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Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
From the book: Women and Gender in Southern Africa to 1945 edited by Cherryl Walker To Protector of Indian Immigrants, 27th June 1916. Dear Sir, …
PlaceDullstroom, Mpumalanga in the Emalaheni Municipality District
Dullstroom dates back to the 1880’s and was name after its Dutch founder, Wolterus Dull, and the many Rivers found in the Area, hence the suffix- ‘stroom’,…
Biography of Hugh Masekela by Fardin Rahman
Hugh Masekela is recognized as one of the most famous and influential musicians of all time from South Africa due to his role in spreading awareness about his…
ArticleSouth Africa’s 2019 General Election - Post Analysis
… of its very small support base. It got 12,823 votes (0.07%), less than the 20,421 votes it received in 2014. The … Shameen Thakur-Rajbansi, got just 11,961…
EventThe new ochre-red, white and green tri-colour of the Transkei is adopted
… 10 homelands including an area known as the Transkei in 1963. This was followed by 'full independance' in 1976. Section 4 of the Transkei Constitution Act of…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… Ali. The children's home enjoyed 26 years of stability. In 1963 Westville was declared for White ownership and … registered with the Registrar of Deeds for…
ArticleFanakalo: the language of mining culture
Introduction Fanakalo is a bridging language of communication in multilingual and multinational settings on South African mines [writers spell this pidgin…
From Amsterdam with euphoria
A Report of the CASA Conference and Festival We want the world to know We have come a long way now We are not like spotless white shirts We are khaki…
ArchiveWe salute our leaders
… of eight men sentenced to life imprisonment, Rivonia 1963. Photograph of people protesting carrying an ANC flag. …
ArticleDrafting of the Final Constitution
Introduction The transition from the Apartheid era to the new democratic dispensation was a powerful and fundamental process for South Africans. With many…
ArticleArt South Africa Today exhibitions
… In May 1963, the Cape Times announced the launch of ‘a national art … seven Art SA Today exhibitions took place biennially, from 1963 to 1975. The…
ArticleSouth African Congress of Trade Unions (SACTU)
… with other international trade unions. Between 1955 and 1963, SACTU headquarters in Johannesburg opened … General Secretary, Phyllis Altman between 1956 and…
ArticleAfrican Peoples Democratic Union of Southern Africa (APDUSA)
… and imprisonment of some of its leaders between 1961 and 1963. As part of a nationwide clampdown on the resistance … involving members of a breakaway group…
ArchiveDependants Conference Anniversary
… rows of white barbed wire across it. 25th Anniversary 1963 to 1988. Dependants Conference of the SACC. …
ArchiveMinutes of the Black Sash Annual National Conference held in Johannesburg
… Conference held in Johannesburg from 22 to 24 October 1963, discussing: Minutes of previous conference, S.A.B.C., …
ArticleSophiatown Timeline
… Sophiatown. The army moves 150 families on the first day. 1963 60 000 Africans are evicted from the Western Areas. 465 …
EventFinal evacuation of Sophiatown by black residents
… Forced removals from Sophiatown had started in 1955 and by 1963 the demolition of the existing houses started. The area …
ArchiveThe Crime is apartheid, the penalty is isolation: Paper presented at the Black Sash National Conference in Johannesburg
… Sash National Conference in Johannesburg on 22 October 1963, discussing: Apartheid, South West Africa, African …
ArchiveNon-Violence News, Fourth Quarter 1994: The South African Fellowship of Reconciliation.
… at Wilgespruit Fellowship Centre on 14th and 15th December 1963, the conference about the struggle to survive.Inclusive …
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Brothers/Sisters
… to commemorate the Sharpeville massacre of the 21st March 1963 when 69 Blacks were shot dead and 200 were wounded. …
ArticleIndian Passive Resistance in South Africa: 1946 - 1948
1946 Passive Resistance Campaign Introduction ↵ An acute labour shortage forced White settlers in Natal to plead to the Indian Government to send its…
ArchiveImperialist conspiracy in Africa
… in South Africa, covering eleven years of his exile from 1963 to 1974, in keeping the flow of the historical struggle …
Article1946 Indian Passive Resistance Timeline
1859After protracted negotiations between the Natal Government and the British Secretary of State for the Colonies, the Natal Coolie Law, Law 14 of 1859 is…
ArchiveSeparate development: the challenge of the Transkei
… The Transkei became a semi-autonomous territory in Decmber 1963 and separate territorial development began to take …
BiographyPeter Henry Abrahams
… of the newly emerging under-developed world.”(Abrahams, 1963) In Jamaica, Abrahams believed he had discovered a near … Tell Freedom. New York: Alfred A…
EventNeil Aggett dies in detention
… He is the first White person to die in detention since 1963. At the time of his untimely death, he was 28 years old. …
Chapter 5 - The Indian Tobacco Workers Strike of 1920: A Socio-Historical Investigation by Evangelos A. Mantzaris
… 1949, Part 1 H. A. Turner The Trends of Strikes, (Leeds, 1963). S. M. Lipset "Political Sociology", in R. K. Merton …
EventColdest day in Pretoria
… Coldest day in Pretoria in recent history was on 12 June 1963. The temperatures plummeted to a minimum of -3, 6 and a …
The flight of the Gwala-Gwala bird: Essays by Ari Sitas, review essay by Linda Cooper
“They have taught us through their orations the undesirability of a social system based on capitalism, that is inqubo yogimhelakwesabo, that is stuffing one’s…
EventWalter Sisulu’s appeal is dismissed
… at Liliesleaf farm, Rivonia, under Section 17 Act 37/1963 and charged with sabotage and attempt to overthrow the …