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ArchiveThe Fragility of Existence by David Goldblatt (www.aperture.org), 6 February 2018
… Gottlieb plays traditional Damara music at the funeral of Ouma Juliana ǂÛ-khui ǁAreses on the family farm beneath … 6 December 2014 © the artist Except…
The Segregation Fallacy and Other Papers - The Disfranchisement of the Cape Native
… Jabavu The franchisement was first granted to the Native of Cape Colony in 1854, without, distinction as to white and … privilege was conÂferred upon the…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… To mark the centenary of the founding of the Industrial and Commercial Workers' Union (ICU), New … in the years leading up to his banning in 1930. The first…
Address at the Meeting of Nigerian and South African Business 2 October 2000
… Are just every moment And every day writ large. Thousands of years of loving, failing, killing, Creating, surprising, … their rich harvest." I think we will…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1652 - 1699 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1652 Arrival of Malays 1 J S Mayson, describing the Islamic life in the 19th…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1700 - 1799 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1700 Number and origin of slaves at the Cape The Dutch East India Company…
EventExtracts from one of South African President Thabo Mbeki’s most stirring speeches
… seas and the ever-changing seasons that define the face of our native land. I am an African! I owe my being to the … and the San whose desolate souls haunt…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Chapter IV - Divide and Rule
… From the book: The Role of the Missionaries in conquest by Nosipho Majeke The AmaXhosa OF ALL THE functions of the missions, that of divide and rule is the…
Chapter 22. A Slight Case of Blackmail - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… The year 1944 was one of the busiest for the union. In the midst of the trouble, which started in February, we became involved in a series of court actions,…
”Some Basic Principles of African Nationalism.” Article by A. M. Lembede, in February 1945
… Basis: This can be stated by quoting the words of a famous American writer, Thompson, "The materialistic conception of History that conceives of Man as…
ArchiveThe Black Sash: a case study of liberalism in South Africa 1955-1990
… Thesis submitted to the Faculty of Social Studies, Sub-Faculty of Politics, University of Oxford, for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy. Abstract: … The…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt's landscapes of high voltage by Melvyn Minnaar, 21 November 2014
… A restless sense of documentation drives David Goldblatt. Like those earliest colonial adventurer-explorer-writers of Southern Africa, wide-eyed to the…
Let them Speak - Slave Stamouers of South Africa by André van Rensburg
… and was brought to the Cape. To fix a date for the arrival of slaves at the Cape is a variable since we know that slaves … made their way to the Cape prior…
An Appeal to the people of South West Africa by Nelson Mandela
… Mandela Dear Friends, I am writing to you in the name of the African people of the Union of South Africa, on the authority of the National Action … An Appeal…
Some Personal Recollections of the Free Nelson Mandela Campaign by Mike Terry
… South Africa ‘illegally`. Although a regular reader of the Manchester Guardian and the New Statesman at the time, I have no recollection of either his arrest…
History of Muslims in South Africa: 1932 - 1949 by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida
… From the book: History of Muslims in South Africa by Ebrahim Mahomed Mahida 1932 … subsidised by the Cape Provincial Education Department; of these seven…
36. The fault of Indian immigrants is their poverty and their skin
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … into Natal during the first year the Act was administered; of…
Centenary of the 1913 Land Act By Colin Bundy, 18 April 2013
… Why consider the history of a hundred-year old law? Surely the Marikana massacre and … fact, there are direct links between the Natives' Land Act of 1913 and…
PlaceAggeneys, a Town at the foot of the Aggeneys Mountain in the Namaqualand
… Town at the Southern foot of Aggeneys Mountains, about 60 km West of Pofadder. It has been suggested that the name is derived from the Nama language,…
Statement by the National Executive Committee of the ANC - 20 September 2008
… Over the past two days, the National Executive Committee of the ANC has deliberated on the Pietermaritzburg Court judgement on the 12th of September by Judge…
Marikana and the New Politics of Grief, 20 August, 2012 - Jon Soske
… Workers Union. After four days, the mine owners fired all of the workers, who then responded by occupying the living … mine owner’s favor; the company…
educating African youth and provision of large scale scholarships tenable in various
… On negotiations and suspension of armed actions Preamble Noting that: 1. Negotiation is only one form of struggle towards the transfer of power to the people…
Chapter 6. A Daughter of the Free State - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in English once a week, which consisted almost entirely of reading. I was quite good at school and would have liked a … fortunes made that impossible. I left…
EventSekonyela, chief of the Batlokwa, dies in the Wittebergen Reserve, Herschel district.
… Kgosi Sekonyela (c. 1804 – 20 July 1856) was a chief of the Batlokwa people. He effectively took over the … raids on neighbouring tribes, often to the…
EventThe Afrikaans Protestant Church, a breakaway faction of Dutch Reformed Church, is formed
… Horrified by apparent infiltration of the Dutch Reformed Church (DRC) by non-whites, … Church for white Afrikaners only. This followed a meeting of around…
EventArmscor’s Chairman announces the production of a record breaking South African artillery system
… On 28 March 1982, the Chairman of Armscor announced that South Africa had developed a 155mm artillery piece that outranged it's counterparts of a similar…
Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa - Glossary
… book: Book 3: Migration, Land and Minerals in the Making of South Africa commissioned by The Department of Education accentuate - to make more noticeable or…
EventThe official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media tables its report
… The official Commission of Inquiry into the mass media, appointed in June 1980, under the chairmanship of Justice M. Steyn, tabled its report. The Commission…
EventHaitian leader General Raoul Cedras resigns in favour of exiled President Jean
… Haiti's recorded history began with the arrival of Christopher Columbus in 1492. The island was named Hispaniola and became the territory of the Spanish…
Johnny Gomas Voice of the working class: A political Biography by Doreen Musson
… The increasing politicization of the oppressed and exploited masses of South Africa/Azania demands the constant re-writing and re-assessment of the past. New…