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Slavery and Emancipation of Slaves
… to ensure a constant supply of fresh fruits, vegetables and meat for VOC ships. When the company allocated land to company employees in 1652 and 1657 with…
References and links: Local History
… - Teachers transform history: a text for teachers and student teachers Heydenrych, H. & Swiegers, A., (1999), … V. & Meiring, H., (2007), Kruger's Pretoria…
BiographyMoses Ndlovu
… from the farm. The Ndlovu family relocated to KwaMpande and later to KwaShange, west of Pietermaritzburg. There … He dropped out of school as his father had…
BiographySidney Percival Bunting
… London, the son of Sir Percy William Bunting, the founder and editor of the Contemporary Review . His mother was a social worker serving the poor in London…
BiographyRoy Padayachie
… 1950. He attended Tagore High School in Clairwood, Durban and then went to study for a B.Sc. degree at the University … as a microbiologist at Reckitt &…
BiographyHenry Gordon ‘Squire’ Makgothi
… on 25 December 1928 to Walter Mokowa, a school teacher and Martha Makgothi, a domestic worker,died when he was five. He attended Pimville Government School…
ArticleNational Newspapers and News Sites
… National Newspapers and News Sites: Independent Online - Union of several South … Namibia. Business Day - Daily Newspaper. Detailed business and financial…
BiographyFeziwe Bookholane
… given different food from them, her meals were leftovers and she was expected to read books on her own, because she … black nun. She wrote to the Bishop to…
BiographyRuth First
… Journalist, academic and political activist, Ruth Heloise First was born on 4 May … particularly those who worked on the South African gold mines. The…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - Protest and Resistence
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic … the pass system made the life of every African…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… From the book: Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 by Luli Callinicos Topic … South Africa’s factories producing more wealth…
BiographyJoyce Piliso-Seroke
… Kilnerton High School in Pretoria . She holds a BA degree and a diploma in Communication. Upon completion she went to the University of Fort Hare and worked…
ArticleThe fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa
… WW2 had on the nature of the fight against colonialism and imperialism in Africa we need to look at the climate just … These changes included taking land…
BiographyAlfred Assegai (Mkhonto) Kumalo
… parents to play with the local boys, Kumalo secretly did and so came into contact with traditional Zulu song, dance and dress. Kumalo received his first…
Article1960 - 1994: Armed Struggle and Popular Resistance
… into the country increased. With greater resources and sophistication, MK cadres stepped up their attacks, … in front of the South African Air Force…
BiographySolwandle Looksmart Khulile Ngudle
… Ngudle worked as a malaisha, a loader who shoveled gold bearing rock onto cocopans, at the Crown Mines goldmine … They married in the local Bantu…
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Urban Training Program 1985
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Unaffiliated Unions 1987 - 1991
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Unaffiliated Unions 1985 - 1986
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Unaffiliated Unions 1982 - 1984
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Unaffiliated Unions 1975 - 1981
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations SACTU-FOFATSU 1975 - 1987
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations IIE and IAS 1978 - 1981
… IR Workers Organisations IIE and IAS 1978 - 1981 … IR Workers Organisations IIE and IAS 1978 - 1981 …
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations Confed Of Labour 1979 - 1989
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1985 - 1993
ArchiveIR Workers Organisations African Unions 1975 - 1979
BiographyAndrew Mokete Mlangeni
… he was active in the strike for better working conditions and a living wage. In 1951 he joined the African National Congress Youth League (ANCYL) and later…
BiographyPieter Willem Botha
… son of Pieter Willem senior (a widower with four children) and Hendrina Prinsloo/de Wet (a widow with five children). … He found himself handicapped by…
BiographyMagwaza Alfred Maphalala
… He was an only son. Maphalala completed his schooling and matriculated in Bergville. He then moved to Durban to … for various trade unions in Natal including…
BiographyElijah Nkwenkwe Loza
… in the 1940s, working at the Groote Schuur Hospital and later at a bakery where he became an organizer foir the African Food and Canning Workers' Union.He…