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Prehistory: Pre colonial farmers in Gauteng
… and so, the land appeared empty when Voortrekkers arrived. To understand this brief outline, it is necessary to start at the beginning of the Iron Age, 1800…
EventLiberation struggle activists, Gwala and Mothopeng are released from Robben Island
… members for uMkhonto weSizwe (MK). Gwala was sent to Robben Island prison. In 1972 he was released from prison and restricted to Maritzburg in Natal Province…
Labour Struggles in South Africa The Forgotten Pages 1903 - 1921 - Introduction
… this exercise, however, that brings academic work to the "common people". Because it is a fact, that academic … a death-cell of an international journal (…
COSATU
… for 1987. Photo of worker with clenched fists, wearing Strike Committee T-Shirt for 1986. …
ArchiveUitenhage strikes - victory for a living wage
… The 3 week long Volkswagen strike and the wage settlement reached earlier this month …
ArchiveOK cares for profit not people
… Fist punching letters OK. Support 10,000 OK workers on strike. CCAWSA Logo. …
ArticleShip list of Indian Indentured Labourers
… Guidelines for tracing ones roots The first step is to ascertain whether ones ancestors came as indentured … correspondences. The Home Affairs Department may…
ArchiveTax profits not food!
… says smash VAT. Two images of hammer and sickle. General strike 4-5 November. …
Chapter III - My very ordinary life
… fifty-one. I often wonder just how it took me so long to find the road to what must surely be one of the highest … amongst their leaders on that…
PlaceFairview Wine and Cheese Estate, near Paarl
… An immigrant from Lithuania, the young Charles Back I, landed on these shores in 1902. With a strong work … Hugo. He was one of the first winemakers in the…
Historical Overview of Black Resistance, 1932-1952 - The Congress of the People and Freedom Charter Campaign by Ismail Vadi, New Delhi, 1995
… Political Organisations in the 1940s The Transition to a National Mass Movement, 1949-1952 Campaign for the … class. It was only in the 1940s, after a wave…
ArticleThe African Union and Regional Economic Integration
… for full continental integration as a necessary means to ensure Africa be taken seriously on the world stage, especially as it prepared to take its place as…
The Cape Northern Frontier
… and San peoples. The Dutch farmers moved further north to colonise more land to cultivate in order to meet the requirements of the service … and San,…
ArticleBlack People’s Convention (BPC)
… Any account of campaigns involving these formations has to recognise and acknowledge the influence of BPC in this … principle was enshrined in the Freedom…
PlaceOld Fort, Hospital Hill, Johannesburg
… Committee of the Republic, resolved on 12 November 1896 to build a fort on Hospital Hill, overlooking the mining town … Joubert, and included two bastions…
EventTrade unionist Clements Kadalie dies in East London
… station, he was trained as a teacher. In 1915, he went to South African in search of work. Three years later, he had … Workers Union (ICU) in 1919. The…
EventThabo Mbeki, former President of SA, is born in Idutywa, Transkei
… his schooling at Lovedale Academy was interrupted by a strike in 1959, he completed his studies at home. He later moved to Britain where he completed a…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… books lean heavily towards white political development to the detriment of studies of the history and interaction of … South African society (and this…
ArticleApartheid crumbles, Women in the turmoil of the 1980s
… of desperate reaction, the government declared a series of back-to-back states of emergency from 1985 to 1987. In 1988, a number of organisations including…
Chile
… a flag. Two black and white photographs of a hunger strike, and the other of mass deportations in 1978. …
First National Consultative Conference: Report on the Strategy and Tactics of the African National Congress, 26 April 1969, Morogoro
… taking place within an international context of transition to the Socialist system, of the breakdown of the colonial … of militancy and struggle in the…
Sierra Leone’s Pre-colonial and Colonial era military and security forces
… region - and if they do, such assessment does not extend to the pre-colonial era. This paper presents an historical … militias that became known as the…
ArticleTswana
… ceremonies, language and religious beliefs are similar to that of the other two Sotho groups (Pedi and Sotho), … in which status was determined in part by…
The diary of Maria Tholo - Augusts 25 - September 3 by Carol Hermer
… had a notice asking all parents of children at Intshinga to attend a meeting with the school committee last Thursday … no matter what happened, we must ask…
Historical Background of the Constitutional Court
… key institution of our constitutional democracy, continues to function under the final Constitution of 1996. The 1993 … and therefore limited in its…
Dumile Feni biography by Sophia Reuss
… birth varies substantially in various sources, from 1939 to 1942, Prince Mbusi Dube confirms his birth year as 1942. … me six months to stay in Johannesburg…
Save our jobs
… Multicoloured COSATU poster and logo. Notice of a strike and marches in all provinces on 27th June. Artwork of …
ArticleObituary: Sheila Weinberg
… in the 1990s and was not well. In 1974 Sheila gave birth to Mark, who she loved dearly and who grew up in an … Sheila was both intensely involved and…
ArchiveWorking on the mines is no picnic!
… months of this year, more than 100 000 miners have taken strike action over wages, bad and unsafe working conditions …
Speak
… in a crowd. Contents - O.K. Women workers talk about the strike. …