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ArticleInqaba ya basebenzi
Inqaba ya basebenzi, published in London by the Marxist Workers' Tendency of the African National Congress documents the workers' struggle for national…
ArticleInfecting the City Public Arts Festival
Infecting the City is an annual arts festival that takes place in communal areas of Cape Town and Mbombela, Mpumalanga, South Africa. The festival aims to…
ArchiveThe arch agitator of the Union by Shula Marks, 31 January 2019
… and local authorities.” As at other times and in other places, the men felt threatened by the militancy of their …
Document 123 - Statement of Dr Y. M. Dadoo, Secretary, Non-European United Front (Transvaal), before the Court, 6 September 1940
… sign: "Europeans Only." Trams, Lifts, Hospitals, Trains, Places of Amusement, Libraries, Universities, Skilled Jobs, …
Address by ANC President, Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela, at the opening of the 37th congress of the South African Jewish Board of Deputies Carlton Hotel, Saturday, 21 August 1993
… religious communities to establish and maintain their own places of worship, their own communal organisations and their …
62. Congress defends its stand on the colonisation scheme
… of Natal and meetings of protest have been held in various places. A demand was made that the Natal Indian Congress …
41. Statement of Indians to the Transvaal Constitution Committee, 1906
… ghettos. And in these, too, except in one or two places, Indians are only monthly squatters. In Pretoria and …
From Segregation to Apartheid
The gains achieved by the White minority in the first four decades of the 20th century were, by the 1940s, increasingly under threat however, as African…
Eyewitness accounts of the Sharpeville massacre 1960
The day of the Massacre, mourning the dead and getting over the shock of the event © Baileys African History Archive (BAHA) Tom Petrus, author of 'My Life…
ArticleTransvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC)
The Transvaal Indian Youth Congress (TIYC) was formed in Transvaal (now Gauteng) as the youth wing of the Transvaal Indian Congress (TIC) in 1945. Its…
Working Life - Factories, Township and Popular Culture 1886 - 1940 - New Workers, New Unions
… with the growing white middle class socially and in public places, and most aspired to become like them. As a result …
Pretoria Socialist Society
… of 1945, as substituted by Section 27 of Act 54 of 1952, places serious and far-reaching restrictions on the right of …
“I want to live not survive”: the politics of refusing low-wage work in a time of mass joblessness by Hannah Dawson
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference Why would young Black South African men refuse low wage jobs in a time…
PlaceMount Fletcher, Eastern Cape
Mount Fletcher is a Town in Joe Gqabi District Municipality in the Eastern Cape Province of South Africa, 69 km North-North-East of Maclear. Mount Fletcher is…
PlaceBaavianskloof Pass
… Towns of: Willowmore and Uniondale , (which are standard places to refuel before ascending the Baavianskloof Pass). …
PlaceElandsfontein Private Nature Reserve, Western Cape
Discover Elandsfontein and their rich fossil heritage on a guided Quad Bike Fossil Safari or 4WD Nature Drive. The dunes on Elandsfontein are the final…
EventAfrica Women's Peace Train leaves Kampala for Johannesburg
The Africa Women's Peace Train was launched in Kampala, Uganda, on 15 August in a ceremony in which a Peace Torch was received. It was destined to run through…
EventJournalists' first visit to Robben Island
The South African government for the first time allowed 20 local journalists, five correspondents of international news agencies and two official photographers…
EventRobert Sobukwe is sentenced to three years' imprisonment
Founding member and president of the Pan Africanist Congress, Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, was sentenced to three years' imprisonment for incitement of Blacks to…
PlaceVergelegen Wine Estate
Vergelegen Wine Estate is situated in an exclusive upmarket Area of Somerset West, about 50 km East of Cape Town. The Area was named after Lord Charles…
ArticleGrey Street Complex timeline 1800-1999
… Group Areas Act, and our homes, businesses, jobs and places of worship destroyed, but we are now denied the …
ArticleRemembering the Battle of Adwa
The year 1896 signifies an important moment in African history. In that year, on 1 March 1896, a historic battle between invading Italian forces and a strong…
ArticleTimeline of South African Football Coaches from 1992 – 2022
Jeff Butler (1992) The Englishman was earmarked as Bafana Bafana's first coach, but a discrepancy with his coaching qualifications led him being turfed. …
Full speech - Mamphela Ramphele: Rekindling the South African dream
… all thriving democracies, is absent in our homes, schools, places of worship, work places and communities. Citizens must be given the …
PlaceChurch Square, Pretoria
Church square is in the historic centre of Pretoria! The founder of Pretoria, Marthinus Pretorius declared the square to be used as a church yard and market…
The South African War
The South African War To this day the reasons for this conflict remain the source of much emotive debate (read more). Regardless of who provoked the war,…
ArticleCODESA 1 Timeline
21 August 1989: OUA publishes the publishes the Harare Declaration. January 1991: Nelson Mandela calls for an all-party congress to negotiate the way to a…
PlaceMooi River, a Town of the Midlands Meander- Natal
Mooi River was originally named: 'Lawrenceville'- after the Irish farmer who formalized its settlement during the 1800's. The Village took its enduring name…
PlaceBitterfontein, Western Cape
In the Northernmost part of the Western Cape, along the Northwestern plain, lies a relatively isolated Village located in the Knersvlakte Region, called…
PlaceLydenburg, Mpumalanga
The Town of Lydenburg, in Mpumalanga Province, was founded in 1850 by the company of Voortrekker leader Andries Potgieter who had abandoned their first…