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In the name of art - A reflection on fine art
… be a tribute to the many artists who have died too soon and too young. Empraim gatane, Cyprian Shilakoe, Julian … fragments of the visual cul t ure found on…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1930-1939
… ANC cooperated with other organisations such as the APO and the NIC to fight increasing segregation imposed by the … case in point was the Non European…
PAC Constitution - Extract from Karis & Carter
… Congress , hereinafter referred to as the P.A.C. 2. AIMS AND OBJECTS: (a) To unite and rally the African people into … official colours of the P.A.C. shall…
PlaceWagendrift Nature Reserve and Dam, Escourt
… Wagendrift Dam and Moor Park Nature Reserve is situated just off the N3 … The Reserve is roughly 980 square Kilometers, in extent and includes a popular…
PlacePhalaborwa, Limpopo Province
… the earth's largest man-made hole, visible from space and pretty awe inspiring, even if you're not impressed by mines in general. Mining and smelting of…
PlaceLekkersing, Namaqualand
… an exquisite red sand dune also "sings" after a rare rain and can be clearly heard resonating in a deep and ancient voice. Lekkersing is nestled in the hills…
Address by President Thabo Mbeki at the Opening of Phase 1B of the Lesotho Highlands Water Project, Mohale Dam, Kingdomof Lesotho, 16 March 2004
… Mosisili, Honourable Members of the Lesotho Parliament and all branches of government, Your Excellencies, Ministers, … Dam is today to many South Africans to…
ArticleThe History of May Day in South Africa
… On 7 October 1884, the Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions, in the United States of America and Canada resolved that eight hours should…
ArticleAfrican National Congress Timeline 1920-1929
… The ANC in the 1920s was largely weakened and suffered from both organisation incapacity and financial … , with “black for the people, green for the land and…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… Republic" as the immediate aim for which the workers and peasants of South Africa should fight. This slogan, which … toiling population, is the banner around…
ArticleXhosa
… Black South Africans are the Nguni, Sotho, Shangaan-Tsonga and Venda. The Nguni represent nearly two thirds of South Africa's Black population and can be…
EventBambata Rebellion: The Natal government offers a reward of £500 for the capture of Bambata
… regard to the allocation of land for sugar plantations and the heavy tax burdens that the Colonial Government … records, Bambatha had a reputation for being…
New tactics in the revolt
… the first attempted march on Johannesburg on 4 August, and the partial stay-at-home which kept at least 60 per cent … on to the defensive. There were large…
ArchiveThe Trotskyist Groups in South Africa - A Retrospective View by Baruch Hirson (Encyclopedia of Trotskyism On-Line: Revolutionary History: Volume 4, No. 4, 1993, South Africa)
… HISTORY of the South African Trotskyists during the 1930s and into the next decade was never made available or … on South Africa (or should have known) that…
PlaceMzilikazi Memorial, situated at Phokeng, near Rustenburg
… but his death was kept a secret by his chief councillors and some of his queens who were with him at Emanxiweni. A cart was brought at nightfall and the King…
ArticleSefako Mapogo Makgatho Timeline 1861-1961
… Moshoeshoe I. 1878 Sekhukhuni at war with the Transvaal and British colonial administrations. 1879 The battle of Isandlwana between the Zulu and the British…
Document 8 - S. P. Bunting, The “Colonial” Labour Front, 23 October 1922
… "The policy of the Communist International on national and colonial questions must be chiefly to bring about a union of the proletarian and working masses of…
Chapter 10. Cleaning Up the Clothing Industry - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… in factories, the evil of homework was even worse. The worker who is compelled to turn his home into a workshop … This poor man's "castle" presents a picture…
Document 139 - “The coming Anti-African Bill”. Workers’ Voice.6.2. December 1947
… reaction of this Bill. Its character is oppressive and fascistic to the core. The Act of Union in 1910 wrote the colour bar into the statute books of South…
Exhibition: Durban, 1973: Strike against cheap labour by David Hemson
… exhibition on the Durban strikes is being refocused and upgraded to reflect on the resistance of African workers … ultra low pay, brutal regime in compounds,…
Document 13 - Sarah Mokone [Victor Wessels] “The T.A.R.C.”, Majority Rule : Some Notes. Chapter XIX
… about, what its difficulties were from the very beginning and why it is inevitably ran into the sand, is provided by a … 18,1948). The TARC was an ad hoc…
PlaceBallito, Dolphin Coast- KZN
… the sugar-cane fields of KwaZulu Natal's famous 'Green & Gold' and is flanked to the East by golden Beaches and the warm waters of the Indian Ocean . The…
EventTreasures are discovered in the tomb of Tutankhamun
… eighteenth dynasty, he became pharaoh at the age of nine and his rule lasted for approximately ten years. Worshipped … that were built in his honour in as…
ArticlePaul Kruger Timeline 1825-1904
… 1825 Paul Kruger is born to Casper Jan Hendrik Kruger and Elsie Francina Steyn 1835 Paul Kruger's father situated … Mzilikazi. 1838 Paul Kruger's parents…
ArticleSALDRU Newspaper Clippings Archive 1974 - 2000
… mid-1970s as a necessary tool to help social scientists and others to keep track of what was happening inside the country and in the wider region of Southern…
EventBenjamin Magson Kies, political activist & lawyer, is born
… Kies was an important South African political activist and theorist from about the middle of the 1930s until his … strategy of non-collaboration with the…
Say It out Loud - The 1906 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 2nd January, 1906
… Presidential Address at 11.20 a.m., which occupied an hour and thirty minutes, and was listened to with great interest … which again was the result of race…
ArticleSouth African Communist Party Timeline 1870-1996
… Explore some of the key moments and events that have helped shape the course of South African … H. Andrews (Bill), a pioneer of the trade union movement and…
Azikhwelwa on Monday. Flyer by Soweto Students’ Representative Council calling for a stay-away from 13 September 1976
… Thus they thought of immediately breaking the student-worker alliance. They immediately called on workers to carry knobkieries and swords to marry their own…
ArticleWalter Sisulu Timeline 1912-2003
… had to work away from home. Walter tended cattle, sheep and goats like any peasant youth. Early 1920s Walter is … the police, receives further abuse. Other…