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EventUNHRC service is enlisted in repatriation process
The SA government announced that the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) would be requested to help in repatriating about 40,000 political…
EventAbout 130 people are reported drowned or missing when a Nigerian boat capsizes along the coast Cameroon
A boat carrying over 150 people on its way to Gabon capsized on the Atlantic coast of Cameroon on 23 March 2005. 130 passengers are said to have drowned and…
EventLife magazine is banned in Egypt after publishing an unflattering article about King Farouk
Life Magazine was founded in in 1883 and was published for 53 years as a general interest light entertainment magazine. The magazine featured illustrations,…
EventIraq boycott SA government’s apartheid policies
Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hassim Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The…
ArticleAhmed Mohamed Kathrada Timeline: 1929 - 2017
1919 Mohamed Kathrada and his wife Hawa, immigrants from India, arrive in Schweizer Reneke, a small town in the Western Transvaal (now Gauteng), where they…
ArticleGrade 8 - Term 1: The Industrial Revolution in Britain and Southern Africa from 1860
The industrial Revolution has shaped the societies we live in today and more so in Britain and in Southern Africa. It brought about not only changes in…
2002 Introduction By Jordi Martorell
From: Lessons of the 1950s By Richard Monroe, March-May 1984 Lessons of the 1950s addresses all the main questions of revolutionary strategy and tactics and…
POLICY AND POLITICAL PROCESSES TOWARDS 51ST NATIONAL CONFERENCE, Parktown, 13 August 2002
Statement by Cde Jeff Radebe at the breakfast briefing The African National Congress will be holding its 51st National Conference, from 16-20 December 2002,…
ArchiveThe National Committee for Liberation (ARM), 1960-1964: sabotage and the question of the ideological subject
Thesis submitted in fulfillment of the requirements for the MA degree in History at the the University of Cape Town by Andries du Toit. The dissertation gives…
Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of Meeting, 25 August 1929
From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume One 1907 - 1950, by Allison Drew Document 33 - League of Atrican Rights, Announcement of…
EventSisulu is served with two notifications
The then African National Congress (ANC) Secretary-General, Walter Sisulu, was served with two notifications in terms of the Suppression of Communism Act (Act…
EventAcademic and ANC politician Z.K. Matthews dies
On 12 May 1968, South African academic, African National Congress (ANC) politician, and Botswana's first ambassador to the USA and envoy to the UN, Zachariah…
EventAfrikaans author, Lulu Latsky is born
Louise (Lulu) Latsky, favourite author of Afrikaans books, mostly for children, was born in Carnarvon, in the Karoo region of South Africa. Latsky was known…
PlaceCacadu District Municipality
Cacadu (Formerly Lady Frere) is a small town in Chris Hani District Municipality in the Eastern Cape province of South Africa. The town was renamed to Cacadu…
PlaceGarden Route, Cape Town
The Garden Route begins about four hours outside Cape Town, and includes one of the most beautiful stretches of coastline, the starting point of which is…
ArticleHistory Grade 11 - Topic 3 Glossary
NSDAP- Stands for Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei and was a national Socialist German Workers’ Party.[1] Communist Party- The Communist party…
EventDrum Magazine calls for the release of all political prisoners
The popular Drum Magazine called on South African Prime Minister B.J. Vorster to follow the example of Rhodesian Prime Minister Ian Smith and to release all…
EventUN and OAU take a stand against Apartheid policy
An International Conference on Sanctions against South Africa was hosted by the United Nations (UN) and the Organisation of African Unity (OAU) at UNESCO House…
EventThe 41st annual conference of the ANC in Queenstown gets underway
The 41 annual conference of the African National Congress (ANC) in Queenstown, Eastern Cape, continues. Amongst the ANC leaders who attended the event was…
EventSeveral leading members of trade unions affiliated to the UDF are arrested
In an attempt to prevent further unrest, the apartheid government arrested several leading members of trade unions affiliated to the United Democratic Front …
A Place of Freedom
Phoenix represented an island of freedom in a society that moved from informal segregation in the early years of the twentieth century to full-blown apartheid…
UCT Summer School 2020
Please note the following history related courses will be offered at the 2020 UCT Summer School. Local and South African History MASSACRE ON THE…
EventIraq boycott SA government's apartheid policies
Iraqi Foreign Minister, Hassim Jawad, announced that his country will not recognise the government of South Africa because of its apartheid policies. The…
Notes from Books
Jean Gelman Taylor, THE SOCIAL WORLD OF BATAVIA: EUROPEAN AND EURASIAN IN DUTCH ASIA. Madison, Wisconsin: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1983 The book…
ArchiveChapter 1 Break down the walls by Denis Goldberg
June 12, 1964 was the day for sentencing in the Rivonia Trial in Pretoria. The prosecution wanted the maximum sentence – and we expected it: death. But in a…
Mafika Gwala’s Books Catalogue
Main catalogue Books 1. ASVAT, Farouk, 1952- EXILES within : an anthology of poetry / 7 South African poets. - Johannesburg : Writers Forum, 1986. -- 68p. :…
ArticleThe Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle
Relations between Russia and South Africa In the late-19th century, Russia was engaged in rivalry with the British Empire, especially in Asia, and sought to…
Chapter 15. The African Worker-A Policeman and Pair Of Handcuffs Always Waiting - Garment Workers in Action by E. S. Sachs
The basis of South African national policy for the last sixty years has been the maintenance of a vast reservoir of cheap African labour for the farms and…
The Durban Moment: Revisiting politics, labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s
The Durban Moment: Revisiting, politics, Labour, youth and resistance in the 1970s. 22-24 February, 2013 Rhodes University Grahamstown, South Africa The Â…
ArticleThe death of Samora Machel
This feature celebrates Samora Machel and examines the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death and acknowledges the contribution that he made to…