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PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… been removed and is on display in the mining district in Main Street, in downtown Johannesburg. On view are two … to commemorate the official discovery of…
EventSan involvement in the Battle of Chrissiesmeer
… on the British forces under General Smith-Dorrien. Botha's main aim was to cripple the advance of Smith-Dorrien into the … on the slopes and were not able to…
ArticleA history of prison labour in South Africa
… soon changed in the post- Sharpeville period of the early 1960s, when the imprisonment of political detainees and …
ArticleThe Society of Young Africa (SOYA)
… overt political activity being suppressed throughout the 1960s, the NEUM also became dormant. Some of its influential …
ArticlePondoland revolt - 1950 - 1961
… place in the Eastern Transkei in the late 1950s and early 1960s. The Pondo people revolted against the Bantu …
EventThe Castle of Good Hope, oldest surviving colonial building in South Africa, is completed.
… of Good Hope for the Dutch East India Company (VOC). The main reason for building the castle was to provide protection … 26 April 1679, and the five bastions…
EventThe Azanian People's Liberation Army (APLA) disbands
… of the Pan African Congress (PAC). APLA was formed in the 1960s, after the banning of the PAC and other political …
Article1946 African Mineworkers Strike
… them into bloody strikes, violence and rebellion. Their main enemy was the Chamber of Mines, a body of men who owned … in the world, while their black…
PlaceDiep River
… with effortless gardens and homes. Closer to the Main Road and the Railway Line lies the Industrial area, give … than many other suburbs, and, it has Martins…
PlaceGouritsrivier, Near Mossel Bay
… the system are the Buffalo River from the West -with its main tributary the Touws River, together forming the Groot River, which joins the main stream 85 km…
PlaceAdderley Street, Cape Town
… The 'Herengracht Street' was Cape Town 's main street, running from the foreshore to the foot of … shops make for some interesting shopping - these are the…
State policies and social protest, 1924-1939
… elections held in the Union of South Africa in 1924. Their main opposition was the South African Party (SAP) , led by … freedom, including a prohibition on…
ArticleThe 1913 Mineworkers’ Strike
… Party turned a blind eye. Instead, one of the party’s main concerns was to avoid discord between English and … in destructive behaviour. A wooden ticket…
ArticleGangsterism in Sophiatown
… they considered to be their own territory. "Hy was die main ou of the outfit." Don Mattera was die main ou of the outfit, the bozza - the leader of the gang …
ArticleStudent protests in democratic South Africa
… students across the country are similar. However, the main demand has been more financial support from National …
Durban an Overview
… the port of Durban took over from Port Elizabeth as the main access point for trade goods destined for the southern …
The Court’s position in the justice system
… Coast Local Division and South-eastern Cape Division. The main task of the Constitutional Court Section 167(3) of the …
ArticleNelson Mandela Timeline 1800-1899
… British imperialism. 1878 9th Xhosa war ends and the two main Xhosa tribes are forced across the Kei River. 1884 …
ArticleThe Battle - Andries Pretorius and his men advance
… the Zulu warriors could not be seen through the smoke. The main shortcoming of the Voortrekkers weapons was the lengthy …
Submissions by the McGill University students 2014
… to read fantasy novels on my spare time, and play soccer. Main interest of study relate to the interactions of ethnic …
PlaceAi-Ais, Namibia
… offers an excellent place to relax after a long Hike. The main attraction at Ai-Ais is the Spa Complex. The thermal … outdoor Pool. Visitors at Ai-Ais can…
Polokwane the Segregated city
… in action. The anti-war camp was itself divided into two main tendencies: those who espoused neutrality, and those who … Herzog but the “Purified” National…
Document 59 - Letter from Ruth First to The Secretary, South African Institute of Race Relations’, 17 August 1944
… 128 Main Street, … Transvaal Agricultural Union in Pretoria on August 17. The main points contained in the proposals as reported in the …
PlaceWarden, Thabo Mofutsanyana Municipality
… is dedicated to fields of vegetables! The one-Restaurant main Road of Warden is seldom overly busy other than over … restored in anticipation of the Town's…
Funeral arrangements afoot for Mama Dideka Mhlaba, 20 January 2010
… and went to school in Grahamstown. She met Oom Ray in the 1960s. The two made history when they exchanged wedding vows …
Call for Papers ‘Rethinking “Apartheid’s Golden Age”: South Africa, c1966-1979’, Colloquium to be held at the University of Pretoria, 20 June 2016
… as the neat political groupings of the 1950s and early 1960s revived from the 1980s onwards. The colloquium seeks to …
EventSeretse Khama is asked to renounce chieftaincy
… citizens. They returned home in that same year. In the 1960s Seretse Khama became leader of the Bechuanaland …
SACTU press release in ‘New Age’, 22 November 1962
… repression, to develop an external mission. By the mid-1960s the political and labour movements had been …
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… from the crushing of mass political dissent in the early 1960s to the re-emergence of mass popular action during the … to the needs of the capitalist economy…
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… find proof of their theories. Both also had problems with chronology because they didn't have any scientific way to …