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Women under indentured labour in colonial Natal, 1860-1911 by Jo Beall
… their passage could be commuted into a grant of Crown land equivalent in value to the cost of the journey back to … contracts during this time because of…
Vuyi Lesley Mbalo
Vuyi Lesley Mbalo was born in Sophiatown into a Catholic family. He grew up in the suburb of Orlando, Soweto. He was one of 32 students who were forced to flee…
BiographySam Kahn
Born in 1911 in Cape Town, he earned an LL.B degree from the University of Cape Town in 1932. He was a lawyer, a leader in the Communist Party of South Africa …
The Fruits of the 1973 Durban Strikes: A Powerful Black Trade Union Movement. Are they still on track or are they off the rails? by Johann Maree
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Short Bio Johann Maree was one of the founders of the Western…
PlaceLamu, Kenya
Lamu Island is a Port, City, an Island just off the shore of Kenya in the Indian Ocean approximately, 150 miles from Mombasa. Lamu Old Town is the oldest and…
PlaceKyalami Grand Prix Circuit
The Kyalami Grand Prix Circuit is situated in Midrand in the Province of Gauteng. It is ideally positioned between the 2 major Cities of Johannesburg and…
PlaceUniversity of Pretoria
The foundational Years of the University of Pretoria were welcomed with great turmoil. In 1889, the Zuid Afrikaansche Republiek (ZAR) proposed that a…
ArchiveCHAPTER THREE: The Emergence Of Grassroots Politics, 1979-1981 by Kumi Naidoo
This chapter comes from the book
The small matter of a horse: The life of 'Nongoloza' Mathebula, 1867-1948 by Charles van Onselen, 04 January 2012 (libcom.org)
… systematically separated from their means of production — land and livestock — either through wars of dispossession, or … the city, Note eventually retired…
Chapter II - More of the same
… and return to England was unthinkable. South Africa is my land by adoption, even if not by birth. For me to leave would …
BiographyThe Taung Child
In November 1924, a fossilized child's skull was found in a quarry at Taung in the present-day Northwest Province. Professor Raymond Dart discovered that it…
ArchiveBarberton Prison by Sloane Fuller
While the South African press readily covered stories of those having committed acts of treason or communism during the apartheid era, little attention was…
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…
ArchiveBiography of Ruth First by Cole Deal Ruth Demissie
Ruth First: An Ally of the Struggle Throughout the history of apartheid, freedom fighters were subjects of legal repression by the apartheid government who…
The Many Faces of Apartheid Repression
… population of limbless people, some 40 000, as a result of land mines. The economic cost to the 6 frontline states is …
The diary of Maria Tholo - September 20 - October 17 by Carol Hermer
… of such a policy. Firstly only 13 per cent of the land was set aside for black homelands. None of the homelands was a single tract of land and most were…
Chapter V - Acts of conscience
… police stood shoulder to shoulder in the narrow no-man's-land between the convicted men and their families. The little …
ArchiveOmar Badsha: Recording the roles of the ordinary by Niren Tolsi (Mail and Guardian), 17 September 2020
This moment’s gaping generational divide, exacerbated by the Covid-19 pandemic, with its accompanying sense of history being lost and collective memory fading,…
Introduction of A Crime Against Humanity
From: A Crime Against Humanity - Analysing the Repression of the Apartheid State edited by Max Coleman This is a book about repression. More specifically, it…
PlaceSimon's Town Museum
Simon’s Town Museum is housed in "The Residency" which was built in 1777 as the Winter Residence for the Dutch East India Company Governor at the Cape. Simon…
PlaceStellenbosch, Western Cape
This Historic Town, is a living Museum with a vibrant 'Street Culture'. The Town has a variety of soils and locations ideally suited to flourishing of a wide…
Chapter III - The world outside
… I think they all look back nostalgically to the land they left. …
BiographyAdeline Mangcu
HIV positive mother and works as an AIDS educator.
”ASINAMALI”, WE HAVE NO MONEY
… minimum wage of one pound a day for all the workers in the land. One pound a day. Five pounds a week. More food to eat, …
The National Flag
The national flag was designed by a former South African State Herald, Mr Fred Brownell, and was first used on 27 April 1994. The design and colours are a…
Differ Mahomo
A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK).
Steven Mafoko
Member of the African National Congress (ANC)ANC and Umkhonto we Sizwe (MK)
BiographyJohn Nyathi Pokela
Pokela was one of the Africanist in the African National Congress Youth League who broke off to found Pan Africanist Congress in 1959. In 1966 he was sentenced…
Leocadia Lungi Majola
A member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Was killed in Tanzania.
Stanley Mafika
Member of the African National Congress (ANC) and uMkhonto we Sizwe (MK). Died in exile in Angola