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ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 in with the assistance of the General Factory Workers Benefit Fund (GFWBF). It was…
Online directory - archives and media sources
National Archives The government archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
National Symbols since 1994 In South Africa, we have a perse number of people and cultures, but we are all South African. National symbols such as a national…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
A multitude of African poetics has populated the constantly shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It organised in the passenger transport, goods transport, stevedores, motor ferry,…
ArticleHarriet and the Bolton Hall Four
The “Bolton Hall Four” David Davis, David Hemson, Jeannette Cunningham-Brown and Halton Cheadle were banned for five years under the Suppression of Communism…
ArticleSouth African National Symbols and Heritage
This feature highlights aspects of South African Heritage and symbols of South Africa. A person's heritage is made up of the practices, and traditions…
Further reading and Links pertaining to History of Slavery and early colonisation in SA
Angry White workers, on strike since 28 December, storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines at the Rand
Angry White workers, on strike since 28 December, storm and occupy police stations, railway installations and mines at the Rand
Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, (d. 1 March 1979) SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Hand
Dr M.S. (Tinie) Louw, (d. 1 March 1979) SA businessman and entrepreneur who was co-founder and president of the Afrikaanse Hand
ArticleAfricanist News and Views (1968-1973)
Africanist News and Views, published by the Pan Africanist Congress (PAC) of Azania (South Africa), expressed the Pan-Africanist viewpoint in the struggle for…
PlaceRiverside Mosque and Mausoleum, Umgeni, Durban
… Saheb arrived in Durban in 1895 he bought a piece of land on the Northern banks of the Umgeni River in Riverside, … and Destitutes. A portion of the…
BiographyBessie Amelia Head
… both practically, in knowing how to farm drought-prone land, and in providing material for her first novel, When … of her mental health, as she experienced…
References and links: Learning from Leaders
Books Berens, P., J. Gurney & Rob Siebörger. (1996). Making History Standard 2. Johannesburg: Heinemann. Machado, A. M. (1994). Exploration into Latin…
ArticleKey sites in and around Soweto
Amphitheatre Stadium Area of Masakeng* Area of Mochanaeng* Arthur Ashe Bara Hospital* Beerhalls Blue Fountain Diepkloof Convent* Diepkloof…
Africa and Freedom, 1961
… To remain neutral in a situation where the laws of the land virtually criticised God for having created men of … from north to south of the continent are…
Documentary Photography and Awakening the International Community, 1976-1994
… camp in Peddie, the story of market gardeners on shrinking land plots around Durban, the story of pensioners who wait …
BiographyTodd Tozama Matshikiza
… a creative musical environment. He also missed his native land. He left broadcasting to become music archivist for the …
BiographyZanele Muholi
… a spectacle for Europeans, and she died in a foreign land. She was never given a chance to speak for herself. It …
BiographyMaggie Bopalamo
… One other development is worth mentioning: some of the land bought by her grandparents has been restored to her …
BiographyMoses Mabhida
… 1923, into a poor family which was later forced off the land. Mabhida could not pursue his studies because of the …
BiographyNokukhanya Luthuli
… often took him away from home. [16] Thus, working the land became her only means of generating additional income. … farmer in her community, working several…
BiographyWalter Kefuoe Fikeleph Chakela
Walter Kefuoe Fikelephi Chakela was a revered playwright and poet born on 13 April 1953 in Vryburg, a small, conservative Afrikaner town in Transvaal (now…
BiographyIsmail Mahomed
… publication Group Areas and Their Development: including land tenure and occupation, which Ismail co-authored with …
BiographyMlungiseleli Velaphi
Mlungiseleli Velaphi (MK name Mzimkulu Goduka) was born in Mdantsane, Eastern Cape in 1967 was a United Democratic Front (UDF) member. He left South Africa in…
BiographyStephanus Johannes Paulus Kruger
… a Transvaal protectorate, and had to withdraw. Later this land became the British protectorate of Bechuanaland. In …
EventDr. Dadoo and Naicker lead Passive Resisters
… women, pitched five tents on a piece of vacant municipal land in defiance of the Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Act, the so-called …
BiographyDavid Dabede Mabuza
… Transport, from 2007 to 2008, and MEC for Agriculture and Land Administration from 2008 to 2009. He was Chairperson of …