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A Matter of ‘Principle’: Corporate America and the South African Worker in the Early 1970s by Mattie C. Webb
… the anti-apartheid movement’s divestment campaign and turned world opinion against apartheid in South Africa, … paper views South Africa workers as…
BiographyEpainette Nomaka Mbeki
… schooling for their children. Piny, as her friends and family called her, had moved from the nearby boarding school at Mariazell to Lovedale and then to…
BiographyDenis Mayer
… was the Recruitment Manager for the Chamber of Mines, and had come to South Africa from England in the 1890s to seek his fortune on the diamond and gold…
BiographyRebecca Malope
… age she was confined to a wheelchair after an illness and for a time, doctors believed that she would not walk again. Her family was very poor and in 1986…
The Changing Nature of the African Working Class: Migrant Workers, Identity and Struggles by Sithembiso Bhengu
… half of the 20th century, with the growth of industrial and manufacturing factories in South Africa, characterised by the massive movement of men, women, and…
BiographyMary Malete
… of the Federation of Unions of South Africa (FEDUSA) and the first president of the South African Confederation of … including the Commission for…
BiographyMargaret Mary Smith
… she became head girl. She excelled in academics, sports and music. In 1933 she won eight medals at the Wodehouse … These medals were for singing, playing…
ArticleThe Conflict between the AZAPO and the UDF - popular violence in the 1980s and 1990s
… Popular violence in the decade between 1984 and 1993 is well documented. Existing literature on this … on the conflict between the United Democratic Front …
ArticleEarly hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa
… Before we look at the Hominid discoveries in South Africa and East Africa we need a basic understanding of the concept of evolution and its theories, as well…
ArticleAfrican nationalism and working-class & popular protests, 1910-1924
… Native National Congress (later ANC) formed in 1912, and the other made up of more radical Boers who split away … Act of Union denied them voting-rights in…
ArticleRace and ethnicity in South Africa
… Race and ethnicity have been and still is at the heart of South African history, politics, society and economy since the European colonisation. South Africa …
ArticlePeople and Culture of South Africa
… South Africa has early human fossils at Sterkfontein and other sites. The first modern inhabitants of the country were the hunter-gatherer San (‘bushman’)…
ArticleChieftaincy and Kingship in South Africa
… on principles that are antithetical to democratic ideas and values. For example, a chief is not elected into office by popular vote, but through lineage, and…
ArticlePseudo-scientific racism and Social Darwinism
… in biology, which explains how life on earth began and developed. The scientific evidence overwhelmingly … correct, but incomplete. On the basis of newer…
ArticleSouth Africa’s Academic and Cultural Boycott
… In 1948 with the election of the National Party and the enforcement of an Apartheid State, it took time for the world to take notice and action. That said,…
Political revolution between 1820 and 1835
… which translates to “forced removal) was a series of Nguni and other Zulu wars and forced migrations from the 1820s. The Mfecane is characterised as a…
ArticleBlack Consciousness: Cultural Expression and Representation
… medium for the liberation struggle in 1967, poetry and literary expression had been popularized throughout the 1950s and earlier 1960s. The end of the…
ArticleWomen and the struggle against Apartheid
… Mandela , Walter Sisulu , Oliver Tambo , Albert Luthuli and other prominent men. It is not often that people remember … in South Africa during apartheid -…
ArticleNobel Prizes and South African Laureates
… can be bestowed on a person. It brings global recognition and attention to a winner's work, and will help to generate funds to ensure the continuation of…
ArticleIndustrial and Commercial Workers Union (ICU)
… improve the lives of black South Africans. Short of funds and poorly organised, it was overshadowed by the more dynamic Industrial and Commercial Workers…
ArticleYouth and the National Liberation Struggle
… in numerous political campaigns in response to measures and laws affecting Black people. In the 1920s, the Communist … formations established at the close of…
Formation and launch of the UDF
… set in motion. These plans culminated in the formation and launch of the United Democratic Front (UDF) on 20 August … did not attend the UDF launch, Inkatha,…
ArticleBiko’s imprisonment, death and the aftermath
… In the wake of the urban revolt of 1976 and with prospects of a national revolution becoming … student leader, on 18 August 1977. He was thirty years old and…
ArticleArts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN)
… The Arts and Cultural Development Network (ACDN) was founded in 1991 … an initiative to influence government policy at national and provincial levels. It was…
Durban Mayors and other city officials
… from 1854 to date . George Cato (1854 - 56) Edward Snell and Savery Pinsent (1856 - 57 ) AW Evans and JR Goodricke (1857 - 58) JR Goodricke and Savery…
ArticleMetal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU)
… The Metal and Allied Workers Union (MAWU) was established in April 1973 … equipment, motor, rubber, cables, non-ferrous metals, iron and steel, and heavy…
Online directory - archives and media sources
… The government archives service in South Africa houses and preserves the state records and other documents that have been collected since the … to archive…
ArticleGrade 6 - Term 3: Democracy and the Constitution
… 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 flag, an anthem and a…
ArticlePoetry and Resistance in the 1970’s
… shifting maps of Africa throughout the twentieth-century and has inhabited the history of South Africa‘s literary … cultures with words of hope which have…
ArticleTransport and General Workers Union (TGWU)
… The Transport and General Workers Union (TGWU) was founded in 1973. It … ferry, municipal, cement products, hospitals, cleaning and security sectors. It was…