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ArchiveCHAPTER 1 - Old Battle-Cries and Borrowed Language by Howard Barrell
… struggles provided foreign precedents. Domestically, the revolt against the local state in the hills and mountains of … to this in his writings, later…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… as well as the rapid development of industries on the Rand during World War I. Soon after the women, came children … pattern began to develop amongst the new…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Chapter 3 - The Socio-economic Impact of the Mineral Revolution on South African Society by Drusela Numvuzo Yekela
… Robinson, a mining speculator, to travel straight to the Rand where he bought Langlaagte Farm. Robinson headed the … to diamond mining, but it was through…
PlaceCape Town International Airport
Cape Town International Airport opened in 1954, replacing Wingfield Aerodrome, originally named D.F. Malan after the then, South African Prime Minister. With…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
… recorded for the month. 4 May, The first gold mine on the Rand re-opens, after all mines have been closed in October …
ArchiveCHAPTER 2 - You only win once by Howard Barrell
… ratio regum , carelessly and wantonly, when the right of revolt had merely been asserted and barely exercised. 203 The … in Horrell et al , Survey of Race…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… on a labour absorbing growth path by ensuring that every rand that the government spends, assists in job creation. If … spent efficiently, the eight hundred…
Chapter 5 - Basotho - Their Last Supper
… of concerned expaÂtriates and the ANC raised over 20,000 rand. Since the GovernÂment of Lesotho undertook the funeral … to get this 'tired leave" with a…
ArticleThe South African Communist Party and Mozambique
… the need to host speeches in March 1982 to commemorate the Rand Revolt. [25] The presence of the SACP in Mozambique was a …
Artist groups and educational facilities (1960-1980)
… In Phoko, Katlehong, Gauteng. This centre provided East Rand artists provided artists with the facilities and …
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1920s
… 1922 White miners embark on what has become known as The Rand Rebellion. The first significant action by women in the … embark on a strike and it becomes…
PlaceNamaqua Coastal Route
… remote, Town of Carnarvon. Built at a cost of 4.4 Billion rand, MeerKAT will be incorporated into the complex Square …
PlaceStone House, Parktown, Johannesburg
… the fir and cypress, and the rolling purple hills of the Rand. Baker's own house…springing like a jewel castle from …
Document 47 - “International Communist League Formed in South Africa”, International Bulletin of the International Communist League, New Series, 2, September 1934
… factory gate meetings at the laundries which employ on the Rand about a thousand native workers. As a result of these …
Statement by Oliver Tambo on the tenth anniversary of the Soweto uprising, 16 June 1986
… the slave master should hire slaves to save him from the revolt of the enslaved. But this strategy, like all its …
"The Count-Down has Started": Statement on the Tenth Anniversary of the Soweto Uprising by O. R. Tambo, 16 June 1986
… the slave master should hire slaves to save him from the revolt of the enslaved. But this strategy, like all its …
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… on the campaign trail, appearing in Alberton on the East Rand to rally voters to his party, while former leader Helen … Julius Malema, leader of the EFF,…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… developed new unions. As the industries grew on the Rand, so did the number of workers. These workers had to find … workers; a the same time it suited the…
Extract from a speech at the opening of the National Party Congress of the Orange Free State at Bloemfontein on 18 September 1973
… racial hatred to such a degree that it could lead to revolt and violence. Times are too grave for that; South … the years, and now we have come to the point…
Re-emergence of resistance, 1980-89
… in office. The youth were the driving force behind the revolt. They forced principals to work with the SRCs and …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - The glitter of gold by Emilia Potenza
… on the map. This curve is called the Witwatersrand, the Rand for short. As time passed, the tents disappeared and … Every week hundreds of people poured into…
BiographyAlbertina Nontsikelelo Sisulu
… accused sixteen. The key state witness (a lecturer at the Rand Afrikaans University) eventually conceded that he had …
Chief Albert Luthuli Memorial Lecture by President Jacob Zuma at Inkosi Albert Luthuli International Convention Centre, 24 November 2010, Durban
… Lehurutse, Zeerust in the North West province. The Peasant Revolt in Sekhukhune, now known as "Motshabo” in the present … townships of Langa and Nyanga in…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
… in order to keep workers cheap and pliable. At first the "Rand" became covered by small claims just like at Kimberley, … but other Europeans with access to…
ArticleThe turbulent 1950s - Women as defiant activists
… women also attended. The crowd, most of whom came from the Rand towns, was orderly and dignified throughout the … would come from all parts of the country,…
Our Souls dwelt in the House of Tomorrow: The student Committee of 81 by Nicky van Driel
… boycott. This became a precursor to a massive popular revolt in the province. The Committee of 81 led and …
ArchiveThe Final Prize - Contents and Preface
… The unintended consequence of the miners’ strike was the revolt of the relatively conservative councillors in the …
David Goldblatt, TJ, 1948-2010 - review by Claire Guillot, 25 January 2011
… Sisulu Square of Dedication. "They spent millions of rand to build a fascist monument where no one wants to go," …
ArticleLand Restitution in South Africa since 1994
… been settled for a record amount a little over a billion rand, the biggest land claim in the history of South Africa. …
ArticleCosatu timeline
… special national congress in Boksburg, a city on the East Rand of Gauteng Province, where the union took the decision …