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Chapter 12. The General Strike Of 1931 - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… involving one or two factories, had recently taken place, though most of them were not concerned with questions … all the workers lived far away from the…
PlaceBellville, a Suburb of Cape Town
… It lies east of Cape Town City, within the Cape Peninsula urban Area. This Area was … Twelfth Mile Stone. Since it is situated 20 km from the city of Cape…
PlaceGeorge Harrison Park
… a discovery that gave rise to the largest and most vibrant city in South Africa. The original 10-stamp battery mill that … On view are two original shafts…
EventThe Sunday Times political journalist is suspended
… Prosecutions, Bulelani Ngcuka, on to rival newspaper City Press. The story ran by City Press alleged that Ngcuka could have been an agent for …
EventFirst Tramway Company in Cape Town commences operations, with a horse
… horse-drawn trams were used. In 1879, the Cape Town City Council authorised a second tramways company, the 'City Tramways Company Limited', to operate a…
Address by H.E. Ms. Baleka Mbete, Deputy President of the Republic of South Africa, at the Africa-Indian Ocean (AFI) Region Aviation Conference, Kwazulu-Natal, 24 November 2008
… Ocean Regional Air Navigation Conference taking place in this magnificent province of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban. … and technocrats in civil aviation, this…
PlaceDutch Reformed Church, Bosman Street, Pretoria
… sure to climb the tower for stomach churning views of the city. This church and the Printing Works across the street … one of the most beautiful…
ArticleAmericas by the 1500s
… modern Nicaragua ie. Amerrique meaning something like 'Place of the Wind'. Both Vespucci and Columbus visited this place often, because it was very rich in…
PlaceTable Mountain Water Supply
… ago when the foundations of the Golden Acre , in Cape Town City Centre , complex were dug. Now fully excavated, part of … was down to a flow of two gallons…
ArticleLearning about history through people: oral history
… source as it is representing a specific time and place in history. Possible questions What did you do over … Six, and anxiously awaiting my return to my…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… present attempts to make that future truly better for one city, one community and one people. The 150th birthday of the … to be part of this historic…
Address by President Nelson Mandela at the 150th anniversary of the Eastern Province Herald Port Elizabeth, 14 September 1995
… present attempts to make that future truly better for one city, one community and one people. The 150th birthday of the … to be part of this historic…
ArticleGrade 4 - Term 3: Transport through time
… areas. Modern transportation has made the world a smaller place. The impact transport has had on the environment is …
The Mass Democratic Movement, February 1988 - January 1990
… of 1988 a negotiated peace seemed likely, as talks took place with Nelson Mandela and with the ANC in exile. On 24 … as voter registration had been very low…
EventWestern countries, including South Africa, implement an airlift to supply provisions to the inhabitants of the eastern section of Berlin
… to the British, American and French zones of Berlin, a city which was located deep within Soviet-occupied post-World … airlifting food and supplies to…
ArticleKora
… of their leader. But sometimes they took the name of a place where they had stayed for a long time. One such case … Overberg and the Karoo. The last great…
PlaceDurban Harbour and Port
… Durban is the Capital City of the South African Province of KwaZulu-Natal , on the … There are a number of Ferry Trips and Cruises that take place in the…
ArchiveDavid Goldblatt on Ranjith Kally's 'Memory Against Forgetting', by Ranjith Kally with Kalim Rajab, 30 January 2015
… some 30 of them in the service of Drum and Golden City Post, and of many fine and definitive photographs, … bane of printers’ lives – deep blacks…
ArchiveGeorge Peake by David Hemson
… without trial. In 1961 George was elected to the Cape Town City Council by the people of District Six, a community … so graphically. George Peake has earned…
ArticlePedi & Anglo-Pedi Wars 1876-1879
… converts fled from the kingdom and established Botshabelo (place of refuge) mission place. It was during the Anglo-Pedi war that Sekhukhune was …
Formation and launch of the UDF
… the streets of central Cape Town to the balcony of the city hall. Tutu addressed the protestors and confidently …
Chapter 28. I Fight Back - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
… committee decided to call a public protest meeting on the City Hall steps, Johannesburg, for Saturday morning, the 24th … workers, marching eight abreast,…
Towards Simon’s Town – The life of Peter Clarke by Joline Young
… lounge, where his mother’s old sideboard takes pride of place amongst an assortment of artworks, that he told me his … solo exhibition in 1957. This was…
Message from the President, South African Society of Artists
… support of our sponsors. To all of them, we wish to place on record our deep appreciation. Diana Segal President, …
BiographyDr James Sebe Moroka
… inspire our people for long ages to come. We decide to place on record that, for our part, we have endeavoured over …
‘Ubuqaba’ and ‘UbuGqobhoka’: Reading Zakes Mda’s Heart of Redness through a Post-Developmental lens by Rachel Fenton
… impact of ‘development’ on South Africa: Yet, this city swallowed him, and spewed him out a shrivelled corpse. This ungrateful city decided that he could…
National Arts Festival 2017
… of July, it runs for 11 days in the small university city of Grahamstown, which is situated in the Eastern Cape, … Bank of South Africa. Media partners…
EventEllen Phyllis Hellmann, social anthropologist and executive member of the SAIRR, dies in Johannesburg
… by the Johannesburg municipality to remove them from inner city settlements condemned as slums in the 1920s and early … in describing the living conditions…
EventJulius Nyerere chairman of the Chama Cha Mapinduzi (CCM) addresses the ANC in Arusha
… National Congress (ANC) conference in the Tanzanian city of Arusha. Significantly, Arusha is the city where Nyerere issued the Arusha Declaration in 1967 …
PlaceKwaMuhle Museum, 130 Ordnance Road, Durban
… KwaMuhle Museum depicts Durban as an African city searching for identity within a new political context. … Union style building, once the headquarters of the…