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ArticleLiberation history Timeline 1940-1949
… any trade union confederation. The Act also excludes the mining industry from its terms. The ANC is represented at an …
PlaceThulamela, an Archaeological Site
At sites such as Thulamela, in the North of the Kruger National Park. Here traces of ancient traders are still being found which proves Man to have been here…
ArticleVlakplaas and the History of Apartheid's Death Squad
Vlakplaas is the name of an undercover counterinsurgency division of the apartheid police that operated in the 1980s. Vlakplaas is also referred to as C, C1…
PlaceKaroo Hoogland Municipality in the Karoo Region, Northern Cape
… or driven out by modern development . Along with ongoing mining, major investments in astronomy (notably the Square … sources of energy (solar, wind,…
A Biography of Ernest Cole by Anna Hutchinson
… Some of his most powerful photos were taken inside the mining towns. Cole has several photos taken from within …
Interview with Archibald Gumede 5 August 1991
… agriculture, participation in industry, participation in mining industry and therefore acquiring skills. They may not …
Eye of the Needle - Chapter 3 - South Africa: Culture and Conflict
… unskilled workers. Now two new kinds of worker appeared. Mining and industry attracted new European immigrants, mostly …
The Construction of Whiteness/Blackness And The Invention of Miscegenation In South African Literary Texts of the 1920s and 1930 by Itala Vivan
In an exploration of the attitudes taken by different cultures in different historical periods with regard to the cultural phenomenon of hybridity, I came…
PlaceKnysna Forest
… rush. However, the gold deposits were insufficient and the mining industry collapsed, leaving Knysna to develop around …
PlacePrimville, Soweto- Johannesburg
… of Urban Areas in the hope of reversing Urbanization. The Mining Houses came to the rescue and in 1966 they organised a …
ArchiveAfrican Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960, by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… were taken against the permit system. In June 1952, in the mining town of Odendaalrus, residents of the location were … utter turmoil. In close proximity to…
Now You Have Touched the Women - African Women`s Resistance to the Pass Laws in South Africa 1950-1960 by Elizabeth S. Schmidt
… were taken against the permit system. In June 1952, in the mining town of Odendaalrus, residents of the location were … utter turmoil. In close proximity to…
Chapter 2 - No equality under the Union Jack, 1900 - 1910
… not only the British and Natal governments, but also the mining houses at the Rand. Gumede’s message to the mining sector was clear - they should guarantee…
Article“Bantu Education or the Street” by Norman Levy
… The long-standing entry of Africans into wage labour in mining, manufacturing and farming was not seen to contradict … the majority of the people “to the…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
The term “poor whites” was coined during the 19th century, as the mineral revolution and development of mines forced smaller farmers off their land.[1] This…
ArticleSouth Africa and the Olympic Games
… Africa was established. The first president was the mining magnate Henry Nourse. In his youth Nourse was a …
Memorial lecture on the 26th Anniversary of the Lowveld Massacre presented by Comrade Jackson Mthembu ANC National Spokesperson, 15 March 2012
… in South Africa would ensure political stability for mining capital. In the White Union of South Africa there was …
The Military Defeat of the South Africans in Angola by Horace Campbell (Monthly Review), Africa, Angola
… communications, air traffic, rails, harbors, agriculture, mining equipment—in effect, ensuring that the region remain …
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - ‘Locations’ For Labour
… — to foot the bill for black housing. This was because the mining companies were powerful enough to evade paying …
Verwoerd's Grim Plot by Nelson Mandela
… privileges of the White minority, especially the farming, mining and financial circles. Even if it were not so, …
Document 30 - W. M. Tsotsi, “Presidential Address to the All-African Convention Conference”, Edendale, 14 to 16 December 1958
… urbanisation of the Africans in the industrial and mining areas the so-called European areas - even though the …
Address by the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, on the Occasion of the 26th Singapore Lecture, “Africa’s Season of Hope: The Dawn of a new Africa-Asia Partnership”, at Shangri-La Hotel, Singapore, 21 April 2005.
… well as engaging in other aspects of value-addition in the mining industry. This is important if we are to move our …
Book 1: Ancient Civilizations and Global Trade - Chapter 4 - Some Reflections on Early African and South African History by Sekibakiba Peter Lekgoathi
… colonial administrators and generals, missionaries and mining bosses. Africans hardly featured in these stories …
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… Africa have several thousand factories, mills and a big mining industry. Here, just as on the farms, they need Native … the Natives to do skilled and semi…
PlaceTouring the Northern Cape
… This route combines Atlantic Ocean views, historic diamond mining towns and vast desert plains. It’s ideal for …
PlaceNewcastle
Deeply involved in the Anglo-Boer War, Newcastle today is the largest town in northern KwaZulu Natal and shares its name with a further 27 sister Newcastle's…
Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality - CAS in partnership with Dept. of Sociology and Dept. of Anthropology Panel Discussion
Abstract: This conversation marks the launch of Race and Caste: Hierarchy and Universality, a special issue of Critical Times that examines the intertwined…
ArchiveThabo Mbeki, Jacob Zuma, Cyril Ramaphosa: The people who killed Eskom over 25 years by Ferreira, Harper and Saba (Mail and Guardain), 20 January 2023
… 25 years ago as the economy and, in particular, the mining and industrial sectors creaked back into life after …
PlaceHeilbron, Free State
… - but it was the heart of the maize growing area. Coal mining took place at nearby Viljoen’s Drift and the …
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
Gender roles in Ndebele home-making From the 1940s onwards the settlement at Hartbeesfontein began to be visited increasingly by researchers, including Barrie…