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PlaceCango Caves, Oudtshoorn
29 km from Oudtshoorn, at the head of the picturesque Cango Valley, lies the spectacular underground wonder of the Klein Karoo - the Cango Caves.The limestone…
ArticleHistory of Women’s Struggle in South Africa
… how Afrikaans women formed 'wives clubs' to support the Afrikaner cause of 'Broederbond'. Callinicos writes that as … the "transmitters of the mother tongue…
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
… Africa. It urged governments and organisations not to accord recognition to the "elections" under that … observers to further the purposes of the National…
Address at the official opening of the ASB Congress on 28 June 1971 in the Aula, Pretoria
… always a particular privilege to be in the company of the Afrikaner student. You said, Mr. President, that I would … and opportunities. As I stand here…
Speech by Albert Luthuli at a public meeting organized by the South African Congress of Democrats, 1 February 1958
… Our people have been much impressed by the struggle of the Afrikaner in this country. He too struggled - in fact, in … did not enjoy it fully. It should be…
Our Vision is a Democratic Society, 1958
… Our people have been much impressed by the struggle of the Afrikaner in this country. He too struggled - in fact, in … did not enjoy it fully. It should be…
Chapter 28. I Fight Back
… and witticisms. The prison warder was a pleasant young Afrikaner and, after I had been locked up for a few minutes, … communist activities, but that I have…
ArchiveEmily Hobhouse - Beloved Traitor by Elsabe Brits(The Heritage Portal), 14 September 2016
… and campaigner who showed caring and human empathy to the Afrikaner women and children. She engaged to provide …
Chapter 11. Court Cases - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… for the prosecution was Detective- Sergeant Toerien, an Afrikaner who spoke slowly in halting English. He knew no …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… the communities and the structures of the national peace accord, including international monitors, can reduce and …
Passive Resistance 1946 - A Selection of Documents compiled by E.S. Reddy & Fatima Meer - Royal Visit - 1947
… The community, therefore, were not at all happy to accord a welcome to the Royal Party in any shape or form. The …
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
In August 1960, Dugmore Boetie fled South Africa and entered Bechuanaland (present day Botswana) on foot. He was part of a flow of “discontented young men”…
ArticleYusuf Dadoo Timeline: 1930 - 1939
… votes to sixty-seven. The anti-war parties led by the Afrikaner Nationalists leaders Hertzog and Malan refuse to …
ArticleCuba and the struggle for democracy in South Africa
… finally withdrew from Angola in August 1988, and the final accord was signed on 22 December at the UN in New York, …
PlaceHumansdorp
Humansdorp has grown from a small Town in 1849, with the purpose of serving mainly the Farming community. Today it has flourished into a diverse Town with…
PlaceHotazel
Located around 60 kilometres north of Kathu and just as far from Kuruman, Hotazel is a tiny Northern Cape town, that plays a crucial role in the manufacturing…
ArticleBlack Concentration Camps during the Second Anglo-Boer War, 1900-1902
While the two main forces in the Anglo-Boer War 2 were White, it was not an exclusively White war. At least 15 000 Blacks were used as combatants by the…
ArticlePoor Whites and their Political Weapon: Constructing the Kakamas Dam
… to halt, but continued after the signing of the peace accord on 31 May 1902 in Pretoria (Johannesburg). By 1912 the …
ArticleA brief history of domestic service in South Africa
Colonial History of Domestic Work Since slaves were used as domestic servants in the settler colony from the middle to late 18th century, domestic…
ArticleBlack Consciousness Movement Timeline 1903-2009
… by black students, and newspapers cry out against the Afrikaner treatment of English students at liberal campuses … extreme’). Regarding the magistrate’s…
PlaceVredehoek
Vredehoek is a hillside neighbourhood at the base of Devil’s Peak. The stairways here were built in the early twentieth Century to connect homes to streets and…
ArchiveRobert Grendon: A Life Rediscovered, (Daily Maverick), 4 March 2024
… in southern Africa and tells the story of the birth of the Afrikaner people: their trials with the British and Dingane …
ArchiveChapter 9 Emotional desert: Prison, 1963 to 1985 by Denis Goldberg
… already gone beyond where it could survive. I said that Afrikaner nationalism used apartheid to enable an elite group … management. The cost was that, having…
Chapter 2 - From Crisis to Stability to Crisis
… industry, and the mechanisation of agriculture; Afrikaner economic advancement; and apartheid/separate … to another objective: That of ensuring that the…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Factories, New Workers
… profits serve the needs of the country and especially the Afrikaner people. In 1925 the Pact government passed the … from the largely English-speaking Labour…
ArchiveAt the Pompidou by Jeremy Harding, 26 April 2018
… – suggest that apartheid was a botched paradise for poorer Afrikaner families, whether they were in a spartan kitchen …
ArchiveAll That Glitters - Bridging two worlds by Emilia Potenza
… close to three quarters of their entire herd. 1910: Afrikaner parties had won elections in 1907 to have …
'Presidential Address' by the Rev. J. A. Calata, ANC (Cape), July 1948
… Sometimes I am tempted to suggest we should look for an Afrikaner for one of our Parliamentary Representatives and …
Segregationist Legislation Timeline 1950-1959
… that the Communist Party of South Africa might have on Afrikaner, and later African, working class. However the Act …
The Rise of Women’s Trade Unionism in South Africa by Peter LaNasa
… leader of these militant workers. Johanna Cornelius , an Afrikaner member of the GWU, was arrested while participating …