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ArticleColonial History of Port Elizabeth
… who came to stay in South Africa first settled in and around Cape Town. As the years passed, they sought to … This expansion was first at the expense of the…
PlaceJagersfontein
… Jagersfontein is home to one of the oldest and largest, diamond Mine holes in the World. This Town is … discovery coinciding with the discovery of…
PlaceA History of Ottosdal and Letsopa
… Precolonial and Early History Almost four hundred years ago, Khoe-San … in the North West province ). They lived as hunter-gathers and cattle herders and…
“Dockers and solidarity activism: from the Durban Strikes to choke points in today’s global economy” by Peter Cole
… less understood is that the strikes which preceded and sparked the Durban Strikes occurred on the waterfront. My book, Dockworker Power: Race and Activism in…
ArticleAfrican Heritage Sites
… countries, UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) has listed 135 World Heritage … BCE, the city was an important link in…
Document 29 - Kenneth Hendrickse, “The Opposition in Congress”, The Citizen 3, 3, 4 March 1958
… largely correct: they reject both separate representation and the "minority" parliament. While their support of the … that the whole people be organised …
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the South African Reserve Bank’s 75th anniversary banquet Pretoria, 28 June 1996
… Dr Stals; Ministers of the Cabinet; Governors and other representatives of the central banks of the member … challenges such as the abolition of the…
PlaceKoffiefontein, Free State Province
… camp during World War II, with up to 2,000 Italian and German prisoners of war being held there, along with … location for transport riders traveling between…
PlaceCarletonville
… There are no fewer than seven gold mines surrounding the town. As if to make up too all … outside, Carletonville. This is a sanctuary of grassland and…
ArticleNational Party (NP)
… the governing party of South Africa from 1948 until 1994, and was disbanded in 2005. Its policies included apartheid, … made the government’s rule difficult…
Chapter 6 - ‘Direct Action’ on the Shop-Floor: The Denver Engineering Strike, 1919 - 1920
… both the existing capitalist supremacy on the shop floor and the oligarchic and reformist bureaucratic trade union … Company. 2 The discovery of diamonds in…
The Durban Mystery Unraveled: An empirical analysis by Eddie Cottle
… fellow at the Centre for Sociological Research and Practice (CSRP) at the University of Johannesburg. He is a former trade unionist and was the policy and…
ArticleGeneral South African History Timeline: 1940s
… Congress. The population of Pageview is largely Indian and the area starts developing an Indian character. Mosques, … Some areas are exempted from the…
The Atlantic slave trade
… Causes and results of slavery A main cause of the trade was the … was a demand for many labourers for the sugar, tobacco and cotton plantations. Paid…
ArticleAmersfoort Legacy - History of education in South Africa
… Their treatment by the colonial authorities was harsh. And then, to buy their obedience, they were plied with … of this school in presenting the themes of…
Trade unions and Popular Resistance in the 1980s and New Alliances and the Different Unions Traditions by Kaizer Thibedi
… Celebrating 50 Years Conference THE BRIEF: TRADE UNIONS AND POPULAR RESISTANCE IN THE 1980S AND NEW ALLIANCES AND THE DIFFERENT UNION TRADITIONS Working…
Women at the start of the 20th century
… struggle for freedom from oppression, for community rights and, importantly, for gender equality, was largely ignored in … development to the detriment of…
Chapter Four - The Years with the CPSA: 1925 - 1935
… Doreen Musson The existence of a large number of unskilled and unemployed "poor whites" posed a danger to the state and to the process of capital…
Say It out Loud - The 1919 Presidential Address, Cape Town, 22nd April, 1919
… mankind. A devastating war, marked by ruthless barbarity and fiendish cruelty, has swept over that portion of the … swords for ledgers, and desert the…
ArticleUniversity of Pretoria 2015-2016 Student Protests Timeline
… was upgraded into a fully fledged independent University and by 1932 the medium of instruction became exclusively Afrikaans and the University was…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… him with a probing mind. His use of words is so beautiful and melodic, that I could not help but quote him verbatim in … child in a family of six, there was…
ArchiveTimetable for Sasol's day of destruction, The Star, 4 June 1980
Police hunt saboteurs as workers clear debris, The Star, 3 June 1980
Durban 1973, a National Breakthrough, in the Context of a Globally Developing Socialism? But what if the reality was actually an emergent 50-year international capitalist 'counterrevolution' of 1973-2022? by David Cooper
… activists who provided support to the emerging Durban and wider workers strike movement in 1973 and its following years – including being immersed in … Cuban…
PlaceLenasia, Soweto
… driven with debates about race, class, collaboration with and resistance to Apartheid . Calls were made by the Indian … very poor workers, welcomed the offer…
ArticleA Luta Continua Dialogues, Episode 2: Policing and Resistance
… #EndSARS Organiser Miski Noir - Black Visions Organiser and #BlackLivesMatter Activist, U.S. Napoleon Webster - Former Marikana Miner & Land and Housing…
ArchiveHow the apartheid regime burnt books – in their tens of thousands, 24 October 2018
… day in the 1970s, a truck transported thousands of books and magazines from Pretoria’s Central Police Station to a … African capital. A large mechanical…
4. Conclusion
… to be a lifesaver for the Party. Although Johannesburg and Cape Town officials continued to joust over issues, the … the Soviet Union's non-aggression pact…
Nomzamo Winnie Madikizela-Mandela on Fatima Meer
… by the memory of Fatima Meer – my dearest friend, sister and adviser whom I worshipped and treasured like my own possession. I have agonised for … human…
PlaceBethal
… . Farming in potatoes, maize, sunflower seeds, sorghum and rye. There is also a large amount of mining activity in and around Bethal, with 20 coal mines and…
PlaceLamont-Hussey Observatory
… The name of the Observatory refers to W.J. Hussey and a good friend of his, R.P. Lamont. Hussey and Lamont were University students in engineering in … stars…