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BiographyMduduzi Richard Shabalala
Mduduzi Richard Shabalala (Mdu) Shabalala was born in Lamontville, Durban, Natal (now kwaZulu-Natal) on 24 July 1965. His father was a prominent civic rights…
ArticleHistory of Slavery and early colonisation in SA timeline 1602-1841
1602 Chamber Representatives of the Netherlands Parliament grant a founding charter to the Dutch East India Company to establish an Indian trading empire in…
ArticleThe South African Society of Artists and its exhibitors, 1902-1950
This catalogue and exhibition celebrate the founding, over 100 years ago, of the oldest surviving body for practising artists and the "advancement of art" in…
ArticleStrong and Unnoticed: The Women of the UDF by Reid Arnold
Abstract The UDF was an umbrella organization that was founded to unify the hundreds of Anti-Apartheid movements occurring in the 1980s. Female leaders such…
Constitution, Rules and Bye-Laws, I.C.U. Yase Natal, 1929 [Extracts]
… of work and conditions of employment. (2) To establish a Land Fund to acquire, :ase, mortgage, hold, or otherwise deal … or goods they need or when selling…
Saul Tsotetsi (SACP), Alfred Yika (ANC) and Elias Mothloung (SACC employee) are killed when a hand grenade explodes in Sebokeng
Mohammed Bhabha, attorney and member of the National Council of Provinces for Mpumalanga, is born in Roodepoort, West Rand.
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… Sir Grey’s ‘only’ motive “was coming to and ruling the land of the amaXhosa to change the customs of the barbarous …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Chapter 3 - Afrikaner Nationalism in the 1930s and 1940s by Albert Grundlingh
… 1930s forced a considerable number of Afrikaners off the land and into the cities. Many of them lacked the necessary … farmer bywoner - a tenant farmer who…
PlaceHoward College Building and the Memorial Tower Building, University of Natal
… £140000 for a building which was built on 50 acres of land in the Stella bush. Howard College was opened in 1931 by …
BiographyArchibald Jacob Gumede
… United Kingdom to object to the implementation of the 1913 Land Act. He was Natal ANC president from 1924-30 and ANC …
Book 4: Industrialisation, Rural Change and Nationalism - Introduction
… This in turn gave rise to the illegal occupation of land and the growth of large shantytowns. Even though black …
ArchiveApartheid laws and regulations: introduced and rescinded
ArchiveTrade union organisation and health and safety
ArticleUnion, Segregation, apartheid and Democracy: From Union to non racial democracy
The 1910 election: The Union of SA The first election that created the modern South African state, held in accordance with the provisions of the Union of…
ArchiveB and S Struggles
EventThe Cato Manor riots begin due to the ‘beer issue’ and looming forced removals
… would be shifted. Indians will lose 2,891 acres of land and 2,444 dwellings valued at £1,685,350. Coloureds and Africans will lose over 70 acres of land and…
BiographyDaniël Francois Malherbe
… which followed a theme of love for, and attachment to, the land. This book brought greater depth to the Afrikaans novel …
BiographyPitika Ntuli
… was featured in a documentary series entitled Echoes of My Land: The Art of Pitika Ntuli that aired on ITV, a commercial …
BiographyElizabeth Komikie Gumede
Recorded as one of the most tortured women political prisoners under the apartheid regime, Elizabeth Komikie Gumede was born in 1921. Gumede served as an…
BiographyNimrod Sekeramane Nathale
… from Evaton to Pretoria to seek compensation for land seized during the 1950s. He also re-established links …
ArticleRock art as an expression of hunter-gatherer society and world-view
Paintings and engravings on rocks in the open air and on cave walls are called rock art. There is rock art on about every continent, but South Africa has some…
ArchiveEditorial: Rand Daily Mail
BiographyRobert Mokwena (George Sello)
Robert Mokwena, also known by his guerrilla name as George Sello, was born on 4 April 1952 in White City Jabavu, Soweto in the Transvaal (now known as Gauteng…
Adriaan Vlok and the Truth and Reconciliation Commission
This article was written by Virginia Boswell and forms part of the SAHO and Southern Methodist University partnership project
EventSouth Africa abolishes financial Rand
The financial Rand, used as a parallel currency to the commercial Rand, was abolished on 10 March 1995. The currency was introduced in the 1960’s and only…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - The World The Workers Made
… I became one of it.’ For most new workers fresh from the land, the noisy, pushy city came as a deep shock. People were … many black farmers from the white…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 1 European Societies
… Europe governed society based on the Feudal System, where land ownership determined one’s wealth and position in … concluded to maintain control of England…
ArchiveBlack and white artwork of workers and army
White poster with black and white drawing. No wording.
EventRand Afrikaans University is established
The Rand Afrikaans University (RAU), the second university with its seat in Johannesburg, was established by an act of parliament as the academic home of…