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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…
PlaceTunisia
… 1957, a republic was declared. The Country of Tunisia’s culture is highly diverse, in part because of long periods of … Arab World in the Economist…
Zarina Maharaj Biography by Sarah Rahimi
… ‘golden’ or ‘of gold.’ Later, Maharaj’s mother also had another daughter, Shirene Carim, with whom Maharaj was very … father. This was one of the reasons she…
ArticleThe National Coat of Arms
… symmetric egg-like or oval shapes placed on top of one another. The lower oval shape represents the elements of … from Khoisan rock art. The figures are…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 6 Source-Based Questions and Answers
… Available at: https://omalley.nelsonmandela.org/omalley/index.php/site/q/03lv01538/04lv01646/05lv01784.htm [5] Ibid. … Available at: https://omalley…
Defining Black Consciousness
… in themselves, their efforts, their value systems, their culture, their religion and their outlook to life" (Steve …
ArticleZulu
… - see South Africa's general history timeline . Language, culture and beliefs: The Zulu language, of which there are … made today between the Xhosa and the…
BiographyGeorge Gangen Ponnen
… the family then moved to a larger apartment in Black Hill, another suburb of Durban. Life improved a bit at home and his … By this time his unemployed…
BiographyJohannes Henricus Brand
… Brand printed paper money to the value of £30,000, with another £100,000 printed in 1866. But the currency underwent …
EventSA Special Forces accused of train violence
… Forces training. Source: http://www.sahistory.org.za/pages/index/menu.htm …
PlaceChatsworth, Suburb of Durban
… mainly of poor, working class Indian people, whose culture is central to Durban’s identity, and a direct result … Act of 1946 was passed. This meant that no …
ArticleArts and Cultural Organisations
… Wits Art Museum EDUCATION CENTRES Bill Ainslie Studios Culture and Working Life Project (CWLP) The Dakawa Arts and … The Bag Factory Greatmore Studios…
ArticleMissionary settlement in Southern Africa 1800-1925
… in the places section of the website, as well as in the culture & society section of the site (Religion). South … made it easy for racially-motivated…
Document 54 - K. A. Jordaan, “What are the National Groups in South Africa? A Contribution to the Symposium”, Forum Club, Cape Town, May 1954
… and legal discrimiÂnation between one nation and another. It does not necessarily involve a change in the … national group for the development of their own…
Article‘Liberated’ Slaves? by Joline Young
… and faithful service” [xxii] offered to pay the costs of another cook for Pegou in place of Jean Elle. However, Blair … mixed ancestry at the Cape…
ArticleCustomary Law in South Africa: Historical Development as a Legal System and its Relation to Women’s Rights by Devon Wall
… there are contradicting clauses regarding the right to culture within the same legislation. This conflict, as … and 31 of the Bill of Rights pertain to…
PlaceThe Space
… and Performance, 25 January 2017, http://esat.sun.ac.za/index.php?title=South_African_Theatre/Bibliography . ↵ [x] … and Performance. 25 January 2017, https:…
Archaeology: A Way of Rediscovering the Past
… These things are the material remains or the material culture of the societies that lived here. A roadway of time … Africa from about 1,5 million years ago…
ArticleConference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… on the history of the Women’s movement and the other on Culture and the Freedom struggle. …
ArticleThe History of LGBT legislation
… formalized expression of homosexuality with their "moffie" culture (Chetty, 1995). Moffie drag parties provided a haven … level of secrecy. During the…
BiographyDr Yusuf Mohamed Dadoo
… meeting were clearly laid out and requested rather than another attempt to negotiate with conciliatory gestures. The … of three months in prison with hard…
PlaceOpera House, Port Elizabeth
… and many, many other famous people. In terms of history, culture and the contribution to the Arts during the struggle, … can claim the role that The Opera…
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… (Barrett, 1985 107) Unequal pay in comparison to men was another important issue to women in the labour force. Many … homes to the work place. (Mashinini,…
PlaceLanga Township, Cape Town
… the barracks of migrant labourers were separated from one another by a high, un-climbable fence with only one point of … beer ( utshwala ) which was integral…
ArticleSouth African Student Organisation (SASO)
… for white students, “NUSAS was a nice friendly club, another game you played while at university. Then you grew … national body would weaken the liberation…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… a SOURCE. This means one day you can also be a source for another history detective. People can be great sources of … other’s differences, in race colour, in…
Address of the President of South Africa, Thabo Mbeki, at the launch of the UNDP 2006 Human Development Report, Kirstenbosch, National Botanical Gardens: Cape Town, 09 November 2006
… the Human Development Report, namely the Human Development Index, the Gender-related Development Index, the Gender Empowerment Measure, and the Human Poverty…
CAPS Grade 6: The Transatlantic Slave Trade - term 2
… to be a plantation slave in the American South o Slave culture in songs and stories o Resistance to slavery: …
The Heritage Museum at Villa Zain by Joline Young
… banister, is steeped in the history of a distant past – another world, where for centuries a community of people … people can just be people without being…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
… June 1991, close to 40 photographers were at one time or another full time, community or associate members of … that he was coordinating an exhibition for…