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BiographyHarry Themba Gwala
… Harry (Mphephethwa) Themba Gwala was born on 30 July in 1920 near Piettermarizburg.He was a politician … ever answered any questions without referring to…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the Commemoration of the 50th Anniversary of 1956 Women’s March: Union Buildings, Tshwane, 9 August 2006
… Women of South Africa, comrades and compatriots: On behalf of our government and the people of South Africa as … Island, the Khoi women like Krotoa, the…
The historical significance of COSATU’s Workers’ Charter Campaign
… of drawing up a Workers’ Charter became a leading item on the agenda of the South African labour movement. It … unions in the Transvaal. It was a year of…
ArticleThe Women of Marikana
… “a mining economy that is still fundamentally premised on the sale of cheap labour power” it must rely on the invisible labour reproduced on a daily basis by…
BiographyRowley Israel Arenstein
… Rowley Israel Arenstein was born on 7th of July in 1918. Arenstein was a prominent Durban … he withdrew from active politics in order to concentrate on his…
ArticleThe History of Education: 1658 to present
… the beach. 1652 First white settlers arrive at the Cape, Jan van Riebeeck is among the Dutch settlers as they … ignore this and some slaves even hide in…
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
… their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is … of essays emerged out of Ari’s deep…
Africa’s photojournalists: The wars are not over by Greg Marinovich (Daily Maverick), 25 June 2013
… in the 1930’s. The latest film adaption of a book on photojournalists is The Bang Bang Club, very loosely based … one is to believe the rather crass filmic…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… of the accession to power of the Nationalist government in 1948 right up to the dying days of the eighties, a period of … into the subject, and to provide a…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… time. In 1962, arrested for sabotage, he was imprisoned on Robben Island. On his release he was placed under house arrest; in 1964 he … continued to…
Crucial Stage in the Struggle for Liberation of Southern Africa - Statement at the World Conference for Action against Apartheid by O. R. Tambo, Lagos, Nigeria, 23 August 1977
… life for each one of us can be full only if it is based on the acceptance of the principles and practice of … President, moved in part by the sense of…
ArticleCommunity histories in Port Elizabeth
… and Cape Town. This article will predominantly focus on the Xhosa communities in Port Elizabeth. However, the … the control of the Tshawe. Generally, the…
ArticleMaps of Africa through the centuries
… in many countries, collected maps, and became an authority on historical cartography. In 1570, he published the … the known world””the first real atlas. Each…
BiographyEbrahim Rasool
… Ebrahim Rasool was born on 15 July 1962 in District Six , Cape Town. At the age of … He remains chairperson of the ANC in the Western Cape. On 22 April…
BiographySheila Cussons
… of Natal (now University of kwaZulu-Natal ). She went on to study graphic art in Amsterdam. Cussons has stated that … stayed in hospital for two years. She…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… by a series of colonial wars which wrought havoc upon the lives and institutions of the African pastoralists. This … in every town, village and farm South…
ArticleWhen, why and where the first African farmers settled in Southern Africa
… crops for food or clothes. Human ancestors stopped relying on hunting and gathering for food and began farming about 10 … group, like trading extra food,…
BiographyYvonne Bryceland
… Yvonne Bryceland, née Heilbuth, was born in Cape Town on 18 November 1925. She worked as a newspaper librarian … The Road to Mecca , which marked her…
BiographySathima Bea Benjamin
… with so many of her contemporaries, Benjamin found herself on foreign shores where she felt she could fully explore her … York and her home in Cape Town,…
BiographyMohamed Hajee Joosub
… away in India in1900 after which Joosub married Hoomera on a visit to India in 1902. A few months after his return to … , who had just qualified as a lawyer…
BiographyRev George Wauchope
… the University of Fort Hare in the early 1970s, and went on to join the Black People’s Convention (BPC) . After BPC … Wauchope trained for the ministry in…
BiographyArthur David Bensusan
… for many years. Dr Bensusan was a world-renowned authority on the history of photography and the founder of the Bensusan … division of the Wits medical…
BiographyMary Maria Burton
… Mary Burton was born on 19 January 1940 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. One of three … for English speaking children. in 1958, Burton went on a skiing trip in…
BiographyJessie Yasmin Duarte
… Jessie Yasmin Duarte was born on 19 September 1953, one of nine children, in Newclare, … as a special assistant to Nelson Mandela (1990-94); was on the ANC…
BiographyIsmail Ahmed Cachalia
… the then Transvaal Province (now Gauteng) of South Africa on 5 December 1908. At the time Cachalia’s father, who was … secret meetings with Chief Albert…
Freedom In Our Life Time - Congress Youth League Activities
… of a set of conflicting living conditions and outlooks on life which seriously hamper South Africa's progress to … individuals in it are but tiny organisms…
ArticleThe Padavatan Six and the 1917 Natal Floods
… On 28 October 1917 more than 400 market gardeners from the … released from their five years period of indenture on the sugar cane fields of Natal). By 1917,…
ArticleThe African Union (AU)
… for the OAU to function at all it had to rely heavily on the political will of member states. The OAU’s limited … of institutions. The responsibility of…
Address by ANC Deputy President Cyril Ramaphosa at Freedom Charter Forum, 29 September 2015, Pietermaritzburg City Hall
… the Youth League and its alliance partners for embarking on a dialogue process aimed at achieving the unity of purpose … decent working conditions and to…
The Indian People In South Africa: Facts: About The Ghetto Act
… land. There, the City Council spends £ 7. 3. 4 per head on housing schemes for Europeans, only 17/6 for Indians. In … tyranny, or the oppression of…