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… Drought, water and politics in southern Africa …

… Islands of independence in the slave south …

… Indian people in Natal by Hilda Kuper …

… A Brief History Of European Colonization in Africa …

… national unity, continued freedom and prosperity. Just as in any other nation, it is of critical importance to … A Dialogue in Partnership with Kaya FM - MyConstitution Exhibition …

… Michael Nkolo Maapola was born in 1949 in Hammanskraal , a township north of Pretoria, Transvaal … collections of foreigners like Johnston who purchased many black artists’ work. A few years after the end of apartheid, … Africa, the Return of the Repressed: Art by Apartheid-Era Black Artists Comes Home ’, New York Times 8 May. Available …

… Dr Alexander (Alex) Lionel Boraine was born in 1931 in Cape Town, Western Province. In 1950, at the age of … Consultant for Anglo American, focusing on training Black workers and improving their work conditions. In 1974, … https://www.news24.com/SouthAfrica/News/alex-boraine-dies-in-his-sleep-at-87-20181205 . Accessed on 22 December 2018 …

… On this day in history, 4 of Winnie Mandela's (now Madikizela-Mandela) … Club) were arrested at her home. The 4 were arrested in connection with the death of Stompie Mokhetsi Seipei, … 1989, at Tumahole Township in the Orange Free State, the Black community acknowledged his role in organising …

… Ray (or Taube, her Yiddish name) Harmel was born in Lithuania in 1905.  Strongly influenced by some of her six … - separate lifts, separate washrooms, and so forth, for black and white garment workers.  Sachs believed it was the … In the early 1960s, hers was the first dress shop in which black women could try on garments before purchasing them.  At …

… Professor Ntongela Masilela was born on 9 December 1948 in Orlando West, Soweto, Transvaal Province (now Gauteng), … articles and newspaper clippings highlighting the works of Black South African scholars and writers. This is reflected … articles he authored throughout his career. These include Black Modernity: 20th Century Discourses between the United …

… John (Jack) Curtis was born on 31 August 1912 in Geelong, Australia, the third of nine children. He left … in a rural and mining constituency that was opposed to black people having the vote. He lost his deposit. Curtis was … which he often said unnecessarily killed far too many black miners at calculated attrition rates. The following …

… Wolfie Kodesh was born in Benoni on 18 October 1918. His paternal grandparents … conditions for soldiers deteriorated particularly for black soldiers and Kodesh took up their cause and demanded … with Ruth First to expose the appalling condition of black workers in the potato farms in the Eastern Transvaal …

… Leopold ‘Leo’ Marquard was born on 15 June 1897 in Winburg in the Orange Free State. His father was Reverend J. J. T. … he wrote a book on South African politics entitled ‘ The Black Man's Burden ’ under the pseudonym of John Burger which …

… Lindiwe Mazibuko was born on 9 April 1980 in Swaziland . At the age of six she moved to KwaZulu-Natal … was a banker and her mother a nurse. Mazibuko grew up in Durban and matriculated at St Mary’s DSG in Kloof in 1997. … in the National Assembly, making her the youngest Black woman leader in the history of the DA’s parliamentary …

… and Susara Catharina Elizabeth Horak on 29 December 1918 in Johannesburg. His father was a businessman and farmer who also owned a butchery in Parys. Schooled in Zeerust, he showed leadership qualities … of Labour, Marais Viljoen to convince him to recognise Black trade unions. Erasmus was also passionate about sport; …

… offshore after Vasco de Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope in 1498. Some of the best known wrecks include the SÁ¢o JoÁ¢o … During the apartheid era, it was a common myth that Black farmers met White settlers at the Fish River in the … interaction with Khoe pastoralists. Both Nguni and earlier Black farmers were not particularly interested in the country …

… The biographical essays are selected from students in a South African history survey course that sought to put … through pen and paper   Jonathan Ansumana Project: The Black Consciousness Movement and Steve Biko   Laura Wilson Project: …

… Party (NP) Government was rejected by opposition parties in 1979, leading to the appointment of the Steyn Commission. … the NP Government's policies had been banned along with 19 Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) formations. This left a vacuum … (2000) The UDF: A history of the United Democratic Front in South Africa, 1983 - 1991 (Cape Town) p. 84 …

… Professor Hoosen Mahomed "Jerry" Coovadia was born in Durban, Natal (now KwaZulu-Natal - KZN) on 2 August 1940. … in the extreme - they had separate buildings for White and Black students.  The medical school for Black Students was situated at an army barracks next to the …

… Lucy Mary Wiles (Mullins) was born in Johannesburg, 1920. Wiles originally trained as a nurse. … art work were signed as Lucy Wiles until her marriage in 1953. Lucy’s work was on Xhosa people in theTranskei. She … with patrons, the genre was also taken up by such notable black artists as Gerard Bhengu (qv.) and George Pemba (qv.). …

… How does a person place himself in the current South African discourse when he is young, … of their work. “I don’t talk in those terms of white and black. I’m interested in photography. I’m interested in … I couldn’t give a fuck whether you are pink, brown, black or white. If there are generic ways of looking that are …

… SA Air Force operation, 20 May 1983, Unsettling whites …

… Dumisani Abraham Mabaso was born on 20 June 1955 in Soweto. He received his initial basic art training at the YWCA (Young Women’s Christian Association) in Dube in Soweto. In 1970 to 1974 he studied art further at … headed the Fine Art department at the Federated Union of Black Artists (FUBA) in Newtown, Johannesburg, and continued …

… approximately half of the entire African workers employed in Durban, had come out on strike. South Africa’s Apartheid … the beginning of a turning point in the long struggle of Black, Coloured and Indian workers to build non racial trade … organisations. The third tradition developed from Black Consciousness and Africanist movements. This category …

… Gavin Jantjes was born in Cape Town in 1948. He studied at the University of Cape Town's … closed .” Other pictures allude to the exploitation of the black population – “Colour this Labour Dirt Cheap”, “Colour …

… Alex Hepple was born in the Johannesburg suburb of La Rochelle on 28 August 1904. … Society of Engineers and was blacklisted for his part in the 1913 strike. Thomas and his wife, Agnes (nee Borland) … he waged on behalf of South Africa's workers, white and black' (Rand Daily Mail, 15 March 1958) an as 'the militant …

… bore the brunt of the effect of the increase in basic Indian foods such as rice, dhall ghee, etc. The cost … more than doubled, while that of dhall and ghee tripled in price. Unemployment among the Indian laboring classes rose … during the war. This combined with the massive increase in basic foodstuffs led to a rapid growth in Indian trade …

… While he was being detained in jail in Port Elizabeth, Barney Pityana read in a newspaper … recalls the shock and grief he felt that day, and how the Black Consciousness Movement leader helped to shape a generation …

… From the book:  Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker Between … young girls and mental. The process whereby criminalised black and white girls were constituted as both abnormal and … for official anxiety about the relative lack of colour consciousness amongst the girls themselves. Although there is …

… opening the Annual Conference of the Party, held this year in Johannesburg on January 15th, 16th and 17th. He added a … ownership of the means of production. Each delegate is, in some degree, a personality. There is Indian trade union … Council Committee and one of the Communist candidates in the 1943 general election; Bertie Louw, Coloured secretary …