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EventAnton Fransch, ANC guerrilla, killed by the special forces of the apartheid regime
Anton Fransch was born and raised in Bonteheuwel, Cape Town. He was the second youngest of 7 siblings. He attended Modderdam High School and joined Cosas …
ArticleThe Empty Land Myth
… W. C. Holden was one of the early writers on South African history to publish a book that used the theory of empty land … of the idea of the 'vacant land'…
Biography of George Hallett by Hunter Kolon
… on during this complex and chaotic time in the nation’s history. After a 27-year ban on Mandela’s picture, Hallett’s … the first democratic elections in…
Remembering the enslaved in Cape Town by Sam North
… As a city, Cape Town sits on top of an uncomfortable history of colonialism, slavery, and formal racial segregation. This history has an uneasy relationship…
ArticleRuth First timeline 1925-2012
… receiving a first in sociology, anthropology, economic history and native administration. 1947 First gets a job at … years. 1963 First’s South West Africa ,…
ArticleLand: dispossession, resistance and restitution
… Introduction The history of white colonial land dispossession began at the … socio-political landscape. This feature focuses on the history of the Land…
January 8th Statements -Statement of the National Executive Committee on the occasion of the 98th Anniversary of the ANC - 8 January 2010
… The ANC belongs to its membership; and throughout its history it has sought to uphold the practice of democratic … involving learners, teachers and parents…
ArticleNatal Indian Association (NIA)
… to all officials, Members of the Committee and Congress Branches throughout Natal. At a fully representative meeting …
Term 1:THE HUNTER GATHERERS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA
… USA Through archaeological research and San oral history or storytelling there were a lot of San groups living … that were easily available such as long…
EventClements Kadalie dies
Trade unionist, Lameck Koniwaka Kadali Muwamba, known by his adopted name, Clements Kadalie, was born in April 1896, near the Bandawe mission station in…
ArticleAfrikaans: the Language of Black and Coloured Dissent
… oppressor. Indeed, Afrikaans has a violent and racist history of oppression during the eras of White Afrikaner … Afrikaners) and perceived as a ‘White’…
The CASA Conference
… into the AABN at the International Institute of Social History. The conference included the participation of the …
The National Flag
… are a synopsis of principal elements of the country's flag history. Individual colours, or colour combinations have …
BiographyRobert Gabriel Mugabe
… He graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in History and English in 1952 and in the same year, went back … Blake, R. A. (1977). A History of Rhodesia…
Conference: One Hundred Years of the ANC - Debating Liberation Histories and Democracy Today
… in 2012 is a momentous event in South African and African history. It will also be the occasion for nationwide … the present. Since 1994, public engagement…
ArticleThe Mfecane: Understanding a Period of Transformation in Southern Africa
… and the "Empty Land" Myth Historiographical Debates: Whose History? Legacy Further Reading References Introduction The … African societies as inherently…
The Role of the Missionaries in conquest - Introduction
… in a liberatory struggle it is necessary to rewrite the history of the past. It is part of the very process of liberation to expose the distortions of…
ArticleSotho (South Sotho or Basotho)
… groups in Namibia and Zambia. While the Sotho people’s history is not directly intertwined with that of Bloemfontein, their history had an important…
Document 4 - B.M. Kies “The Background of Segregation”, Address delivered to the National Anti-CAD Conference, 29 May 1943
… From: South Africa's Radical Tradition, a documentary history, Volume Two 1943 - 1964, by Allison Drew Document 4 - … on all of them! [....] During all this…
Bibliographical note and further reading
… From the book: A Documentary History of Indian South Africans edited by Surendra Bhana and … For the serious researcher investigating any aspect of the…
ArticleThe National Council of Trade Unions (NACTU)
… the South African Confederation of Trade Unions (SACOTU). History NACTU was founded on the 5 October 1986 in … Review, October 1990. Pretorius, Fransjohan…
Constitution of the Republic of South Africa Act 110 of 1983
… Bottaro, Jean and Visser, Pippa. (1999). In Search of History Grade 12. Oxford: Oxford University Press Southern …
ArticleGrade 7 - Term 1: The Kingdom of Mali and the City of Timbuktu in the 14th Century
… Mali and Nigeria. Much of what we know about the early history of West Africa comes from medieval accounts written … a new momentum in the Ghana Empire and…
PlaceCity Hall and Francis Farewell Gardens, Durban
… because it represented a milestone in the city’s rich history. “My fondest memory of the City Hall has to be when I … Force, described it as a, “great…
The Durban Strikes and the making of the Political Struggles in South Africa by Vuyisile Msila
This paper was submitted to the 1973 Durban Strikes Celebrating 50 Years Conference When the Industrial and Commercial Workers’ Union (ICU) was formed in…
Commemorating the 55th death anniversary of Suliman Saloojee
9th September 2019 marks the 55th anniversary of the death in police detention of Suliman “Babla” Saloojee (aged 33). He was a legal clerk and a member of the…
PlaceGouda, Cape Winelands
Gouda is a little Village just 37 km South of Porterville, at the Western entrance to the Nuwekloof Pass that links Tulbagh to Wellington. "The Town does not…
PlaceUnited States Consulate, Cape Town
The U.S. Consulate General in Cape Town serves as a branch of the U.S. Diplomatic Mission to South Africa. It is located in the suburb of Westlake. They are…
PlaceOld Court House, Victoria Embankment, Durban
… as a library, before being converted into Durban’s biggest history museum. It boasts two floors of exhibition space depicting aspects of the region’s early…
Draft Declaration by ANC, 20 December, 2012, 53rd ANC Annual Conference, Mangaung
… on many issues and are returning to our communities and branches with an unbreakable unity of purpose and a …