, and the Malay culture…
Dunbar, Thibedi, Sigamoney: Three figures in the IWW in South Africa by Red Jack (libcom.org), 08 January 2012
… and led big strikes in 1911. In 1912, Dunbar was ousted from the IWW, which faded away soon afterwards. From 1914, he was in the War on War League, which set…
PlaceBezuidenhout Valley, Johannesburg
… Ridge and North of Kensington Ridge. Takes its name from the Farm purchased in September 1861 from the Widow of BP Viljoen, by Frederick Jacobus … this was…
PlaceSierra Leone
… birds – including migratory swifts on their journey to and from Europe. "This recognition is not just a global … of stewardship by local communities,” says…
PlaceRooigrond
… North West Province). The place Rooigrond derives its name from the Afrikaans language meaning ‘red ground’. The small … believed they were defending their…
ArchiveLenasia Youth League LESCO 1988 calendar
… text: Save the Children, poems The struggle continues (from Palestine) and Song of Morning (from El Salvador) …
ArchiveLetter addressed to Reverend David Russell
… Letter from Errol K. Moorcroft to Reverend David Russell relating to the eviction of farm workers from Syd Knott's farm, Kei Road District. …
EventA fishing trawler off the South African Coast catches a coelacanth
… coastal waters of the Indian Ocean. When he would return from a fishing trip, Miss Latimer was welcome to examine the … to the holidays, Courtenay-Latimer…
EventNapoleon assembles his army near Aboukir, Egypt
… laying siege to Acre (now Akko in modern Israel) from March to May 1799, Napoleon retreated to Egypt. By this … second Ottoman army landed at Aboukir,…
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PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of Government Avenue . In … side of the Railway Station, most of…
PlaceAmamakop, a Hill in the Northern Cape
… Hillock about 43 km from Aggeney's! The name is derived from the Khoikhoi word for- 'embrace', because the … Hillock about 43 km from Aggeney's! The name is…
For Joe Slovo by David Heavenor (Audio), 24 November 1993, South Africa
… Samples, Electric Guitar, mandolin: Simon Jaquet Children from Gabarone Botswana From the album PRIVATE: THE NIGHT VISITORS …
Rivonia: Telling it as it was, 2 July 1988
… activists, for the members of the ANC and their colleagues from the Indian Congress, the Communist Party, and others, … remained always beyond their reach,…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim … Company brought slaves, political exiles and convicts from Indonesia and India, including…
ArchiveThe Congress of the people
… From the book: My Spirit Is Not Banned by Frances Baard and … and the Congress of Democrats. In Port Elizabeth we from the ANC organized too. We went from…
ArchiveWe want to die here say aged
… Newspaper article in which elders from Black communities express their opposition to being evicted from their homes and forced to move to Glenmore Township …
PlaceSão Tomé and Príncipe
… convicts and Jewish children, (who had been separated from their parents and expelled from Portugal, in the world war ) and African slaves. This … São Tomé…
ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… definitive books, yet all of them differed fundamentally from what we have here. Margaret Courtney-Clarke, While … in Swakopmund on the edge of the Namib…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Johannesburg
… On Thursday 08 July 1897 two daughter congregations ceceded from the DR Church Johannesburg, being the DR Church … accommodation by renting the Masonic Hall…
Chapter 4 - The role of the Communist Party in the ANC by Richard Monroe
… From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 … in the 1950s, did so because they expected a lead from it in the struggle to transform society…
Chapter 2 - SADF Speaks...
… From the book: Le Rona Re Batho (An account of the 1982 … frightening off the usual night thieves and robbers from their nocturnal exploits. Who was…