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… The life of Maggie Bopalamo tracks the history of the  Rustenburg  area in a remarkable fashion. … and  Rocky Malebane-Metsing’s  wife, the coup leader. The women were released after two weeks, except for Mrs. … today known as Mpumalanga. Bopalama was appointed by the Women Ministries of the South African Council of Churches as …

… that her studies might affect her relationship with other women in the house. She feared they would think she was trying to be superior to them since literacy amongst women was very unusual at the time. Despite Kasturba’s … written by Lorna Mungur and forms part of the SAHO Public History Internship …

… South Africa Communists Speak Documents from the history of the South African Communist Party 1915 - 1980 …

… A South African Abroad by Daniel Magaziner, Department of History, Yale University …

… A History of Zonnebloem College 1858 TO 1870 - A Study of …

… Herore Heroes - A Socio- Political History of the Herero of Namibia 1890 - 1923 by Jan-Bart …

… Prof. Izak Daniël Bosman (50), professor of history at the University of Pretoria, dies in Pretoria. …

… Comments on the history of mass removals as the grand design of the policy of …

… on 25 October 1900 in Abeokuta, Nigeria. Kuti founded a women's organisation with 20 000 members that comprised of literate and illiterate women. The organisation was thrust into the public eye when it organised a rally of women against price controls which were hurting the female …

… as the flu was called in isiXhosa, was lethal to pregnant women and small babies, however, baby Nontsikelelo was born … and there was a great increase in the number of women who joined the labour force for the first time. A small … at the funeral was necessary because of Rose Mbele’s history with the organization but the funeral was not a …

… featured six of her own compositions. She performed with women’s a capella group Big Sister. She also taught music in … In 2006 some of her images were published in the book Women by women: 50 Years' of Women's Photography in South Africa which …

… 1983, she helped form the Natal Organisation of Women (NOW), an affiliate of the United Democratic Front … served on the National Executive Committee of the Women’s National Coalition and was a delegate at the Codesa … Executive Council’s sub-council on the Status of Women and served on the Reconstruction and Development …

… in politics when she became one of the first Black women to join the CPSA in the late1920s, becoming the … campaign further assisted historians in understanding why women in this area became so highly politicised. During the … Anti-Pass Council and in 1947, at the International Women’s Day meeting in Johannesburg, Transvaal (now Gauteng), …

… at the Industrial Council. In 1948, she established the Women’s Progressive Union that worked hand-in-hand with the Institute of Race Relations. Her aim was to assist women to become financially independent. The organisation, … It also offered basic training in nursing and a number of women took up nursing as a profession. The Women’s …

… 90s. Ngcobo was one of the main speakers during the 1956 women’s anti-pass march that was held across the country. She … be Told  (1987) recounts the turbulent thoughts of black women writers in Britain in the 1980's, told in their own … Didn’t Die”. This book is about a black rural community of women who, against the backdrop of the 1913 and subsequent …

… From the book:  Finding Courage: Young Women's Writings edited by Shamim Meer … Finding Courage: Young Women's Writings - Peer pressure - Everyone can become a …

… and curfews and took part in campaigns against passes for women in 1931 and 1936. She was active in the African National Congress Women's League and participated in the 1925 Defiance campaign … of this association, Mkhize, along with approximately 500 women marched to the Durban City Council. Here the women …

… Coronation Hospital and later began to work with training women in crafts and with youth rehabilitation. From 1958 to … Western Jabavu Branch of the  Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) . In the late 1960s she was provincial … Woman’s Section, Florence Mophosho . Together these two women started the publication of Voice of the Women. Shope …

… his Master of Arts in African politics and a PhD in history. The title of his thesis was “The Development of … of Disabled People (OSPD), the Office of the Status of Women (OSW), the National Youth Commission and the Government …

… the Defiance Campaign . Mnumzana was part of the anti-pass Women’s March of 1956 to the Union Buildings in Pretoria. In … became the secretary of the Federation of South African Women (FEDSAW) (Western Native Township Branch), and in 1964 … comrades and participating in international solidarity and women’s gatherings such as the United Nations Women’s …

… and ‘great wife'. [i] Chief Senzangakhona married sixteen women in total and had fourteen known sons, daughters however … – ‘a country bulging with looted cattle and captured women, who were set to work to till the fields and produce … Felix. ‘Dingane: A reappraisal’ in The Journal of African History, Vol. 10, No. 2 (1969) ↵ [ii] Bulpin, T.V. Natal and …

… University of Cape Town  (UCT), majoring in German and History. Soon, his encounter with the secular environment of … discussions on the discourse and narratives of ‘orthodox history’, by giving students the ‘freedom to explore things … of the emerging leadership of the working class in colonial and postcolonial Africa took place in the languages …

… Umkhonto we Sizwe , employing his academic background in history to compile a syllabus for political training.In 1979, … memory the traditions of armed resistance to combat colonial domination. In 1980, Jordan was promoted to head the …

… the sugar mills and in the plantations where most of the women worked.  His father took part in the 1913 Strike … and they went back to work. This was the first time in the history of South Africa that White women workers and Black …  still continued to exist after the Congress and the  Colonial Born and Settlers Indian Association  came together …

… wanted to fight against apartheid and the oppression of women, and so joined the Congress Movement. She participated … and sent back. She next planned to participate in the  Women’s March  in 1956 in Pretoria , but was once again sent … after her bus was stopped by police. The liberation of women was always high on Mkhize’s agenda, and she worked …

… arrested. There were eighteen resisters, six of whom were women: Zainab Asvat, Zohra Bhayat, Amina Pahad, Zubeida Patel … when tents fell on them. The hooligans kicked two of the women and one of the men. After this attack, the leaders asked the women to leave the camp but they refused to go. Only Mrs. …

… and the couple had two children. De Bruin had no known history, political activism as such, until her name surfaced … For instance, from November 1989, Black Sash and other women’s organisations piled pressure on the government to …

… Speech by President Mandela at the Symposium for World Women’s Day October 15 1998 …

… Speech by President Mandela at the Symposium for World Women’s Day October 15 1998 …