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EventMalawi voters take part in the first multiparty election in three decades
… Banda followed policies which were at odds with other African leaders in the newly independent nations. He …
PlaceTransvaal Museum, now known as the National Museum of Natural History
… on Earth and of the unique Geological Foundations of the African Continent are outlined, and the Theory of Evolution …
PlaceColesberg, Northern Cape
… explorers and settlers travelling into the Southern African interior. The settlement was laid out about a central …
EventAnti-SAIC political rally ends in Lenasia
… creation of the Tricameral Parliament in which the South African Indian Council (SAIC), an apartheid-created body … Pachia, B., (eds.) 1984. A Documentary…
PlaceBantu Dramatic Society, Johannesburg
… but will focus on encouraging Bantu playwrights to develop African dramatic and operatic art”. In doing so, the society …
PlaceWaverly Road Memorial, Durban South
… The South African War Memorial was unveiled on May 24, 1910, at 360 … of large panels providing room for inscriptions.The South African War Memorial was…
EventPope John Paul II celebrates a papal mass in South Africa
… it." Four orphans representing different South African ethnic groups presented the Pope with a basket of … of apartheid," The main objective of his visit to…
EventAnti-Apartheid demonstration is held outside SA embassy in Washington
… by Randall Robinson, began to further isolate the South African regime. On 27 November 1984, 250 people demonstrated outside the South African embassy in…
EventThe Afrikaner Weerstandsbeweging (AWB) invade the World Trade Centre, during constitutional negotiations, in Kempton Park, Johannesburg, Transvaal
… to the efforts that were being made to unify all South African’s under one banner. In 1993, South Africa experienced … uncertainty. The country faced violent…
Excavations: Shirts, Placards, Posters and the Remnants of Spectacular Protest in the LRS’s Collections by Lebogang Mokwena
… capitalism. A consequence of the leftist turn in South African sociology in the 1970s, this scholarship positioned South African sociology as a pre-eminent…
“Human beings with Souls”: Reconsidering The Durban Strikes Pamphlet by Alex Lichtenstein
… the process by which the multiple decisions made by African and Indian workers to down tools, the IIE activists … what would become the ‘workerism’ of the…
PlaceMushroom Farm in Hillcrest, KZN
… is despite the rise in popularity of mushrooms among South African consumers. This demand is expected to grow in the … and distribution of mushrooms…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1980 - 1989 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… in Kuwait and operates in over 35 countries on the African continent, providing relief and assistance to … and clothing for the starving people of Somalia…
ArchiveDeborah Matshoba’s fight against Apartheid by Alec Russo
… This system of segregation placed an inhumane burden on African, Indian, and Couloured people of South Africa. The … projects that specialized in educating…
ArchiveThe exilic geographies of the South by Benjamin N. Lawrance and Vusumuzi R. Kumalo
… actions by South Africa’s Special Branch police. South African Special Branch spies and agents were known to mix … nom de plume Dugmore Boetie—was part of a…
ArticleAnglo-Zulu Wars 1879-1896
… control had undermined the hard-won security that many African societies had achieved. This was due to changes in … various British colonies, Boer republics…
ArticleHow Unique was Slavery at the Cape?
… India, Sri Lanka, Madagascar, Indonesia and the East African coast. Slaves were bought from the slave markets of … at the Cape’ in the Oxford Research…
ArticleThe role of gender in Ndebele architecture
… role in the creation of living areas among those southern African groups who define their exterior living spaces. The … in the context of the fact that,…
ArchiveObituary: Eddie Webster’s influence over generations of students extended to the country and beyond its borders by Andries Bezuidenhout (Mail and Guardian), 6 March 2024
… in support of the labour movement, most notably the South African Labour Bulletin, which he set up with Rick Turner and … movement unionism” and the initial…
ArchiveSouth Africa and the Communist International : A Documentary History, Volume 2 : Bolshevik Footsoldiers to Victims of Bolshevisation 1931-1939 edited by A. Davidson, I. Filatova, V. Gorodnov and S. Johns
… ECCI, 13 November 1932 Document 19 Minutes of Meeting of African CPSA Members, 13 November 1932 Document 20 Speech of … 1935 (extracts) Document 54 Statement…
PlaceBotlierskop, Private Game Reserve
… game reserve, which gives visitors the opportunity to view African wildlife from the safety of 4x4 vehicles, in its … Welfare), which enabled us to assist in…
EventTwo actors, Athol Fugard and Zakes Mokae arrive in Cape Town to stage a play on the 'Colour-bar'
… which had a cast of only two characters, a White and African. The play was staged at Labia Theatre, Cape Town on … (Mokae) was dark-skinned. It was a second…
PlaceAnglo Boer War Museum, Bloemfontein
… events in the history of South Africa was the South African War of 1899-1902 . Although the protagonists were …
ArchiveThe Story of Jean Middleton by Grant Rohrmann
… [2] This is when she was invited to join the South African Communist Party (SACP). Making a change would not be … ally themselves with these organisations …
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Socialism, Culture and Networks. Convenor: Omar Badsha
… debates on the National Question played out in South African liberation culture, seeking to align communist … after 1990. Seidman has written extensively on…
Interview: The United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Navanethem (Navi) Pillay
… Ms Pillay was appointed as Acting Judge on the South African High Court and in 2003 she was elected as a judge on … against playing international cricket and…
Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th birthday by Ari Sitas, 23 August 2008
… South African History Online Tribute to Prof Meer on her 80th … that Fatima Meer stood for have been main-framed in South African society and our…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 87th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 1999
… Today, we mark the 87th Anniversary of the birth of the African National Congress. Since its birth, this organisation … which says that we are united by the…
ArticleLand, Labour and Apartheid
… are used will influence how the society develops. In South African history there has always been the fight for ownership …