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ArchiveJaguar workers stage mass walk-out
About 200 Jaguar shoe workers recently staged a mass walkout of a meeting called by the TUCSA affiliated National Union of Leatherworkers.
Article1967 Terrorism Act, No. 83 of 1967
The 1967 Terrorism Act was one the most important pieces of legislation passed by the South African apartheid regime. Though the Act’s stated purpose was to…
ArticleDr Alfred Bitini Xuma Timeline 1893-1998
1893 Alfred Bitini Xuma is born, the seventh child born of Abraham and Elizabeth Xuma, an aristocratic Xhosa family living in Manzana Village in the Engcobo…
ArchiveMayibuye : The masses are always the key
Offset litho; full colour; Mayibuye : The masses are always the key : On sale : Available at all ANC offices, Price R2.00
Indian South Africans timeline 1940-1949
Indian South Africans Timeline: 1940-1949 1940 January, A meeting is held between the Nationalist Bloc, Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) leadership and…
Grade 4 Archive
This archive features classroom material that is no longer required in the curriculum. Origins of major world religions reflected in SA: Religion is an…
ArticleLiberation Struggle in South Africa
Although Apartheid only ‘officially’ started in 1948, repression was rife in South Africa long before that date. This special project examines the Freedom…
Giyani, Polokwane
More or less 550 kilometres north east of Johannesburg you will find the little happening town of Giyani, a popular town in the heart of Bushveld country in…
ArticleThe Natal Workers Theatre Movement Timeline
Acronyms BAWU, Black and Allied Workers Union COSAS, Congress of South African Students COSATU, Congress of South African Trade Unions COSAW,…
ArticleLife in Sophiatown
As population in the freehold townships swelled, overcrowding and rack renting became the order of the day. Black property owners in Sophiatown were themselves…
ArchiveRock against management
A1 black and red silkscreen on brown paper; text: SRC cultural week: Wits Great Hall August 1st 8:30pm: Juluka, the Popguns, Flash Harry, Corporal Punishment:…
ArticleThe ANC’s MK Special Ops Unit Material - Yunus Carrim Collection - Interviews
MK Special Operations Unit Project Interviews, Aboobaker Ismail (Rashid), 19 March 2016 (Roodepoort), 9 July 2016 (Roodepoort), 27 December 2016 (Cape Town)…
PlaceLesotho
Two-thirds of the Country of Lesotho consists of Mountains. The highest Peak, Mount Ntlenyana, is 3,482 Metres above sea level. The Drakensberg range forms the…
Beerhalls in Soweto from Soweto Heritage Survey Final Report compiled by Steven Lebelo and Elsabe Brink for the National Monuments Council, Northern Region
Beerhalls have always been at the centre of the waves of political turmoil in Johannesburg's African townships. The Johannesburg City Council JCC) opened a…
ArticleFreedom Charter timeline 1948-1961
1948 26 May, DF Malan's National Party government follows up its election victory with the introduction of new apartheid laws as well as the stricter…
PlaceBethal
Established in 1880, Bethal is a small farming town, in Mpumalanga. Farming in potatoes, maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum and rye. There is also a large amount…
ArchiveLetter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention, to Brothers/Sisters
Letter from Sipho Buthelezi, Secretary General of the Black Peoples Convention to Brothers/Sisters written as a reminder to Black South Africans to commemorate…
ArchiveBiography of Florence Mkhize by Rachel Manak
Florence Mkhize was an active member and leader in some of the most prominent organizations that worked to end apartheid in South Africa, including the…
EventBeyers Naudé and Allan Boesak arrested for leading a protest march
Beyers Naudé, Allan Boesak and 200 others are arrested for leading a march through the city of Cape Town to Pollsmoor Prison. They were protesting for the…
ArticlePort Elizabeth Timeline 1799-1986
1799 2 March, British government lands troops in Algoa Bay. Construction begins on the building of Fort Frederick. 1803 Founding of Bethelsdorp. 1804 …
ArticleKenyan Timeline
The earliest human ancestors (Homo erectus and Homo habilis) have their origin in East Africa more than 2 million years ago. Several human remains have been…
ArchiveHow a slave from Mauritius led a rebellion in Cape Town by Nigel Worden (Ground Up), 30 March 2016
In this drawing of Greenmarket Square in Cape Town in 1764, a slave in chains appears to be driven by a master on the left side of the image. Some four decades…
Key players in the various passive resistance campaigns
This feature looks at the various important 'passive resistance' or 'non-violent' campaigns in 20th Century South Africa; therefore the lists of key players…
ArchiveWe have survived!
Yellow, red, black and white poster. Notice of an Aboriginal Poster Exhibition. Commemorating 200 years of Aboriginal Resistance in Australia - 1788 - 1988…
ArticleANC and the early development of apartheid 1948-1950s
In 1948 the Nationalist Party (NP) won the election, and began to introduce the policy of apartheid. The African National Congress (ANC) reacted immediately to…
ArticleWorld War I Timeline 1914
The outbreak of the First World War was precipitated by the assassination of the Austro-Hungarian Crown Prince Franz Ferdinand and his wife, by Serbian…
EventBritish Parliament passes the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act
On this date, The British Parliament passed the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act. The Act outlawed all slave trade within the British Empire, but did not…
9 Ships run ashore in Table Bay
Nine ships were wrecked and 208 lives lost in Table Bay during a severe gale at the Cape, proving again that the Cape was quite aptly called 'Cape of Storms' …
ArticleUnited Nations and Apartheid Timeline 1946-1994
194622 June, The Government of India requested that the question of the treatment of Indians in the Union of South Africa be included in the agenda of second…
PlaceAddington, Township of Durban
Township in Durban, North of the Point and West of the Beachfront. It was laid out by the Natal Government and gives its name to the renowned, Addington…