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PlaceTownship Tours of Cape Town
South Africa is a country famous for its diverse cultures. Cape Town is a particularly cosmopolitan city, with people from all walks of life brushing shoulders…
PlacePomeroy- Solomon Linda
Pomeroy is a small Town in KwaZulu-Natal which is some 72 km North of Greytown and 56 km South-South-East of Dundee. It falls under the jurisdiction of the;…
Gigs, hustles and hope: work for young South Africans beyond the wage by Adam Cooper and Bernard Dubbeld
… considers the experience and effects of post-apartheid governance in the countryside of KwaZulu-Natal, focusing …
ArchiveNotes on Letters from a Kindred Spirit: Ismail Mohamed by Roseinnes Phahle, August 2019
Preface I am hereby sharing some letters Ismail Mohamed wrote to me in 1980/81/87. But first I give a snapshot of his life, achievement and involvement in…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Red Lives. Convenor: Arianna Lissoni
Dawood Seedat: The Communist who insisted that there was 'no middle road to freedom’ by Goolam Vahed Department of History University of KwaZulu-Natal -…
ArchiveThe Women’s Jail at the Old Fort and its Impact by Claire Ennis
Alternating from prison to fort to prison to museum, the Old Fort in Johannesburg has served a variety of unique purposes since its creation in 1893.[1] In an…
PlaceNelson Mandela University, in Gqeberha
Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) opened on 1 January 2005, the result of the merging of the PE Technikon the University of Port Elizabeth (UPE)…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
From: A Crime Against Humanity, edited by Max Coleman THE MANY FACES OF APARTHEID REPRESSION Repressive regimes abound in the historical record but few can…
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,…
Epidemics Affect Everyone By Elron Kleinhans
The smallpox epidemic is one that has raged the world over, killing countless numbers of people and wiping out entire ethnic groups and cultures, such as many…
ArchiveWebinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) - Convenor: Janet Cherry
Webinar Programme: Forward to Socialism/Socialist Futures (Panel 2) Convenor: Janet Cherry Has the South African development trajectory over the past…
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”…
PlaceDistrict Six, Cape Town
The area known as District Six got its name from having been the Sixth Municipal District of Cape Town in 1867. Its earlier unofficial name was 'Kanaldorp', a…
PlaceJohannesburg Public Library
The Library opened its doors to the Public in 1890, operating from several short-lived spaces provided, until a site was acquired in Kerk Street where it would…
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…
ArticleAfrapix Chronology 1981-1991
In the 1980s the National Party witnessed a renewed national and international pressure to initiate political reform. The Apartheid government accelerated its…
ArchiveThe sad secret kept by the trailblazing South African Steve Mokone
When the Dutch journalist Tom Egbers first decided to find out what happened to his father’s footballing hero, he could never have imagined where it would lead…
ArchiveBiography of Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin by Victoria Sedeno
Joyce Sikhakhane-Rankin’s experiences in Nylstroom and Pretoria Central Prisons as a female political activist who was detained for her work in the underground…
ArchiveBiography of Amina Desai by Cole Deal
With the rise of apartheid in 1948, millions of Africans were left to suffer in South Africa. Many groups rallied against the Afrikaner government through…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called…
ArchiveLessons from Black Wednesday by Jerome Klaaste, 18 October 2019
… have been planted misinformation. I worry about erosion of governance – when various commissions of enquiry dig up all …
ArchiveDemocracy and the Left in Post-Apartheid South Africa, Ben Turok interviewed by Carilee Osborne
… parliament, he has been a vocal critic of corruption and governance problems in the ANC since Jacob Zuma’s presidency. …
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 2 Essay Questions
Franklin Delano Roosevelt at the presidential desk in Washington Image Source Essay Question: To what extent did Roosevelt’s New Deal succeed in mitigating…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 1 Essay Questions
Explain to what extent Stalin succeeded in transforming Russia into a superpower by 1939. Stalin came to power on the back of Lenin’s death in 1925, after…
ArticleTimeline of South African photographic books and exhibitions 1958 - 2003
Timeline 1958 The photographer, Peter Magubane, is the first black South African to win the Press Photo of the Year Award. Albert Newall re…
PlaceTouring the Northern Cape
The Northern Cape is South Africa’s Largest Province and must-see destination, whether you prefer the ocean, the desert, the bush or quirky towns rich in…
PlaceZinkwazi Beach
The history of Zinkwazi Beach is fascinating, it was the time of the early Iron Age, about 300 – 1000 AD. "A place of human culture, characterized by the use…
PlaceLanseria International Airport, Roodepoort
Commercial and private planes can easily be spotted on the runway a few meters away from their open air viewing deck. It all began when In 1974 the dream…
PlaceHluhluwe and Umfolozi Game Reserves
Formerly known as: The Hluhluwe Umfolozi Game Reserve, now the Hluhluwe-Imfolozi Park. The park is the oldest proclaimed reserve in Africa. 960 square…
PlaceEzakheni Township of Ladysmith
Ezakheni is an African township that was built in the old KwaZulu homeland about 25km from the town of Ladysmith. The area was established in 1972 and its…