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ArchiveFattis and Monis strike
Pamphlet issued by the Catholic Students Society at Witwatersrand University in July 1979 supporting workers from Fattis nd Monis, on strike for higher wages…
ArchiveArsenic and Old Lace
Pink border. Black and white poster. Artwork of two old ladies holding a wine glass dripping with red. Little Theatre UCT. 22nd September to 6th October 1984.
ArchiveBlack uprooting and relocation
Resolution of the Twelfth National Conference of the South African Council of Churches, Hammaskraal, May 1980 regarding the negative socio-economic effects on…
ArchiveWhite students and change
Paper presented at National Seminar of the National Union of South African Students, April 1973. Discusses how White students can participate in and promote…
ArchiveKalahari and Hugh Masekela
Black and white poster. Notice of two concerts, one with Peace at the Woodpecker, on Friday, November 25th, the other at Club 500 in Botswana, on Sunday,…
ArchiveCommunity Action and Development
For effective programs that make the Black communities aware of the problems that bedevil it, SASO developed well planned educational programmes to train Black…
BiographyKing Mzilikazi
… the expanding Mthethwa chiefdom of Dingiswayo and the land of the equally ambitious and much more ferocious Zwide …
PlaceAndalusia, Cape and Transvaal Border
Former name of Jan Kempdorp. Named after the region in southern Spain, which was the ancient maritime kingdom of Tarshish. Jan Kempdorp was laid out on the…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 4 Contextual Overview
… expanding commercial farms. In 1913, the infamous Natives Land Act, worsened the situation for black people as land allocated to black people by the Act was…
The Cape Town city hall is inaugurated five years after the corner stone was laid and while the building is still in progress.
Barbara Hogan is sentenced in the Rand Supreme Court to an effective ten years in prison for high treason and membership of the
João da Nova lands at Mossel Bay and leaves a stone with an inscription behind. The stone is now kept in the South African M
ArticleThe impact of Lenin and Stalin’s policies on the rights of the Russian people
We have already examined Lenin's policies, lets briefly examine Stalins. The impact of the policies is examined in the table at the end. Stalin: The First…
Communist Party of South Africa, What is the Native Independent Republic? (1934)
… the peasant cannot conduct his peasant household without land. But land is just what the Native peasants have not got. Ninety-two percent of the entire land…
Document 53 - M. Harmel, “Observations on Certain Aspects of Imperialism in South Africa”, Viewpoints and Perspectives, 1, 3, February 1954
… the destitution of millions of peasants, driven from the land. No amount of "pass laws" and "influx control" could … part, in the possession of their lives,…
"Future of the Africanist Movement" Questions and Answers Y R. M. Sobukwe, in The Africanist, January 1959
… of the world; America and Russia cover huge tracts of land territorially and number hundreds of millions in … their inhuman exploitation of the indigenous…
ArchiveClass Consciousness and Migrant Workers by David Hemson (University of Warwick)
… and reducing all African people to foreigners in their own land. Research, action research The strike demonstrated that … migration, virtually all workers…
Document 51 - W. P. van Schoor, “The Origin and Development of Segregation in South Africa A. J. Abrahamse Memorial Lecture, Cathedral Hall, Cape Town, 5 October 1950
… Labour Policy enshrined this attitude as a law of the land. This transformation within 70 years was brought about … an independent source of livelihood -…
Ethiopia and Eritrea amass thousands of troops along their border, ready to fight over a 640-square km triangle of disputed lan
Circular Letter To Trade Unions, Progressive Organisations, Democrats And Anti-Fascists by Yusuf Dadoo, June 10, 1946
… Dear Sir/Madam, The Asiatic Land Tenure and Indian Representation Bill has become law. … you should send a telegram of protest against the Asiatic Land…
BiographyHezekiel Sepeng
Hezekiel Sepeng was born on 30 June 1974 in Potchestroom, Western Transvaal. At primary school he began to show the natural talent of a good marathon runner. …
BiographyOliver Mtukudzi
Oliver Mtukudzi, also known as ‘Tuku’, was born on 22 September, 1952 in Highfield, Zimbabwe. He was the first born in a family of seven siblings. Mtukudzi was…
BiographySebitji Frans Matlala
Sebitji Frans Matlala’s wife recounted My husband was taken away by train fromMatlala's Location, Pietersburg District, Transvaal [now Polokwane, Limpopo]. I…
ArchiveThe West African Kroomen and their link to Simon’s Town by Joline Young
… away, the wives took care of his assets by cultivating the land, where yams, sweet potatoes and rice were grown. [xxxiv] … to England and others took up the…
ArticleHistory Grade 10 - Topic 2 Contextual Overview
… charged very high prices. Increasingly the Khoikhoi lost land and cattle to the Dutch as the settlement grew. This … and their Khoikhoi allies. The boers…
ArchiveComrade Cassius Make laid to rest
ArchiveStop the Vaal/-East Rand massacre
White poster with red lettering. Title in white on red block. Title only.
ArchiveEmployment at the Rand Mines No. 3
Recorded from 78 RPM record
ArchiveEmployment at the Rand Mines No. 2
Recorded from 78 RPM record
Reports of the Passive Resistance Councils: Natal and Transvaal 1946 - 1946
… to the Ghetto Act. There is a complete boycott of the Land Tenure Advisory Board. The sham form of communal … and discrimination and for full democratic…