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Economic Transformation for a National Democratic Society by ANC, 20 December 2007, 52nd National Conference, Polokwane
… Africa has been historically dependent on mineral and mining sectors of the economy, the products of which are … for the infrastructure development programme…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… many settlers to Peru. Most settlers were involved in mining the vast amounts of silver and gold that existed in …
Political Overview by the Gauteng ANC Chairperson, Paul Mashatile, at the Provincial General Council, 8 June 2012, St George`s Hotel, Tshwane
… towards the transformation of key sectors of the economy; mining, energy, manufacturing, Information and Communication …
ArchiveChapter 3 University by Denis Goldberg
… interests like the copper mines owned by the US Newmont Mining Corporation at Tsumeb in the north of Namibia. This …
PlaceNamibia
… of quartz and other minerals in Namibia’s rich mining heritage. The cluster is not just a marvel of size; it …
Document 47. Minutes of the Annual Conference of the ANC, December 15-19, 1949
… of undue pressure on Africans to take up farm labour and mining. (j) The reduction of old age pensions, invalidity …
The melody of freedom
… slums and shanty towns, built particularly around the mining compounds, had become so widespread and African …
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
William Morris, one of England's foremost Socialists, poet and artist 1834-96, also had two daughters, but only one of them-May -took a keen interest in his…
PlaceCape Town City Hall, Darling Street
The mayor of Cape Town, Thomas Ball, laid the cornerstone of the City Hall on 29 August 1900, but the Hall was only opened in 1905. It was designed by…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
ArchiveThe Legacy Of The Jazz Epistles, South Africa's Short-Lived But Historic Group by Simon Rentner, 27 April 2017
Hugh Masekela was an up-and-coming trumpeter, all of 20, when he took an overnight train from Johannesburg to Cape Town to meet a pianist everyone was talking…
Archive'Winnie hired me to kill Dr Asvat' (Mail & Guardian), 05 September 1997
A sensational prison interview with M&G reporters uncovers new evidence linking Madikizela-Mandela to the murder of Dr Abu Baker Asvat. One of the two men…
”South Africa - Time of Challenge” - Report to the Plenary Session of the Central Committee of the South African Communist Party, October 1973
… five times as much. The same pattern shows itself in the mining industry and repeats itself in almost every sphere of … and Provincial Administration,…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 2000 -2010
… big scandal related to the family is an effort to hijack a mining licence for Sishen mine. This network grows and …
65th Anniversary of the South Africa Communist Party - Joe Slovo
… and against the giant monopoly complexes which dominate mining, banking and industry. As things stand we have the …
Address at the Opening of Parliament, National Assembly, Cape Town, 25 June 1999
… with the issue of gold sales and their impact on gold mining, employment and export earnings, both in our own …
Document 75 - A. Mon (M. N. Averbach), “The Historical basis for the Programme of the Fourth International Organisation of South Africa”, Workers’ 1944
… and skilled, constitute a fair proportion of the urban, mining, and industrial and transport working class, and …
Archive1999 - President Mbeki - State of the Nation Address, 25 June 1999 (After National Elections)
… with the issue of gold sales and their impact on gold mining, employment and export earnings, both in our own …
Address on the Occasion of the Budget Vote of the Presidency, 18 June 2002
… 20%. We have also seen leading South African, financial, mining, telecommunication and other companies establishing …
Book 6: Negotiation, Transition and Freedom - Chapter 3 - The South African Constitution: Birth Certificate of a Nation by Hassen Ebrahim
… claimed the natural resources and land owned by a diamond-mining company, Alexkor Ltd. The government was the sole …
Book 5: People, Places and Apartheid - Chapter 1 - People, Politics and Ideology by Malegapuru William Makgoba
… and bus boycotts, protests around increased rentals, mining strikes, incidents of sabotage against state assets, …
ArticleDecember 16 and the Construction of Afrikaner Nationalism
The date, December 16, holds a special significance in South African history. On this day in 1838, the Voortrekkers fought a battle for survival against…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… alliance reflected a new, fragile alliance between mining capitalists, Afrikaner agricultural and industrial … income surpassed agriculture in 1930 and…
Inside Robben Island (Part 1) by Thami Mkhwanazi, 14 August 1987
MY YEARS ON THE ISLAND Part One: The University behind locked doors April 1980. The Susan Kruger, a tiny Prisons Service boat, ploughed the Atlantic in the…
Nelson Mandela and the last Afrikaner leaders by Hermann Giliomee (Politics Web), 12 May 2015
… fiscal crisis Derek Keys, the Managing Director of General Mining who went on to serve as the last NP Minister of …
Damon – The Malabar Slave (Historic Alleys)
Read this characterization of a Slave from Malabar (Walks & Sketches – Robert Semple) – He is in all respects the best of the household slaves. Without the…
Document 76 - The Speakers’ Notes - A Brief Course on the Training of Organisers [Document found by the police during the Rivonia raid of 11 July 1963]
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 76 - The Speakers' Notes - A Brief Course on…
PlaceWestern Sahara
… any country that could firmly establish possession of it. Mining of the deposits at Bu Craa began in 1972. Faced with …
ArticleGrade 5 - Term 1: Hunter-gatherers and herders in Southern Africa
Who are the hunter gatherers of Southern Africa? You may be under the impression that there are no more hunter gatherers living today. But there are! All over…
2002 ANC National Policy Conference: Statement of the President of the ANC, Thabo Mbeki, Kempton Park, 27 September 2002
… the positive side, among others, the negotiations about a Mining Charter are proceeding well and hopefully will be …